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Rajasthan General Knowledge and Current Affairs

  • Rajasthan borders Pakistan to the west and five Indian states: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; it is India's largest state by area (342,239 sq km).

  • Thar Desert covers about 61% of the state; the Aravalli range runs southwest to northeast and separates the arid west from the relatively fertile east.

  • Major rivers: Chambal (perennial, from Madhya Pradesh), Luni (the only river of the Thar basin, ends in the Rann of Kutch), Banas (Aravalli-origin, joins Chambal), Mahi and Sabarmati.

  • Administrative divisions: 7 divisions (Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Kota, Udaipur, Bikaner, Bharatpur) grouping the state's districts; district counts change with notifications, so verify current numbers.

  • Key festivals/fairs: Pushkar Camel Fair (Kartik Purnima, Ajmer), Teej (Jaipur), Gangaur, Desert Festival (Jaisalmer), Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (Ajmer).

  • Protected areas include Ranthambore and Sariska Tiger Reserves, Keoladeo Ghana National Park (Bharatpur, Ramsar/UNESCO site), Desert National Park (Jaisalmer), Mukundra Hills and Ramgarh Vishdhari tiger reserves.

  • Minerals: Rajasthan leads in zinc-lead (Zawar, Rampura-Agucha), marble (Makrana), and is a major producer of sandstone, gypsum and rock phosphate; Sambhar Lake is a historic salt source.

  • Current affairs: track state budget, new districts/divisions, Rajasthan Renewable Energy Policy targets for solar parks (Bhadla, Jodhpur) and state government welfare schemes, which change frequently and require a current source.

Quick reference

General Knowledge and Current Affairs (India and World)

  • Indian Constitution: adopted 26 November 1949, enforced 26 January 1950; Fundamental Rights in Part III (Articles 12-35), Directive Principles in Part IV (Articles 36-51).

  • Constitutional bodies vs statutory: Election Commission and UPSC are constitutional; NITI Aayog, NHRC and CBI are statutory/executive creations.

  • Indian geography superlatives: longest river Ganga, largest delta Sundarbans, highest peak Kangchenjunga (in India), largest freshwater lake Wular.

  • World organisations: UN founded 1945 (HQ New York), WTO 1995 (Geneva), IMF and World Bank 1944 Bretton Woods (Washington DC), WHO (Geneva).

  • Indian economy indicators: GDP, CPI (base year 2012), WPI (base year 2011-12), repo rate set by RBI's Monetary Policy Committee.

  • Space and defence milestones: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 landed near lunar south pole in 2023; Aditya-L1 solar mission; Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.

  • Current affairs method: anchor on static facts (who holds which office, which country hosts which summit) because officeholders and host cities rotate annually.

Quick reference

General Science

  • Newton's laws: F = ma; action-reaction pairs act on different bodies, so they never cancel on one body.

  • SI units: force newton (kg·m/s²), pressure pascal (N/m²), work/energy joule, power watt, electric charge coulomb.

  • Ohm's law V = IR; resistors in series add, in parallel reciprocals add; electrical power P = VI = I²R = V²/R.

  • pH scale 0-14: acids pH<7, bases pH>7; strong acid + strong base gives salt and water (neutralisation).

  • Human body: largest organ skin, largest gland liver, oxygen-carrying pigment haemoglobin (iron), insulin from pancreas, vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy.

  • Cell: mitochondria are the powerhouse, ribosomes synthesise protein, chloroplasts carry out photosynthesis; plant cells have a cellulose cell wall.

  • Light: reflection angle of incidence equals angle of reflection; refraction bends light toward the normal when entering a denser medium; sound cannot travel in vacuum.

Quick reference

Mathematics

  • Quadratic roots: for ax²+bx+c=0, sum = -b/a, product = c/a; discriminant D = b²-4ac; real distinct roots when D>0.

  • Arithmetic progression: nth term a+(n-1)d, sum = n/2[2a+(n-1)d]; geometric progression nth term ar^(n-1), sum = a(rⁿ-1)/(r-1) for r≠1.

  • Percentage and profit: profit% = (SP-CP)/CP × 100; successive discounts of a% and b% equal a+b-ab/100 percent.

  • Time-speed-distance: distance = speed × time; for equal distances at speeds x and y, average speed = 2xy/(x+y).

  • Mensuration: circle area πr², circumference 2πr; cylinder volume πr²h, curved surface 2πrh; sphere volume (4/3)πr³, surface 4πr².

  • Trigonometry: sin²θ+cos²θ=1; values sin30=1/2, sin45=1/√2, sin60=√3/2; tanθ = sinθ/cosθ.

  • Simple and compound interest: SI = PRT/100; CI amount = P(1+R/100)^T; for 2 years CI exceeds SI by P(R/100)².

Quick reference

Reasoning and Mental Ability

  • Number series: check differences first, then ratios, then squares/cubes or alternating two-series patterns before assuming a rule.

  • Coding-decoding: map letter positions A=1 to Z=26 and check both forward and reverse (A=26) shifts; reversal of the alphabet is a common rule.

  • Blood relations: draw a family tree with gender marks; 'mother's brother' = maternal uncle, 'father's sister's son' = cousin.

  • Direction sense: fix north up; a right turn from north is east; net displacement uses Pythagoras on the north-south and east-west totals.

  • Seating arrangement: for a circle, facing centre means left is clockwise; facing outward reverses left and right.

  • Syllogism: apply Venn diagrams; a conclusion is valid only if true in every possible diagram of the premises.

  • Clock and calendar: hands coincide 11 times in 12 hours; angle = |30H - 5.5M| degrees; a normal year shifts the weekday by 1, a leap year by 2.

Quick reference

Basic Computer Knowledge

  • Memory hierarchy by speed: registers > cache > RAM > secondary storage; RAM is volatile, ROM and flash are non-volatile.

  • 1 byte = 8 bits; 1 KB = 1024 bytes, 1 MB = 1024 KB, 1 GB = 1024 MB.

  • OSI model has 7 layers; TCP/IP has 4; IPv4 addresses are 32-bit, IPv6 addresses are 128-bit.

