One of the important sections out of the 4 sections in CMAT 2015 is General Awareness with 25 questions. Sectional weightage to General Awareness in CMAT Feb 2015 exam will not be less than any of the other 3 sections namely Quant, English and Reasoning. CMAT Feb 2015 is only 2 days away and it is rather difficult to prepare something new for the exam.
CMAT Feb 2015, the second CMAT for admission in 2015 is being conducted by AICTE in a 4 day test window from Feb 19 to 22, 2015 across the country. For the success in exam, Prof S K Agarwal, expert and mentor on CMAT preparation shares the quick tips on how a CMAT aspirant should get an edge in General Awareness section in CMAT Feb 2015 in next 48 hours.
GA for CMAT Feb 2015: Quick tips for next 2 days
There will be 25 questions based on General Awareness in CMAT Feb 2015 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 2015 second test as other sections can do.
Whatever you have prepared on General Awareness so far, can be divided in following sub sections to measure your preparation pattern on anticipated type of questions on different topics in General Awareness.
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, Recent announcements by Government, Sports, creation of additional states, IIMs, IITs, appointments–Private and Public sector, different awards, various aspects of Delhi state Elections 2015, policy changes, US President’s visit 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.
Static & Conventional GK
Static or 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 and Biology.
Finance & Economy: Very important
Have you noted a few important questions while reading and covering the hot topics in Business, Finance and Economy from various sources?
If you have done this exercise a little, 5-6 questions on Business, Finance & Economy 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 know 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’, ‘Balance of Payment’ ‘Policy changes by RBI’ and so on are not difficult but need a close watch on changes in the economy.
Revise quickly: No new Current events
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.
Revise giving each part the due weightage. Conventional GK-available in books; Current GK- based on current reading of newspapers and periodicals as well as 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 remember it.
Put more emphasis on last decade events and global happenings like global depression, mutiny in certain countries, economic swings that made impact on Indian Economy, Appointments, attack on Charlie Hebdo in France and the like.
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