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FPSC TGT: General Knowledge and Current Affairs

FPSC TGT · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.

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General Knowledge and Current Affairs

Scope

Pakistan affairs, geography, history, the Constitution and governance, international organisations, science and technology, sports and awards, plus current events of roughly the last twelve to eighteen months. It is the widest domain and the one where careless reading costs the most marks.

Concepts to command

  • Pakistan: administrative units and their capitals, rivers and their order of flow, mountain passes, deserts, dams and barrages; constitutional history to 1973 and the salient features of the 1973 Constitution, with the amendments examiners repeat; national institutions and their current heads.
  • International: the UN system and its specialised agencies with headquarters, plus SAARC, OIC, SCO, ASEAN, IMF and the World Bank - and what each actually does rather than what it is called.
  • Science and technology: base units, discoveries and inventors, space missions, major health campaigns.
  • Current affairs: the budget, senior appointments, summits hosted, treaties signed.

Traps

  1. Similar names - an organisation's headquarters confused with its founding place.
  2. Dates one year apart (founded vs joined; signed vs enforced).
  3. "First" and "largest" items where the record has recently changed.
  4. Options that are true statements but do not answer the question asked.
  5. Superlatives where the unit or definition (area vs population) changes the answer.

Worked example (rule of thumb)

When two options are both true of the same subject, the question is asking for the specific relationship named - headquarters, founded in, currency. Underline that word before evaluating the options; it is usually the only thing separating them.

Method

Keep a one-page running sheet of numbers: dates, articles, headquarters, membership counts. Numbers are what item writers mine. For current affairs, revise monthly digests rather than one annual compilation, and note the source date of anything you memorise.

Caution

When a fact is uncertain, eliminate using certainties you do hold rather than trusting a guess dressed up as knowledge.