  • Shortcuts: Ctrl+C copy, Ctrl+V paste, Ctrl+X cut, Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+S save, Alt+Tab switch windows, Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens Task Manager in Windows.

  • File extensions: .docx Word, .xlsx Excel, .pptx PowerPoint, .pdf portable document, .exe executable, .html web page.

  • Malware types: virus attaches to files, worm self-replicates over networks, trojan disguises as legitimate software, ransomware encrypts data for payment.

  • Internet basics: HTTP/HTTPS for web, SMTP for sending mail, POP3/IMAP for receiving; URL identifies a resource, DNS resolves names to IP addresses.

Quick reference

Hindi and English Language

  • Hindi संधि: स्वर संधि (अ+इ=ए), व्यंजन संधि, विसर्ग संधि; संधि-विच्छेद करते समय मूल वर्ण पहचानें।

  • Hindi समास: तत्पुरुष (अंतिम पद प्रधान), द्वंद्व (दोनों पद प्रधान, 'और' लोप), बहुव्रीहि (अन्य पद प्रधान), द्विगु (संख्यावाची पूर्वपद)।

  • Hindi पर्यायवाची/विलोम और मुहावरे अर्थ सहित याद करें; 'अंधे की लाठी' का अर्थ है एकमात्र सहारा।

  • English parts of speech: identify the word's function in the sentence, not its meaning; 'fast' can be adjective, adverb or verb.

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

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

  • Spotting errors: check subject-verb agreement, article use, preposition collocation (depend on, consist of) and parallelism in lists.

Quick reference

Engineering Discipline (Civil / Electrical / Mechanical / Agriculture)

  • Civil: stress = force/area; strain = change in length/original length; Young's modulus E = stress/strain in the elastic range.

  • Civil: for a simply supported beam with central point load W and span L, maximum bending moment = WL/4; with uniform load w per unit length, M = wL²/8.

  • Civil concrete: nominal mixes M15 (1:2:4), M20 (1:1.5:3), M25 (1:1:2); water-cement ratio controls strength and workability.

  • Electrical: in a series circuit current is common, voltage divides; in parallel voltage is common, current divides; total resistance of two parallel resistors = R1R2/(R1+R2).

  • Electrical: three-phase power P = √3 V_L I_L cosφ; transformer EMF per turn is constant, so V1/V2 = N1/N2.

  • Mechanical: Carnot efficiency = 1 - T_cold/T_hot (absolute temperatures); Otto cycle efficiency = 1 - 1/r^(γ-1) with compression ratio r.

  • Mechanical: first law of thermodynamics Q = ΔU + W; for an adiabatic process Q = 0, so W = -ΔU.

  • Agriculture: NPK ratio denotes nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen via Rhizobium in root nodules; seed rate and spacing determine plant population per hectare.

Quick reference

Rajasthan General Knowledge and Current Affairs

  • Rajasthan borders Pakistan to the west and five Indian states: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; it is India's largest state by area (342,239 sq km).

  • Thar Desert covers about 61% of the state; the Aravalli range runs southwest to northeast and separates the arid west from the relatively fertile east.

  • Major rivers: Chambal (perennial, from Madhya Pradesh), Luni (the only river of the Thar basin, ends in the Rann of Kutch), Banas (Aravalli-origin, joins Chambal), Mahi and Sabarmati.

  • Administrative divisions: 7 divisions (Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Kota, Udaipur, Bikaner, Bharatpur) grouping the state's districts; district counts change with notifications, so verify current numbers.

  • Key festivals/fairs: Pushkar Camel Fair (Kartik Purnima, Ajmer), Teej (Jaipur), Gangaur, Desert Festival (Jaisalmer), Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (Ajmer).

  • Protected areas include Ranthambore and Sariska Tiger Reserves, Keoladeo Ghana National Park (Bharatpur, Ramsar/UNESCO site), Desert National Park (Jaisalmer), Mukundra Hills and Ramgarh Vishdhari tiger reserves.

  • Minerals: Rajasthan leads in zinc-lead (Zawar, Rampura-Agucha), marble (Makrana), and is a major producer of sandstone, gypsum and rock phosphate; Sambhar Lake is a historic salt source.

  • Current affairs: track state budget, new districts/divisions, Rajasthan Renewable Energy Policy targets for solar parks (Bhadla, Jodhpur) and state government welfare schemes, which change frequently and require a current source.

Quick reference

General Knowledge and Current Affairs (India and World)

  • Indian Constitution: adopted 26 November 1949, enforced 26 January 1950; Fundamental Rights in Part III (Articles 12-35), Directive Principles in Part IV (Articles 36-51).

  • Constitutional bodies vs statutory: Election Commission and UPSC are constitutional; NITI Aayog, NHRC and CBI are statutory/executive creations.

  • Indian geography superlatives: longest river Ganga, largest delta Sundarbans, highest peak Kangchenjunga (in India), largest freshwater lake Wular.

  • World organisations: UN founded 1945 (HQ New York), WTO 1995 (Geneva), IMF and World Bank 1944 Bretton Woods (Washington DC), WHO (Geneva).

  • Indian economy indicators: GDP, CPI (base year 2012), WPI (base year 2011-12), repo rate set by RBI's Monetary Policy Committee.

  • Space and defence milestones: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 landed near lunar south pole in 2023; Aditya-L1 solar mission; Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.

  • Current affairs method: anchor on static facts (who holds which office, which country hosts which summit) because officeholders and host cities rotate annually.

Quick reference

General Science

  • Newton's laws: F = ma; action-reaction pairs act on different bodies, so they never cancel on one body.

  • SI units: force newton (kg·m/s²), pressure pascal (N/m²), work/energy joule, power watt, electric charge coulomb.

  • Ohm's law V = IR; resistors in series add, in parallel reciprocals add; electrical power P = VI = I²R = V²/R.

  • pH scale 0-14: acids pH<7, bases pH>7; strong acid + strong base gives salt and water (neutralisation).

