Static GK – Master Revision Sheet (RRB NTPC/Group-D/ALP)
Revise-Everything-in-60-Minutes Edition

SECTION-1 : CORE CONCEPTS – TOP 30

1. Longest river → Ganga (total 2525 km; longest in India)
2. Highest peak → Kangchenjunga (8,586 m; India)
3. Largest state (area) → Rajasthan
4. Smallest state (area) → Goa
5. Most populous state → Uttar Pradesh
6. Least populous state → Sikkim
7. State with highest literacy → Kerala (96.2 %)
8. State with lowest sex-ratio → Haryana
9. Longest coastline → Gujarat
10. Tropic of Cancer passes through → 8 states (Guj-RAJ-MP-CG-Jhar-WB-TRI-MN)
11. Southern-most point → Indira Point (Great Nicobar)
12. Western-most point → Guhar Moti (Gujarat)
13. Eastern-most point → Kibithu (Arunachal)
14. Northern-most point → Indira Col (Ladakh)
15. India’s only active volcano → Barren Island (Andaman)
16. India’s only coral reef → Lakshadweep
17. Oldest mountain range → Aravallis
18. Youngest mountain range → Himalayas
19. Highest waterfall → Kunchikal (Karnataka, 455 m)
20. Largest desert → Thar (Rajasthan)
21. Largest lake (fresh water) → Wular (J & K)
22. Largest saline lake → Chilika (Odisha)
23. Longest national highway → NH-44 (Srinagar-Kanyakumari)
24. Longest rail platform → Hubballi (Karnataka)
25. UNESCO heritage railway → Darjeeling Himalayan (1st in India)
26. First biosphere reserve → Nilgiri (1986)
27. India’s first solar-powered airport → Cochin (Kerala)
28. India’s first carbon-neutral district → Majuli (Assam)
29. First state to implement GST → Assam (roll-out night 30-6-2017)
30. Last state to become UT → Ladakh (31-10-2019)

SECTION-2 : FORMULAS & SHORTCUTS

A. Census
Sex-ratio = (No. of females / No. of males) × 1000
Literacy = (Literate pop. / Total pop. ≥ 7 yr) × 100

B. Parliament
LS strength = 543 elected + 2 nominated = 545
RS strength = 238 elected + 12 nominated = 250
Quorum LS/RS = 1/10 of total membership

C. Constitutional Articles
Fundamental-rights = Art 12-35
DPSP = Art 36-51
Fundamental-duties = Art 51A (10+11=21 duties)

D. Time-zone trick
India = UTC + 5:30 → remember “Tea at 5-30”

E. State-creation trick
“H B J N M T C G A S” → 9 states 2000-2014 (H=Chhattisgarh 1-11-2000 … S=Telangana 2-6-2014)

SECTION-3 : 50 MUST-KNOW FACTS

1. India ranks 7th in area, 2nd in population
2. Land frontier = 15,200 km; coastline = 7,516.6 km
3. Standard meridian = 82°30′E (mirrors IST)
4. Alluvial soil = most fertile & largest coverage
5. Laterite soil = rich in iron-oxide → cut-brick
6. Black soil = cotton + regur → Deccan trap
7. Red soil = poor in N, rich in K & Fe
8. Forest cover = 21.71 % (ISFR 2021)
9. Mangrove cover = 4,992 km² (Sunderbans 43 %)
10. Tropical rain-forest → Andaman & Western Ghats
11. Mahogany & Rosewood → evergreen species
12. Sundari tree → Sunderbans (name source)
13. Project Tiger → 1973; Tiger-state → MP (526)
14. Lion → only Gir (Gujarat); Lion-project → 1972
15. Elephant → Karnataka has max (6,049)
16. One-horned rhino → Kaziranga (Assam)
17. Wild ass sanctuary → Little Rann (Gujarat)
18. Loktak lake → only floating park (Keibul Lamjao)
19. Sambhar lake → largest inland saline (Raj)
20. Pulicat lake → 2nd largest lagoon (AP-TN)
21. Tungabhadra → tributary of Krishna
22. Rihand → tributary of Son → Ganga
23. Indus originates → Mansarovar (Tibet)
24. Brahmaputra enters India → Arunachal (name Siang)
25. Narmada & Tapi → west-flowing rift valleys
26. Mahanadi delta → called “rice bowl”
27. Tehri dam → highest (260 m) on Bhagirathi
28. Hirakud → longest earthen dam (Mahanadi)
29. Nagarjuna Sagar → Krishna; Bhakra → Satluj
30. Indira Gandhi canal → originates at Harike (Punjab) → Rajasthan
31. Rabi crop → Oct-Dec sow, Apr-May harvest
32. Kharif crop → Jun-Jul sow, Oct-Nov harvest
33. Zaid crop → Mar-Jun (watermelon, cucumber)
34. Largest wheat producer → UP; rice → WB
35. “Golden fibre” → Jute; “White gold” → Cotton
36. ICAR → 1929; HQ → New Delhi
37. Green revolution → 1967-78; Father → M.S.Swaminathan
38. Yellow revolution → oilseeds; Blue → fish; Golden → honey
39. Manganese → Odisha tops
40. Bauxite → Odisha tops
41. Coal → Jharkhand (Jharia oldest)
42. Gold → Kolar (Karnataka) – now closed; active → Hutti
43. Oil refinery → Jamnagar (pvt, Reliance) world’s largest
44. First ONGC oil strike → 1956 (Lunej, Gujarat)
45. NHPC → 1975; NTPC → 1975
46. First nuclear plant → Tarapur (1969)
47. Wind power → Tamil Nadu max
48. Solar park → Bhadla (Raj) 2,245 MW
49. Currency printing presses → Nashik & Dewas (coins); Mysore & Salboni (notes)
50. India’s 1st census → 1872 (non-synchronous); 1st synchronous → 1881

