General Knowledge and Current Affairs
What the paper rewards
General knowledge and current affairs questions test placement, not trivia: which tier of government, which body, which year. Roughly half is stable structural knowledge; the rest is events from the past year - appointments, treaties, disasters, sports, budget figures.
Stable anchors
- Area 147,516 sq km; 7 provinces, 77 districts, 753 local levels (6 metropolitan, 11 sub-metropolitan, 276 municipalities, 460 rural municipalities).
- Districts per province: Koshi 14, Madhesh 8, Bagmati 13, Gandaki 11, Lumbini 12, Karnali 10, Sudurpashchim 9 - the sum must be 77.
- Provincial capitals: Biratnagar, Janakpur, Hetauda, Pokhara, Deukhuri, Birendranagar, Godawari.
- Census 2021: population 29,164,578; literacy 76.3%.
- Renaming trail: Province 5 → Lumbini (2020), Province 2 → Madhesh (2022), Province 1 → Koshi (2023).
Method for current affairs
For each major event ask: which constitutional body, which ministry, which law? Verify against the Nepal Gazette, the budget speech (Jestha 15), the Economic Survey and Ministry of Home Affairs notices rather than social media.
Worked example
‘Which province has the fewest districts?’ Reconstruct the list: 14, 8, 13, 11, 12, 10, 9. Madhesh has 8, the minimum. If your remembered figures do not total 77, your list is faulty and you should not answer from it - rebuild from the map of provinces instead.
Traps
- Swapping 753 local units with 77 districts.
- Using pre-renaming province names that still appear in older question sets.
- Quoting a current office-holder from memory; when unsure, name the office rather than the person.