  • Human body: largest organ skin, largest gland liver, oxygen-carrying pigment haemoglobin (iron), insulin from pancreas, vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy.

  • Cell: mitochondria are the powerhouse, ribosomes synthesise protein, chloroplasts carry out photosynthesis; plant cells have a cellulose cell wall.

  • Light: reflection angle of incidence equals angle of reflection; refraction bends light toward the normal when entering a denser medium; sound cannot travel in vacuum.

Quick reference

Mathematics

  • Quadratic roots: for ax²+bx+c=0, sum = -b/a, product = c/a; discriminant D = b²-4ac; real distinct roots when D>0.

  • Arithmetic progression: nth term a+(n-1)d, sum = n/2[2a+(n-1)d]; geometric progression nth term ar^(n-1), sum = a(rⁿ-1)/(r-1) for r≠1.

  • Percentage and profit: profit% = (SP-CP)/CP × 100; successive discounts of a% and b% equal a+b-ab/100 percent.

  • Time-speed-distance: distance = speed × time; for equal distances at speeds x and y, average speed = 2xy/(x+y).

  • Mensuration: circle area πr², circumference 2πr; cylinder volume πr²h, curved surface 2πrh; sphere volume (4/3)πr³, surface 4πr².

  • Trigonometry: sin²θ+cos²θ=1; values sin30=1/2, sin45=1/√2, sin60=√3/2; tanθ = sinθ/cosθ.

  • Simple and compound interest: SI = PRT/100; CI amount = P(1+R/100)^T; for 2 years CI exceeds SI by P(R/100)².

Quick reference

Reasoning and Mental Ability

  • Number series: check differences first, then ratios, then squares/cubes or alternating two-series patterns before assuming a rule.

  • Coding-decoding: map letter positions A=1 to Z=26 and check both forward and reverse (A=26) shifts; reversal of the alphabet is a common rule.

  • Blood relations: draw a family tree with gender marks; 'mother's brother' = maternal uncle, 'father's sister's son' = cousin.

  • Direction sense: fix north up; a right turn from north is east; net displacement uses Pythagoras on the north-south and east-west totals.

  • Seating arrangement: for a circle, facing centre means left is clockwise; facing outward reverses left and right.

  • Syllogism: apply Venn diagrams; a conclusion is valid only if true in every possible diagram of the premises.

  • Clock and calendar: hands coincide 11 times in 12 hours; angle = |30H - 5.5M| degrees; a normal year shifts the weekday by 1, a leap year by 2.

Quick reference

Basic Computer Knowledge

  • Memory hierarchy by speed: registers > cache > RAM > secondary storage; RAM is volatile, ROM and flash are non-volatile.

  • 1 byte = 8 bits; 1 KB = 1024 bytes, 1 MB = 1024 KB, 1 GB = 1024 MB.

  • OSI model has 7 layers; TCP/IP has 4; IPv4 addresses are 32-bit, IPv6 addresses are 128-bit.

  • Shortcuts: Ctrl+C copy, Ctrl+V paste, Ctrl+X cut, Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+S save, Alt+Tab switch windows, Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens Task Manager in Windows.

  • File extensions: .docx Word, .xlsx Excel, .pptx PowerPoint, .pdf portable document, .exe executable, .html web page.

  • Malware types: virus attaches to files, worm self-replicates over networks, trojan disguises as legitimate software, ransomware encrypts data for payment.

  • Internet basics: HTTP/HTTPS for web, SMTP for sending mail, POP3/IMAP for receiving; URL identifies a resource, DNS resolves names to IP addresses.

Quick reference

Hindi and English Language

  • Hindi संधि: स्वर संधि (अ+इ=ए), व्यंजन संधि, विसर्ग संधि; संधि-विच्छेद करते समय मूल वर्ण पहचानें।

  • Hindi समास: तत्पुरुष (अंतिम पद प्रधान), द्वंद्व (दोनों पद प्रधान, 'और' लोप), बहुव्रीहि (अन्य पद प्रधान), द्विगु (संख्यावाची पूर्वपद)।

  • Hindi पर्यायवाची/विलोम और मुहावरे अर्थ सहित याद करें; 'अंधे की लाठी' का अर्थ है एकमात्र सहारा।

  • English parts of speech: identify the word's function in the sentence, not its meaning; 'fast' can be adjective, adverb or verb.

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

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

  • Spotting errors: check subject-verb agreement, article use, preposition collocation (depend on, consist of) and parallelism in lists.

Quick reference

Engineering Discipline (Civil / Electrical / Mechanical / Agriculture)

  • Civil: stress = force/area; strain = change in length/original length; Young's modulus E = stress/strain in the elastic range.

  • Civil: for a simply supported beam with central point load W and span L, maximum bending moment = WL/4; with uniform load w per unit length, M = wL²/8.

  • Civil concrete: nominal mixes M15 (1:2:4), M20 (1:1.5:3), M25 (1:1:2); water-cement ratio controls strength and workability.

  • Electrical: in a series circuit current is common, voltage divides; in parallel voltage is common, current divides; total resistance of two parallel resistors = R1R2/(R1+R2).

  • Electrical: three-phase power P = √3 V_L I_L cosφ; transformer EMF per turn is constant, so V1/V2 = N1/N2.

  • Mechanical: Carnot efficiency = 1 - T_cold/T_hot (absolute temperatures); Otto cycle efficiency = 1 - 1/r^(γ-1) with compression ratio r.

  • Mechanical: first law of thermodynamics Q = ΔU + W; for an adiabatic process Q = 0, so W = -ΔU.

  • Agriculture: NPK ratio denotes nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen via Rhizobium in root nodules; seed rate and spacing determine plant population per hectare.

Quick reference

Rajasthan General Knowledge and Current Affairs

  • Rajasthan borders Pakistan to the west and five Indian states: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; it is India's largest state by area (342,239 sq km).

  • Thar Desert covers about 61% of the state; the Aravalli range runs southwest to northeast and separates the arid west from the relatively fertile east.

