Sectional weightage to General Awareness in CMAT 2014 exam will not be less than any of the other 3 sections namely Quant, English and Reasoning. CMAT 2014 is only 2 days away and it is rather difficult to prepare something new for the exam.
CMAT 2014, the first CMAT for admission in 2015 is being conducted by AICTE in a 5 day test window from September 25 to 29, 2014 across the country. What should a CMAT aspirant do to get an edge in General Awareness section in CMAT 2014 exam is shared by Prof S K Agarwal for the CMAT takers
Components of GA in CMAT 2014: Prepare in next 2 days
There will be 25 questions based on General Awareness in CMAT in the form of MCQs (Multiple Choice questions). Every correct answer will award you 4 marks improving your score and awarding you higher place in merit. Since all the 4 sections have equal number of questions in CMAT, General Awareness will play the same role in pushing up your merit position in CMAT as other sections can do.
The importance of GA is more in CMAT when the aspirants find that their preparation will help them in IIFT, XAT and other important entrance/competitive exams.
Whatever you have prepared on GA so far, may be divided in following sub sections to measure your preparation pattern on anticipated type of questions on different topics in General Awareness.
GK: Conventional type
Conventional GK requires revision now and can be well revised from books. You must be preparing and reading some books like Manorama Year Book, General Knowledge refresher, General Knowledge by S. Chand & Co or any other book. These books contain conventional type of GK as well as the current GK till their publication date.
They are available in the market and may be considered the best to prepare in a short time. If you have already gone through any one of them, revise the stuff that you have learnt from it. You may have questions based on the topics like Authors of the books, Historical facts & events, Personalities, places, questions based on inventions, discoveries and Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Biology etc
GK: Finance & Economy type
You must have tried to cover the hot topics in Business, Finance and Economy from various sources. Have you noted a few important ones? If yes, 5-6 questions on this topic will not be difficult for you to solve. Take out your notes, go through them once and you will remember whatever you have learnt.
However, if you haven’t done this process, rush and buy the latest published book on GK, go through the Business, finance & economy section and just try to remember by correlating it with past happenings.
Please remember this is one of the most favourite sections of GK that appear in the CMAT entrance examinations. Business and finance oriented General Knowledge improves your understanding of economic environment, strengthening your IQ and making you better equipped to face the Group discussions and Personal Interviews also.
If you are a regular reader of the business, economy pages of newspapers and have the habit of marking the striking events, you must already be knowing a lot on it. Questions on these topics are not tough but have very close options. For example questions like Monetary and Fiscal authority of the country; ‘What is the current CRR’, ‘Difference between CRR & SLR’ ‘Quantitative and Qualitative Instruments for money control’, ‘ Where the budget is presented first in Loksabha or RajyaSabha’, and so on are not difficult but need a close watch on changes in the economy.
GK: Current Affairs
There is no need to go for more current affairs as your test paper must have already been prepared. You should update your knowledge with revision of what you have learnt. Find out whether you have covered last few years’ events in the country, important changes. Events like Cricket World Cup, Victory at Lords after 28 years, Recent announcements by Government, Commonwealth games, creations of additional states, appointments – Private and Public sector, different awards, various aspects of General Elections 2014, new Indian Cabinet, policy changes, PM’s Japan visit, all about Malaysian Planes that were lost and Shot in one year, their names, air route, should be well known to you. Although there is no syllabus for GK, you must brush up whatever you have read. Draw a quick plan to revise.
Give due weightage to crack
Revise giving each part the due weightage. Conventional GK-available in books; Current GK- based on current reading of newspapers and periodicals; Business & Economics GK all of it has to be revisited once in next 2 days. You do not need any technical skill to revise and learn GK, it is the matter of interest. Just read it once with interest and you will surely remember it.
Do not prepare any more current affairs and do not prepare something new also. Revise whatever you have already prepared and make sure you know it.
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