General Awareness is a compulsion with a common man. Leave aside any exam, just think over the normal life. It is difficult to be successful anywhere in the absence of General Awareness, whether in social behaviour or in business. As a result it is a compulsory subject almost in every competitive exam as well as in schools and colleges. In any competitive exam, questions of general awareness will be designed to test candidate's ability of the general awareness of the environment around him/her and its application to society. Questions will also be designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighbouring countries especially partaining to sports, history, culture, geography, economic sense, general polity including Indian constitution, and scientific research etc. These questions will be such that they do not require a special study of any discipline.

General Awareness as the name suggests includes knowledge from every field such as history, culture, geography, polity, science, information technology, computer, space sciences, economy etc. The questions of general awareness  of general nature and every citizen of our country must aware with them. A nation becomes literate and developed only when its citizens are educated and conscious. Even the fundamental duty of our constitution enjoins upon the citizens to honor  and regard the ideals which inspired freedom struggle, to preserve the rich cultural heritage and wild life of the country. This clearly means that our citizens should be conscious and aware individuals, General Awareness does not even require to devote long hours of painstaking study. One commonly comes across general discussion and gossips in day to day life in which General Awareness becomes quite important. The issues in General Awareness become topics of discussion in railway compartments, bus stops, tea-shops, and not just in schools, colleges and universities. For example, when someone is chosen Miss World, it becomes a topic of discussion, not only amongst experts on the subject of culture but also amongst common men. If a discussion affects common men it becomes the topic of discussion. For example, President's rule, what it is? How mean it be promulgated? What are conditions need for it to be imposed in a state? How the motion is introduced in the houses? When the does the motion fall? What are conditional article on it? These and several other issues  relating to the presidents rule may from questions of General Awareness in competitive exams. What it is more important, however is that every citizen of our country must be aware with these facts.

Candidates must be aware that there is well defined syllabus of any subject. But as far as the paper of General Awareness is concerned there is definitely a prescribed syllabus of the subject for any competitive exam, but the syllabus which appears precise on surface may be quite extensive. In other words, if the examiner so desires he may set very easy or tough questions within that syllabus. Secondly, even whole life time is devoted to study, this is not sufficient for this subject, because a subject like General Awareness is Encyclopaedia of knowledge in itself. Therefore, the candidates must first of all go through the syllabus thoroughly. It would be better if the candidates in course of referring to and consulting the syllabus remember it by heart. First, your concentration will always be on the subject matter. Secondly, in course of your preparation you will not deviate from the right track. After that you have to see whether this subject is completely new to you or you have studied this subject earlier too. As matter of fact this subject is not new to anybody because generally everybody has some knowledge about this subject. You have studied subjects like History, Geography, Economy, Polity at school or college level. Here by term 'completely new' we mean whether you have prepared this subject from the stand point of competitive exam earlier or not. If not then we shall consider the subject completely new to you.

• Written by SUJIT.
• In category Careers.
• 10 years ago.

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