The Importance of Current Affairs in Competitive Exams
Current affairs, a part of general studies, educates about political, socio-economical and geographical events, issues, incidents occurred worldwide.
Why knowledge of current affairs is important?
Globalization has brought many transformations in the world. The incidents that happen in any corner of world can influence people of different parts of entire world. The global economical, political and geographical changes can influence living of the people around the world. So it is important to keep a watchful eye on current affairs. Moreover, in this modernized world different sectors have been interdependent and interrelated and hence individuals have to be aware of current affairs of the world. Media has been playing a vital role in educating people on current affairs.
Current affairs and competitive exams
Due to this globalization and growing importance of current affairs, it has been set as an integral part of our education and hence crucial for all types of competitive exams. Current affairs, most of the times, determines the rank of a student in competitive exams. Not only for competitive exams, current affairs form the main topics for interview selections too. Questions on current affairs are often asked during job interviews because the interviewers would like to assess the sensitivity towards the social, political and economic issues in the society. Recruitment exams like IAS, SSC, PSU, Bank PO/Clerk, or an entrance examination like MBA, LLB, or others, a significant portion of the questions, comprises of General Knowledge and awareness.
Civil services examinations:
Civil services examination, popularly known as IAS exam, has entirely been based on knowledge of current affairs. The examination is conducted as two stages, prelims and mains. General studies comprise about 50% of the total marks. As civil services are purely administrative services knowledge of current affairs becomes crucial and hence the syllabus of exam essentially contains current affairs.
Bank PO/clerical exams, Railway recruitment:
For bank Pos/clerical recruitment, Railway recruitment, knowledge of current affairs section is being tested in the form of ‘general awareness' paper. It comprises 25% of the total marks and hence our awareness quotient must be high.
How to update our knowledge of current affairs?
Media forms the best source to acquire knowledge on current affairs. Especially, newspapers provide comprehensive information on current affairs. So one should make it as a hobby to read newspaper and prepare notes of current affairs of each year. Regular practice with the online Current Affairs Quiz, or the books available, can significantly help a candidate crack through the questions on current events.
To conclude, knowledge of current affairs is an important success attribute for any competitive exam. To be update with current affairs, keeps us vigilant and also makes competitive academically to grab government jobs.
