General Knowledge and Current Affairs
What this domain tests
The GK and Current Affairs block of Rajasthan CET (Senior Secondary) rewards precise recall rather than wide reading. Expect Indian polity and the Constitution, national and state schemes, awards and honours, sports, basic science, books and authors, important days, and roughly six to eight months of current events with a deliberate Rajasthan angle.
Core scaffolds to memorise
- Constitution: Fundamental Rights in Articles 12–35, Directive Principles in 36–51, Fundamental Duties in 51A. The 42nd Amendment (1976) added socialist, secular and integrity to the Preamble and inserted the Fundamental Duties.
- Science: SI units, vitamins and their deficiency diseases, blood groups, common instruments and their uses.
- Current affairs buckets: appointments, inaugurations, summits, defence exercises, sports winners, obituaries, schemes and their beneficiary groups.
Worked example
Question: Chandrayaan-3 landed near the Moon's south pole in August 2023. Name its lander and rover. Reasoning: Chandrayaan-3 carried a lander and a rover but no orbiter, unlike Chandrayaan-2. The lander was Vikram and the rover Pragyan, launched on LVM3-M4; the landing site is named Shiv Shakti Point. If only Vikram surfaces in memory, the rover name follows from the Chandrayaan-2 payload set.
Traps that cost marks
- Superlatives: check whether the question says India, Asia or the world.
- Renamed schemes and institutions are frequent; learn the current name with the old one in brackets.
- Similar-sounding award and founder pairs are swapped deliberately.
- Do not answer from a half-remembered headline; the Rajasthan link is usually the deciding clue.