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GA Questions Asked in SBI PO Mains Exam 2023 – January 30

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Dear Aspirants, 

As you Know, the “SBI PO Mains Examination 2022-2023” was conducted across the country on 30th January 2023. Affairscloud Team has provided the complete set of General Awareness Questions asked in the SBI PO Mains Examination 2022-2023 in the post below. We hope Aspirants have performed well in the exam.

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GA Questions asked in Exam 50 Q: Collected 45  – Covered 34  – Level: Moderate

Current Affairs –   37 Questions

  • Covered – 30
  • Not Covered – 7 (Q19, Q29, Q32, Q33, Q34, Q41 & Q43)
  • Note: Most of the Questions are from Last 4 months

Current Static Banking & Finance –  2 Questions

  • Covered – 1
  • Not Covered – 1 (Q15)

Current Static GK –  1 Questions

  • Not Covered – 1 (Q24)

Static GK –   1  Questions

  • Covered – 1

Static Banking – 4 Questions

  • Covered – 2
  • Not Covered – 2 (Q14 & Q37)

*Total Number Question Covered in Daily Quiz:26

1. The Sahyadri Farmer Producer Company (FPC) launched India’s first private agri mandi (market) for grapes in ___________. –Nashik
Content-https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-25-november-2022/
Daily Quiz-  Nov 25 2022, Q2

2. The State Bank of India (SBI)  raised Rs 9,718 crore through its 2nd infrastructure bond issuance at a coupon rate of 7.70% per annum for the __________ bond. –15-year
Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-20-january-2023/
Daily Quiz-  January 20 2023, Q7

3. Who was appointed as the Chair of Business 20 (B20)? – N Chandrasekaran
Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-9-december-2022/
Daily Quiz-  Dec 9 2022, Q13

4. How many credit rating agencies are there in india?-6
Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-11-january-2023/
Daily Quiz-  Jan 11 2023, Q6

5. Which bank is not in the RBI retail pilot project (Phase 1) of the central bank digital currency (CBDC)?- Axis Bank
Content-https://affairscloud.com/rbi-launches-digital-rupee-retail-segment-e-r-in-four-cities-issues-rs-1-71cr/
Daily Quiz-  Dec 4&5 2022, Q8

6. How many gold medals won by Achanta Sharad Kamal in the Commonwealth Games 2022?- 3
Content- https://affairscloud.com/highlights-xxii-commonwealth-games-or-birmingham-2022-held-from-july-28-2022-to-august-8-2022/
https://affairscloud.com/interactive-infographics-xxii-commonwealth-games-birmingham-2022/

7. Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vagir of “Project 75” is which class of submarine?- Kalvari class
Content-https://affairscloud.com/indian-navy-gets-5th-scorpene-class-submarine-vagir/
Daily Quiz-  Dec 22 2022, Q17

8. Which bank is the largest public shareholder in the YES bank?- State Bank of India (SBI)
Content-https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-3-december-2022/

9. Which of the following statements regarding Utkarsh 2.0 is true?

  • The Reserve Bank of India’s Medium-term Strategy Framework for the period 2023- 2025.
  • Launched by Reserve Bank of India
  • Statement from one of the Six visions

Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-7-january-2023/
Daily Quiz- Jan 7, 2022 Q9

10. Which bank doesn’t have a share in UTI Asset Management Company?- Canara Bank
Content-https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-26-november-2022/

11. Yoginder Kumar Alagh passed away in December 2022. What was his profession? -Economist
Content-https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-8-december-2022/
Daily Quiz-  Dec 8 2022, Q14

12. Who acquires the licence to manufacture and distribute Chhota Bheem and friends in India? Funskool
Content- Not covered

13. Khalid Jawed’s book “The Paradise of Food”, translated by Baran Farooqi, won the 2022 JCB Prize for Literature. The Paradise of food book is initially written in which language?- Urdu (Nov)
Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-24-november-2022/
Daily Quiz-  Nov 24 2022, Q17

14. India’s first ETF was listed in which year? 2002
Content- Not covered

15. The District Level Review Committee (DLRC) meetings should be convened by the Lead Banks at least ________ in a quarter. –Once
Content- Not covered

16. How many Small Finance Banks (SFB) & Payments Banks are there in India?- 12,6 respectively
Content-https://affairscloud.com/government-approves-pmc-bank-amalgamation-plan-with-usfbl/
https://affairscloud.com/payment-bank/

17. The Ministry of Power (MoP) introduced a scheme for Procurement of Aggregate Power of 4500 MW for 5 years on Finance, Own and Operate (FOO) basis under B (v) of ________ Policy. – SHAKTI
Content-https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-30-november-2022/
Daily Quiz-  November 30 2022, Q1

18. Who is the First female paddler to reach Asian Cup Table Tennis Championship- Manika Batra
Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-22-november-2022/
Daily Quiz-  November 22, 2022, Q17

19. The financial influencers or FinInfluencer regulated by which organisation?- Securities and Exchange Board of India
Content- Not covered
Note – SEBI is Still working on Guidelines for Financial Influencers. Once the guideliness got released we can conclude SEBI is the regulator. https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-economics/financial-advice-social-media-sebi-guidelines-explained-8275470/
https://wap.business-standard.com/podcast/finance/is-it-time-to-regulate-financial-influencers-122110800269_1.html

20. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) formulated the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion for _______ period? 2019-2024
Content- https://affairscloud.com/rbi-formulates-national-strategy-for-financial-inclusion-for-the-period-2019-2024/

21 RBI enhances the Limit for e-mandates on Credit/Debit Cards to ________ from Rs 5,000.
Rs 15000
Content-https://affairscloud.com/highlights-of-rbis-2nd-bi-monthly-monetary-policy-of-2022-23-repo-rate-raised-to-4-90/
Daily Quiz-  June 24 2022, Q19

22. The Gross Non-Performing Assets (GNPA) ratio of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) has been declining sequentially from its peak in ___to reach 5.8 per cent at end-March 2022, led by lower slippages as well as reduction in outstanding GNPAs. –2017-18
Content-https://affairscloud.com/banks-gross-npas-decline-to-5-in-sept-2022-rbis-trend-and-progress-of-banking-in-india-for-2021-2022/

23. Statement based question about (GeM) portal
Content- https://affairscloud.com/union-cooperation-minister-amit-shah-e-launches-onboarding-of-cooperatives-on-gem-portal/
Daily Quiz- Aug 11 2022 Q1

24. As per the Census 2011, ______ is the smallest minority group in India ?-Parsi
Content- Not covered

25. Which of the following goods are increased from Nil in the 47th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council Meeting?- Cheques
Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-7-july-2022/
Daily Quiz- July 7 2022, Q1

26. Which company has recently (in Dec ‘22) signed an MoU with the GE Power India to Reduce Carbon footprint from Coal-Based Power Plants?- National Thermal Power Corporation Limited
Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-7-july-2022/
Daily Quiz-  December 24 2022, Q8

27. Russia has for the first time emerged as top oil supplier to India replacing Iraq as refiners in November 2022 with _______ share. –22%
Daily Quiz-  December 15 2022, Q25

28. Financial Institutions and other creditors have released ________  percent amount as on 30th September 2022 through NCLT revised CIRP? 201
Content- https://affairscloud.com/banks-gross-npas-decline-to-5-in-sept-2022-rbis-trend-and-progress-of-banking-in-india-for-2021-2022/
Daily Quiz- Dec 29 2022, Q6

29. The Consumer Confidence Survey is launched by which organisation?- Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Content- Not covered

30. How many sectors are covered under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme? 14
Content- https://affairscloud.com/make-in-india-completes-8-years-annual-fdi-doubles-to-usd-83-billion/

31. Shares of Paytm’s parent One97 Communications fell over 10 per cent after___  sold 4.5 per cent stake in the company through an open market transaction- SoftBank Group Corp
Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-19-november-2022/
Daily Quiz-  Nov 19 2022, Q17

32. Lafarge, ________ based cement maker pleaded guilty to a U.S. charge related to payments to terrorists by the United States. France
Content- Not covered

33. The Advance tax collections was increased by ________  to Rs 5.2 lakh crore till 17th December 2022.- 12.83%
Content- Not covered

34. Who is the Chief Guest of 21st World Congress of Accountants (WCOA) in November 2022?-Om Birla, Speaker of Lok Sabha 
Daily Quiz- Not covered

35. India and ___ have been re-elected as President and Co-President of the International Solar Alliance-France 
Content- https://affairscloud.com/india-france-re-elected-as-president-and-co-president-of-isa/
Daily Quiz- 22 Oct 2022, Q1

36. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has increased the investment limit of mutual funds (MFs) in debt instruments issued by a single issuer to _______ of the Net Asset Value (NAV) from 10%. –12%
Content-https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-1-december-2022/
Daily Quiz-  Dec 1 2022, Q11

37. The ACABC scheme was implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India, with NABARD acting as subsidy channelising agency.
In ACABC, what does ‘C’ stand for? – Clinic
Content- Not covered

38. Gulam Abbas Moontasir related to which sports?- Basketball
Content-https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-24-november-2022/
Daily Quiz-  November 24 2022, Q 24

39. RBI issued ‘Acquisition and Holding of Shares or Voting Rights in Banking Companies Directions, 2023’ which allowed promoters to hold _______ from the current 15%? 26 percent
Content-https://affairscloud.com/rbi-issues-guidelines-on-acquisition-in-banks-proteans-arm-gets-rbi-nod-for-aa-licence/
Daily Quiz-  Jan 18 2023, Q7

40. According to the Worldline India Digital Payments Report Q1 2022, which of the following companies holds the Highest UPI Transaction as of March 2022? – GPay/PhonePe
Content- https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-10-august-2022/
Daily Quiz-  Aug 10 2022, Q8

41. ChatGPT chatbot launched by OpenAI, What is the Full form of ChatGPT?- Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 
Content- News Covered, Abbreviation missed
Daily Quiz-  Jan 1&2 2023, Q25

42. Which institute has recently (in Dec ‘22) launched the first electric formula racing car ‘RF23’?- IIT Madras
Daily Quiz-  Dec 10 2022, Q26

43. According to the RBI data, In which region of India, the Credit-deposit ratio of scheduled commercial banks declined in 2022? – Northern and Western Regions
Content- Not covered

44. How to find the purity of gold? (Option: hallmark, earmark, watermark)- Hallmark
Content-https://affairscloud.com/world-consumer-rights-day-2022-march-15/

45. Who allowed 7 Global Consultancy Services to use AI/ML to improve the regulatory framework? RBI
Content-https://affairscloud.com/current-affairs-12-january-2023/