General Knowledge and Current Affairs
How the section behaves
The knowledge section rewards structure, not memorised trivia. Questions cluster into stable areas - national institutions and constitutional offices, geography, economy and budget basics, defence and security organisation, science and technology in the news, international bodies and agreements, sports, awards, and the major events of the last six to twelve months.
Build the map before the detail
For each institution, hold four slots: what it is, who heads it, where it sits, and one recent action. For each current event: what happened, who was involved, where, and roughly when. For each treaty or organisation: membership, purpose, headquarters, and one controversy. A fact stored in a slot is retrievable under pressure; an isolated fact is not.
Traps that appear
- Stale facts - a former holder of an office offered as a distractor when the question asks for the current one.
- "First", "oldest" and "largest" questions where the superlative differs: the oldest body is rarely the largest.
- Similar-sounding names - near-identical acronyms, ministries or schemes.
- NOT / EXCEPT stems, which reverse the elimination logic.
- Questions about a category where one option belongs to a different category entirely.
Worked rule of thumb
Eliminate on the dimension that fails first: wrong decade, wrong country, wrong category. If a choice is wrong on any one of those, stop reasoning about it. When two options look alike, ask which one the examiner would have to update every six months - that is usually the one the "current" tag is testing, so recall the most recent confirmation you have. If you genuinely cannot confirm a fact, mark it and move on; a guessed answer costs time you need elsewhere.