SECTION-4 : PREVIOUS-YEAR TRENDS

(Compiled from NTPC CBT-1 2016-21 & Group-D 2018-22)
• Highest weightage → India-state facts (20-25 %)
• Next → National parks/rivers/dams (12-15 %)
• Constitutional articles/Schedules (10-12 %)
• Awards & honours (Nobel, Bharat Ratna) (8-10 %)
• Census-2011 data & literacy/sex-ratio (7-9 %)
• International org HQs & years (6-8 %)
• Defence & missiles (5-7 %)
• Books & authors, PM schemes (4-6 %)
Spend 40 % time on State-facts + Rivers/Parks; 25 % on Constitution; rest as above.

SECTION-5 : ONE-LINER CAPSULE (100)

1. India shares land border with 7 countries
2. Sri Lanka separated by Palk strait & Gulf of Mannar
3. Malacca strait → between Sumatra & Malaysia
4. Indira point submerged → 2004 tsunami
5. Duncan passage → separates South & Little Andaman
6. Ten-degree channel → Car-Nicobar & Little Nicobar
7. Eight-degree channel → Minicoy & Maldives
8. Zojila → between Srinagar-Leh
9. Shipki-la → Himachal-Tibet
10. Lipulekh → Uttarakhand-Tibet (Kailash-Mansarovar)
11. Nathu-la → Sikkim-Tibet (old silk-route)
12. Jelep-la → Sikkim-Tibet
13. Bomdi-la → Arunachal-Tibet
14. Diphu pass → Arunachal-Myanmar
15. K2 (Godwin-Austen) → highest peak Indian sub-continent (in PoK)
16. Saltoro range → Siachen glacier
17. Karakoram highway → China-Pak (KKH)
18. Ganga-Brahmaputra delta → largest in world
19. Sunderbans delta → shared by India & Bangladesh
20. Runn of Kutch → India-Pak boundary (Sir Creek dispute)
21. Tropic of Cancer → 23½°N
22. Standard time → 82½°E (Mirzapur-UP)
23. IST = GMT + 5:30
24. India has 2.4 % world land, 17 % world population
25. Physiographic divisions → 6 (N-mountains, plains, desert, peninsula, coast, islands)
26. Western ghats → continuous; Eastern → discontinuous
27. Bhor ghat → Mumbai-Pune (rail/road)
28. Pal ghat → Kerala-TN rail route
29. Thal ghat → Mumbai-Nashik
30. Cardamom hills → Kerala-TN
31. Annamalai → TN-Kerala; Nilgiri → TN-Ker-Kar junction
32. Maikal → Chhattisgarh; Mahadev → MP
33. Aravalli → Delhi-Haryana-Raj-Guj
34. Guru Shikhar → highest Aravalli (Mt.Abu)
35. Deccan plateau → lava origin (basalt)
36. Meghalaya plateau → richest in uranium & coal
37. Chota Nagpur → mineral heart of India
38. Damodar valley → “Ruhr of India”
39. Rajasthan bag → desert inland drainage
40. Luni → saline river (Raj)
41. Sabarmati → origin Aravalli; mouth Gulf of Khambhat
42. Mahi → MP-Raj-Guj
43. Periyar → Kerala; longest west-flowing (244 km)
44. Sharavati → Jog falls (highest plunge)
45. Kaveri → “Ganga of South”
46. Godavari → Dakshin Ganga (longest peninsular)
47. Krishna → Mahabaleshwar origin
48. Tungabhadra → Hampi on its bank
49. Pennar → AP
50. Subarnarekha → Odisha-Jharkhand-Bengal
51. Brahmaputra → Siang-Dihang in Arunachal
52. Barak → Assam-Manipur; Surma-Meghna in BD
53. Farakka → feeds Hooghly via canal
54. Indus water treaty → 1960 (Chenab allocated to Pak)
55. Teesta → India-Sikkim-Bangladesh dispute
56. Sardar Sarovar → Narmada; highest concrete dam
57. Pong dam → Beas (Himachal)
58. Ranjit Sagar dam → Ravi (Punjab)
59. Ukai dam → Tapi (Guj)
60. Mettur dam → Kaveri (TN)
61. Almatti → Krishna (Karnataka)
62. Nagarjuna Sagar → AP-Telangana border
63. Srisailam → Krishna (AP)
64. Indira Sagar → Narmada (MP)
65. Koyna → Maharashtra (earthquake zone)
66. Idukki → Periyar (largest arch dam Asia)
67. Bhakra Nangal → Govind Sagar reservoir
68. Hirakud → longest dam world (25.8 km)
69. Gandhi Sagar → Chambal (MP)
70. Rana Pratap Sagar → Chambal (Raj)
71. Jawahar Sagar → Chambal
72. Matatila → Betwa (UP-MP)
73. Rajghat → Betwa (MP)
74. Rihand → Son tributary (UP)
75. Mayurakshi → WB
76. Kakrapara → Tapi estuary (Guj)
77. Farakka barrage → to save Kolkata port
78. DVC → 1948 (Damodar)
79. Bhakra Beas Management Board → 1967
80. National waterway-1 → Haldia-Allahabad (Ganga)
81. NW-2 → Brahmaputra (Dhubri-Sadiya)
82. NW-3 → West-coast canal (Kerala)
83. NW-4 → Godavari-Krishna & canals
84. NW-5 → Mahanadi-Brahmani delta
85. Sethusamudram → Palk-strait channel
86. Kandla → first free trade zone (1965)
87. Diamond harbour → Hooghly estuary
88. Paradip → Odisha (iron ore)
89. Visakhapatnam → deepest port (natural)
90. Chennai → artificial, oldest (east)
91. Mumbai → biggest by volume
92. Mormugao → Goa (iron ore)
93. New Mangalore → Karnataka (iron ore)
94. Ennore → TN (coal)
95. Tuticorin → TN (southern most)
96. Deendayal (Kandla) → tidal port
97. Jawaharlal Nehru → largest container (Navi Mumbai)
98. Port Blair → 13 major ports notified
99. Sagar island → Ganga delta (Gangasagar fair)
100. Rameswaram → Pamban rail bridge (India’s first sea bridge)

