Important sections of current affairs are polices and the decisions made by government which affect the citizens of our country, new discoveries in the field of science and technology. Questions on defense news are concurrently asked in exams. Sports news related to place of events, medals and participants, banking sector and economic news also plays a vital role in exams.
The current affairs also include the recent political changes, administrative changes at higher level, recent important decisions by courts, topics on bilateral talks between nations and topics on sports mainly on Olympics, commonwealth games, Asian games and world championships. Exams like banking, upsc, railways contain large number of questions on current affairs. If you have more knowledge about what is happening around you then you will get privilege and get respect in the society. Everyone wants to talk to a person who have more knowledge and can guide them in life, so be updated and try to go through newspapers and web portals to get the knowledge. Stop listening meaningless debates on news channels and try to extract the meaningful content from the news which is very less in the electronic media nowadays, so you need to be smart while watching news on televisions.
If you are preparing for competitive exams, the current affairs section is very critical. In most of the exams questions are asked from this section. This section consists of questions on science, sports, politics, economics etc. Nowadays examiners wants to test how much a candidate is aware about what is happening in the world and as well as around him. A candidate must give some extra attentions to the current affairs of particular section for which he is applying for. Suppose a candidate is appearing for bank exams then he should give some extra attention to banking news, if he is applying for Railways then he should give extra attention to the news related to Railways.
Current affairs are not only necessary for the exam aspirants but a normal citizen of any society should always be updated about what is happening around him. So he can take better decision in his daily life if he is updated. If a person is updated and aware then he can contribute to his society economically, socially and politically. He can judge better governance, and can take the advantage of all the policies of government which are made by government for him. We can read newspapers, watch television and can go through several web portals to get news. We should make habit of reading newspapers, web portals daily. To test our knowledge we can go though quiz on current affairs.