Rajasthan BSTC / Pre D.El.Ed flashcards

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Second difference constant

In a number series, if first differences are not equal but second differences are equal, the series is quadratic and the next term follows the same pattern.

Clock hand angle formula

Angle between hour and minute hands equals the absolute value of 30H minus 5.5M, where H is the hour and M the minutes.

Leap year weekday shift

An ordinary year advances the weekday of a fixed date by one day, while a leap year advances it by two days because of the extra day.

Blood relation tree symbols

Draw vertical lines for parent-child links and horizontal lines for marriage, marking male and female symbols, before reading the question's relation.

Thar Desert share

The Thar Desert covers roughly 61 percent of Rajasthan, dominating the western districts, while the Aravalli range separates it from the wetter east.

Banas river

The Banas is the longest river flowing entirely within Rajasthan, rising in the Khamnor hills of the Aravallis and draining into the Chambal.

Sambhar Lake

Sambhar, in Jaipur district, is India's largest inland salt lake and a Ramsar wetland site, producing much of Rajasthan's salt.

Hill Forts of Rajasthan

Six forts are UNESCO World Heritage sites: Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Ranthambore, Amber, Jaisalmer and Gagron, recognised in 2013.

Rajasthan state bird

The Godawan, or Great Indian Bustard, is Rajasthan's state bird; it is critically endangered and found mainly in Jaisalmer and Barmer grasslands.

Zone of Proximal Development

Vygotsky's ZPD is the distance between what a learner can do unaided and what they can achieve with adult guidance or peer collaboration.

Formative versus summative assessment

Formative assessment is ongoing and diagnostic, guiding teaching during learning; summative assessment is terminal, judging achievement at the end of a unit.

Bloom's revised taxonomy order

Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate and Create. The first three are lower-order thinking skills; the last three are higher-order thinking skills.

Operant conditioning

Skinner's principle that behaviour is shaped by its consequences: reinforcement increases the likelihood of a response, while punishment decreases it.

Kohlberg conventional level

The second moral level, where judgements are based on social approval and maintaining law and order rather than on punishment or abstract principles.

सवर्ण दीर्घ संधि

जब समान स्वर या समान वर्ण आमने-सामने आते हैं तो दोनों के स्थान पर एक दीर्घ स्वर हो जाता है, जैसे विद्या + आलय = विद्यालय।

बहुव्रीहि समास

वह समास जिसमें कोई भी पद प्रधान न होकर दोनों मिलकर किसी तीसरे अर्थ का बोध कराते हैं, जैसे दशानन अर्थात् दस सिर वाला रावण।

अपादान कारक

जिससे अलग होने का भाव प्रकट हो, वह अपादान कारक होता है; इसका विभक्ति चिह्न 'से' है, जैसे पेड़ से पत्ता गिरा।

यमक अलंकार

जहाँ एक ही शब्द दो या अधिक बार आए पर हर बार उसका अर्थ भिन्न हो, वहाँ यमक अलंकार होता है।

शांत रस

नौ रसों में से वह रस जिसका स्थायी भाव शम है और जो संसार की नश्वरता तथा वैराग्य का अनुभव कराता है।

Since versus for

Use 'since' with a specific starting point in time and 'for' with a length of duration, as in since 2019 versus for five years.

Past perfect tense

Formed with had plus the past participle, it marks the earlier of two past actions, as in she had left before the bell rang.

Third conditional

Structure: if plus past perfect, then would have plus past participle. It describes an unreal past situation and its imagined result.

Affect versus effect

Affect is usually a verb meaning to influence, while effect is usually a noun meaning the result or outcome of a change.

राम शब्द तृतीया विभक्ति

पुल्लिंग राम शब्द की तृतीया विभक्ति एकवचन में रामेण, द्विवचन में रामाभ्याम् तथा बहुवचन में रामैः रूप होते हैं।

लङ् लकार

यह अनद्यतन भूतकाल का लकार है, जिसका प्रयोग आज से पहले के भूतकाल के लिए होता है, जैसे अपठत् अर्थात् उसने पढ़ा।

गुण संधि

अ या आ के बाद इ या ई आने पर ए तथा उ या ऊ आने पर ओ बनता है, जैसे नर + इंद्र = नरेंद्र।

तत्पुरुष समास

जिस समास में उत्तर पद प्रधान हो और पूर्व पद विभक्ति लुप्त हो, जैसे राजपुत्र अर्थात् राजा का पुत्र।

Average speed equal distances

When equal distances are covered at speeds x and y, average speed is 2xy divided by x plus y, which is the harmonic mean, not the simple average.

Successive discount formula

Two successive discounts of a percent and b percent equal a single discount of a plus b minus ab divided by 100 percent.

LCM HCF product rule

For any two positive integers, the product of their LCM and HCF equals the product of the two numbers themselves.

Divisibility by eleven

A number is divisible by 11 when the difference between the sums of digits in alternating positions is zero or a multiple of 11.