How To Prepare General Knowledge For TISSNET

Current General Knowledge

There are very less questions on current affairs but their difficulty level makes them crucial. Reading a National Newspaper is necessary to be a well-informed as it will help you develop a well-rounded personality and directly help in the Interview. I recommend reading “The Hindu” or “The Indian Express”. Try to form your opinion on important news Taglines. 

Some of the important topics that I can think for TISSNET 2020 are:

·         Union Budget

·         Indians in news this year

·         Nobel Prizes in 2019

·         Cultural Festivals across India

·         Winners of Olympics and Para Olympics

·         Major merger and acquisitions (specially Indians)

·         World Sports (specially Tennis & badminton)

·         Cricket

·         Various awards given and to whom

·         New Heads of State

·         Ramon Magsaysay Award (Indians who won it)

·         Current heads of major Global / Indian companies

·         Information on brands and companies

·         Information about Indian companies

·         Major books released & authors

·         Business related books and business biographies

The above list is just to get an idea. Please don’t blame me if nothing comes from it.

 

Static General Knowledge

Importance to questions based on Indian History, Politics, Social Studies, Science & Technology, Environment, Sports, Arts & Culture is seen to be given. Most of the static part can be prepared from Manorama Year book or any other GK reckoner. You can also Google these topics but unless you make written notes of everything, it will be a futile exercise. GK booklets of various coaching institutes like T.I.M.E, Insights on India and Career Launcher are easily available in the market. Those can also form a good source to cover up major topics quickly. Lucent’s General Knowledge is also a good book for static GK.

Having said that, I am not the paper setter to tell you exactly how to prepare and from what. There is no substitute to hard work and making it a habit to be updated with the recent developments goes a long way in life. I think many things in life are like Cooking. You need to have the required ingredients, necessary temperament and the grit to work hard which should be combined in adequate proportion to come up with the desired result. Anything less and you miss out on the final list and end up wasting a precious year. So let’s begin to cook our way to TISS!

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About the Author: 

Anuya Thorat is a Second year Student of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is a Dentist by Training and an HR professional by sheer luck. She enjoys singing while cooking. And yes she does cook up a lot of things. Everything except Tarot.