19September 2026
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Question Bank
A question bank is volume: a large pool of practice questions organised by topic, subject and exam, to be worked through over months. Its value is straightforward — competitive exams reward familiarity, and familiarity comes from having seen a great many questions.
Its risk is equally straightforward. Volume without review produces a large number of attempted questions and very little improvement. What turns a question bank into progress is the error log, and it is the part almost everyone skips.
Current affairs · 19 September 2026
Today’s current affairs, checked at the source
Every item is dated, read on the conducting body’s or ministry’s own site, and written with the question it becomes. Read today’s items, take the quiz, or download the month as a PDF.
Question bank — sample
What the question bank holds, and a ten-question sample from easy to hard
| Subject | Topics | Tagged to |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative aptitude | Number system, percentage, ratio, average, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, time and work, speed and distance, mensuration, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, data interpretation | SSC CGL, CHSL, CPO, MTS; IBPS and SBI PO and clerk; RRB NTPC, Group D, ALP; state PSC; CUET General Test |
| Reasoning | Series, analogy, classification, coding-decoding, syllogism, inequality, blood relations, direction, ranking, puzzles and seating, Venn diagrams, non-verbal figures, statement-based questions | SSC, bank, railway, state police and PSC, CUET General Test, MBA entrances |
| English | Error spotting, sentence improvement, fill in the blanks, cloze, para-jumbles, reading comprehension, synonyms, antonyms, idioms, one-word substitution, spelling, active-passive, direct-indirect | SSC CGL and CHSL, bank PO and clerk, RRB NTPC, CUET English, CLAT and MBA entrances at their own level |
| General awareness | Polity, modern history, ancient and medieval history, physical and Indian geography, economy, general science, static GK, current affairs by month | SSC, railway, state PSC prelims, UPSC prelims, bank GA, teaching and defence papers |
| Subject papers | Class 11–12 physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology by chapter; graduate-level papers by code | JEE Main, NEET, CUET domain subjects, GATE, IIT JAM, UGC and CSIR NET |
Sample from the question bank — 10 questions with answers, easy to hard
Three easy, three medium and four hard questions across GK, quantitative aptitude and reasoning, in the order a bank set is meant to be worked: the easy ones establish the method, the medium ones test it at examination pace, and the hard ones are the two or three per section that separate the cut-off from a selection.
Q1Easy — GK: What is the currency of Japan?
- AYuan
- BYen
- CWon
- DRinggit
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B. Yen — The yen; the yuan is China’s, the won Korea’s and the ringgit Malaysia’s.
Q2Easy — Quant: What is 15 per cent of 240?
- A32
- B36
- C38
- D42
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B. 36 — 10 per cent is 24 and 5 per cent is 12, so 15 per cent is 36. Build percentages from 10 and 5 rather than multiplying out.
Q3Easy — Reasoning: What comes next in the series A, C, F, J, ?
- AN
- BO
- CP
- DM
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B. O — The gaps grow by one each time: +2, +3, +4, +5, so J + 5 = O.
Q4Medium — Quant: A sum of money doubles itself in 8 years at simple interest. What is the rate per annum?
- A10 per cent
- B12.5 per cent
- C15 per cent
- D8 per cent
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B. 12.5 per cent — Doubling means interest equals the principal: 100 per cent in 8 years, so 12.5 per cent a year.
Q5Medium — Quant: How many three-digit numbers are divisible by 7?
- A127
- B128
- C129
- D130
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B. 128 — The first is 105 and the last 994; (994 − 105) ÷ 7 + 1 = 128.
Q6Medium — GK: Who presides over a joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament?
- AThe President
- BThe Vice-President
- CThe Speaker of the Lok Sabha
- DThe Prime Minister
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C. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha — Under Article 118(4) the Speaker presides; in the Speaker’s absence the Deputy Speaker, and then the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
Q7Hard — Quant: Two pipes fill a tank in 20 and 30 minutes; a third empties it in 15 minutes. With all three open, how long does the tank take to fill?
- A30 minutes
- B45 minutes
- C60 minutes
- D90 minutes
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C. 60 minutes — Per minute: 1/20 + 1/30 − 1/15 = (3 + 2 − 4) ÷ 60 = 1/60, so 60 minutes.
