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DSSSB PRT: General Awareness for DSSSB PRT

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General Awareness for DSSSB PRT

General Awareness is the first of five 20-question sections in the DSSSB PRT Tier-I paper: 100 questions, 100 marks, two hours, with 0.25 marks deducted for every wrong answer. It tests quick factual recall across Indian polity, history, geography, science, and current affairs, plus a distinctly Delhi flavour.

What is actually asked

  • Polity: Constitution, Fundamental Rights, Parliament, judiciary, Panchayati Raj, Delhi's special status.
  • History: freedom struggle milestones, important dynasties, social reformers.
  • Geography: rivers, monsoon, latitudes, national parks, Delhi's location on the Yamuna.
  • Science: NCERT Classes 6–10 level - SI units, human body systems, diseases, photosynthesis, acids and bases.
  • Delhi-specific: Red Fort, Qutub Minar, Humayun's Tomb, India Gate, MCD/NDMC, state education schemes.
  • Current affairs: roughly the last 8–10 months - awards, sports, appointments, schemes.

Polity anchors worth memorising

Fundamental Rights sit in Articles 14–32 (Part III); Directive Principles in Part IV; the Constitution has 12 Schedules; Article 51A lists 11 Fundamental Duties (added by the 86th Amendment); Article 239AA governs the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

Worked example

The Right to Education was made a fundamental right by which amendment and under which Article? Reasoning: the 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002 inserted Article 21A, guaranteeing free and compulsory education to children aged 6–14. The same amendment rewrote Article 45 (a Directive Principle) to cover early childhood care for children below six. The RTE Act, 2009 operationalised Article 21A. Hence the answer is 86th Amendment, Article 21A - not Article 45, and not the 42nd Amendment, which is the 'mini-Constitution'.

Traps that cost marks

  • Mixing 42nd and 86th Amendments, or Article 32 (Supreme Court writs) with Article 226 (High Court writs).
  • Confusing the Lieutenant Governor's powers with the Delhi Chief Minister's under Article 239AA.
  • 'First' questions (first woman President, first Indian Nobel laureate) and award years.
  • Current affairs older than the paper's cutoff window.