  • Major rivers: Chambal (perennial, from Madhya Pradesh), Luni (the only river of the Thar basin, ends in the Rann of Kutch), Banas (Aravalli-origin, joins Chambal), Mahi and Sabarmati.

  • Administrative divisions: 7 divisions (Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Kota, Udaipur, Bikaner, Bharatpur) grouping the state's districts; district counts change with notifications, so verify current numbers.

  • Key festivals/fairs: Pushkar Camel Fair (Kartik Purnima, Ajmer), Teej (Jaipur), Gangaur, Desert Festival (Jaisalmer), Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (Ajmer).

  • Protected areas include Ranthambore and Sariska Tiger Reserves, Keoladeo Ghana National Park (Bharatpur, Ramsar/UNESCO site), Desert National Park (Jaisalmer), Mukundra Hills and Ramgarh Vishdhari tiger reserves.

  • Minerals: Rajasthan leads in zinc-lead (Zawar, Rampura-Agucha), marble (Makrana), and is a major producer of sandstone, gypsum and rock phosphate; Sambhar Lake is a historic salt source.

  • Current affairs: track state budget, new districts/divisions, Rajasthan Renewable Energy Policy targets for solar parks (Bhadla, Jodhpur) and state government welfare schemes, which change frequently and require a current source.

Quick reference

General Knowledge and Current Affairs (India and World)

  • Indian Constitution: adopted 26 November 1949, enforced 26 January 1950; Fundamental Rights in Part III (Articles 12-35), Directive Principles in Part IV (Articles 36-51).

  • Constitutional bodies vs statutory: Election Commission and UPSC are constitutional; NITI Aayog, NHRC and CBI are statutory/executive creations.

  • Indian geography superlatives: longest river Ganga, largest delta Sundarbans, highest peak Kangchenjunga (in India), largest freshwater lake Wular.

  • World organisations: UN founded 1945 (HQ New York), WTO 1995 (Geneva), IMF and World Bank 1944 Bretton Woods (Washington DC), WHO (Geneva).

  • Indian economy indicators: GDP, CPI (base year 2012), WPI (base year 2011-12), repo rate set by RBI's Monetary Policy Committee.

  • Space and defence milestones: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 landed near lunar south pole in 2023; Aditya-L1 solar mission; Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.

  • Current affairs method: anchor on static facts (who holds which office, which country hosts which summit) because officeholders and host cities rotate annually.

Quick reference

General Science

  • Newton's laws: F = ma; action-reaction pairs act on different bodies, so they never cancel on one body.

  • SI units: force newton (kg·m/s²), pressure pascal (N/m²), work/energy joule, power watt, electric charge coulomb.

  • Ohm's law V = IR; resistors in series add, in parallel reciprocals add; electrical power P = VI = I²R = V²/R.

  • pH scale 0-14: acids pH<7, bases pH>7; strong acid + strong base gives salt and water (neutralisation).

  • Human body: largest organ skin, largest gland liver, oxygen-carrying pigment haemoglobin (iron), insulin from pancreas, vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy.

  • Cell: mitochondria are the powerhouse, ribosomes synthesise protein, chloroplasts carry out photosynthesis; plant cells have a cellulose cell wall.

  • Light: reflection angle of incidence equals angle of reflection; refraction bends light toward the normal when entering a denser medium; sound cannot travel in vacuum.

Quick reference

Mathematics

  • Quadratic roots: for ax²+bx+c=0, sum = -b/a, product = c/a; discriminant D = b²-4ac; real distinct roots when D>0.

  • Arithmetic progression: nth term a+(n-1)d, sum = n/2[2a+(n-1)d]; geometric progression nth term ar^(n-1), sum = a(rⁿ-1)/(r-1) for r≠1.

  • Percentage and profit: profit% = (SP-CP)/CP × 100; successive discounts of a% and b% equal a+b-ab/100 percent.

  • Time-speed-distance: distance = speed × time; for equal distances at speeds x and y, average speed = 2xy/(x+y).

  • Mensuration: circle area πr², circumference 2πr; cylinder volume πr²h, curved surface 2πrh; sphere volume (4/3)πr³, surface 4πr².

  • Trigonometry: sin²θ+cos²θ=1; values sin30=1/2, sin45=1/√2, sin60=√3/2; tanθ = sinθ/cosθ.

  • Simple and compound interest: SI = PRT/100; CI amount = P(1+R/100)^T; for 2 years CI exceeds SI by P(R/100)².

Quick reference

Reasoning and Mental Ability

  • Number series: check differences first, then ratios, then squares/cubes or alternating two-series patterns before assuming a rule.

  • Coding-decoding: map letter positions A=1 to Z=26 and check both forward and reverse (A=26) shifts; reversal of the alphabet is a common rule.

  • Blood relations: draw a family tree with gender marks; 'mother's brother' = maternal uncle, 'father's sister's son' = cousin.

  • Direction sense: fix north up; a right turn from north is east; net displacement uses Pythagoras on the north-south and east-west totals.

  • Seating arrangement: for a circle, facing centre means left is clockwise; facing outward reverses left and right.

  • Syllogism: apply Venn diagrams; a conclusion is valid only if true in every possible diagram of the premises.

  • Clock and calendar: hands coincide 11 times in 12 hours; angle = |30H - 5.5M| degrees; a normal year shifts the weekday by 1, a leap year by 2.

Quick reference

Basic Computer Knowledge

  • Memory hierarchy by speed: registers > cache > RAM > secondary storage; RAM is volatile, ROM and flash are non-volatile.

  • 1 byte = 8 bits; 1 KB = 1024 bytes, 1 MB = 1024 KB, 1 GB = 1024 MB.

  • OSI model has 7 layers; TCP/IP has 4; IPv4 addresses are 32-bit, IPv6 addresses are 128-bit.

  • Shortcuts: Ctrl+C copy, Ctrl+V paste, Ctrl+X cut, Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+S save, Alt+Tab switch windows, Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens Task Manager in Windows.

  • File extensions: .docx Word, .xlsx Excel, .pptx PowerPoint, .pdf portable document, .exe executable, .html web page.

