DSSSB Pharmacist cheat sheet

Fundamental Rights (Part III, Articles 12–35): six rights; Right to Property was removed by the 44th Amendment (1978) and made a legal right under Article 300A.

Fundamental Duties (Article 51A) were added by the 42nd Amendment (1976) on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee; there are 11 duties.

Directive Principles (Part IV, Articles 36–51) are non-justiciable; Article 39A (free legal aid) and Article 44 (uniform civil code) are frequently tested.

Pharmacopoeia of India: Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) is published by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ghaziabad; Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940 and Rules 1945 govern drug standards.

National health programmes: Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme is now the National TB Elimination Programme (target 2025); NTEP uses DOTS and Nikshay portal.

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

RBI was nationalised in 1949; it issues currency and controls monetary policy; SEBI (1992) regulates securities markets.

Nobel and national awards: Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award; the National Pharmacy awards and Indian Pharmaceutical Association are common awareness items.

Key institutions: CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation) approves new drugs; NPPA fixes prices under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order.

Alphabet positions: A=1 … Z=26; reverse positions sum to 27 (A=26, Z=1); EJOTY trick gives E=5, J=10, O=15, T=20, Y=25.

Number series: check differences, then ratios, then squares/cubes, then alternating patterns; e.g., 2, 6, 12, 20 follows n(n+1).

Coding-decoding: for letter-shift codes, compute the shift for each letter separately; opposite-letter codes use the 27−position rule.

Blood relations: draw a family tree; vertical lines for generations, horizontal for siblings/spouse; '+' male, '−' female as a convention.

Direction sense: use a compass sketch; final displacement uses Pythagoras for right-angled paths (√(a²+b²)).

Syllogism: apply Venn diagrams; 'All A are B' does not imply 'All B are A'; 'Some' conclusions need at least one overlapping case.

Clock problems: angle between hands = |30H − 5.5M|; hands coincide every 65 5/11 minutes.

Calendar: odd days - ordinary year 1, leap year 2; a century has 5 odd days (100 yr), 3 (200 yr), 1 (300 yr), 0 (400 yr).

Seating arrangement: fix the definite position first, then apply left/right constraints; total = left + right − 1 for a linear row.

Percentage: x% of N = (x/100)×N; successive change a% then b% gives net = a + b + ab/100.

Profit and loss: SP = CP(100+P)/100; discount is on marked price, profit is on cost price; net effect of two equal discounts differs from their sum.

Simple interest SI = PRT/100; compound interest CI = P(1+R/100)^T − P; half-yearly compounding halves R and doubles T.

Time-speed-distance: D = S×T; km/h to m/s multiply by 5/18; average speed for equal distances = 2xy/(x+y).

Trains: time to cross a pole = length/speed; to cross a platform = (train length + platform length)/speed.

Ratio and proportion: if a:b = c:d then ad = bc; divide a quantity Q in ratio a:b as Qa/(a+b) and Qb/(a+b).

Averages: average = sum/count; if every item increases by k, the average increases by k; weighted average = Σwx/Σw.

Time and work: if A does work in x days, rate = 1/x; combined rate = 1/x + 1/y, so together they take xy/(x+y) days.

Mensuration: area of circle = πr²; volume of cylinder = πr²h; volume of sphere = (4/3)πr³; 1 litre = 1000 cm³.

संधि: स्वर संधि (दो स्वरों के मेल) में दीर्घ, गुण, वृद्धि और यण संधि आती हैं; जैसे विद्या + आलय = विद्यालय (दीर्घ संधि)।

समास: अव्ययीभाव, तत्पुरुष, कर्मधारय, द्विगु, द्वंद्व और बहुव्रीहि - छह प्रकार; जैसे राजपुत्र = तत्पुरुष (राजा का पुत्र)।

उपसर्ग और प्रत्यय: उपसर्ग शब्द के आरम्भ में जुड़ता है (प्र + हार = प्रहार), प्रत्यय अंत में (लड़क + पन = लड़कपन)।

वाक्य के अंग: उद्देश्य और विधेय; वाक्य भेद - सरल, संयुक्त और मिश्र।

वर्तनी और शब्द शुद्धि: 'क्ष', 'त्र', 'ज्ञ' संयुक्त व्यंजन; अनुस्वार (ं) और अनुनासिक (ँ) का प्रयोग ध्यान से करें।

मुहावरे अर्थ सहित प्रयोग करते हैं; लोकोक्ति पूर्ण वाक्य होती है, मुहावरा वाक्यांश - यह अंतर परीक्षा में पूछा जाता है।

पर्यायवाची, विलोम और अनेकार्थी शब्द: जैसे 'कमल' के पर्यायवाची - जलज, पंकज, नीरज, सरोज।

कारक और विभक्ति चिह्न: कर्ता 'ने', कर्म 'को', करण 'से/के द्वारा', संप्रदान 'के लिए', अपादान 'से', अधिकरण 'में/पर'।

रस और अलंकार: अनुप्रास (वर्णों की आवृत्ति), उपमा (समानता), रूपक (अभेद आरोप), यमक (शब्द की आवृत्ति, भिन्न अर्थ)।

Subject-verb agreement: singular subject takes singular verb; 'each, every, either, neither, everyone' are singular; 'news, mathematics, physics' are treated as singular.

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

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

Prepositions: 'since' with a point of time, 'for' with a duration; 'on' for days/dates, 'in' for months/years, 'at' for clock times.

Active to passive: object becomes subject, verb becomes be + past participle, agent introduced by 'by'; tense of the auxiliary must match the original.

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

Idioms: 'to bite the bullet' = to endure a painful situation bravely; 'once in a blue moon' = very rarely; 'to burn the midnight oil' = to study late.

Synonyms/antonyms and one-word substitutions: 'philanthropist' = one who loves mankind; 'misanthrope' = one who hates mankind.

Error spotting: check articles, prepositions, subject-verb agreement and pronoun reference in that order; a sentence with 'hardly/scarcely' takes 'when', not 'than'.