This post contains some important sections which are repeatedly asked in the GA section of banking exams. You can quickly revise these concepts before the mains of SBI Clerk 2020.
GDP Growth Rate prediction for India
| Agency | 2020-21 (FY21) | 2021-22 (FY22) | 2022-23 (FY23) |
| IMF | -10.30% | 8.80% | |
| World Bank | -9.60% | 5.40% | |
| RBI | -9.50% | ||
| ICRA | -11.00% | ||
| NCAER | -12.60% | 7.00% | |
| UNCTAD | CY2020= -5.9% | CY2021= +3.9% | |
| Fitch Solutions | -8.60% | ||
| OECD | -10.20% | 10.70% | |
| UBS | -8.60% | 10.00% | |
| ADB | -9.00% | 8.00% | |
| S&P Global Ratings (BBB-) | -9.00% | 6.00% | 6.20% |
| CARE | Between -8 to -8.2% | – | – |
| Moody (Baa3) | -11.50% | 10.60% | |
| Crisil | -9.00% | 10% | |
| India Rating | -11.80% | 9.90% | |
| Goldman Sachs | (-14.8%) For Calendar Year 2020 (-11.1%) |
15.7% For Calendar Year 2021 9.9% |
|
| Fitch (BBB- with negative outlook) | -10.50% | 11.00% | – |
| SBI Report (Ecowrap) | -10.90% | – | |
| Nomura | -10.80% |
RBI Policy Rates
Which Rate
Percentage
Policy Repo Rate
4.00%
Reverse Repo Rate
3.35%
Marginal Standing Facility Rate
4.25%
Bank Rate
4.25%
CRR
3%
SLR
18.00%
Interest Rate on Government Small Saving Schemes
Validity: October 2020- December 2020
S.No
Scheme
Interest Rate
1
Savings Deposit
4%
2
Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS)
7.4%
3
Public Provident Fund Account (PPF )
7.1%
4
National Savings Certificates (NSC)
6.8%
5
Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP )
6.9% (maturity- 124 months)
6
Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts
7.6%
- Ways and Means Advances Limit (October 2020 to March 2021) – ₹ 1,25,000 crore
List of Winners of F1 Grand Prix 2020
| S.No | Grand Prix | Winner |
| 1. | Austrian Grand Prix 2020 | Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes-Finland) |
| 2. | Styrian Grand Prix 2020 | Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain) |
| 3. | Hungarian Grand Prix 2020 | Lewis Hamilton |
| 4. | British Grand Prix 2020 | Lewis Hamilton |
| 5. | 70th Anniversary Grand Prix | Max Verstappen (Red Bull – Netherlands) |
| 6. | Spanish Grand Prix | Lewis Hamilton |
| 7. | Belgian Grand Prix | Lewis Hamilton |
| 8. | Italian Grand Prix | Pierre Gasly (Scuderia AlphaTauri, France) |
| 9. | Tuscan Grand Prix | Lewis Hamilton |
| 10. | Russian Grand Prix | Valtteri Bottas |
| 11. | Eifel Grand Prix | Lewis Hamilton |
| 12. | Portuguese Grand Prix | Lewis Hamilton |
Important Obituary
| S.No | Person | Profession |
| 1. | Ram Vilas Paswan | Politician (Union Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs) |
| 2. | Ashwani Kumar | Former CBI Director |
| 3. | Carlton Chapman | Former India football captain |
| 4. | John R Reid | Cricketer (New Zealand) |
| 5. | Bhanu Athaiya | Costume Designer (irst Indian to win the Oscar award) |
| 6. | Kishore Bhimani | Cricket Journalist And Commentator |
| 7. | Kaumudi Munshi | Singer (‘Nightingale of Gujarat’) |
| 8. | Pranab Mukherjee | Politician (Pranab Mukherjee was the President of India from 2012 to 2017. He was the 13th President of India) |
| 9. | Dr S. Padmavati | India’s First Female Cardiologist |
| 10. | Amitabha Ghosh | Former RBI Governor (Shortest serving RBI governor |
| 11. | Sachin Deshmukh | Cricketer (nicknamed as ‘Mini Gavaskar’ |
| 12. | Dean Jones | Australian Cricketer |
| 13. | Syeda Anwara Taimur | Politician (Assam’s only woman CM) |
| 14. | Dr. G S Amur | Author and critic |