  • Malware types: virus attaches to files, worm self-replicates over networks, trojan disguises as legitimate software, ransomware encrypts data for payment.

  • Internet basics: HTTP/HTTPS for web, SMTP for sending mail, POP3/IMAP for receiving; URL identifies a resource, DNS resolves names to IP addresses.

Quick reference

Hindi and English Language

  • Hindi संधि: स्वर संधि (अ+इ=ए), व्यंजन संधि, विसर्ग संधि; संधि-विच्छेद करते समय मूल वर्ण पहचानें।

  • Hindi समास: तत्पुरुष (अंतिम पद प्रधान), द्वंद्व (दोनों पद प्रधान, 'और' लोप), बहुव्रीहि (अन्य पद प्रधान), द्विगु (संख्यावाची पूर्वपद)।

  • Hindi पर्यायवाची/विलोम और मुहावरे अर्थ सहित याद करें; 'अंधे की लाठी' का अर्थ है एकमात्र सहारा।

  • English parts of speech: identify the word's function in the sentence, not its meaning; 'fast' can be adjective, adverb or verb.

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

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

  • Spotting errors: check subject-verb agreement, article use, preposition collocation (depend on, consist of) and parallelism in lists.

Quick reference

Engineering Discipline (Civil / Electrical / Mechanical / Agriculture)

  • Civil: stress = force/area; strain = change in length/original length; Young's modulus E = stress/strain in the elastic range.

  • Civil: for a simply supported beam with central point load W and span L, maximum bending moment = WL/4; with uniform load w per unit length, M = wL²/8.

  • Civil concrete: nominal mixes M15 (1:2:4), M20 (1:1.5:3), M25 (1:1:2); water-cement ratio controls strength and workability.

  • Electrical: in a series circuit current is common, voltage divides; in parallel voltage is common, current divides; total resistance of two parallel resistors = R1R2/(R1+R2).

  • Electrical: three-phase power P = √3 V_L I_L cosφ; transformer EMF per turn is constant, so V1/V2 = N1/N2.

  • Mechanical: Carnot efficiency = 1 - T_cold/T_hot (absolute temperatures); Otto cycle efficiency = 1 - 1/r^(γ-1) with compression ratio r.

  • Mechanical: first law of thermodynamics Q = ΔU + W; for an adiabatic process Q = 0, so W = -ΔU.

  • Agriculture: NPK ratio denotes nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen via Rhizobium in root nodules; seed rate and spacing determine plant population per hectare.

Quick reference

Rajasthan General Knowledge and Current Affairs

  • Rajasthan borders Pakistan to the west and five Indian states: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; it is India's largest state by area (342,239 sq km).

  • Thar Desert covers about 61% of the state; the Aravalli range runs southwest to northeast and separates the arid west from the relatively fertile east.

  • Major rivers: Chambal (perennial, from Madhya Pradesh), Luni (the only river of the Thar basin, ends in the Rann of Kutch), Banas (Aravalli-origin, joins Chambal), Mahi and Sabarmati.

  • Administrative divisions: 7 divisions (Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Kota, Udaipur, Bikaner, Bharatpur) grouping the state's districts; district counts change with notifications, so verify current numbers.

  • Key festivals/fairs: Pushkar Camel Fair (Kartik Purnima, Ajmer), Teej (Jaipur), Gangaur, Desert Festival (Jaisalmer), Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (Ajmer).

  • Protected areas include Ranthambore and Sariska Tiger Reserves, Keoladeo Ghana National Park (Bharatpur, Ramsar/UNESCO site), Desert National Park (Jaisalmer), Mukundra Hills and Ramgarh Vishdhari tiger reserves.

  • Minerals: Rajasthan leads in zinc-lead (Zawar, Rampura-Agucha), marble (Makrana), and is a major producer of sandstone, gypsum and rock phosphate; Sambhar Lake is a historic salt source.

  • Current affairs: track state budget, new districts/divisions, Rajasthan Renewable Energy Policy targets for solar parks (Bhadla, Jodhpur) and state government welfare schemes, which change frequently and require a current source.

Quick reference

General Knowledge and Current Affairs (India and World)

  • Indian Constitution: adopted 26 November 1949, enforced 26 January 1950; Fundamental Rights in Part III (Articles 12-35), Directive Principles in Part IV (Articles 36-51).

  • Constitutional bodies vs statutory: Election Commission and UPSC are constitutional; NITI Aayog, NHRC and CBI are statutory/executive creations.

  • Indian geography superlatives: longest river Ganga, largest delta Sundarbans, highest peak Kangchenjunga (in India), largest freshwater lake Wular.

  • World organisations: UN founded 1945 (HQ New York), WTO 1995 (Geneva), IMF and World Bank 1944 Bretton Woods (Washington DC), WHO (Geneva).

  • Indian economy indicators: GDP, CPI (base year 2012), WPI (base year 2011-12), repo rate set by RBI's Monetary Policy Committee.

  • Space and defence milestones: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 landed near lunar south pole in 2023; Aditya-L1 solar mission; Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.

  • Current affairs method: anchor on static facts (who holds which office, which country hosts which summit) because officeholders and host cities rotate annually.

Quick reference

General Science

  • Newton's laws: F = ma; action-reaction pairs act on different bodies, so they never cancel on one body.

  • SI units: force newton (kg·m/s²), pressure pascal (N/m²), work/energy joule, power watt, electric charge coulomb.

  • Ohm's law V = IR; resistors in series add, in parallel reciprocals add; electrical power P = VI = I²R = V²/R.

  • pH scale 0-14: acids pH<7, bases pH>7; strong acid + strong base gives salt and water (neutralisation).

  • Human body: largest organ skin, largest gland liver, oxygen-carrying pigment haemoglobin (iron), insulin from pancreas, vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy.

  • Cell: mitochondria are the powerhouse, ribosomes synthesise protein, chloroplasts carry out photosynthesis; plant cells have a cellulose cell wall.

