Current Affairs — How to Prepare
🔒 Log in to trackThe static layer of current affairs: how CA questions are framed, the award, sports, summit, day and index categories to track every month, and the pairing-based method to revise them — structure that never expires, whatever the news cycle.
One page per subtopic: detailed notes, every question type, formulas, tricks and practice sets.
Every formula on one printable page, grouped by subtopic.
3 exam-level questions worked step by step.
88 questions — untimed practice or a timed test with analysis.
Track record in the exam
Questions per shift in recent SSC CGL papers.
Test difficulty mix (88 questions)
Question patterns exams keep repeating
Taken from previous-year papers. If a pattern is marked "very common", expect to see it in your exam.
Award and who it is for
very common"X award is given for..." or "the highest civilian award".
Order of civilian awards: Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri.
Sports: Arjuna Award = players, Dronacharya Award = coaches.
The Dronacharya Award is given to whom?
The Arjuna Award is for players
The Dronacharya Award is for the people who train them
Those people are coaches
Coaches
Sports event facts
very common"The X tournament is related to which sport?" or "how often is it held?"
Learn the sport for each cup: Thomas and Uber = badminton, Davis = tennis, Ranji = cricket.
Olympics, Asian Games and the FIFA World Cup come every four years.
The Thomas Cup is related to which sport?
Thomas Cup is for men's teams
The women's version is the Uber Cup
The sport is badminton
Badminton
Groupings: headquarters and members
very common"The headquarters of X is at..." or "India is not a member of..."
SAARC = Kathmandu, ASEAN = Jakarta, UN = New York, Commonwealth = London.
India is in G20, BRICS, SCO and QUAD. India is not in G7 or NATO.
Where is the SAARC headquarters?
SAARC is a group of South Asian countries
Its secretariat is in a Himalayan capital
That capital is Kathmandu in Nepal
Kathmandu
Important days and what they mark
very common"X day is observed to remember..." or "birth anniversary of..."
Person days: 12 Jan = Vivekananda, 5 Sep = Radhakrishnan, 14 Nov = Nehru, 22 Dec = Ramanujan.
Other days: 28 Feb = Science Day, 21 Jun = Yoga Day, 5 Jun = Environment Day.
National Science Day (28 February) marks which discovery?
28 February is National Science Day
It marks a discovery by C.V. Raman in 1928
That discovery is called the Raman effect
Raman effect
Index and the body that publishes it
very common"Which organisation releases the X index?" or "which pair is wrongly matched".
Match each index to its publisher.
HDI = UNDP, Global Hunger Index = Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, Gender Gap = WEF, Corruption Index = Transparency International.
Who publishes the Global Hunger Index?
The Hunger Index is not a UN report
It is made by two NGOs
They are Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe
Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe
Who appoints whom
very common"Who has been appointed as...?" or "who appoints the Governor / CJI / CEC?"
Note each new person with their post in one line.
The President appoints Governors, the CJI, the CEC and the CAG.
Who appoints the Governor of a state?
Article 155 covers this
The Governor is named by the head of the Union
That head is the President of India
The President
Statement questions: pick the correct ones
very commonTwo or three numbered statements are given, with one wrong detail mixed in.
Check the easiest statement first (a year, a publisher, a headquarters).
One clearly wrong statement removes every option that contains it.
- NITI Aayog releases the SDG India Index. 2. The Global Hunger Index is a UNDP product. Which are correct?
Statement 1: the SDG India Index is by NITI Aayog, so it is true
Statement 2: the Hunger Index is by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, so it is false
Only statement 1 is true, so Statement 1 only
News item linked to a lasting fact
commonA news item is given, and the question asks the fixed fact behind it (publisher, year, ministry).
Link each news item to its lasting fact.
Award = year started, summit = headquarters, index = publisher, day = person or event.
A news item reports the latest Human Development Report. Which body publishes the HDI?
The news item is one edition of a yearly report
The lasting fact is who publishes it
The HDI is published by the UNDP
UNDP