I am presenting the weightage for General Awareness Section in Bank PO Examinations. So that you can have an idea in which areas the questions are being asked. It will be helpful for you in which areas you have concentrate more. Topics covered in Gk sections are shown in the below:
· Economy Questions – 5 or 6 bits.
· Union Budget & Railway Budget 2009-10 – 3 or 4 bits.
· Sports - 3 or 4 bits.
· National & International Awards – 3 or 4 bits.
· National & International Summits – 2 -3 bits.
· Missiles/Satellites used by countries – 2 or 3 bits.
· Banking terms & rates (like repo & bank rate, etc) – 2 or 3 bits.
· New Presidents/PMs of a country – 2 or 3 bits.
· Related to Finance – 2 or 3 bits.
· Government Schemes – 2 bits.
· Important positions held by people – 1 or 2 bit.
· Aid by International/national Organizations to states/countries/etc – 1 or 2 bits.
· Acronyms - 1 or 2 bits.
· Authors & Books - 1 or 2 bits.
· Deaths – 1 bit.
· Questions related to Indian Defence – 1 bit.
· Imp days – 1 bit.
· Reports by International Organizations – 1 bit.
· Persons in News – 1 bit.
· Places in News – 1 bit.
· International Organizations their members/non-members. – 1 bit.
Note: The number of bits mentioned above are approaximately (>90%) calculated by viewing previous General Awareness question Paper asked in Bank PO Exams. All sections mentioned above may be covered or may not be. But most of the questions are from these areas. Apart from these you must have the knowledge of Countries their Capitals, Currencies and their current Presidents/PM’s. For these you can visit this link. Hope this information is helpful for preparing your next bank exams.
