19September 2026
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Current affairs · 19 September 2026
Today’s current affairs, checked at the source
Every item is dated, read on the conducting body’s or ministry’s own site, and written with the question it becomes. Read today’s items, take the quiz, or download the month as a PDF.
How practice works here
Four steps from learning to selection
Practice is only useful when it changes what you study next. Every attempt here feeds the next one.
01
Choose Your Exam
Select the competitive exam you are preparing for.
02
Learn
Study concepts, syllabus, preparation resources and current affairs.
03
Practice
Use official previous papers and the timed diagnostic tests currently available.
04
Improve
Analyse your performance and focus on weak areas.
Everything to practise
Daily questions, tests and papers
Pick the format that matches how much time you have today.
Practice now
Five questions, five subjects: a quick practice quiz with answers
One question each from quantitative aptitude, reasoning, English, general knowledge and this week’s current affairs. Answer before revealing; then pick the format below that matches what the question you missed exposed.
Q1Quantitative aptitude: What is the square root of 0.0081?
- A0.9
- B0.09
- C0.009
- D0.3
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B. 0.09 — 0.0081 = 81 × 10⁻⁴, and √(81 × 10⁻⁴) = 9 × 10⁻² = 0.09. Pair the decimal places before taking the root.
Q2Reasoning: If MONDAY is written as NPOEBZ, how is FRIDAY written in the same code?
- AGSJEBZ
- BGSJEBY
- CESHCZX
- DGRJEBZ
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A. GSJEBZ — Each letter moves one place forward: F→G, R→S, I→J, D→E, A→B, Y→Z.
Q3English: Choose the word opposite in meaning to TRANSPARENT.
- AClear
- BOpaque
- CLucid
- DObvious
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B. Opaque — Opaque — not allowing light through, or, of an explanation, hard to understand.
Q4General knowledge: Which is the largest Indian state by area?
- AMadhya Pradesh
- BMaharashtra
- CRajasthan
- DUttar Pradesh
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C. Rajasthan — Rajasthan, 3,42,239 sq km, ahead of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra; Uttar Pradesh is the largest by population.
Q5Current affairs: NTA’s examination calendar of 16 September 2026 proposes JEE Main 2027 Session 1 for which dates?
- A6–13 January 2027
- B22–24 and 28–30 January 2027
- C1–10 February 2027
- D2–8 April 2027
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B. 22–24 and 28–30 January 2027 — Session 1 is proposed for 22–24 and 28–30 January with 31 January in reserve; the registration notice is expected in late October or November 2026, and Session 2 in April.
Choosing a format
Match the practice format to the problem you actually have
Practice formats are not interchangeable, and using the wrong one is how candidates put in hours without moving a score. Start from what your last timed attempt exposed.
| What your last attempt showed | The format that fixes it | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You did not know the concept | Topic lesson, then topic questions. | No amount of timed practice teaches a method you have never learned. Study first, then test. |
| You knew it but used the wrong method | Mixed question sets within one subject. | Topic sets announce the method in advance; the exam does not. Mixed sets train the selection. |
| You knew it and ran out of time | Sectional tests at exam pace. | The problem is pacing inside a section, and a full paper measures it without isolating it. |
| You were fine per section, poor overall | Full-length papers, one sitting. | This is stamina and switching cost, and only a full paper reproduces it. |
| You lost marks to calculation slips | A daily calculation drill. | A mechanical skill built by repetition. It is not a test and it should not be treated as one. |
| You could not recall facts under pressure | Daily quiz and spaced retrieval. | Recall decays and recovers quickly. Short frequent retrieval beats long revision sessions. |
A score is a symptom, not a diagnosis
The number at the end of an attempt tells you that something is wrong; it never tells you what. The diagnosis comes from sorting every loss by cause — did not know, misread, wrong method, calculation slip, ran out of time — and those five causes lead to five different formats above. Candidates who skip this step tend to respond to every bad score by taking another test.
A repeatable week
What a week of practice should contain
Consistency matters more than intensity here, because most of what practice builds — recall, calculation speed, pattern recognition, pacing — accumulates and decays rather than being learned once.
- Fifteen minutes of calculation, daily — tables, squares, fraction-to-percentage equivalents, on paper and without a calculator. The least glamorous habit on this list and the highest-return one.
- Ten to twenty questions on the current topic, daily — attempted within hours of reading the lesson. Same-day retrieval is what decides whether a topic survives the week.
- Two sectional tests, midweek — on the two sections your last full paper was weakest in. Sectional work isolates what a full paper only reports.
- One full-length paper, weekly — in a single uninterrupted sitting, at the time of day the examination is held.
- One error-review session, weekly — re-solving previous mistakes without looking at the explanation first. This is where the previous week actually converts into marks.
- Current affairs retrieval, daily — short, quizzed rather than read, and connected back to the static polity, economy and geography it belongs to.
Analysis should take longer than the attempt
A twenty-minute test reviewed for forty minutes produces more improvement than three twenty-minute tests reviewed for five. The attempt generates the data; the review is the only part that changes anything. Candidates who take many tests and review none plateau, and the plateau is usually mistaken for a ceiling.
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81%Accuracy
68%Speed
Strong areas
Reasoning88%
English79%
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Quantitative Aptitude39%
General Awareness54%
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