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The beginning
The front-page and
second page
Third, fourth and fifth page
The 6 to 9 Page
Page 10-11 (Columns and
Editorials)
Page 12-13 (International)
Page 14 (TV, Astrology,
Cartoon strips)
Page 15-16 (Business and
economy)
Page 17-20 (Bollywood,
Lifestyle, Sports)
8. The Review
Whether you are preparing for UPSC,
GPSC, KPSC, MPPSC, MPSC, UPPSC,
IBPS, CAT or any other exam that
involves interview and heavy
competition, you have to read
newspapers.
Why is it important to
read the newspaper?
Because in the government job
exams, at all three stages
(preliminary, Mains and interview) .
They ask questions related to
current affairs.
To write a decent essay, you
need facts and viewpoints. For this
you need Fodder, and
newspapers are best sources for
the fodder material.
Location-based
questions
Socio, political, administrative
and economic problems of your
city, district and state.
And (Sometimes) the roleplaying questions about how will
you tackle them, if youre an
inspector, tehsildaar, Collector,
DSP, Secretary, etc.
Academic background
based questions.
For example, if you are an MBBS
or Pharmacist, the current affairs
relate to TB/HIV/Malaria/Delhi
Hobby
Tennis, Cricket, Chess,
Computer: then you are supposed
to know the current affairs related
to that field.
Firefighting
Most of the people, whether
UPSC, State PSC aspirants or
MBA aspirants: they dont prepare
for profile-based questions or
current affairs until the 11thhour.
(i.e. When the interview or groupdiscussion (GD) is barely 20-30
days away).
Then They start google
searching for GK related to their
profile.
In such a short time, you cannot
cover all satisfactorily. Therefore,
daily reading of newspaper is
essential.
Which newspapers
should I read
Even if youre going to write
your Mains exam in Hindi/ Gujarati/
Tamil / Telugu medium, still you
should refer to English
newspapers because the local
newspapers only serve the
masala news of politics, cricket
and Bollywood.
is enough.
You might have seen some
coaching Sirs advising that you
must-read Hindu and Economic
Times (ET). I think, this is an
overkill. You dont have to become
a share market expert. If there is
some really good columnist in ET
(for example, example Bibek
Debroy), then following him is
excellent, but you dont have to
go through two or three Whole
newspaper per day.
Administration/ Polity
1. Press conference of government,
where they announce various
policies, administrative reforms
etc. (I'm talking about the press
conference of union and State
government, not the press
conference of Congress and BJP.)
2. Various bills, minutes of Cabinet
meetings.
3. The big full-page advertisements
given by ruling party, about their
achievements. (This usually comes
before the election and on the
birth anniversary of Nehru Gandhi
Family). It is important because,
they list out the various
developmental schemes and
provisions in it. Most important
part is who runs the scheme? for
example NREGA thing for under
the jurisdiction of rural
development Ministry (and not
under Labour Ministry)
4. Election related items: what will
National News
Maoists kidnap a collector =
name of the collector is not
important. But now experts and
politicians say we need a
comprehensive hostage-crisis
guideline after this incidence=
important.
Railway accidents, how many
killed =not important. Reason for
the rail accident and suggestions
to prevent future accidents =
important.
SP says BSP took 50 crores or
vice versa = not important.
International News
1. Bilateral visits of prime ministers
and presidents. What treaties or
trade pacts did they sign?
2. What is going on in UN, IMF, World
Bank?
3. Elections in the big nations : USA,
Russia, China, France, UK.
4. Political or military coup (usually in
South America and Africa.)
5. Any major event: the democratic
uprising in Middle East, Israel
palestine, US vs China / Russia
missile defence, NATOAfghanistan and so on.
6. Meetings of organisations such as
ASEAN, G20 etc , and particularly
what India did in such conferences
and meetings.
7. Climate change, environment
related news.
8. Science and Tech related items for
example CERN, Chinas space
program, missle tests by N.Korea,
Irans nuke program and so on.
Afghanistan?
3. XYZ researchers found out that
eating tomato daily helps
preventing tooth ache = not
important.
4. Anything small-time, that does
not affect future of the World. For
example sex-scandles of Italian
PM or marital wooes of Sarkozy.
More on How to prepare India and World
topic for General Studies (Mains) Paper
II, is explained in a separate article. Click
Me to read it.
Economy
1. Press conference or press note by
Government, SEBI, RBI, Planning
Commission etc.
2. ASSOCHAM, NASSCOM etc. (they
usually complaint or suggest
about Government policies that
affect the business houses.)
3. Columns and Editorials related to
Economy.
4. IIP, GDP, WPI, CPI etc. Not the
numbers but the reasons behind
that number and the future
because of that number.
5. International: ASEAN, World Bank,
EU etc.
6. Those preparing for Bank exams,
should also note down the names
of Chaimen of various companies
and banks.
FrontPage
1. There is a narrow column on the
left hand side of the front page,
most of the time, the yearbook
related information, government
schemes etc. appear here.
2. The main news item on the
frontpage: it is usually not-veryimportant. Reason most of the
time it is the political news. For
example, Bihar Mahadalit Land
Racket. If you are a candidate
from Bihar, you should read it, for
the others, it is not worth it.
Columns / Editorials
Question: What is a
column / Editorial?
These are big paragraphs like
articles in the centre pages of a
newspaper.
Generally each article has photo
of the author and usually the
author gives a 20 years old photo
when he/she was in college. If you
ever happen to see them in actual
TV Debate, it turns out theyre
quite older than what they look in
the newspapers.
Editorial is written by the editor
himself. For example Shekhar
Gupta for IndianExpress on
Saturday. While Columns are
written by experts (including selfproclaimed experts) on a particular
topic of politics, economy,
international events.
The beginning
Then what is
important?
Navjivan Trust of Abad says no
to Gujarati version of Lets kill
Gandhi written by Tushar Gandhi.
Gujarat Maritime Board and
pollution board gives clearance to
ship-breaking of Exxon Valdez,
but NGO lobby says it contains
dangerous chemicals. (Names are
not important, but the important
part is the big environmental issue
vs. livelihood of ship-breakers in
Alang
The 6 to 9 Page
These are devoted to national
news
Only concentrate on important
exam oriented news. Underline the
important lines using your red pen.
Page 12-13
(International)
Highlight the important news
lines and move on.
Page 14 (TV,
Astrology, Cartoon
strips)
Highlight the important news
lines for example the timing of
Balika Vadhu. Haha just kidding,
skip this page.
Page 17-20
(Bollywood, Lifestyle,
Sports)
Skip it.
We are done highlighting the important
newslines. Now it is time for review.
The Review
Go through those red lines and
either write them in the relevant
notebook / cut and file it.
Your can either keep five
separate full-scape notebooks.
OR you can write these in loose
papers and then file it in five
separate folders.
The advantage of loose papers
= you can add more pages
between, when the follow up news
comes. For example in case of
QFIs. Same is not possible in a
notebook.
Folder /
Notebook
Sorting
Administration
Economics
Same exercise
Your profile
One file or
notebook, make
three sub-parts
in it. First partwrite or paste
the state/city
related news.
International
Same exercise