Odisha Police Constable flashcards

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Chandrayaan-3 landing date

Chandrayaan-3 landed on 23 August 2023; its Vikram lander and Pragyan rover touched down near the lunar south pole, making India the fourth country to soft-land on the Moon.

Article 32

Article 32 gives the right to constitutional remedies; it empowers the Supreme Court to issue writs for enforcement of Fundamental Rights and was called the heart and soul of the Constitution by Ambedkar.

Number of Indian states

India has 28 states and 8 union territories as of 2024; Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are union territories, while Delhi and Puducherry have legislative assemblies.

G20 New Delhi Summit

The G20 New Delhi Leaders' Summit was held in September 2023 during India's presidency; its theme was Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, and the African Union became a permanent member.

Nobel Peace Prize 2024

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organisation of atomic bomb survivors, for efforts to achieve a world without nuclear weapons.

Utkal Divas

Utkal Divas is observed on 1 April; it marks the formation of Odisha as a separate province in 1936 under the Government of India Act 1935.

Chilika Lake

Chilika Lake is Asia's largest brackish-water lagoon, located in Odisha; it is a Ramsar site and a habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins, connected to the Bay of Bengal.

Konark Sun Temple

The Konark Sun Temple is a 13th-century temple in Odisha built by King Narasimhadeva I; it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for its stone chariot and Kalinga architecture.

Mahanadi

The Mahanadi is a major river of Odisha; the Hirakud Dam, one of the longest earthen dams, is built across it, and the river drains into the Bay of Bengal.

Odisha Legislative Assembly

The Odisha Legislative Assembly is unicameral and has 147 seats; it is located in Bhubaneswar, and its members are elected for five-year terms.

Nuakhai festival

Nuakhai is an agricultural festival of western Odisha celebrated after the harvest; it involves offering the new rice to deities and sharing community feasts.

Clock angle formula

The angle between the hour and minute hands is |30H − 5.5M| degrees, where H is the hour and M is the minute value; at 3:30 it is 75 degrees.

Ordinary year day shift

An ordinary year has 365 days, which is 52 weeks plus 1 day; therefore the weekday shifts by one day in the next year.

Syllogism rule

In categorical logic, 'All A are B' does not imply 'All B are A'; Venn diagrams are used to test whether a conclusion necessarily follows.

Blood relation notation

A family tree uses vertical lines for generations and horizontal lines for siblings or marriage; words such as uncle, aunt, son and daughter indicate gender and relation.

Letter position trick

In letter coding, A=1, B=2, …, Z=26; the reverse position of a letter equals 27 minus its forward position, which helps decode substitution patterns.

Direction displacement

After moving along perpendicular north-south and east-west paths, the net displacement is the hypotenuse found by Pythagoras' theorem.

Simple interest formula

Simple interest is calculated as SI = (P × R × T) / 100, where P is the principal, R is the annual rate percent, and T is the time in years.

Compound interest formula

Compound interest equals P(1 + R/100)^T − P; interest is added to the principal each period, so the base grows every year.

Speed unit conversion

One kilometre per hour equals 5/18 metres per second; multiply km/h by 5/18 to get m/s, and multiply m/s by 18/5 to get km/h.

Work rate rule

If a person completes work in x days, one day's work is 1/x; for two people working together, the combined one-day rate is 1/x + 1/y.

Profit percentage

Profit percentage equals [(SP − CP) / CP] × 100; discount is calculated on the marked price, not on the cost price.

LCM and HCF relation

For two positive integers, LCM × HCF equals the product of the numbers; this relation helps find the missing number when the other and their LCM or HCF are known.

Subject-verb agreement

A singular subject takes a singular verb; the words each, every, either and neither are treated as singular and take singular verbs.

Since versus for

Use 'since' with a point of time, such as since 2020, and use 'for' with a duration, such as for three years.

Active to passive

In converting active to passive, the object becomes the subject, the verb becomes be plus the past participle, and the doer follows 'by'.

Idiom: once in a blue moon

The idiom 'once in a blue moon' means that something happens very rarely; it describes an uncommon event or an occasional action.

Article a versus an

Use 'a' before a consonant sound and 'an' before a vowel sound; the choice depends on pronunciation, not on the first letter's spelling.

Male height standard

Odisha Police Constable PMT requires a minimum height of 168 cm for male general, OBC and SEBC candidates, and 163 cm for SC and ST candidates.

Chest measurement

Male candidates must have a minimum chest of 79 cm unexpanded with at least 5 cm expansion; this is measured during the physical measurement test.

Male PET run

Male candidates must complete a 5 km run within 25 minutes; the PET is qualifying, so its marks are not added to the merit list.

Female PET run

Female candidates must complete a 2.5 km run within 15 minutes; the PET is qualifying in nature and does not add marks to the merit list.