General Knowledge:
General Knowledge = General + Knowledge
Meaning of General = broad, common, universal
Meaning of knowledge = acts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education
General + Knowledge = widespread or common information acquired through experience or education
Definition : General knowledge is defined by experts as knowledge about a wide range of subjects rather detailed knowledge of a particular subject. General knowledge excludes highly specialized learning that can be obtained with extensive training and information confined to a single medium. General knowledge also means knowledge of incidents happened in past.
To make the understanding process easy researchers have classified 20 domains of General Knowledge
- Art
- Biology
- Classical music
- Cookery
- Discovery and exploration
- Fashion
- Film
- Finance
- Games
- General Science
- Geography
- History
- History of science
- Literature
- Medicine
- Music
- Politics
- Popular music
- Sport
- Television
General Awareness:
As the name suggested General Awareness is combination of two words i.e General + Awareness
Meaning of General = broad, common, universal
Meaning of Awareness = knowledge about particular situation or development
Definition: General awareness means knowledge about the present happenings. General awareness only focuses on the routine happenings of the news around the world it has nothing to do with the historic events. Current affairs is the term which is used in place of general awareness for many competitive examinations.
Therefore General Awareness = General + Awareness = broad knowledge about a particular situation or development.
Current affairs is the term which is used in place general awareness for many competitive exams.
General Awareness Includes
- National affairs
- International affairs
- Bilateral affairs
- Sports
- Persons in news
- Places in news
- Recent happenings in banking sector
Explanation with an example
To make it more easy and clear let’s take an example
When was first battle of Panipat fought?
How many planets are there Solar System?
These questions belong to general knowledge category
Where as
Who is the new defence minister?
Which tem won the world cup?
