What kinds of questions are likely to come up in a general knowledge exam?

Question

This is a scholarship exam for a school I really would like to go to. It's on Friday, and it's a Multi-Choice General Knowledge Exam.

Only, I don't study History (I study Classics, which is ancient history -Greeks and Romans.) or Geography. - I have a horrible feeling that History and Geography will come up a lot in the exam, seeing as they're probably the 2 most commonly studied subjects in the UK.

Do you think I'd be put at a disadvantage because I don't study these subjects? (I excel in Science and Maths... but I can hardly see a science or maths multi-choice question.)

Answer 1

It could be a mixture of anything:



literature, history, geog, famous people, current affairs (keep up to date with the news that week!), politics, everyday life (my daughter once got asked the price of a first class stamp!!), inventions, medical or scientific discoveries, science, authors - just about anything, really.



Don't worry about it, keep your cool and try to make an educated guess. Do have a guess, rather than leave a blank, as you have a chance that it just might be right! Anyway, other people will also be 'disadvantaged' to some degree e.g. they might know about literature, but will they know about science? So, really, it all evens out in the end.



Good luck! I hope you get into the school of your choice.

Answer 2

General knowledge tends to _not_ be things which people study at school. A general knowledge test is designed to see if you are the sort of person who shows interest in the world around them, who pays attention to the news, who reads books, and so on. You won't be at a disadvantage no matter what subjects you study in a general knowledge exam. You'll only be at a disadvantage if your general knowledge is poor.



And I would expect there to be plenty of science or maths-based questions.

Answer 3

This is a really dumb question, the entire point is that YOU DON'T KNOW UNTIL THEY ASK, so you need to have "generally" a nice amount of knowledge