Focus more on details than concepts:

E.g.: First session of Muslim League was in… Karachi

Who shot Lord Curzon Wyllie in London… Madan Lal dhingra
CPI was founded in 1920 at …. Tashkent
Which month of 2017 marks 100 years of Gandhiji’s arrival in Champaran… April

Recent Famous Books Names or Booker/Man Booker Awards

Sports News, Sports Awards, Important Padma Awards (esp if from HP)
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna wards 2015-16 given to... PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik, Jitu Rai
Padma Vibhushan Given to..

Important Post Holders in News

CBI Director is..
Tehmina Janjua is… Foreign Secretary
Chancellor of Nalanda University is…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres belongs to … Portugal
Donald Trump is…. 45th US President
Chief Economic Advisor to GoI.. Arvind Subramanian
CM and Dep. CM of which state are not MLAs (2017) …. UP
Two CMs of Northern States belong to same district of which state.. Uttarakhand
UP’s Lokayukta is… Virender Singh

Huge stress on Numbers

Surveys, Census – India, HP, International
Literacy rate in HP.. male 89.53, female 75.93
State with highest poverty ratio… Orissa
UNDP top 3 countries.. Norway, Australia, Switzerland
India’s ranking in Corruption-Perception Index 2015… 76 of 194 countries
Life Expectancy in India.. 68.3 years
GDP Growth rate at constant and current prices in 2014-15... 10.5% and 7.3%
As per HDR 2014, Gender Inequality index of India is …. 127
Population density of India and HP as per Census 2011… 382 and 123
First Census of India in year…. 1872

Remember Article No.s of Constitution pertaining to recent events

E.g.: Under which article Speaker allows an MP to speak in her Mother Tongue… Article 120(1)

General info on All Central and HP Govt. Schemes, esp which are Recent, to be read in full, with
stress on numbers
AMRUT scheme launched on … 25th June… to improve urban infra in… 500 cities
PM Fasal Bima Y approved by Central Govt on… 13th Jan 2016
India’s target for renewable power by 2030 is of …. 350 GW

Numbers in History
How much time did Lord Mountbatten give to Sir C. Radcliff to delineate the international border of
India in 1947… 1-1/2 months
When was the civil Disobedience Movement finally called off by Gandhi… 1934

Even in Environment, No.s are your friend

No. of Ramsar Wetland Sites listed in India.. 26
India ratified Stockholm convention in … 2006
India is home to how many mammalian species approx… 350

However, many questions in Science are Easy and Direct

20 Qs on HP History, Geography, Art and Culture

Rivers and their streams; Hydropower projects
Phojal, Sarvari and Hansa are streams of… Ravi

Kings and princely states they belong to, court poets, Capital changes made, Jagirs received;
Famous temples, their location, and architecture;