General Knowledge, Current Affairs and Reasoning
What this domain tests
This domain tests broad awareness and mental ability: Indian polity, geography, economy, science, health schemes, sports, awards, appointments, and current events, plus reasoning topics such as series, coding, blood relations, directions, syllogism, and data interpretation.
Core rules
- For polity, know the Constitution, fundamental rights, directive principles, Parliament, judiciary, panchayati raj, and constitutional bodies.
- For geography, revise India’s physical divisions, rivers, climate, soils, crops, and states.
- For current affairs, use a fixed cutoff from the official notification. Health schemes, appointments, awards, and sports are common areas.
- Reasoning questions reward careful reading. In series, check differences, ratios, squares, and alternating patterns. In coding, compare letter positions. In directions, draw a simple diagram.
- In syllogism, test only the given statements; do not use real-world assumptions.
Worked example
A person walks 5 km north, turns right and walks 3 km east, then turns right and walks 5 km south. Where is the person from the start? Drawing the route shows the north and south legs cancel, leaving 3 km east. The reasoning is that displacement depends on net change, not total distance travelled.
Traps
Do not use outdated current affairs. Do not overthink a simple series. Do not assume a statement is true because it is realistic. Do not ignore words such as only, all, some, and none. Do not spend too long on one reasoning item.