CURRENT AFFAIRS AND GK FOR CSS – CONCENTRATE ON THESE TOPICS TO SCORE SOME EASY MARKS
Many aspirants have this doubt about what to prepare for Current Affairs and General Knowledge in CSS papers. After the recent changes in the CSS syllabus and pattern, a lot of stress is given to General Knowledge questions by FPSC. Of course, Current Affairs questions were regularly asked earlier as well but now GK based questions are also being asked regularly.
It follows then that if you prepare these two topics well then your chances of clearing the CSS increase significantly. Before I list what you should cover for Current Affairs and General Knowledge and from where let me remind you that these two terms in the Exams are overlapping and any neat categorization of questions or topics in either Current Affairs or General Knowledge is not possible. In fact most Current Affairs topics and questions have a General Knowledge aspect to them and vice-versa. But for keeping things simple here I will attempt to separate the two.
Current Affairs for CSS
These are the topics you should focus on:
Recent developments in the field of Science and Technology like satellite launches, vaccine development, defence deals, new diseases etc.
Environmental issues are given high importance by FPSC and developments like important summits and their outcomes, global warming, carbon dump, carbon trading, environment-affecting projects like Dams, nuclear plants, pollution should be regularly looked into.
Keeping track of all the important economic data like growth rate, inflation, exports and imports, as well as current economic issues like slowdown, global economic crisis, G-8 meet etc.
Sports events like tennis grand slams, cricket, Pakistani achievements in Olympics, world cup’s etc. Remember to go beyond cricket and read about other sports as well.
Awards and honours from within Pakistan as well as from outside Pakistan.
Persons in news those that might have received some honour, or have invented something or achieved a personal feat of social value etc.
General Knowledge for CSS
General Knowledge is a very vast topic to cover combining many sub-topics. So much information is being generated through hundreds of books and online sources that it is almost impossible to keep track of everything. But do you need to keep track of everything? No. These are the General Knowledge topics to focus on from the CSS Exams perspective:
Facts about Pakistan: (demographics, census data, major economy stats and so on)
Facts about World: Limit yourself to the important demographic and economic data of various countries.
Science and Technology: In current affairs you have to focus on the latest developments. In General Knowledge, look at the history of Pakistan’s missile development programme by remembering the important landmarks, development of important vaccines and so on.
Books and Authors: Some questions from this topic are routinely asked in CSS Exams. So keep track of books by popular authors including their latest ones.
Firsts like First Army General, Chief Justice, Nobel Winner, Woman Prime Minister etc.
Of course as mentioned earlier. If you prefer a go-it-alone approach, be sure to cover each topic discussed above in detail from the standard reference books to score easy marks in the Exams. Do share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Many aspirants have this doubt about what to prepare for Current Affairs and General Knowledge in CSS papers. After the recent changes in the CSS syllabus and pattern, a lot of stress is given to General Knowledge questions by FPSC. Of course, Current Affairs questions were regularly asked earlier as well but now GK based questions are also being asked regularly.
It follows then that if you prepare these two topics well then your chances of clearing the CSS increase significantly. Before I list what you should cover for Current Affairs and General Knowledge and from where let me remind you that these two terms in the Exams are overlapping and any neat categorization of questions or topics in either Current Affairs or General Knowledge is not possible. In fact most Current Affairs topics and questions have a General Knowledge aspect to them and vice-versa. But for keeping things simple here I will attempt to separate the two.
Current Affairs for CSS
These are the topics you should focus on:
Recent developments in the field of Science and Technology like satellite launches, vaccine development, defence deals, new diseases etc.
Environmental issues are given high importance by FPSC and developments like important summits and their outcomes, global warming, carbon dump, carbon trading, environment-affecting projects like Dams, nuclear plants, pollution should be regularly looked into.
Keeping track of all the important economic data like growth rate, inflation, exports and imports, as well as current economic issues like slowdown, global economic crisis, G-8 meet etc.
Sports events like tennis grand slams, cricket, Pakistani achievements in Olympics, world cup’s etc. Remember to go beyond cricket and read about other sports as well.
Awards and honours from within Pakistan as well as from outside Pakistan.
Persons in news those that might have received some honour, or have invented something or achieved a personal feat of social value etc.
General Knowledge for CSS
General Knowledge is a very vast topic to cover combining many sub-topics. So much information is being generated through hundreds of books and online sources that it is almost impossible to keep track of everything. But do you need to keep track of everything? No. These are the General Knowledge topics to focus on from the CSS Exams perspective:
Facts about Pakistan: (demographics, census data, major economy stats and so on)
Facts about World: Limit yourself to the important demographic and economic data of various countries.
Science and Technology: In current affairs you have to focus on the latest developments. In General Knowledge, look at the history of Pakistan’s missile development programme by remembering the important landmarks, development of important vaccines and so on.
Books and Authors: Some questions from this topic are routinely asked in CSS Exams. So keep track of books by popular authors including their latest ones.
Firsts like First Army General, Chief Justice, Nobel Winner, Woman Prime Minister etc.
Of course as mentioned earlier. If you prefer a go-it-alone approach, be sure to cover each topic discussed above in detail from the standard reference books to score easy marks in the Exams. Do share your thoughts in the comments below.
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