Current Affairs

Career101.in will be featuring bite sized current affairs posts including quizzes, from across the verticals. Be it career news itself or variety of dimensions to career including human resource, health, environmental, legal, political, sports, governance, technology, everything would come into the ambit of current affairs category.  Making yourself abreast of the development around is the food to your thoughts. Nobody knows which changes on the planet could offer you the platform, you have cherished this long. In that sense, general awareness and especially, the current affairs are extremely crucial. If “Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly.”- the famous quote of legendary Dhirubhai is to be imbibed, a tab on current affairs becomes immensely important.

Current Affairs Are Crucial for Competitive Exams

Current affairs play very crucial role in overall preparation for govt. jobs. There is hardly any exam for sarkari naukri that doesn’t contain questions from Current affairs.

As on date, every competitive exam big or small, has a portion of Current affairs in its question paper. In fact, the competitive exams are increasing their weightage in overall test of aspirants. Especially, the Interviews cannot be imagined without the questions on Current issues of local, national or international importance.

Let’s take UPSC exam for instance. It has been day by day increasing the role of Current affairs in overall assessment of a candidate. It would be improper to say that weightage has been increased in terms of number of questions. In fact, thing is that even the most static portions of the General awareness are having elements of real time happenings around. Meaning, the weaving of static GK with current affairs has grown. The UPSC has today 4 papers of GA and every paper has questions with barely maintaining arm’s length with current issues. Dynamic Elements viz. economics, polity, geography or history are no longer static subjects today from the UPSC point of view.

Current Affairs Goes Beyond Career & Economy 

The section of current affairs might include questions from a variety of fields. Any event in your everyday life which has a broader impact on lives of common man can form part of Current affairs questions.

Fields can be pretty wide: business, economy, politics, govt. policies, administrative reforms, Industries, science and technology, terrorism, women’s security, sports etc. So, you name it and you will get to see the questions from. Again, the issues can be of national or international importance and ramifications. So, the ambit of Current affairs goes far and wide.

Why Emphasis On Current Affairs

The reason is simple: Staying Conversant with ongoing affairs at national /international level, gives you an edge in terms of shaping direction of business and career.

As regards competitive examination, the questions from current issues assesses your actual level of awareness about the event that impacts the society and civilization. We are living in the era of fast changing paradigms, be it technology, science, medicine or space. A result of all this is that human is facing biggest ever challenges of the time also. The development followed by challenges is what makes the Current affairs this important. Naturally, as an educated being you are expected to keep pace with all this.

Current Affairs Add Clarity to Bookish Knowledge

Yes, they are important for many other reasons apart from Score point of view. If you read about a Public demonstration at Chandni chowk, the root of it might be in the framework of Indian Constitution. So, to understand the demonstrations well you need educating yourself the provisions of constitution and to understand the constitution well, you will have to keep an eye on all the demonstrations citing it to be the rights of demonstrators. So, the static and Current part of General Awareness do complement each other instead being in isolation.

Keep checking Current affairs posts from carrer101.in to empower yourself  so that you are left behind!.