The General Knowledge Paper holds the contents that daily updated by the current affairs and statistics, business downfall and increment etc. The paper can also deals with the historical and geographical contents that are need to be remember. One should need to attempt as much questions as they can in order to get the seat for the course.

Qualification for appearing in the exam:

The minimum criteria that one should need to fulfill to sit in the examination. One should need to be passed the higher secondary examination with math, physics and chemistry with a minimum percentage of marks of 55%. All the candidates wanted to appear in this exam need not to exceed above 25 years and the relaxable age limit for female candidates is two years and for SC/ST candidates is five years.

Scores and negative markings:

None of the questions carries negative markings in the test for Diploma in Nautical Science and the scores given to all the questions are not same.

Mode of exam:

General Knowledge (Test II) Papers is mainly deals with hand based examination which basically includes pen/pencil.

Format:

The paper format allotted to the IGNOU OPENNET entrance examination General Knowledge papers is based on multiple type questions. There are a total of five tests under which this examination deals with. The General Knowledge Paper deals with the second test of this examination.

Marking:

The marks carried by the General Knowledge Test are 20.

Schedule:

The total duration that an individual candidate is allowed to answer all the 5 tests is three hours for the entire papers and they can distribute their time accordingly.

Recommended books:

General Knowledge by OP Khanna