Competitive exams in India have diverse syllabi specific to the job profile for which the exam is conducted but all of them has one section of General Knowledge And General Awareness in their exams. Therefore it is very important to understand the scope and meaning of these two terms. So read on to know the fine difference between General Knowledge And General Awareness

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 than detailed knowledge of a particular subject. General knowledge excludes highly specialized learning that can only 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

Meaning of General = broad, common, universal

Meaning of Awareness = knowledge about a particular situation or development.

General+ Awareness = broad knowledge about a 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 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 clear let’s take an example

When was first battle of Panipat fought?

How many planets are there in solar system?

These questions belong to general knowledge category

Where as

Who is the new defence minister?

Which team won the world cup?

are questions based on General awareness

All competitive exams in India use the terms General Knowledge and General Awareness interchangeably this article is an effort to help you in understanding the scope and meaning of these terms so that you will able to crack all competitive exams with precision .

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