Q8Hard — Quant: A trader sells two articles at ₹1,200 each, one at a 20 per cent profit and the other at a 20 per cent loss. What is the overall result?
- ANo profit, no loss
- B4 per cent loss
- C4 per cent profit
- D2 per cent loss
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B. 4 per cent loss — Cost prices are ₹1,000 and ₹1,500, total ₹2,500 against sales of ₹2,400 — a ₹100 loss, 4 per cent. Equal selling prices with equal ± rates always give a loss of (r ÷ 10)² per cent.
Q9Hard — Reasoning: In a row of 40 students, Ravi is 12th from the left and Sita is 15th from the right. How many students sit between them?
- A12
- B13
- C14
- D15
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B. 13 — Sita is 40 − 15 + 1 = 26th from the left; between the 12th and the 26th positions there are 26 − 12 − 1 = 13 students.
Q10Hard — GK: Which Constitutional Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
- A42nd Amendment
- B44th Amendment
- C61st Amendment
- D73rd Amendment
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C. 61st Amendment — The 61st Amendment Act, 1988, in force from March 1989, amended Article 326; the 42nd was the 1976 “mini-Constitution”, the 44th its partial reversal and the 73rd the panchayat amendment.
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How to use it
Volume that actually builds something
- Solve before reading any solution. This is the whole mechanism. A solution read before an honest attempt teaches recognition, not capability.
- Keep an error log classified by cause. Did not know, misread, method error, calculation slip, ran out of time. Five causes with five different fixes.
- Revisit wrong questions after a week. A question you got wrong twice is a topic to study, not a question to redo.
- Move from topic sets to mixed sets. Once accuracy on a topic is stable, mixed practice builds the recognition the exam actually requires.
- Track your error rate, not your question count. Two thousand questions attempted means nothing; a falling error rate means everything.
The error log
Why classification by cause matters
Most candidates review their mistakes by topic and conclude they need to revise that topic. Often they do not. A question missed because you misread "not" in the stem is not a knowledge gap; a question missed because you ran out of time is a pacing problem; a question missed because your arithmetic slipped is a fluency problem. Those three need completely different remedies, and lumping them together as "revise the topic" is why some candidates plateau despite enormous practice volume.
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Question Bank — FAQs
Is this question bank for class 10 and class 12 board exams?
No — it is built for competitive examinations: SSC, bank, railway, state PSC, UPSC prelims, the teaching and defence papers and the entrance examinations. Class 10 and 12 board question banks follow the board’s marking scheme and descriptive format, which these objective sets do not. The subject-paper sets for JEE Main, NEET and CUET do follow the class 11–12 NCERT syllabus chapter by chapter, so a class 12 student preparing for those entrances will find them useful; a student preparing for the board examination itself should use the board’s sample papers.
Are the GK questions with answers in English or Hindi?
English. The static GK and current affairs questions are written from the primary notices in English, and the same facts are what the Hindi-medium papers of SSC, railway and the state commissions ask, so the content transfers; only the language does not. Bilingual sets are planned for the Hindi-medium examinations, and until then the current affairs compilations carry the facts in a form that is easy to note in either language.
How many questions should I practise?
The count is the wrong metric. A candidate who attempts two thousand questions without reviewing them will improve less than one who attempts five hundred and maintains a proper error log. What matters is whether your error rate is falling on the topics you have practised, and whether the errors you make are changing in character — from not knowing, to knowing but slow, to reliably correct.
Should I read the solution if I cannot solve a question?
Only after a genuine attempt. The productive sequence is to work at a question until you either solve it or are properly stuck, then read the solution, then close it and reproduce the argument yourself. Reading a solution before an honest attempt produces recognition — you will nod along and feel you understand — without producing the ability to do it unaided, which is what the exam measures.
What should an error log record?
The cause, not just the topic. Classify each mistake as: did not know the concept, knew it but misread the question, knew it but chose the wrong method, knew it but made a calculation slip, or ran out of time. Those five causes have five different remedies, and a log organised by topic alone will send you back to revise material you already know while the actual problem — pacing, reading discipline or arithmetic fluency — goes unaddressed.
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