General Knowledge and Current Affairs
General Knowledge and Current Affairs tests static awareness and recent events. Static areas include Indian polity, geography, history, economy, science, awards and sports; current areas include appointments, summits, schemes, defence exercises and state-level developments from roughly the past year.
Core areas
- Polity: Constitution, fundamental rights, Parliament, constitutional bodies.
- Geography: rivers, mountains, crops, capitals, national parks.
- Economy: RBI, budget terms, government schemes, currencies.
- Science: units, diseases, space missions, inventions.
- Current affairs: appointments, summits, awards, sports results.
Worked example
Question: Which country hosted the 2023 G20 Leaders' Summit? Options: Indonesia, India, Brazil, South Africa. Reasoning: the 2023 summit was held in New Delhi, India; Indonesia hosted in 2022 and Brazil in 2024. The date sequence eliminates the distractors. Answer: India.
Traps
Do not confuse a scheme's launch year with its implementing ministry. Do not rely on a headline without identifying the institution. Similar names are common distractors, such as National Health Mission and National Rural Health Mission. For appointments, remember the office as well as the person. For sports, separate host, winner and venue.
Revision method
Build one-page lists by category and update them monthly. Link each current event to a static fact: a summit to its city, a scheme to its ministry, an award to its field. This turns isolated news into recallable pairs.