How to prepare for General Awareness for SSC CGL 2018?

The most important and scoring section of SSC CGL Tier I Exam is General Awareness. You do not need any special knowledge or any formula or any trick to solve this section of examination. All you need is to stay updated regarding current affairs and general knowledge to score high in this section. Idly you can attempt and score 80-90 percentage in this section. So you just need to be smart and consistent to score good here.  
GA is as important as other section so do not think to ignore this section of examination. GA is important as this section saves a lot of time as there is no calculation or concepts required to answer. One can easily score 20 marks .
Let us discuss about the important topics under this section.
-58% of questions are from Static GK
37% of questions are from science
-5% of questions are general.
The above data is on 2015, 2016 & 2017 papers.
 Now let us see what comes under these subtopics.
Static GK-
Culture ;Indian history ;geography ;environment ;economy ;polity

Science-

Biology, chemistry, physics and space science ;computer and mobile technology, nutrition and disease

Others-

Current affairs, important dates, portfolios schemes and general knowledge.

Now that we know marks of each topic in general awareness section let us know things we should NOT do while preparing for it.
· Do NOT focus ONLY on current affairs section.
·  Weightage of Static GK is comparatively higher so focus more on that topic
· Prepare smartly. Do NOT focus on only one section.
· Although, it is also not wise to say ignore Current Affairs completely, but do not invest too much time in them.

Given below is the important topics and recommended books to prepare for the same.
1.    Polity- Indian Polity by M. Laxmikanth. also attempt to solve questions in NIOS study material and Lucent books.
2.    History- Start with Tamil Nadu State Education Board textbooks of class 11 and 12. Also go through Lucent’s GK book .
3.    Geography -Start NCERT Textbooks for Social Science Class 7 to 10 and for Geography Class 11, 12.
4.    Economy - NCERT’s Economy book of Class 11 (India’s Economy & Development) for basic idea of Indian Economy.
5.    Science- NCERT textbooks of Science from class 6 to 10.
6.    Miscellaneous- Lucent’s GK book.
Frequent revision of these topics is the golden rule for securing good marks in this section. Check some other articles that will help you in the preparation of General Awareness section.

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