GK shortcuts

States, rivers, neighbours — held together by patterns, not lists.

• States and capitals, by regionLearn them in geographical clusters, never as one alphabetical list.
• Rivers and where they riseSort them by which way they flow, and the map does the remembering.
• India's neighboursSeven by land, two by sea — count them clockwise round the map.

Who built what, and how to never mix them up.

• Monuments and who built themTie every monument to one builder and one city, and they stop blurring together.
• UNESCO World Heritage Sites in IndiaSort them into cultural and natural, then learn the famous handful.

Order, names and firsts, made memorable.

• The planets in orderOne sentence holds all eight, in the right sequence.