General Awareness, Current Affairs and Reasoning
What the exam tests
General Awareness, Current Affairs and Reasoning tests Indian polity, geography, civil defence and fire-service institutions, recent events, and logical reasoning such as series, coding, syllogism and direction sense.
Core rules
- Indian polity: the Constitution was adopted on 26 November 1949 and enforced on 26 January 1950; fundamental rights are in Part III; disaster management is primarily a state subject with central support.
- Institutions: NDMA (2005), NDRF (2006) and the National Fire Service College at Nagpur. Fire Services Day is 14 April, commemorating the 1944 Bombay docks fire.
- Geography and hazards: cyclone-prone east coast, seismic zones II to V, flood-prone river basins.
- Reasoning: in number series, find the pattern of differences or ratios; in syllogisms, draw Venn diagrams; in direction sense, fix a reference point and track turns.
- Current affairs: prefer stable, verifiable facts; if a date or scheme is uncertain, use elimination rather than guessing.
Worked example
Find the next term: 2, 6, 12, 20, __. Differences are 4, 6, 8, so the next difference is 10; 20 + 10 = 30. Reasoning: the differences increase by 2. Check the alternative rule n(n+1): 1×2=2, 2×3=6, 3×4=12, 4×5=20, 5×6=30, which confirms the answer.
Traps
Confusing adoption and enforcement dates; mixing NDMA and NDRF roles; forcing a series pattern that fits only one term; ignoring "some" and "all" in syllogisms; trusting unverified current-affairs rumours.