DSSSB Nursing Officer cheat sheet

Indian Constitution: adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949; came into force 26 January 1950; Dr B R Ambedkar chaired the Drafting Committee.

Fundamental Rights occupy Part III (Articles 12–35); Directive Principles occupy Part IV (Articles 36–51); Fundamental Duties were added by the 42nd Amendment (1976) on Swaran Singh Committee advice.

Nursing statutory bodies: Indian Nursing Council (INC) is a national apex body under the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947; State Nursing Councils regulate registration within states.

National health programmes to recognise: National Health Mission (NHM), Revised National TB Control Programme now merged as National TB Elimination Programme (target 2025), and Universal Immunisation Programme.

Firsts in Indian nursing: Florence Nightingale is the founder of modern nursing; the Trained Nurses' Association of India (TNAI) was established in 1908.

Indian polity offices: President is elected indirectly by an electoral college; the Election Commission conducts elections to Parliament, State Legislatures, and the offices of President and Vice-President.

Key dates: World Health Day 7 April (WHO founded 1948); International Nurses Day 12 May (Nightingale's birthday); National Doctors' Day in India 1 July.

International bodies: WHO headquarters Geneva; UNICEF works for child welfare; ILO deals with labour standards; Red Cross emblem is protected under the Geneva Conventions.

Number series: check differences first, then ratios; alternating series split odd and even positions into two independent patterns.

Alphabet positions: A=1 … Z=26; reverse position = 27 − forward position; EJOTY (5,10,15,20,25) gives quick anchors.

Coding-decoding: for letter shifts, write the alphabet with positions and apply the stated shift consistently; for reversed alphabets, use 27 − position.

Blood relations: draw a family tree with gender symbols; vertical lines for generations, horizontal lines for siblings/spouse; never assume gender from a name.

Direction sense: use a compass sketch; net displacement uses Pythagoras when movements are perpendicular; left/right depends on facing direction.

Syllogism: valid conclusions must hold in every possible Venn diagram; 'some' is reversible, 'all' is not; 'no' statements are reversible.

Series and analogy: in letter analogies apply the same positional shift from first to second term to the third term.

Calendar and clock: odd days repeat every 400 years (0 odd days); in one hour the minute hand gains 55 minutes on the hour hand; hands coincide every 65 5/11 minutes.

Percentage change = (new − old)/old × 100; successive changes of a% and b% give net change a + b + ab/100.

Profit and loss: SP = CP × (100 + profit%)/100; discount is always calculated on marked price, profit on cost price.

Simple interest SI = P × R × T/100; compound interest CI = P[(1 + R/100)^T − 1]; for 2 years CI exceeds SI by P(R/100)^2.

Time-speed-distance: distance = speed × time; to convert km/h to m/s multiply by 5/18; relative speed adds for opposite directions, subtracts for same direction.

Average = sum of values / number of values; if every value rises by k, the average rises by k; combined average uses weighted sums.

Ratio and proportion: if a:b = c:d then ad = bc; divide a quantity in ratio m:n by parts m/(m+n) and n/(m+n).

Work: if A finishes in x days and B in y days, together they finish in xy/(x+y) days; efficiency is inversely proportional to time.

Mensuration: area of circle πr², circumference 2πr; volume of cylinder πr²h; total surface area of cube 6a²; Pythagoras for right triangles.

Mixtures and ages: use alligation for two-component mixtures; for ages set up equations with present ages x and y and apply the time shift to both.

संधि: स्वर संधि में दो स्वर मिलते हैं; व्यंजन संधि में व्यंजन का परिवर्तन होता है; विसर्ग संधि में विसर्ग का रूप बदलता है।

समास: तत्पुरुष में उत्तर पद प्रधान, द्वंद्व में दोनों पद प्रधान, बहुव्रीहि में कोई पद प्रधान नहीं, अव्ययीभाव में पूर्व पद अव्यय होता है।

संज्ञा के भेद: व्यक्तिवाचक, जातिवाचक, भाववाचक, समूहवाचक, द्रव्यवाचक; सर्वनाम के भेद: पुरुषवाचक, निजवाचक, निश्चयवाचक, अनिश्चयवाचक, संबंधवाचक, प्रश्नवाचक।

काल: वर्तमान, भूत, भविष्यत्; प्रत्येक के पाँच उपभेद होते हैं (सामान्य, अपूर्ण, पूर्ण, संदिग्ध, हेतुहेतुमद्)।

वाच्य: कर्तृवाच्य में कर्ता प्रधान, कर्मवाच्य में कर्म प्रधान, भाववाच्य में क्रिया अकर्मक होती है।

अलंकार: अनुप्रास में वर्णों की आवृत्ति, उपमा में 'सा/सी/सम' वाचक शब्द, रूपक में अभेद आरोप, उत्प्रेक्षा में 'मानो/जनु'।

रस के नौ भेद हैं: शृंगार, हास्य, करुण, रौद्र, वीर, भयानक, बीभत्स, अद्भुत, शांत; शांत रस का स्थायी भाव शम है।

वर्तनी और शब्द-शुद्धि: 'श' तालव्य, 'ष' मूर्धन्य, 'स' दंत्य; 'क्ष' और 'ज्ञ' संयुक्त व्यंजन हैं; अनेक शब्दों में अनुस्वार/अनुनासिक का प्रयोग अर्थ बदलता है।

Subject–verb agreement: singular subject takes singular verb; 'each, every, either, neither, everyone, nobody' are singular; 'none' may be singular or plural by sense.

Articles: 'a' before consonant sounds, 'an' before vowel sounds (an hour, a university); 'the' for unique or already specified nouns.