  • Light: reflection angle of incidence equals angle of reflection; refraction bends light toward the normal when entering a denser medium; sound cannot travel in vacuum.

Quick reference

Mathematics

  • Quadratic roots: for ax²+bx+c=0, sum = -b/a, product = c/a; discriminant D = b²-4ac; real distinct roots when D>0.

  • Arithmetic progression: nth term a+(n-1)d, sum = n/2[2a+(n-1)d]; geometric progression nth term ar^(n-1), sum = a(rⁿ-1)/(r-1) for r≠1.

  • Percentage and profit: profit% = (SP-CP)/CP × 100; successive discounts of a% and b% equal a+b-ab/100 percent.

  • Time-speed-distance: distance = speed × time; for equal distances at speeds x and y, average speed = 2xy/(x+y).

  • Mensuration: circle area πr², circumference 2πr; cylinder volume πr²h, curved surface 2πrh; sphere volume (4/3)πr³, surface 4πr².

  • Trigonometry: sin²θ+cos²θ=1; values sin30=1/2, sin45=1/√2, sin60=√3/2; tanθ = sinθ/cosθ.

  • Simple and compound interest: SI = PRT/100; CI amount = P(1+R/100)^T; for 2 years CI exceeds SI by P(R/100)².

Quick reference

Reasoning and Mental Ability

  • Number series: check differences first, then ratios, then squares/cubes or alternating two-series patterns before assuming a rule.

  • Coding-decoding: map letter positions A=1 to Z=26 and check both forward and reverse (A=26) shifts; reversal of the alphabet is a common rule.

  • Blood relations: draw a family tree with gender marks; 'mother's brother' = maternal uncle, 'father's sister's son' = cousin.

  • Direction sense: fix north up; a right turn from north is east; net displacement uses Pythagoras on the north-south and east-west totals.

  • Seating arrangement: for a circle, facing centre means left is clockwise; facing outward reverses left and right.

  • Syllogism: apply Venn diagrams; a conclusion is valid only if true in every possible diagram of the premises.

  • Clock and calendar: hands coincide 11 times in 12 hours; angle = |30H - 5.5M| degrees; a normal year shifts the weekday by 1, a leap year by 2.

Quick reference

Basic Computer Knowledge

  • Memory hierarchy by speed: registers > cache > RAM > secondary storage; RAM is volatile, ROM and flash are non-volatile.

  • 1 byte = 8 bits; 1 KB = 1024 bytes, 1 MB = 1024 KB, 1 GB = 1024 MB.

  • OSI model has 7 layers; TCP/IP has 4; IPv4 addresses are 32-bit, IPv6 addresses are 128-bit.

  • Shortcuts: Ctrl+C copy, Ctrl+V paste, Ctrl+X cut, Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+S save, Alt+Tab switch windows, Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens Task Manager in Windows.

  • File extensions: .docx Word, .xlsx Excel, .pptx PowerPoint, .pdf portable document, .exe executable, .html web page.

  • Malware types: virus attaches to files, worm self-replicates over networks, trojan disguises as legitimate software, ransomware encrypts data for payment.

  • Internet basics: HTTP/HTTPS for web, SMTP for sending mail, POP3/IMAP for receiving; URL identifies a resource, DNS resolves names to IP addresses.

Quick reference

Hindi and English Language

  • Hindi संधि: स्वर संधि (अ+इ=ए), व्यंजन संधि, विसर्ग संधि; संधि-विच्छेद करते समय मूल वर्ण पहचानें।

  • Hindi समास: तत्पुरुष (अंतिम पद प्रधान), द्वंद्व (दोनों पद प्रधान, 'और' लोप), बहुव्रीहि (अन्य पद प्रधान), द्विगु (संख्यावाची पूर्वपद)।

  • Hindi पर्यायवाची/विलोम और मुहावरे अर्थ सहित याद करें; 'अंधे की लाठी' का अर्थ है एकमात्र सहारा।

  • English parts of speech: identify the word's function in the sentence, not its meaning; 'fast' can be adjective, adverb or verb.

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

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

  • Spotting errors: check subject-verb agreement, article use, preposition collocation (depend on, consist of) and parallelism in lists.

Quick reference

Engineering Discipline (Civil / Electrical / Mechanical / Agriculture)

  • Civil: stress = force/area; strain = change in length/original length; Young's modulus E = stress/strain in the elastic range.

  • Civil: for a simply supported beam with central point load W and span L, maximum bending moment = WL/4; with uniform load w per unit length, M = wL²/8.

  • Civil concrete: nominal mixes M15 (1:2:4), M20 (1:1.5:3), M25 (1:1:2); water-cement ratio controls strength and workability.

  • Electrical: in a series circuit current is common, voltage divides; in parallel voltage is common, current divides; total resistance of two parallel resistors = R1R2/(R1+R2).

  • Electrical: three-phase power P = √3 V_L I_L cosφ; transformer EMF per turn is constant, so V1/V2 = N1/N2.

  • Mechanical: Carnot efficiency = 1 - T_cold/T_hot (absolute temperatures); Otto cycle efficiency = 1 - 1/r^(γ-1) with compression ratio r.

  • Mechanical: first law of thermodynamics Q = ΔU + W; for an adiabatic process Q = 0, so W = -ΔU.

  • Agriculture: NPK ratio denotes nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen via Rhizobium in root nodules; seed rate and spacing determine plant population per hectare.

Quick reference

Rajasthan General Knowledge and Current Affairs

  • Rajasthan borders Pakistan to the west and five Indian states: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; it is India's largest state by area (342,239 sq km).

  • Thar Desert covers about 61% of the state; the Aravalli range runs southwest to northeast and separates the arid west from the relatively fertile east.

  • Major rivers: Chambal (perennial, from Madhya Pradesh), Luni (the only river of the Thar basin, ends in the Rann of Kutch), Banas (Aravalli-origin, joins Chambal), Mahi and Sabarmati.

  • Administrative divisions: 7 divisions (Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Kota, Udaipur, Bikaner, Bharatpur) grouping the state's districts; district counts change with notifications, so verify current numbers.

