General Knowledge and Current Affairs
This section is broad but shallow: international organisations, capitals and currencies, major geographic features, world leaders and institutions, sports, awards, and recent national and global events. Because current affairs change, the durable strategy is to build a framework rather than memorise scattered facts.
Build four mental maps
- Organisations - UN and its agencies (WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF, ILO), their headquarters cities, and current heads.
- Geography - continents, longest rivers, largest deserts, highest peaks, straits and canals, and which countries border which.
- Institutions and awards - Nobel Prizes, major multilateral banks, regional blocs.
- Recent events - summits, treaties, major appointments, and Bangladesh's own milestones.
Traps to expect
- Headquarters vs founding city (the UN was founded in San Francisco but is headquartered in New York).
- Outdated officeholders - a question may rely on a name that has since changed.
- Similar names - e.g. distinguishing the World Bank from the IMF, or the Security Council from the General Assembly.
- Superlatives - "largest", "longest", "first" are frequently swapped.
Rule of thumb
When unsure, reason from structure: which body does what function? Functional knowledge outlasts name-memorisation and often eliminates two options immediately.
Worked example: Asked which agency handles global public health, the function (health) points to WHO regardless of whether you recall its headquarters (Geneva).