basics of g.k.
While
preparing for MBA entrance exams, the aspirants concentrate majorly on Quant
section, Verbal Ability, DI and LR sections. But General Awareness or GK, which
is also an essential part for many of the MBA Entrance examinations, is often
neglected by most of the students and classes.
Also see: iift snap specific g.k.
Importance of GK
GK is
central part of exams like SNAP, CMAT, TISS, MICAT, MAT, IIFT, Banking POs.
For
example in CMAT 25% is GK while Quant is only 20%.
CMAT
(Common Management Admissions Test - For institutes under the AICTE. Several
states have scrapped their regional MBA entrance tests in favor CMAT. Hence
institutes like SIMSREE, JBIMS, etc will be accepting CMAT)
IIFT
- IIFT has a section on general awareness as a part of its 120 minutes entrance
exam. In IIFT 2010 paper, out of 135 questions this section had 30 questions.
Marks per question was 0.4, hence the total marks was 12. The questions were
from traditional as well as dynamic GK. There were questions from business,
Country-Capital-Currency-Parliaments, Current Affairs, Locations of
International Organizations and Economics etc.
SNAP
- SNAP is the entrance exam for Symbiosis institutes. SNAP also consists of a
section on general awareness. In SNAP 2010, out of 150 questions, the General
Awareness section had 40 questions of one mark each. The section had a good mix
of current affairs and static GK questions.
MICAT
– MICAT is the entrance exam for Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad
(MICA). The exam has a section on General Awareness. In MICAT 2011, there were
25 questions in this section. The questions appeared from the areas of
marketing, advertising, media, general knowledge and general global awareness.
MAT -
MAT consists of a section on General awareness. MAT February 2011 had 40
questions in this section out of 200 total questions. The questions were on
Economics, Current Affairs, Awards and Prizes, Indian Constitution, Business
and Sports.
XAT also include GK.
TISS
(Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai - several Masters programs in Social
Management/Entrepreneurship)
Details of competitive GK
To define General Knowledge is just impossible because of its undefined nature, but still we can define and understand General Knowledge on the basis of last year’s examinations experiences.
General Knowledge can be classified into three broad categories:
Static General Knowledge
Current General Knowledge
Business General Knowledge
Static GK
History
Geography
Polity
Sports
Science
Culture
Events
Places
Personalities
Miscellaneous
Abbreviations
Awards
International Organizations
Important days
Books & Authors
Miscellaneous
Business General Knowledge
· Basic Economics
· Indian economy since independence
· CEO’s , MD’s, CMD’s, Chairmen of various important organizations
· Brands & Punch lines
· Mergers & Acquisitions
· Current Economic Data
· Current business events
How to prepare for GK
Long term method:
Read a good national daily (The Hindu/ The Times of India /Hindustan Times)
Magazines; Pratiyogita Darpan, Competition Success Review
Watch a news channel preferably NDTV 24X7
Business Today and India Today magazines
Discuss the learnt data frequently in a quizzical manner amongst your friends and facebook forum