General Knowledge and Current Affairs
What is tested
General knowledge covers international organisations and their headquarters, capitals and currencies, national symbols, major awards (Nobel, Ekushey Padak, Independence Award), sports, science facts, and important days. Current affairs focus on recent national and international events, appointments, summits, treaties, and Bangladesh’s development milestones.
Study strategy
Do not try to memorise everything. Build a small, reliable core: UN system and its agencies, SAARC, BIMSTEC, OIC, ASEAN, the World Bank and IMF, and their headquarters and heads. Keep a dated list of the last twelve months’ major events - elections, climate summits, sports champions, and Bangladesh’s achievements such as infrastructure projects and UN peacekeeping contributions.
Traps
Questions exploit near-identical names (World Bank vs World Trade Organization), swapped headquarters (Geneva vs New York vs Vienna), and outdated facts. A fact that was true two years ago may be a distractor now. Also watch for ‘first’ and ‘largest’ claims, which are often reversed.
Rule of thumb
For organisation questions, link three things together: organisation, headquarters city, and current head. If one of the three is wrong, the option is wrong.
Worked example
A question asks where the World Health Organization is headquartered. The UN’s principal organs sit in New York, but WHO is a specialised agency based in Geneva; Vienna hosts the IAEA, and The Hague hosts the ICJ. Linking agency to city prevents choosing New York by habit.