Current Affairs - How Important are they in a student life

Today, it is necessary to be fully updated with contemporary issues/ current affairs to successfully go through any competitive exam. Current affairs are those latest events that are more popular than the others, and one needs to know to be informed of the contemporaneous happenings, both national and international level. 

Current affairs are those latest events that are more popular than the others, and one needs to be informed of the contemporaneous happenings, both national and international levels. Current affairs also play a vital role for aspirants when they want to prepare for any competitive exams. 

And why only competitive exams, even exams conducted for jobs, group discussion and Interviews also vest questions on general awareness.

One of the most difficult competitive exams, UPSC civil service exams (CSE), which many young individuals aspire to crack, also has a question paper, structured consisting of the maximum number of questions related to current affairs and current happenings. 

This has pushed up the scale of competition to beat others, you did not require just academic intellect, but you need to hit the score in the current affairs segment to score higher than the others.

What do current daily affairs for UPSC contain?

Current affairs or contemporary events generally contain news, facts, Information, and awareness that are happening worldwide. 

Current affairs include national, international, geographical events, sports, economic policy, politics, education, appointments, agreements, obituary, science & technology (any recent development), defense, and various other significant Information related to competitive examination.

Sources of current affairs in Hindi:

Sometimes finding sources of daily current affairs in Hindi becomes a problem for students of the Hindi medium. Some valuable sources for Hindi medium students are mentioned as follows-

1. Jansatt and Dainik Jagran (National Edition) newspaper.

2. Press Information Bureau.

3. Down to Earth magazine (Hindi Edition).

4. Yojna and Kurukshetra

5. PRS India (Hindi).

6. All India Radio.

7. Discussion of Sansad TV ( Formally RSTV)

8. India Year Book (By Ministry of Information and broadcasting)

9. Annual Reports published by various ministries of GOI and,

10. Monthly current affairs of various renowned coaching institutes.

  

Way to keep in link with current affairs:

We have given some important suggestions below, which will surely help you keep a regular touch on current affairs.

1. Read newspapers regularly. Make a proper habit of reading the newspaper daily. Read the newspapers daily by giving a specific time segment to it in your daily time. Read in brief from page one to the last page in the newspaper. After reading the important news, make a note of it.

2. Read the daily current affairs for UPSC provided by some websites. Some very important websites give current affairs daily regularly with essential points useful for the exam point of view. Visit those websites perpetually and briefly note important news published in those websites/web portals.

3. Always remember, think of a solution – you just can’t read about a particular event and leave it there. Start analyzing the circumstance and situation; discuss your views and remedies with your friends, teachers, parents, and others. You will get many other ideas. This will give you some different dimensions to resolve the problems.

4. Join some groups on social media such as “Facebook/twitter” or any other platform and express your viewpoints. Joining those groups will help you to soar and improve your knowledge and intellect by interacting with them.

Therefore, reading current affairs daily and making it a regular habit will be much more advantageous for all the competitive exams, including Civil Services. Make use of practicing quiz and test series on current affairs published on various websites and different coaching institutes on the internet.