Prepare GA in 20 Minutes/Day Using Smartkeeda Mock Drill

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By Smartkeeda
20 Sep 2025
How to Prepare GA in 20 Minutes

General Awareness for bank exams is a tough nut to crack because it covers everything, from current affairs to banking awareness. To ease the GA preparation, Smartkeeda has launched a 20-minute GA mock drill, helping students to tackle this section without facing any problems. Smartkeeda’s CA Mock Drill is an efficient tool that is designed to improve the GA performance gradually, while maintaining accuracy by focusing on strategic revision. By practicing with these mock drills consistently, aspirants can get a perfect score in the GA section

How Mock Drills Help in General Awareness Preparation

Unlike Quant and Reasoning, your GA prep relies on your memory power and not your ability to solve questions with formulas. GA preparation is all about learning facts and revising those every once in a while. Being consistent with current affairs throughout the year can be challenging, and Smartkeeda’s CA Mock Drills addresses that problem by:

  • Breaks down a huge topic into bite-sized pieces, which are easier to remember.
  • Daily and weekly quizzes based on current affairs.
  • Other quizzes for revision
  • Explanations and notes with every question to ensure you have no doubts

With this systematic GA preparation, you can eliminate the fear of the subject and master it.

Why a 20-Minute GA Routine Works

GA preparation for bank exams doesn’t have to be complicated. Spending hours reading the newspaper passively doesn’t help much, which is why we have created Smartkeeda CA Mock Drills. Crafted with extensive research, these drills work because:

  • Consistency: Rather than cramming, revising these small chunks of information helps in absorbing it better.
  • Exam-focused: These drills are in quiz form and timed, which helps in training your brain to work under pressure
  • Retention: Revisiting these drills every week or month ensures that the information stays fresh in your mind
  • Time saver: Since they are just 20 minutes long, you can balance the preparation for other subjects while giving GA the attention it requires.

What You’ll Get from Smartkeeda CA MockDrill

  • Daily CA Mock Drills: These are for your daily CA practice, covering all the important areas like banking, sports, awards, appointments, and many more.
  • CA PDFs Every Week: These are for weekly revision of all the CA you covered throughout the week.
  • Monthly Compilation of Current Affairs: These PDFs contain all the major news, topic-wise, for thorough revision and learning.
  • Smart Revision: This is a special feature that brings back the questions that were answered incorrectly, forcing you to remember the correct answers and learn from them.
  • Smart Points: These are small, summarized points with key facts about the topic, which come in handy during revision
  • Exam Level Questions: These quizzes are based on the exam pattern and difficulty, providing you with the exam environment.

The 20-Minute Daily Plan (Mon–Sat)

Given below is the detailed 20-minute plan that you can follow daily for your GA preparation. This will ensure that you remember every piece of information you have you learnt

20-minute daily plan breakdown

1-10 mins

Take the daily CA mock drill. Jump right into it, without thinking much, and try to score well. Focus on answering as many questions as you can.

11-15 mins

Analyze your performance, look at the mistakes you made. Go through the explanations and keep a note of the answers you got wrong.

16-20 mins

Visit the “Smart Points” and note down the important facts from there. They are summarized points which are easy to learn, understand and remember.

 

The Weekly Upgrade (Sunday: 45–55 Minutes)

Reserve your Saturdays and Sundays to take the Weekly CA Mock Drills, which are built to strengthen what you have learnt so far. Given below is the detailed Weekly GA plan that you should follow:

Weekly plan breakdown

1-25 mins

On weekends, attempt the weekly CA Mock Drill, which covers all the important topics from the week, giving you a comprehensive check of the information you retained.

26-40 mins

Evaluate your performance after the test, review all the answers, and check the “Smart Points,” which will strengthen your weak spots and improve them gradually.

41-55 mins

Note down the mistakes you made and revisit your previous notes. This will help reinforce what you learnt previously and keep it fresh in your mind.

 

The Monthly Power Review (60–90 Minutes)

For a big review session, make use of the Monthly CA Mock Drills, which will create a strong base for GA and ensure that you have revised all the content 3-4 times before the actual exam takes place. Given below is the detailed monthly review plan:

Monthly plan breakdown

1- 45mins

At the end of every month, you should take the Monthly CA Mock Drills, which are comprehensive quizzes that test your knowledge of the current events of the entire month. Approach it like your real exam.

45-60 mins

Do a performance review and deeply analyze the areas where you are still lagging behind. Keep a note of those and revise the notes you made before.

61-90 mins

Go through the monthly CA notes to strengthen your preparation. Revisit every topic you learnt throughout the month and make your own notes.

 

How to Use Smartkeeda CA Mock Drill

  • Visit Smartkeeda’s official website and create an account if you don’t have one yet.
  • Find the CA Mock Drills on the homepage and buy the subscription.
  • Start attempting the Daily CA Mock Drills.
  • The key is to be consistent, practicing daily is important to maintain the momentum.
  • Fix a time for GA prep. You just need 20 minutes for GA for effective preparation.
  • Focus on the mistakes you made and try to work on those areas.
  • Use weekends for the weekly revision and the end of the month to cover the backlogs.
  • Track your performance to see improvement.
  • Don’t try to look for multiple resources. Stick to Smartkeeda’s GA resources, which ensure overall preparation.

Exact Study Flow Recommended by Smartkeeda (Map to Your Routine)

Here is a study plan for GA preparation that you can follow:

 

Time

Task

Objective

Daily (Mon to Sat)

10 mins

Attempt the Daily CA Mock Drills

This keeps you updated on the current affairs for bank exams in exam format

10 mins

Analyze your performance and check the Smart Points.

This helps in understanding your mistakes and learning the facts that you forgot.

Weekly (Sundays)

25 mins

Revise the week’s CA through Weekly CA PDF

This ensures that everything you learnt throughout the week stays fresh in your mind.

20 mins

Attempt Smartkeeda’s Weekly CA Mock Drill.

A quick test helps you in revising all that you learnt and solidifies your learning.

Monthly (Last Weekend)

45 mins

Revisit the Monthly CA Compilation that covers different topics and areas.

This covers all the major events that took place in the month and you can revise the current affairs that you might’ve missed.

15 mins

Attempt Monthly CA Mock Drill

This checks your knowledge of the entire month’s CA learning. You can keep a note of facts you forgot or missed out on and cover those later.

30 mins

Post-test revision and notes

These notes will help in the final revision before the exam.

Pre-exam Phase (Last Two Weeks)

45-60 mins daily

Take rapid-fire quizzes and go through the monthly compilations.

This helps in retaining as much information as you can and performing well in the exam