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- Article 226
- Constitutional provision empowering a High Court to issue writs (habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari, quo warranto) for enforcing Fundamental Rights and other legal rights.
- Allahabad High Court seat
- India's oldest High Court, established in 1866, has its principal seat at Prayagraj and a circuit bench at Lucknow.
- Fundamental Duties
- Eleven duties of citizens listed in Part IVA, Article 51A, inserted by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1976 on the Swaran Singh Committee's recommendation.
- Article 324
- Establishes the Election Commission of India, vesting it with superintendence, direction, and control of elections to Parliament, state legislatures, and the offices of President and Vice-President.
- UP legislature strength
- Uttar Pradesh has a bicameral legislature: the Vidhan Sabha with 403 members and the Vidhan Parishad with 100 members; the state sends 80 members to the Lok Sabha.
- Governor's appointment
- Under Article 155 the Governor is appointed by the President, and under Article 156 holds office during the pleasure of the President, normally for a term of five years.
- संधि
- दो वर्णों के परस्पर मेल से उत्पन्न परिवर्तन को संधि कहते हैं; स्वर संधि के दीर्घ, गुण, वृद्धि, यण और अयादि ये पाँच भेद हैं।
- बहुव्रीहि समास
- वह समास जिसमें दोनों पद मिलकर किसी तीसरे अर्थ की ओर संकेत करते हैं; जैसे 'दशानन' का अर्थ दस मुखों वाला अर्थात् रावण।
- कर्मवाच्य
- जिस वाक्य में कर्म प्रधान हो और कर्ता 'से' या 'के द्वारा' के साथ आए; जैसे 'मोहन से पत्र लिखा गया'।
- अनुप्रास अलंकार
- जिस अलंकार में एक ही वर्ण की आवृत्ति एक से अधिक बार होती है, जिससे ध्वनि-सौंदर्य उत्पन्न होता है; जैसे 'चारु चंद्र की चंचल किरणें'।
- उपसर्ग
- वह शब्दांश जो किसी शब्द के आरंभ में जुड़कर उसका अर्थ बदल देता है; जैसे 'प्र' + 'हार' = प्रहार, 'अन' + 'पढ़' = अनपढ़।
- मुहावरा: अंधे की लाठी
- यह मुहावरा उस व्यक्ति या वस्तु के लिए प्रयुक्त होता है जो किसी के लिए एकमात्र सहारा हो; जैसे वृद्ध पिता के लिए उनका पुत्र अंधे की लाठी है।
- कारक
- वाक्य में संज्ञा या सर्वनाम का क्रिया से संबंध बताने वाले रूप को कारक कहते हैं; हिंदी में कर्ता, कर्म, करण, संप्रदान, अपादान, संबंध, अधिकरण और संबोधन - ये आठ कारक हैं।
- Subject-verb agreement
- Rule that a verb must match its subject in number and person; singular subjects take singular verbs, and with 'either...or' the verb agrees with the nearer subject.
- Past perfect tense
- Formed with had plus the past participle, it expresses the earlier of two past actions, as in 'She had left before he arrived.'
- Passive voice formation
- The object becomes the subject, the verb becomes a form of be plus the past participle, and the original subject is optionally introduced by 'by'.
- Reported speech shift
- When the reporting verb is past, tense moves one step back and time words change: 'today' to 'that day', 'tomorrow' to 'the next day', 'this' to 'that'.
- Definite article 'the'
- Used before unique objects, superlatives, rivers, mountain ranges, and nouns already mentioned; 'a/an' is used for non-specific singular countable nouns.
- One-word: verbose
- An adjective describing a person or piece of writing that uses more words than necessary; the noun form is verbosity, meaning wordiness.
- Preposition: consist of
- Fixed collocation meaning 'to be made up of'; the whole consists of parts, as in 'Water consists of hydrogen and oxygen.'
- Successive percentage change
- Two changes a% and b% combine to a net change of a + b + ab/100; a rise then equal fall of x% yields a net loss of x squared divided by 100.
- Compound interest formula
- Amount A equals P times (1 + R/100) raised to power T, where P is principal, R the annual rate, and T the time in years; CI equals A minus P.
- Speed conversion 5/18
- To convert a speed in kilometres per hour to metres per second, multiply by 5/18; to reverse it, multiply by 18/5.
- Work together formula
- If A alone takes x days and B alone takes y days, working together they finish the job in xy divided by (x + y) days.
- Successive discount formula
- Two discounts d1% and d2% equal a single discount of d1 + d2 minus (d1 times d2 divided by 100) percent on the marked price.
- Average shift rule
- If every observation in a data set is increased or decreased by the same constant k, the average increases or decreases by exactly k.
- Letter position coding
- In alphabet coding, A=1 through Z=26; reverse coding uses A=26 through Z=1, so the opposite of a letter at position n is at position 27 minus n.
- Memory unit conversions
- One byte equals 8 bits; 1 KB equals 1024 bytes, 1 MB equals 1024 KB, 1 GB equals 1024 MB, and 1 TB equals 1024 GB.
- CPU components
- The central processing unit contains the arithmetic logic unit for calculations, the control unit for instruction sequencing, and registers for temporary high-speed data storage.
- Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y
- Ctrl+Z undoes the last action in most applications, while Ctrl+Y redoes an action that was previously undone.
- Router versus switch
- A router forwards packets between different networks using IP addresses, whereas a switch connects devices within one local area network using MAC addresses.
- URL structure
- A web address has the form protocol://domain/path, for example https://example.com/page; the protocol here is HTTPS and example.com is the domain.