Well, it depends upon one's capacity that how much he has acquired knowledge about history. There are many aspirants who doesn't have history background so to them they have to study the history to understand the current affairs.

Whereas, syllabus is concerned, "Yes" it is more current affair based, but you can't judge the trend as in CE-2016 some questions were asked from the history, but in 2017 the Pak Affairs paper was totally based on current affairs, it seemed as your are attempting current affairs paper.

Do your SWOT analysis and then chalk-out a plan.

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