Sports News: Overview, Questions, Preparation

Sports news is a very broad term and there are lots of sports events going on around the world concurrently. It is very difficult to prepare for all the sports news happening across the world. Candidates need to understand the relevance of the sports news for the competitive exams. The aspirants need to become selective in preparing sports news because all the sports news are not important.

The basic criteria to filter out some events is the relevancy of news. For example, the candidates can leave the national events of other countries as they will be most unlikely to be asked in any exam. The candidates should limit their sports news preparation to national and international events. Sports news is also that section that has lots of irrelevant news. The candidates should avoid wasting time on irrelevant news. The sports news can be divided into various events, such as national events, international events, periodic events, national and international records and sports personalities.

Candidates should prepare participants and winners for the final game of any event. Besides that, the candidate should also prepare the new national record created in the national event. They should also take note of the old records that were broken during the event. There are various events denoted by numbers such as 35th national games, 36th national games. The candidates need to learn the records with the event name.

International events are of two types. One is the sports-specific events and the others are the periodic events. The candidates should prepare the winners and losers of the final game only. The candidates should prepare the winners and their country. Winners and their country are important from the exam perspective. The candidates should also note the national players taking part in the international events.

Candidates should limit their preparation to only some of the periodic games such as Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, Cricket World Cup and the likes. Aspirants should limit their preparation to where the national players are taking part. The candidates can learn these events records. The venue for these events is also important for the exams. 

The candidates should prepare the sports personalities associated with different sports. The players who took retirements, awarded for some achievements, made brand ambassadors and the likes. These people become important for the exams.