SECTION-6 : COMMON CONFUSIONS CLEARED

SECTION-7 : MEMORY TRICKS

1. 8 States Tropic-of-Cancer: “Gujarat Rajasthan MP Chhattisgarh Jharkhand West-Bengal Tripura Mizoram-Nagaland” → G-R-M-C-J-W-T-M-N (Grand-father Ram Chandra Ji Went To Mumbai North)
2. West-flowing rivers (Narmada-Tapi-Sabarmati-Mahi-Periyar) → “NaTaSaMaP” (like Namaste)
3. Schedules 1-12: “T-L-F-UL-PS-DS-FS-LS-LS-LS-LS-LS” → Think “The Lion Fought Under Parliament Street, Delhi, For Large States, Local Self, Land, Legal, Liquor, Language”
4. Fundamental duties 51A: 10 original → remember “National Flag + National Anthem + Constitution + Army + Broke violence + Public + Property + Science + Environment + Education” (11th added 2002 = “women dignity”)
5. Ports west-east: “K-M-M-G-M-T-C-V-P-N-E-T” (Kandla-Mumbai-Mormugao-Mangalore-Cochin-Tuticorin-Chennai-Visakhapatnam-Paradip-Haldia-Ennore)

SECTION-8 : LAST-HOUR REVISION – 20 SUPER-HITS

1. Longest river → Ganga
2. Highest peak → Kangchenjunga
3. Largest state area → Rajasthan
4. Most populous → UP
5. Highest literacy → Kerala
6. Lowest sex-ratio → Haryana
7. Longest coastline → Gujarat
8. Longest NH → NH-44
9. Longest rail platform → Hubballi
10. First biosphere → Nilgiri
11. Tiger state → Madhya Pradesh
12. Only active volcano → Barren Island
13. Currency note press → Nashik, Dewas, Mysore, Salboni
14. First nuke plant → Tarapur
15. Longest dam → Hirakud
16. Highest dam → Tehri
17. First IIM → Calcutta
18. First IIT → Kharagpur
19. National animal → Tiger; Bird → Peacock; Flower → Lotus; Fruit → Mango; Tree → Banyan
20. Motto of India → Satyameva Jayate (Upanishad)

All the best – finish this sheet 3-times and Static GK is yours in the exam hall!