General Knowledge and Current Affairs
Scope
General Knowledge and Current Affairs in KVS TGT combines static Indian polity, geography, history, science, economy, and culture with rolling current events. Static questions favour Articles, Schedules, rivers, passes, movements, and scientific terms; dynamic questions favour schemes, appointments, awards, sports, and national/international developments since the last recruitment cycle.
Core areas
- Polity: Fundamental Rights (Articles 12–35), DPSP (36–51), Fundamental Duties (51A), 73rd/74th Amendments for panchayats and urban local bodies, writs, President and Governor powers.
- Geography: Himalayan passes, peninsular rivers, monsoon mechanism, soils, minerals, census terms.
- History: 1857, Congress sessions, Gandhian movements, Constituent Assembly, post-1947 integration.
- Science: SI units, human systems, nutrition, electricity, acids and bases, space missions.
- Current affairs: read a monthly compilation and link each item to a static anchor (state, article, scheme).
Worked example
“Right to Education is guaranteed by which Article?” Answer: Article 21A. Reasoning: the 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002 inserted Article 21A and modified Article 45; the RTE Act, 2009 operationalised it for children aged 6–14. Article 21 is life and personal liberty, not education; Article 19 covers freedoms.
Traps
Article numbers are swapped under exam pressure; Schedules are confused with Parts; “first/largest/longest” facts go stale when current data changes; current-affairs cutoff matters-use the notification’s period, not random older news. Do not guess a scheme’s launch year from its name.