ADRE Grade 3 flashcards
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- Article 32
- Right to Constitutional Remedies, allowing a person to move the Supreme Court directly for enforcement of Fundamental Rights; Ambedkar called it the heart and soul of the Constitution.
- Battle of Saraighat
- 1671 battle in which Ahom general Lachit Borphukan defeated Mughal forces under Ram Singh on the Brahmaputra near Guwahati, halting Mughal expansion into Assam.
- Treaty of Yandabo
- 1826 treaty ending the First Anglo-Burmese War, by which Assam passed to British control after the Burmese occupation of the region.
- Bihu festivals
- Assam's agricultural festivals in three forms: Bohag Bihu in April marking the new year, Kati Bihu in October, and Magh Bihu in January after harvest.
- Srimanta Sankardeva
- 15th-16th century Assamese saint who founded Ek Saran Naam Dharma, established Sattras and Namghars, and composed Borgeet, Ankiya Naat and the Kirtan Ghosha.
- Simple interest formula
- Simple interest equals principal multiplied by rate multiplied by time, divided by 100. It is charged only on the original principal each year.
- Compound interest formula
- For annual compounding, compound interest equals principal times (1 plus rate over 100) raised to the time in years, minus the principal.
- Successive discount formula
- Two successive discounts of a percent and b percent give a single equivalent discount of a plus b minus ab over 100 percent.
- Average speed equal distances
- When equal distances are covered at speeds a and b, average speed is the harmonic mean 2ab divided by (a plus b), not the arithmetic mean.
- Time and work together
- If A finishes a job in x days and B in y days, working together they finish it in xy divided by (x plus y) days.
- LCM and HCF relation
- For two positive integers, the product of their LCM and HCF equals the product of the two numbers themselves.
- Pythagoras theorem
- In a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides; used to find net displacement in direction problems.
- Syllogism validity rule
- A conclusion follows only if it is true in every possible Venn diagram of the premises; a merely possible conclusion is not valid.
- Subject-verb agreement rule
- Singular subjects take singular verbs; words like each, every, either, neither and everyone are grammatically singular even when followed by plural nouns.
- Active to passive conversion
- The object becomes the subject, the verb becomes be plus past participle in the same tense, and the original subject follows by.
- Direct to indirect speech
- Reported speech shifts tense back one step and changes pronouns and time words, such as now to then and tomorrow to the next day.
- Conditional type 2
- A hypothetical present or future condition uses past simple in the if-clause and would plus base verb in the main clause.
- a little versus little
- A little means some and carries a positive sense; little means hardly any and carries a negative sense. The same contrast applies to a few and few.
- Neither nor agreement
- With neither nor and either or, the verb agrees with the subject nearer to it, not with the first subject.
- Kaziranga National Park
- UNESCO World Heritage Site in Golaghat and Nagaon districts holding the largest population of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros; also home to tigers, elephants and wild buffalo.
- Majuli island
- Large river island in the Brahmaputra known for Vaishnavite Sattras such as Kamalabari and Auniati, and threatened by riverbank erosion.
- Assam Accord
- 1985 agreement between the Indian government and Assam student leaders setting 25 March 1971 as the cut-off for detecting foreign nationals in Assam.
- Article 356
- Provision allowing the President to impose President's Rule in a state when constitutional machinery fails, on the Governor's report.
- Ramsar Convention
- 1971 international treaty for wetland conservation; Deepor Beel near Guwahati is a designated Ramsar site in Assam.
- Repo rate
- The rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends short-term funds to commercial banks; raising it generally reduces liquidity and inflation.
- GST introduction
- Goods and Services Tax came into effect on 1 July 2017 as a destination-based indirect tax replacing several central and state taxes.
- Profit percent formula
- Profit percent equals selling price minus cost price, divided by cost price, multiplied by 100. Loss percent uses the same formula when SP is below CP.
- Percentage change formula
- Percentage change equals new value minus old value, divided by old value, multiplied by 100; a positive result is an increase.
- Boat and stream speeds
- Downstream speed is boat speed plus stream speed; upstream speed is boat speed minus stream speed. Boat speed is the average of the two.
- Calendar odd days
- An ordinary year shifts the weekday by one odd day, a leap year by two; 100 years give five odd days in the Gregorian calendar.
- Clock hand gain
- The minute hand gains 5.5 degrees per minute on the hour hand; the two hands coincide 11 times in every 12 hours.
- Ranking total formula
- When a person's positions from the left and right are known, total persons equal left position plus right position minus one.