Geography is one of the most important components of the static GK portion in quite a few entrance exams. It is most relevant in fields such as law and civil services but of moderate importance to management or media fields. Thus while the former block of students must go through it thoroughly, a cursory glance may work with the latter ones.
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Current Affairs and Static GK broadly form the two major divisions within the study of GK for entrance examinations. A look through the trends over the years suggests that while the Static content used to be paramount in earlier times, the last few years have seen a change in pattern.
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While sections like history and polity are more relevant for those applying to law or civil services, and business awareness is most important for management applicants, economics questions are ubiquitous. Yet the term “economics” in this context is somewhat misleading as the term implies a study of the theories and principles of the subject. Economics remains possibly the single component in the static section from which maximum questions are asked across entrance examinations.
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Business Awareness is a vast and varied topic within GK. Unlike other topics, this cannot be easily pigeonholed into either static or current as it is a clear combination. Business is a very important topic in most entrances for management courses. Know how to prepare and what to prepare.
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With important examinations approaching and Polity section filling up your paper, it is essential to remember some important pointers while preparing for it.
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Although he shares his name with a super-hero of the Indian film industry, Salman ‘Sal’ Khan is no less super-hero when it comes to reimagining education. Giving classes and sharing his knowledge started casually over a Yahoo! Doodle notepad in 2001, later taking shape of this huge online learning resource platform ‘Khan Academy’. Sal, Founder of Khan Academy predicts the future of online education along with its risks in his email chat with BW Education’s Sreerupa Sil.
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Way back in 1981, a decade before liberalization of Indian economy, he started NIIT Technologies. NIIT University was imagined, envisioned and eventually established by Rajendra Singh Pawar, Chairman and co-founder of NIIT group, in 2009. Reformative, as his ideas always are, Pawar speaks to Sreerupa Sil of BW Education on the immediate needs in the education sector, the three reforms and note for higher education leaders.
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Often referred to as ‘The Highest Ranked Civil Servant’ in India, T.S.R. Subramanian, the former Cabinet Secretary has taken up the most ‘firsts’ in the country. In 1992, he went to Washington as the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh and signed the agreement on ‘Education for All’ with World Bank. This was World Bank’s first loan ever to a non-financial infrastructure sector. The often used ‘Right to Information Act’ was first drafted by him. He was highly regarded for chairing the committee to provide recommendations on National Education Policy. This interview with BW Education’s Sreerupa Sil, revolves around his perception on education and understanding the past to lead us to the future.
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Films remain a dominant medium of communication in our lives and have the unique quality of communicating and illustrating complex issues in a simple manner. A film’s narrative can be used to teach various management theories and can bring in a novel approach to management education, by supplanting existing pedagogical methods. The use of films in the classroom can become a tool for enhancing the process of learning and knowledge assimilation, if used effectively in the classroom situation.
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Talent analytics and workplace analysis will become more commonplace, and we shall see companies using the data available to them far more competitively. We therefore see policies being far more flexible and adaptable to business changes in the near future.
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