DSSSB Pharmacist flashcards
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- Fundamental Duties count
- Article 51A lists 11 Fundamental Duties for citizens. They were inserted by the 42nd Amendment in 1976 on the Swaran Singh Committee's recommendation and are non-justiciable.
- 44th Amendment 1978
- Removed the Right to Property from Fundamental Rights and made it a legal right under Article 300A. It also restored civil liberties safeguards altered during the Emergency.
- Indian Pharmacopoeia publisher
- The Indian Pharmacopoeia is published by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ghaziabad, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
- CDSCO function
- The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation approves new drugs, clinical trials and imported drugs, and coordinates with state drug controllers who license manufacturing and sale.
- Bharat Ratna
- India's highest civilian award, instituted in 1954. It is given for exceptional service in art, literature, science, public service or sports, without restriction of nationality.
- Constitution adoption date
- The Constitution of India was adopted on 26 November 1949 and came into force on 26 January 1950, the date now celebrated as Republic Day.
- NPPA role
- The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority fixes and revises ceiling prices of scheduled medicines under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order and monitors overcharging by manufacturers.
- Reverse alphabet position
- In the English alphabet, the reverse position of a letter equals 27 minus its forward position. So A is 26, E is 22, and Z is 1.
- Clock hand angle formula
- The angle between the hour and minute hands is |30H − 5.5M| degrees, where H is the hour and M the minutes. A negative result is taken as its absolute value.
- Odd days in a century
- A century has 5 odd days (100 years), 3 odd days (200 years), 1 odd day (300 years) and 0 odd days (400 years). Odd days determine the day of the week.
- Syllogism some rule
- 'Some A are B' is always reversible to 'Some B are A'. 'All A are B' does not imply 'All B are A', so conversion needs care in Venn diagrams.
- Linear row position formula
- In a single row of n people, if a person is x-th from the left and y-th from the right, then n = x + y − 1. Use this to find total strength quickly.
- Opposite letter code
- In opposite-letter coding each letter is replaced by the letter whose alphabet position is 27 minus the original position, so A becomes Z and M becomes N.
- Blood relation tree symbols
- Draw generations as horizontal rows and connect parents to children vertically. Mark males and females separately so that brother, uncle and cousin links stay unambiguous.
- Successive percentage change
- A change of a% followed by b% gives a net change of a + b + (ab/100) percent. Two successive 10% increases therefore give 21%, not 20%.
- Compound interest formula
- CI = P(1 + R/100)^T − P. For half-yearly compounding, use R/2 and 2T; for quarterly, use R/4 and 4T in the same formula.
- Average speed equal distances
- When equal distances are covered at speeds x and y, the average speed is 2xy/(x + y), the harmonic mean, not the arithmetic mean (x + y)/2.
- Time and work together
- If A alone finishes work in x days and B in y days, working together they take xy/(x + y) days, because their rates 1/x and 1/y add.
- Train crossing platform
- Time to cross a platform equals the sum of train length and platform length divided by speed. To cross a pole, only the train's own length is used.
- Sphere and cylinder volumes
- Volume of a sphere is (4/3)πr³ and of a cylinder is πr²h. One litre equals 1000 cubic centimetres, a common conversion in mensuration sums.
- Simple interest formula
- SI = PRT/100, where P is principal, R the annual rate percent and T the time in years. Amount equals principal plus simple interest.
- दीर्घ संधि
- जब ह्रस्व या दीर्घ स्वर के बाद समान स्वर आता है तो दोनों मिलकर दीर्घ हो जाते हैं, जैसे विद्या + आलय = विद्यालय।
- तत्पुरुष समास
- जिस समास में उत्तर पद प्रधान हो और पूर्व पद कारक विभक्ति लुप्त हो, वह तत्पुरुष है, जैसे राजपुत्र अर्थात राजा का पुत्र।
- मुहावरा और लोकोक्ति
- मुहावरा वाक्यांश होता है जो लक्षणा अर्थ देता है, जबकि लोकोक्ति पूर्ण वाक्य होती है जो लोक अनुभव पर आधारित कहावत है।
- अनुप्रास अलंकार
- जहाँ वर्णों या व्यंजनों की आवृत्ति से चमत्कार उत्पन्न हो, वहाँ अनुप्रास अलंकार होता है, जैसे चारु चंद्र की चंचल किरणें।
- कारक विभक्ति चिह्न
- कर्ता में ने, कर्म में को, करण में से या के द्वारा, संप्रदान में के लिए, अपादान में से और अधिकरण में में या पर चिह्न लगते हैं।
- विलोम शब्द
- विलोम शब्द वे होते हैं जिनका अर्थ एक-दूसरे का उल्टा होता है, जैसे दिन का विलोम रात, उचित का अनुचित और ज्ञान का अज्ञान।
- Subject-verb agreement rule
- Singular subjects take singular verbs. Words such as each, every, either, neither and everyone are singular, and news and mathematics also take singular verbs.
- Since versus for
- Use 'since' with a point of time (since 2010, since Monday) and 'for' with a duration (for three years). Both typically pair with perfect tenses.
- 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' if retained.
- Idiom bite the bullet
- To bite the bullet means to face a difficult or painful situation with courage instead of avoiding it. It is used for forced endurance.
- One-word substitution philanthropist
- A philanthropist is a person who loves mankind and works for its welfare, often through charitable donations. Its opposite is misanthrope, one who hates mankind.