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- Article 239AA
- Constitutional provision inserted by the 69th Amendment (1991) creating the Delhi Legislative Assembly and Council of Ministers, with powers over State and Concurrent List subjects except police, public order and land.
- Election Commission of India
- Constitutional body established under Article 324 that conducts elections to Parliament, State Legislatures and the offices of President and Vice-President. It is not a judicial body.
- Dandi March
- 1930 march led by Mahatma Gandhi from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi to break the salt law, launching the Civil Disobedience Movement against British rule.
- SI unit of pressure
- The pascal (Pa), equal to one newton per square metre. It measures force applied per unit area and is used for atmospheric and fluid pressure.
- Largest Indian state by area
- Rajasthan, covering about 342,239 square kilometres. Goa is the smallest state by area, and Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state.
- Coding shift rule
- In letter coding, compare the coded word with the original to find a constant position shift, such as A to D being plus three, then apply the same shift to the target word.
- Syllogism validity test
- A conclusion follows only if it is true in every possible Venn diagram consistent with the given statements; a diagram that makes it false disproves it.
- Blood relation diagram
- A family tree using vertical lines for parent-child links, horizontal lines for siblings and a distinct mark for spouse, letting you read relationships directly without guessing.
- Direction sense distance
- After tracking north-south and east-west displacements on a grid, the straight-line distance from the start equals the square root of x squared plus y squared.
- Circular seating convention
- Fix one person as reference, then count positions clockwise or anticlockwise; facing direction decides whether a person's left is clockwise or anticlockwise.
- Odd one out strategy
- Test each option against a shared property such as prime number, perfect square, divisibility or letter symmetry; the option lacking the property is the answer.
- Successive percentage change
- Two successive changes of a percent and b percent produce a net change of a plus b plus ab divided by 100, where signs indicate increase or decrease.
- Compound interest formula
- Amount equals principal times one plus rate over 100 raised to the time in years; compound interest is that amount minus the principal.
- Profit percentage
- Profit percent equals selling price minus cost price, divided by cost price, multiplied by 100. It is always calculated on the cost price unless stated otherwise.
- Speed unit conversion
- To change kilometres per hour into metres per second, multiply by five-eighteenths; to reverse it, multiply by eighteen-fifths.
- Combined work rate
- If one worker finishes a job in x days and another in y days, their one-day work is 1/x and 1/y; together they finish in xy/(x+y) days.
- Average property
- The average equals the sum of observations divided by their count. Adding a constant k to every value raises the average by exactly k.
- Circle area and circumference
- Area equals pi times radius squared and circumference equals two pi times radius. Doubling the radius quadruples the area but only doubles the circumference.
- दीर्घ संधि
- जब अ, आ के बाद अ, आ आए तो दोनों मिलकर आ बनते हैं; जैसे विद्या + आलय = विद्यालय तथा परम + अर्थ = परमार्थ।
- बहुव्रीहि समास
- वह समास जिसमें कोई भी पद प्रधान न होकर समस्त पद किसी तीसरे अर्थ की ओर संकेत करता है; जैसे दशानन अर्थात् रावण।
- उपसर्ग और प्रत्यय
- उपसर्ग शब्द के आरंभ में जुड़कर अर्थ बदलता है, जैसे प्र + हार = प्रहार; प्रत्यय अंत में जुड़ता है, जैसे लड़क + पन = लड़कपन।
- मुहावरा: नौ दो ग्यारह होना
- इस मुहावरे का अर्थ है भाग जाना या चुपचाप खिसक जाना। इसका प्रयोग वाक्य में क्रिया के रूप में होता है, अर्थात् पुलिस को देखते ही चोर नौ दो ग्यारह हो गया।
- सूर्य के पर्यायवाची
- सूर्य के पर्यायवाची शब्द हैं रवि, भानु, दिनकर, आदित्य, दिवाकर और प्रभाकर। ये शब्द कविता और गद्य दोनों में प्रयुक्त होते हैं।
- वाक्य के अंग
- प्रत्येक वाक्य में उद्देश्य अर्थात् कर्ता और विधेय अर्थात् कर्ता के बारे में कहा गया कथन होता है; जैसे राम ने पत्र लिखा में राम उद्देश्य है।
- Subject-verb agreement
- A singular subject takes a singular verb. Words such as each, every, either, neither and everyone are grammatically singular and take singular verbs even when they refer to many people.
- Present perfect tense
- Formed with has or have plus the past participle, it describes a past action linked to the present, such as an experience or an action just completed.
- Active to passive voice
- The object becomes the subject, the verb becomes a form of be plus the past participle, and the original subject follows by, or is dropped if unimportant.
- Reported speech tense shift
- When the reporting verb is in the past, the reported verb usually shifts one step back, and time words change, for example now to then and today to that day.
- Comprise usage
- The verb comprise means to consist of and takes a direct object without of; the correct alternatives are consist of or be composed of.
- Idiom: once in a blue moon
- An idiom meaning very rarely or almost never. It describes an event that happens only on exceptional occasions, not something that occurs frequently.
- Antonym of benevolent
- Malevolent, meaning wishing harm to others. Benevolent means kind and well-meaning, so the two words are opposites in meaning and tone.
- Article: a versus an
- Use a before a singular countable noun starting with a consonant sound and an before a vowel sound, as in a university but an hour, based on sound not spelling.