How to Prepare for RRB NTPC 2025 General Awareness? Know Important Topics
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The General Awareness section is the most important section of RRB NTPC exam. This section carries the maximum weightage in the exam. To ace this section, candidates must keep themselves updated with the recent events of both national and international importance. Read below for more details on RRB NTPC preparation tips 2025 for General Awareness.
How to Prepare for RRB NTPC General Awareness?
How to Prepare for RRB NTPC General Awareness? The General Awareness of the RRB NTPC exam carries the maximum weightage. A total of 40 questions are asked in the CBT 1 exam and 50 questions in the CBT 2 exam. Questions in the test are asked from climate change, political steps, governance, historial inventions, scientific inventions, economy, polity, science and technology, and sports, etc. RRB NTPC question paper 2025 for General Awareness carries questions from Static GK and Current Affairs. Candidates must go through the current affairs of the past year or the last six months. To improve the knowledge of Current Affairs for RRB NTPC 2025 exam, candidates must read the newspapers daily and refer to good General Knowledge books. In this article, we have explained how to prepare for RRB NTPC 2025 General Awareness. Read below to check the RRB NTPC preparation tips 2025 for General Awareness
RRBs prescribes qualifying marks for RRB NTPC exam. Besides the cut off marks, candidates are also required to secure the qualifying marks. The minimum qualifying marks for CBT 1 and 2 for General, EWS categories is 40 per cent, for OBC and SC is 30 per cent and for ST category is 25 per cent. In CBAT, candidates are required to secure a minimum T-score of 42 marks.
GK section has the maximum weightage in RRB NTPC exam. Candidates can prepare this section by reading newspaper, magazines and watching news channels. They need to be updated with all the recent happenings. In CBT 1, a total of 40 questions are asked and in CBT 2 total of 50 questions are asked. The tips and tricks to prepare for RRB NTPC GK section are given below:
- Go through the Previous Years’ Papers
- Try to be inquisitive about important things happening around you
- You should maintain a dairy of important notes
- Practice quizzes in your leisure time
- Attempt mock test
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- How to Prepare for RRB NTPC General Awareness?
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How to Prepare for RRB NTPC General Awareness?
The tips given below will help candidates to prepare for RRB NTPC General Awareness:
- Inculcate the habit of reading the newspaper every day and also watch the news
- Candidates must stay updated about national and international events
- Read the topics for static GK
- Take about one or two mock tests every day to analyse candidates’ preparation
- Candidates must subscribe to the weekly magazines of current affairs
- Focus on areas such as Business, Politics, and Economics
- Take out at least three hours per day to practice on the General Awareness section of the exam
- Stay updated with the last six months of current affairs
- Go through the previous years’ papers to know the level and kind of questions asked in the exam
- Candidates must be inquisitive about important things and happenings around the world
- Make notes of important topics for the exam
- Candidates must practice quizzes in their leisure time
- Revise all the topics given in RRB NTPC syllabus properly
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Important topics for General Awareness
Candidates must prepare the following topics properly for this section:
- Latest Developments and Current Affairs of India
- Latest Developments and Current Affairs of the World
- Indian History-Ancient, Medieval and Modern
- Geography-India and the World
- Indian and World Economy
- Politics and Governance
- Science and Technology
- Books and Authors
- People and Places
- Culture
- Sports
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Books for RRB NTPC General Awareness
General Awareness is an important subject in any competitive examination. General Awareness books will help candidates to know the events happening around the globe. If you are preparing for RRB NTPC exam and improving the General Awareness section, here is the list of books for this section.
- General Knowledge by Arihant
- General Studies by Disha
- General Knowledge Manual by Pearson
- General Knowledge by Lucent
- General Knowledge by Prabhat Prakashan
- S Chand Advanced Objective General Knowledge by RS Aggarwal
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