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 May 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. India's first green methanol plant uses which invasive shrub as fuel?
(A) Lantana
(B) Parthenium
(C) Prosopis juliflora
(D) Water hyacinth
Q2. The green methanol plant is located at Deendayal Port in ________.
(A) Kandla, Gujarat
(B) Paradip, Odisha
(C) Kochi, Kerala
(D) Haldia, West Bengal
Q3. The Coastal Atmospheric Research Testbed (C-ART) was set up on the Bay of Bengal coast at ________.
(A) Chennai
(B) Puri
(C) Kolkata
(D) Visakhapatnam
Q4. SkyCast is a system that gives ________ to pilots and airports.
(A) fuel prices
(B) weather alerts
(C) ticket bookings
(D) passenger lists
Q5. India's weather forecasting agency, which released a block-level monsoon forecast, is ________.
(A) ISRO
(B) DRDO
(C) IMD
(D) NDMA
Q6. Sperm whales communicate using sequences of clicks called ________.
(A) codas
(B) songs
(C) chirps
(D) roars
Q7. The sperm whale is the largest ________ predator on Earth.
(A) flying
(B) toothed
(C) land
(D) freshwater
Q8. NASA's Psyche spacecraft is travelling to a metal-rich asteroid located between ________.
(A) Earth and Mars
(B) Venus and Earth
(C) Jupiter and Saturn
(D) Mars and Jupiter
Q9. Ebola, which led to the postponement of the India–Africa Forum Summit, is a disease caused by a ________.
(A) virus
(B) bacterium
(C) fungus
(D) worm
Q10. Hantavirus, in the news in 2026, is mainly spread to humans by ________.
(A) mosquitoes
(B) contaminated water
(C) rodents such as rats and mice
(D) birds
Answer Key with Explanations
(C) Prosopis juliflora — Prosopis juliflora (Vilayati keekar) is among the world's top 100 invasive species.
(A) Kandla, Gujarat — The plant is at Deendayal Port Authority, Kandla.
(D) Visakhapatnam — Visakhapatnam was chosen because it is often hit by cyclones and heavy rain.
(B) weather alerts — SkyCast is an aviation weather monitoring system under Mission Mausam.
(C) IMD — The India Meteorological Department (IMD) released the block-level monsoon forecasting system.
(A) codas — Scientists studied over 8,000 codas from Caribbean sperm whales.
(B) toothed — The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator and hunts squid using echolocation.
(D) Mars and Jupiter — The asteroid 16 Psyche lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
(A) virus — Ebola is a dangerous viral disease that causes bleeding and organ failure.
(C) rodents such as rats and mice — Hantaviruses spread through the urine, droppings and saliva of infected rodents.
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