Tenses: present perfect (has/have + past participle) for past actions with present relevance; past perfect for the earlier of two past actions.

Prepositions: 'since' with a point of time, 'for' with duration; 'between' for two, 'among' for more than two; 'on' for days/dates, 'in' for months/years.

Active to passive: object becomes subject, verb becomes be + past participle, agent introduced by 'by'; only transitive verbs passivise.

Direct to indirect speech: present tense shifts to past, 'this' to 'that', 'today' to 'that day', 'tomorrow' to 'the next day'; questions use 'if/whether' or the wh-word.

Idioms and one-word substitutions: 'a bolt from the blue' means a sudden shock; 'philanthropist' is a lover of mankind; 'inevitable' means unavoidable.

Cloze and comprehension strategy: read the full passage first, then use surrounding grammar and cohesion cues (connectors, pronoun reference, parallel structure) to fix each blank.

Indian Constitution came into force 26 January 1950; adopted 26 November 1949; Ambedkar chaired the Drafting Committee.

Fundamental Rights are in Part III (Articles 12–35); Directive Principles in Part IV (Articles 36–51); Fundamental Duties added by the 42nd Amendment, 1976.

Indian Nursing Council is the national nursing regulator under the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947; State Nursing Councils handle state registration.

Trachoma is a bacterial eye infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis and remains a leading preventable cause of blindness.

World Health Day is 7 April; International Nurses Day is 12 May; National Doctors' Day in India is 1 July.

WHO headquarters is Geneva; UNICEF works for child welfare; ILO deals with labour standards; the Red Cross emblem is protected by the Geneva Conventions.

India's National TB Elimination Programme targets TB elimination by 2025, ahead of the global SDG target of 2030.

Alphabet positions: A=1 to Z=26; reverse position = 27 − forward position; EJOTY anchors are 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.

Coding-decoding: apply the stated letter shift consistently; for a reversed alphabet use 27 − position.

Blood relations: draw a family tree; vertical lines show generations, horizontal lines show siblings or spouse; do not infer gender from names.

Direction sense: sketch a compass; perpendicular movements use Pythagoras for net displacement; left/right depends on facing direction.

Syllogism: a conclusion is valid only if it holds in every possible Venn diagram; 'some' and 'no' statements are reversible, 'all' is not.

Calendar: 400 years contain 0 odd days, so calendars repeat every 400 years; 100 years contain 5 odd days.

Clock: the minute hand gains 55 minutes on the hour hand each hour; the hands coincide every 65 5/11 minutes.

Percentage change = (new − old)/old × 100; successive changes a% and b% give net change a + b + ab/100.

Profit and loss: SP = CP × (100 + profit%)/100; discount is calculated on marked price, profit on cost price.

Simple interest SI = P × R × T/100; compound interest CI = P[(1 + R/100)^T − 1]; for 2 years CI exceeds SI by P(R/100)^2.

Distance = speed × time; km/h to m/s multiply by 5/18; relative speed adds for opposite directions and subtracts for the same direction.

Average = sum of values / number of values; a uniform increase of k in every value raises the average by k.

Work: if A takes x days and B takes y days, together they take xy/(x+y) days; efficiency is inversely proportional to time.

Mensuration: circle area πr², circumference 2πr; cylinder volume πr²h; cube total surface area 6a².

संधि: स्वर संधि में दो स्वर मिलते हैं; व्यंजन संधि में व्यंजन बदलता है; विसर्ग संधि में विसर्ग का रूप बदलता है।

समास: तत्पुरुष में उत्तर पद प्रधान, द्वंद्व में दोनों पद प्रधान, बहुव्रीहि में कोई पद प्रधान नहीं, अव्ययीभाव में पूर्व पद अव्यय होता है।

संज्ञा के भेद: व्यक्तिवाचक, जातिवाचक, भाववाचक, समूहवाचक, द्रव्यवाचक।

सर्वनाम के भेद: पुरुषवाचक, निजवाचक, निश्चयवाचक, अनिश्चयवाचक, संबंधवाचक, प्रश्नवाचक।

वाच्य: कर्तृवाच्य में कर्ता प्रधान, कर्मवाच्य में कर्म प्रधान, भाववाच्य में क्रिया अकर्मक होती है।

अलंकार: अनुप्रास में वर्णों की आवृत्ति, उपमा में 'सा/सी/सम', रूपक में अभेद आरोप, उत्प्रेक्षा में 'मानो/जनु'।

रस के नौ भेद हैं: शृंगार, हास्य, करुण, रौद्र, वीर, भयानक, बीभत्स, अद्भुत, शांत; शांत रस का स्थायी भाव शम है।

Subject–verb agreement: each, every, either, neither, everyone, nobody are singular; 'none' may be singular or plural by sense.

Articles: 'a' before consonant sounds, 'an' before vowel sounds (an hour, a university); 'the' for unique or already specified nouns.

Tenses: present perfect (has/have + past participle) links a past action to the present; past perfect marks the earlier of two past actions.

Prepositions: 'since' with a point of time, 'for' with duration; 'between' for two, 'among' for more than two; 'on' for days/dates, 'in' for months/years.

Active to passive: object becomes subject, verb becomes be + past participle, agent introduced by 'by'; only transitive verbs passivise.

Direct to indirect speech: present shifts to past, 'this' to 'that', 'today' to 'that day', 'tomorrow' to 'the next day'; questions use 'if/whether' or the wh-word.

Idioms: 'a bolt from the blue' means a sudden shock; 'philanthropist' is a lover of mankind; 'inevitable' means unavoidable.