PSSSB Clerk/Group-D & Other Exams 2026 | Current Affairs + GK/GS Top MCQs Marathon | By Deepak Batra

Summary

The video is a fast-paced exam-preparation marathon combining current affairs with GK/GS multiple-choice revision. The instructor alternates between asking questions, explaining answers, offering memory cues, and inviting learners to respond in the live chat. Topics range from Indian polity and history to geography, ecology, and recent awards and sports.

Main Topics Covered

• Indian Constitution and polity

  • The President’s pardoning powers under Article 72, including the distinctions between pardon, commutation, remission, reprieve, and respite. The instructor also says the President exercises this power on the advice of the Council of Ministers.
  • Other constitutional topics include ordinances, impeachment, joint sittings of Parliament, the CAG, fundamental rights, schedules, the Finance Commission, and the process for changing states or their boundaries.
  • The lecture reviews the origins of constitutional provisions, the Preamble, Fundamental Duties, and related amendments.
  • The instructor explains parliamentary terms such as summons, prorogation, adjournment, and adjournment sine die, and says the Lok Sabha Speaker presides over a joint sitting.

• Ancient and medieval Indian history

  • Harappan sites and features, including discoveries, seals, the Great Bath, the dockyard, craft production, and evidence of ploughed fields.
  • Vedic literature, Buddhist teachings and councils, and the Maurya, Gupta, Sultanate, Mughal, and Maratha periods.
  • The lecture reviews rulers, dynasties, coins, battles, monuments, books, and historical travellers, using chronological recaps to connect events and people.

• Modern Indian history and the freedom movement

  • The East India Company’s rise, colonial administration, key acts and offices, and the changing titles of British officials.
  • Indian National Congress sessions, presidents, and major developments, alongside events such as the Partition of Bengal, the Simon Commission, the Round Table Conferences, and the Poona Pact.
  • Gandhi-led campaigns and other movements, as well as revolutionary groups and figures, are revised through question-and-answer prompts.

• Geography

  • Indian rivers, mountains, waterfalls, soils, dams, national parks, and state boundaries.
  • The instructor reviews soil horizons and contrasts major soil types, and explains Earth’s structure and earthquake terms such as focus, epicentre, and seismic waves.
  • Island channels and coral reefs connect Indian geography with ecological concepts.

• Ecology and environmental science

  • The class discusses interactions between organisms, including mutualism, competition, predation, commensalism, amensalism, and neutralism.
  • It distinguishes bioaccumulation from biomagnification and reviews energy transfer through food chains.
  • Other concepts include ecological succession, ecosystem boundaries and edge effects, the nitrogen cycle, atmospheric layers, ozone depletion, forest types, grasslands, pollution, and pollution-related diseases.
  • The instructor also discusses climate targets and environmental agreements.

• Economy and planning

  • Five-Year Plans, plan holidays and rolling plans, the balance-of-payments crisis, and policy changes commonly grouped as liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation are included in the revision.

• Current affairs and awards

  • The instructor presents a segment on the 2026 Asian Games, covering the host, mascot and motto, Indian participation, and medal-related details.
  • Film and other awards are also reviewed, including the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, National Film Awards, Oscars, BAFTAs, and the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

Study and Revision Approach

• Work through MCQs actively: The instructor asks a question, prompts learners to answer in the chat, and then explains the response.
• Revise linked facts together: Topics are grouped into chains—for example, rulers with their dynasties and battles, or constitutional provisions with related amendments.
• Use short memory cues: The lecture uses mnemonics and verbal associations to help recall dates, lists, and sequences.
• Take notes and revisit them: Learners are encouraged to note key points, capture summary material, and revise it again.
• Connect concepts to examples: Ecology, geography, and historical processes are explained with illustrative stories or examples.
• Prioritise exam-focused facts: The instructor repeatedly highlights facts said to be likely MCQ material.

Accuracy note: The subtitles are heavily auto-generated and contain garbled names, dates, and statements. In particular, some current-affairs, award, and sports details should be checked against reliable sources before being memorised. This summary reports the topics discussed rather than verifying every claim.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Deepak Batra — the instructor leading the lecture and revision session.
• Live-class participants — learners are addressed by name at the opening and prompted to answer through the chat, but no second speaker is clearly identifiable from the subtitles.
• No separate interviewee or external source is clearly featured in the subtitle text.