  • Key festivals/fairs: Pushkar Camel Fair (Kartik Purnima, Ajmer), Teej (Jaipur), Gangaur, Desert Festival (Jaisalmer), Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (Ajmer).

  • Protected areas include Ranthambore and Sariska Tiger Reserves, Keoladeo Ghana National Park (Bharatpur, Ramsar/UNESCO site), Desert National Park (Jaisalmer), Mukundra Hills and Ramgarh Vishdhari tiger reserves.

  • Minerals: Rajasthan leads in zinc-lead (Zawar, Rampura-Agucha), marble (Makrana), and is a major producer of sandstone, gypsum and rock phosphate; Sambhar Lake is a historic salt source.

  • Current affairs: track state budget, new districts/divisions, Rajasthan Renewable Energy Policy targets for solar parks (Bhadla, Jodhpur) and state government welfare schemes, which change frequently and require a current source.

Quick reference

General Knowledge and Current Affairs (India and World)

  • Indian Constitution: adopted 26 November 1949, enforced 26 January 1950; Fundamental Rights in Part III (Articles 12-35), Directive Principles in Part IV (Articles 36-51).

  • Constitutional bodies vs statutory: Election Commission and UPSC are constitutional; NITI Aayog, NHRC and CBI are statutory/executive creations.

  • Indian geography superlatives: longest river Ganga, largest delta Sundarbans, highest peak Kangchenjunga (in India), largest freshwater lake Wular.

  • World organisations: UN founded 1945 (HQ New York), WTO 1995 (Geneva), IMF and World Bank 1944 Bretton Woods (Washington DC), WHO (Geneva).

  • Indian economy indicators: GDP, CPI (base year 2012), WPI (base year 2011-12), repo rate set by RBI's Monetary Policy Committee.

  • Space and defence milestones: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 landed near lunar south pole in 2023; Aditya-L1 solar mission; Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.

  • Current affairs method: anchor on static facts (who holds which office, which country hosts which summit) because officeholders and host cities rotate annually.

Quick reference

General Science

  • Newton's laws: F = ma; action-reaction pairs act on different bodies, so they never cancel on one body.

  • SI units: force newton (kg·m/s²), pressure pascal (N/m²), work/energy joule, power watt, electric charge coulomb.

  • Ohm's law V = IR; resistors in series add, in parallel reciprocals add; electrical power P = VI = I²R = V²/R.

  • pH scale 0-14: acids pH<7, bases pH>7; strong acid + strong base gives salt and water (neutralisation).

  • Human body: largest organ skin, largest gland liver, oxygen-carrying pigment haemoglobin (iron), insulin from pancreas, vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy.

  • Cell: mitochondria are the powerhouse, ribosomes synthesise protein, chloroplasts carry out photosynthesis; plant cells have a cellulose cell wall.

  • Light: reflection angle of incidence equals angle of reflection; refraction bends light toward the normal when entering a denser medium; sound cannot travel in vacuum.

Quick reference

Mathematics

  • Quadratic roots: for ax²+bx+c=0, sum = -b/a, product = c/a; discriminant D = b²-4ac; real distinct roots when D>0.

  • Arithmetic progression: nth term a+(n-1)d, sum = n/2[2a+(n-1)d]; geometric progression nth term ar^(n-1), sum = a(rⁿ-1)/(r-1) for r≠1.

  • Percentage and profit: profit% = (SP-CP)/CP × 100; successive discounts of a% and b% equal a+b-ab/100 percent.

  • Time-speed-distance: distance = speed × time; for equal distances at speeds x and y, average speed = 2xy/(x+y).

  • Mensuration: circle area πr², circumference 2πr; cylinder volume πr²h, curved surface 2πrh; sphere volume (4/3)πr³, surface 4πr².

  • Trigonometry: sin²θ+cos²θ=1; values sin30=1/2, sin45=1/√2, sin60=√3/2; tanθ = sinθ/cosθ.

  • Simple and compound interest: SI = PRT/100; CI amount = P(1+R/100)^T; for 2 years CI exceeds SI by P(R/100)².

Quick reference

Reasoning and Mental Ability

  • Number series: check differences first, then ratios, then squares/cubes or alternating two-series patterns before assuming a rule.

  • Coding-decoding: map letter positions A=1 to Z=26 and check both forward and reverse (A=26) shifts; reversal of the alphabet is a common rule.

  • Blood relations: draw a family tree with gender marks; 'mother's brother' = maternal uncle, 'father's sister's son' = cousin.

  • Direction sense: fix north up; a right turn from north is east; net displacement uses Pythagoras on the north-south and east-west totals.

  • Seating arrangement: for a circle, facing centre means left is clockwise; facing outward reverses left and right.

  • Syllogism: apply Venn diagrams; a conclusion is valid only if true in every possible diagram of the premises.

  • Clock and calendar: hands coincide 11 times in 12 hours; angle = |30H - 5.5M| degrees; a normal year shifts the weekday by 1, a leap year by 2.

Quick reference

Basic Computer Knowledge

  • Memory hierarchy by speed: registers > cache > RAM > secondary storage; RAM is volatile, ROM and flash are non-volatile.

  • 1 byte = 8 bits; 1 KB = 1024 bytes, 1 MB = 1024 KB, 1 GB = 1024 MB.

  • OSI model has 7 layers; TCP/IP has 4; IPv4 addresses are 32-bit, IPv6 addresses are 128-bit.

  • Shortcuts: Ctrl+C copy, Ctrl+V paste, Ctrl+X cut, Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+S save, Alt+Tab switch windows, Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens Task Manager in Windows.

  • File extensions: .docx Word, .xlsx Excel, .pptx PowerPoint, .pdf portable document, .exe executable, .html web page.

  • Malware types: virus attaches to files, worm self-replicates over networks, trojan disguises as legitimate software, ransomware encrypts data for payment.

  • Internet basics: HTTP/HTTPS for web, SMTP for sending mail, POP3/IMAP for receiving; URL identifies a resource, DNS resolves names to IP addresses.

