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- Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act
- The 2014 law that bifurcated Andhra Pradesh into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, with Hyderabad as joint capital for up to ten years.
- Article 371-D
- Constitutional provision granting special safeguards to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, including local-cadre reservation in public employment and education.
- Subject-verb agreement rule
- A singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb, regardless of intervening phrases such as 'along with' or 'of'.
- Active to passive voice
- The object of an active sentence becomes the subject of the passive, the verb becomes 'be + past participle', and the doer follows 'by'.
- తెలుగు వర్ణమాల
- తెలుగు భాషలో మొత్తం 56 అక్షరాలు ఉన్నాయి; అందులో 16 అచ్చులు మరియు 40 హల్లులు ఉంటాయి.
- సంధి
- రెండు అక్షరములు కలిసి ఒకే అక్షరంగా మారడాన్ని సంధి అంటారు; ఉదా. అకార సంధి, యడాగమ సంధి.
- Simple interest formula
- Simple interest equals principal multiplied by rate multiplied by time, divided by one hundred, written as SI = P × R × T / 100.
- Speed conversion factor
- To convert kilometres per hour to metres per second multiply by 5/18; to convert metres per second to kilometres per hour multiply by 18/5.
- POSDCORB
- Luther Gulick's acronym for Planning, Organising, Staffing, Directing, Co-ordinating, Reporting and Budgeting, describing the functions of an executive.
- Span of control
- The number of subordinates a manager can effectively supervise; a narrow span produces a tall hierarchy while a wide span produces a flat one.
- District Collector
- The senior officer in charge of a district, serving as head of revenue administration and District Magistrate for law and order.
- Aarogyasri
- Andhra Pradesh's health insurance scheme providing free treatment for listed surgeries and ailments to eligible poor families in network hospitals.
- Right to Information Act
- The 2005 law empowering citizens to request information from public authorities, which must normally be supplied within thirty days.
- Finance Commission
- A constitutional body under Article 280, constituted every five years, that recommends how central tax revenue is shared with states.
- Blood relation: maternal uncle
- The brother of one's mother; in reasoning questions it is represented as the mother's male sibling on the maternal side of the family tree.
- Calendar leap year rule
- A year is a leap year if divisible by four, except century years, which are leap years only if divisible by four hundred.
- Herzberg two-factor theory
- Hygiene factors such as salary and conditions prevent dissatisfaction, while motivators such as achievement and recognition create satisfaction.
- Bounded rationality
- Herbert Simon's concept that decision-makers have limited information and cognitive capacity, so they choose a satisfactory rather than optimal option.
- Numerical filing
- A filing system in which files are arranged by assigned numbers; it suits large volumes and allows unlimited expansion without reshuffling.
- Dispatch register
- An office record listing outgoing letters with their date, serial number, addressee and subject, used to track correspondence.
- Navaratnalu
- An umbrella of nine welfare schemes launched by Andhra Pradesh covering farmers, women, students, health and housing support.
- MGNREGA
- The 2005 law guaranteeing at least one hundred days of wage employment per rural household per year, implemented through Gram Panchayats.
- Money bill
- A bill dealing with taxation or government borrowing, introduced only in the Lok Sabha, which the Rajya Sabha may amend within fourteen days.
- GDP expenditure formula
- Gross domestic product at market prices equals consumption plus investment plus government spending plus net exports (exports minus imports).
- Précis writing
- A concise summary that retains the central idea of a passage, removes examples, and is usually about one-third of the original length.
- Skimming and scanning
- Skimming means reading quickly for the main idea; scanning means searching the text for specific facts such as names, dates or figures.
- అనువాదం
- మూల భాషలోని భావాన్ని లక్ష్య భాషలో సహజంగా తెలియజేయడం; పదానికి పదం అనువాదం చేయకూడదు.
- సంక్షేపణ
- పాఠ్యం యొక్క ముఖ్య భావాన్ని మాత్రమే ఉంచి, ఉదాహరణలను తొలగించి సుమారు మూడింట ఒక వంతు పొడవుకు తగ్గించడం.
- CAG of India
- The Comptroller and Auditor General, a constitutional officer under Article 148 who audits all government accounts and reports to Parliament.
- Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act
- The 2013 law creating the Lokpal at Union level and Lokayuktas in states to investigate complaints of corruption against public functionaries.
- AP coastline
- Andhra Pradesh has a coastline of about 974 kilometres along the Bay of Bengal, the second longest among Indian states after Gujarat.
- Amaravati
- The planned capital city of Andhra Pradesh, located on the southern bank of the Krishna river and planned by the Capital Region Development Authority.