How to Prepare Current Affairs Questions
Whether you're getting ready for UPSC, GPSC, KPSC, MPPSC, MPSC, UPPSC, IBPS, CAT or the other test that involves interview and serious competition, you've got this by reading newspapers.
Why Important to Read Newspapers?
-Because in the government exams, all three stages (preliminary, Mains and interview), questions asked related to current affairs.
-To write a normal essay, you have to need facts and viewpoints. For this you have to require “Fodder”, and newspapers are best sources for the fodder material and get knowledge about current and latest events.
GK Questions 2015 in Hindi
Use civil services books or Pratiyogita Darpan
Why Important to Read Newspapers?
-Because in the government exams, all three stages (preliminary, Mains and interview), questions asked related to current affairs.
-To write a normal essay, you have to need facts and viewpoints. For this you have to require “Fodder”, and newspapers are best sources for the fodder material and get knowledge about current and latest events.
GK Questions 2015 in Hindi
Use civil services books or Pratiyogita Darpan
- Such magazines and newspapers only they provide as “supplement” and not as “substitute” of the newspapers to us.
- Why? Because the magazines have the page limit and more knowledge in the nick of time, they cannot give justice to every single topic, even if they wish to. (and because on every second page, they’ve to put big advertisement of coaching classes, to cover the cost.)
- Same things apply for the readymade blogs/ websites dealing with current-affairs, they’re only supplements but not the substitutes of a newspaper.
- Secondly, such magazines or websites for competitive
exams do not help you in the profile-based interview questions or
role-playing questions. So, reading continue from resources.
Location-based Questions
- Social, political, administrative and economic problems of your city, district and state and all over country, you have to know about all of things.
- And (Sometimes) the role-playing questions about how will you tackle them, if you’re an inspector, tehsildaar, Collector, DSP, Secretary, etc.
You have to need to know sports based questions Tennis, Cricket, Chess, Computer: then you are supposed to know the current affairs related to that field.
Firefighting
- Most of the people, whether UPSC, State PSC aspirants or MBA aspirants: they don’t prepare for profile-based questions or current affairs until the 11th hour. (i.e. When the interview or group-discussion (GD) is barely 20-30 days away).
- Then They begin Google searching for GK related to their profile and search something latest about it.
- In such a short time, you cannot cover all satisfactorily. Therefore, daily reading of newspaper is essential.
Which newspapers should I read
- Even if you’re going to write your Mains exam in Hindi/ Gujarati/ Tamil / Telugu medium, still you should refer to English newspapers because the local newspapers only serve the “masala” news of politics, cricket and Bollywood.
Should I read more than one newspaper?
- It depends on your time and energy, otherwise one newspaper is enough.
- You might have seen some coaching “Sirs” advising that you must-read Hindu and Economic Times (ET). I think, this is an overkill. You don’t have to become a share market expert. If there is some really good columnist in ET (for example, example Bibek Debroy), then following him is excellent, but you don’t have to go through two or three “Whole” newspaper per day.
- Give online current affairs practice tests at your home online for analysis.
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