General Knowledge and Current Affairs
General Knowledge and Current Affairs in ADRE Grade 3 checks static Indian GK - polity, geography, history and science - plus events and schemes from roughly the last 12 months, with a visible Assam tilt.
What is actually asked
- Polity: Fundamental Rights (Articles 12–35), Directive Principles (36–51), Schedules, amendments, panchayati raj (73rd and 74th Amendments), constitutional bodies (UPSC, CAG, Election Commission).
- Geography: Indian rivers, passes, soils, national parks, and Assam's physiography.
- Science: human body systems, vitamins, SI units, basic physics and chemistry.
- Current affairs: awards, sports, space missions, central and state schemes, appointments.
Worked example
A question asks which Schedule of the Constitution deals with anti-defection. Reasoning: anti-defection was inserted by the 52nd Amendment Act, 1985, and placed in the Tenth Schedule. The Ninth Schedule protects certain land-reform laws from judicial review; the Seventh Schedule divides powers through the Union, State and Concurrent Lists. Answer: Tenth Schedule.
Traps that cost marks
- Article 32 (Supreme Court writs) vs Article 226 (High Court writs) - 226 is wider in scope.
- Fundamental Rights vs Directive Principles - only Fundamental Rights are judicially enforceable.
- Rajya Sabha's special powers (Articles 249, 312) vs the Lok Sabha's primacy on money bills.
- Current-affairs questions follow a fixed cutoff; do not answer from older memory.
- Schemes with near-identical names at the Centre and in Assam are deliberately paired as distractors.