What topics should be given more focus in general awareness

Static gk or current affairs

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  • To improve your General Awareness, read the important Current affairs giving you latest news related to current events of national and international importance. You can refer to Current Affairs section to prepare for the GK. Here, Get daily news insights. Read 5–6 important events which took place in the world. Improve your General awareness. This will help you to crack CMAT,MAT and other management exams. 1.1k Views · View Upvoters Upvote · 2 Share Karuna TawadeComment... Promoted by great learning Learn analytics online from industry experts. Learn Hadoop, Spark, Python & Tableau. Get career assistance from experts. Learn More John Miler John Miler Answered Oct 9, 2015 The General Awareness section comprises of the following key components: A. Conventional B. Current Affairs India (Political, Social, Sports, Films, awards etc.) C. Business, Finance & Economy D. International (personalities-past & Present, global events etc.) Go through some good GK books such as General Knowledge Refresher, General Knowledge by S. Chand & Co. and Manorama Year Book. Make it a habit to read the newspapers and magazines daily. You need to keep yourself updated on events such as cricket world cup, past and forthcoming Olympics, important changes taking place and recent announcements by government. Also, the global happenings that have their impacts in the country must be well read. Put emphasis on topics like international appointments, global depression, economic swings that made impact on Indian Economy etc. If you're looking for some books at pocket friendly prices, you can buy them from Prozo. All the best!
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  • Hey,

    Here are some things that you can and should look at which have a reasonably high probability of being asked in the exam. 

    1. Net Neutrality
    2. Indians in Tennis this year
    3. Nobel Prizes in 2015 (Specially Peace and Economics)
    4. One Rank One Pension
    5. Winners and MVP of Indian Leagues
    6. Fight of the Century
    7. One Rank One Pension
    8. Volkswagen Pollution Issue
    9. Major merger and acquisitions (specially Indians)
    10. World Sports (specially Tennis)
    11. Cricket World Cup
    12. A P J Abdul Kalam (Brahmos / his books)
    13. Syrian Refugees
    14. New Heads of State (Canada / Australia / Nepal)
    15. Ramon Magsaysay Award (Indians who won it)

    If  you can gather even superficial information about the topics mentioned  above and spend 15-20 minutes reading about each of them, rest assured -  you will clear the CMAT General Knowledge cutoff and do well in other exams as well.
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