General Awareness and Current Affairs
General Awareness and Current Affairs is the widest domain in the WBP Constable preliminary paper. It tests whether you can place a fact in the right layer: West Bengal, India, or the world. The questions are not random; they usually connect a current event to a static fact.
Build a three-layer fact file
- West Bengal: state schemes such as Lakshmir Bhandar, Kanyashree, Swastha Sathi, Duare Sarkar and Krishak Bandhu; districts and headquarters; Sundarbans and Darjeeling geography; state festivals and police ranks.
- India: President, Prime Minister, Union Budget terms, flagship schemes such as PM-KISAN, Ayushman Bharat and Ujjwala, census and economic survey basics, constitutional bodies.
- World: UN agencies, BRICS, G20, SAARC, major sports events, Nobel Prizes, currency-country pairs.
Link news to static facts. A report on a new bridge is also a geography question about the river it crosses.
Worked example
Question: Which West Bengal scheme gives monthly income support to the female head of a family? Reasoning: Kanyashree is for the education of girl children; Krishak Bandhu is for farmers; Lakshmir Bhandar is the household income support scheme for women heads. Answer: Lakshmir Bhandar.
Traps that cost marks
- Mixing state and central schemes with similar names.
- Remembering an old officeholder after a reshuffle. The exam expects the current holder at the time of the paper.
- Ignoring West Bengal-specific sports, awards and appointments.
- Guessing on first-in-India questions without a date anchor.
Use one page per layer and revise only the entries you can date.