Current affairs questions appear in the General Knowledge section of the AISSEE (Sainik School) Class 6 paper and in the GK part of the RMS CET. These 10 original MCQs are built from the important national and international news of August 2026 — defence, science, environment, culture and awards — and are written in the simple style used for school entrance exams.
Quick facts: AISSEE 2027 will be held on Sunday, 31 January 2027. There is no negative marking, so attempt every question. Online applications are open until 2 December 2026 on exams.nta.nic.in/sainik-school-society.
Practice Questions
Q1. The Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana (PM-SSY) promotes ________.
(A) floating solar power plants on water bodies
(B) rainwater harvesting
(C) fish farming
(D) building dams
Q2. Butterflies and moths belong to which insect group, recently catalogued in India?
(A) Coleoptera
(B) Diptera
(C) Hymenoptera
(D) Lepidoptera
Q3. Colombia, hit by a strong earthquake in 2026, lies in the ________, one of the world's most earthquake-prone belts.
(A) Pacific Ring of Fire
(B) Alpine Belt
(C) Mid-Atlantic Ridge
(D) Deccan Plateau
Q4. The upper part of a glacier, where snow keeps collecting, is called the ________.
(A) ablation zone
(B) delta
(C) accumulation zone
(D) estuary
Q5. The Asan Wetland Conservation Reserve, a Ramsar site, is in which state?
(A) Himachal Pradesh
(B) Uttarakhand
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Punjab
Q6. The clouded leopard, protected under Meghalaya's new mission, is listed by the IUCN as ________.
(A) Extinct
(B) Least Concern
(C) Critically Endangered
(D) Vulnerable
Q7. GISAT-1A (EOS-05) was launched on which rocket from Sriharikota?
(A) GSLV-F17
(B) PSLV-C60
(C) SSLV-D3
(D) LVM3-M5
Q8. India signed the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration in which year?
(A) 2019
(B) 2021
(C) 2023
(D) 2025
Q9. India plans its own space station, the Bharatiya Antariksha Station, by which year?
(A) 2027
(B) 2030
(C) 2035
(D) 2047
Q10. African Swine Fever, for which India developed an indigenous vaccine, affects which animals?
(A) cows
(B) pigs
(C) chickens
(D) goats
Answer Key with Explanations
(A) floating solar power plants on water bodies — PM-SSY supports floating solar photovoltaic plants with energy storage.
(D) Lepidoptera — Lepidoptera means "scale wings"; butterflies and moths are important pollinators.
(A) Pacific Ring of Fire — The Ring of Fire circles the Pacific Ocean and has many volcanoes and earthquakes.
(C) accumulation zone — Snow builds up in the accumulation zone; ice melts in the lower ablation zone.
(B) Uttarakhand — Asan Conservation Reserve lies near Dehradun in Uttarakhand.
(D) Vulnerable — The clouded leopard is Vulnerable and is in Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act.
(A) GSLV-F17 — GISAT-1A is an Earth observation satellite with a 10-year mission life.
(C) 2023 — India became the 27th signatory in 2023.
(C) 2035 — The Bharatiya Antariksha Station is targeted for 2035.
(B) pigs — ASF is a deadly viral disease of pigs, first detected in India in 2020.
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