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- Article 356
- Constitutional provision allowing President's Rule in a state when constitutional machinery fails; requires parliamentary approval within two months.
- NITI Aayog
- Policy think tank replacing the Planning Commission on 1 January 2015; chaired by the Prime Minister with a vice-chairperson and governing council.
- Bihar Diwas
- Observed on 22 March each year to commemorate Bihar's separation from Bengal in 1912; marked by cultural programmes and government events.
- Repo Rate
- Rate at which the RBI lends short-term funds to commercial banks; set by the Monetary Policy Committee to control inflation and liquidity.
- Newton's Second Law
- Force equals mass times acceleration (F = ma); the SI unit of force is the newton, equivalent to kg·m/s².
- Photosynthesis
- Process in chloroplasts where plants use light, carbon dioxide, and water to produce glucose and oxygen: 6CO₂ + 6H₂O → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂.
- Ohm's Law
- Voltage equals current times resistance (V = IR); used to calculate unknown values in simple DC circuits.
- Universal Donor
- Blood group O negative, which lacks A, B, and Rh antigens and can be transfused to recipients of any blood group.
- pH Scale
- Scale from 0 to 14 measuring acidity or alkalinity; values below 7 are acidic, 7 is neutral, and above 7 are basic.
- Simple Interest
- Interest calculated only on the principal: SI = (P × R × T)/100, where P is principal, R rate percent, T time in years.
- Compound Interest
- Interest on principal plus accumulated interest; amount A = P(1 + R/100)^T, and CI = A − P.
- Average
- Sum of all observations divided by the number of observations; if every value increases by k, the average increases by k.
- Time and Work
- If A completes work in x days and B in y days, together they finish in xy/(x + y) days; rates add reciprocally.
- Speed Conversion
- To convert kilometres per hour to metres per second, multiply by 5/18; to reverse, multiply by 18/5.
- Profit Percentage
- Profit percent = (SP − CP)/CP × 100; discount equals marked price minus selling price.
- LCM and HCF
- For two positive integers, LCM × HCF equals the product of the numbers; useful for simplification and word problems.
- Coding-Decoding
- Reasoning task mapping letters to numbers or shifted positions; A=1 to Z=26 and reverse position equals 27 minus position.
- Blood Relations
- Puzzle type solved by drawing a family tree; vertical lines show generations and horizontal lines show siblings or spouses.
- Syllogism
- Logical reasoning using Venn diagrams; 'All A are B' does not imply 'All B are A', and conclusions must follow necessarily.
- Direction Sense
- Reasoning using compass directions; turning right from north faces east, left from north faces west, and opposite of north is south.
- Calendar Odd Days
- A normal year shifts the weekday by one odd day, a leap year by two; 100 years contribute five odd days.
- संधि
- दो वर्णों के मेल से उत्पन्न विकार को संधि कहते हैं; स्वर संधि, व्यंजन संधि और विसर्ग संधि इसके तीन प्रमुख भेद हैं।
- समास
- दो या अधिक शब्दों के मेल से बना पद; तत्पुरुष, कर्मधारय, द्विगु, द्वंद्व, बहुव्रीहि और अव्ययीभाव इसके भेद हैं।
- उपसर्ग
- शब्द के आरंभ में जुड़कर अर्थ बदलने वाला शब्दांश; जैसे 'प्र' + 'हार' = प्रहार।
- अलंकार
- काव्य में सौंदर्य बढ़ाने वाला तत्व; अनुप्रास, उपमा, रूपक और यमक इसके प्रमुख भेद हैं।
- मुहावरा
- लक्षणार्थक पदबंध जिसका अर्थ शब्दों के सामान्य अर्थ से भिन्न होता है; जैसे 'नौ दो ग्यारह होना' का अर्थ भाग जाना।
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Singular subjects take singular verbs; words like each, every, and either are singular and require singular verb forms.
- Active to Passive
- Convert by making the object the subject, using be plus past participle, and adding 'by' before the original subject.
- Prepositions of Time
- Use 'in' for months and years, 'on' for days and dates, and 'at' for precise times such as at 5 o'clock.
- Idiom Meaning
- A blessing in disguise means an apparent misfortune that eventually proves beneficial; idioms carry figurative, not literal, meaning.
- Kosi River
- A major river in Bihar known as the 'Sorrow of Bihar' due to frequent floods and shifting course; a tributary of the Ganga.
- Bihar Districts
- Bihar has 38 districts grouped into 9 divisions; its capital is Patna and it borders Nepal, West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh.
- Field Survey GPS
- Handheld GPS devices record latitude, longitude, and altitude; field staff must log coordinates, date, time, and observer name.
- Stratified Sampling
- Sampling method dividing the population into homogeneous strata and drawing random samples from each; improves representativeness.