Quick reference

Hindi and English Language

  • Hindi संधि: स्वर संधि (अ+इ=ए), व्यंजन संधि, विसर्ग संधि; संधि-विच्छेद करते समय मूल वर्ण पहचानें।

  • Hindi समास: तत्पुरुष (अंतिम पद प्रधान), द्वंद्व (दोनों पद प्रधान, 'और' लोप), बहुव्रीहि (अन्य पद प्रधान), द्विगु (संख्यावाची पूर्वपद)।

  • Hindi पर्यायवाची/विलोम और मुहावरे अर्थ सहित याद करें; 'अंधे की लाठी' का अर्थ है एकमात्र सहारा।

  • English parts of speech: identify the word's function in the sentence, not its meaning; 'fast' can be adjective, adverb or verb.

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

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

  • Spotting errors: check subject-verb agreement, article use, preposition collocation (depend on, consist of) and parallelism in lists.

Quick reference

Engineering Discipline (Civil / Electrical / Mechanical / Agriculture)

  • Civil: stress = force/area; strain = change in length/original length; Young's modulus E = stress/strain in the elastic range.

  • Civil: for a simply supported beam with central point load W and span L, maximum bending moment = WL/4; with uniform load w per unit length, M = wL²/8.

  • Civil concrete: nominal mixes M15 (1:2:4), M20 (1:1.5:3), M25 (1:1:2); water-cement ratio controls strength and workability.

  • Electrical: in a series circuit current is common, voltage divides; in parallel voltage is common, current divides; total resistance of two parallel resistors = R1R2/(R1+R2).

  • Electrical: three-phase power P = √3 V_L I_L cosφ; transformer EMF per turn is constant, so V1/V2 = N1/N2.

  • Mechanical: Carnot efficiency = 1 - T_cold/T_hot (absolute temperatures); Otto cycle efficiency = 1 - 1/r^(γ-1) with compression ratio r.

  • Mechanical: first law of thermodynamics Q = ΔU + W; for an adiabatic process Q = 0, so W = -ΔU.

  • Agriculture: NPK ratio denotes nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen via Rhizobium in root nodules; seed rate and spacing determine plant population per hectare.

Quick reference

Rajasthan General Knowledge and Current Affairs

  • Rajasthan borders Pakistan to the west and five Indian states: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; it is India's largest state by area (342,239 sq km).

  • Thar Desert covers about 61% of the state; the Aravalli range runs southwest to northeast and separates the arid west from the relatively fertile east.

  • Major rivers: Chambal (perennial, from Madhya Pradesh), Luni (the only river of the Thar basin, ends in the Rann of Kutch), Banas (Aravalli-origin, joins Chambal), Mahi and Sabarmati.

  • Administrative divisions: 7 divisions (Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Kota, Udaipur, Bikaner, Bharatpur) grouping the state's districts; district counts change with notifications, so verify current numbers.

  • Key festivals/fairs: Pushkar Camel Fair (Kartik Purnima, Ajmer), Teej (Jaipur), Gangaur, Desert Festival (Jaisalmer), Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti (Ajmer).

  • Protected areas include Ranthambore and Sariska Tiger Reserves, Keoladeo Ghana National Park (Bharatpur, Ramsar/UNESCO site), Desert National Park (Jaisalmer), Mukundra Hills and Ramgarh Vishdhari tiger reserves.

  • Minerals: Rajasthan leads in zinc-lead (Zawar, Rampura-Agucha), marble (Makrana), and is a major producer of sandstone, gypsum and rock phosphate; Sambhar Lake is a historic salt source.

  • Current affairs: track state budget, new districts/divisions, Rajasthan Renewable Energy Policy targets for solar parks (Bhadla, Jodhpur) and state government welfare schemes, which change frequently and require a current source.

Quick reference

General Knowledge and Current Affairs (India and World)

  • Indian Constitution: adopted 26 November 1949, enforced 26 January 1950; Fundamental Rights in Part III (Articles 12-35), Directive Principles in Part IV (Articles 36-51).

  • Constitutional bodies vs statutory: Election Commission and UPSC are constitutional; NITI Aayog, NHRC and CBI are statutory/executive creations.

  • Indian geography superlatives: longest river Ganga, largest delta Sundarbans, highest peak Kangchenjunga (in India), largest freshwater lake Wular.

  • World organisations: UN founded 1945 (HQ New York), WTO 1995 (Geneva), IMF and World Bank 1944 Bretton Woods (Washington DC), WHO (Geneva).

  • Indian economy indicators: GDP, CPI (base year 2012), WPI (base year 2011-12), repo rate set by RBI's Monetary Policy Committee.

  • Space and defence milestones: ISRO Chandrayaan-3 landed near lunar south pole in 2023; Aditya-L1 solar mission; Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.

  • Current affairs method: anchor on static facts (who holds which office, which country hosts which summit) because officeholders and host cities rotate annually.

Quick reference

General Science

  • Newton's laws: F = ma; action-reaction pairs act on different bodies, so they never cancel on one body.

  • SI units: force newton (kg·m/s²), pressure pascal (N/m²), work/energy joule, power watt, electric charge coulomb.

  • Ohm's law V = IR; resistors in series add, in parallel reciprocals add; electrical power P = VI = I²R = V²/R.

  • pH scale 0-14: acids pH<7, bases pH>7; strong acid + strong base gives salt and water (neutralisation).

  • Human body: largest organ skin, largest gland liver, oxygen-carrying pigment haemoglobin (iron), insulin from pancreas, vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy.

  • Cell: mitochondria are the powerhouse, ribosomes synthesise protein, chloroplasts carry out photosynthesis; plant cells have a cellulose cell wall.

  • Light: reflection angle of incidence equals angle of reflection; refraction bends light toward the normal when entering a denser medium; sound cannot travel in vacuum.

Quick reference

Mathematics

  • Quadratic roots: for ax²+bx+c=0, sum = -b/a, product = c/a; discriminant D = b²-4ac; real distinct roots when D>0.

  • Arithmetic progression: nth term a+(n-1)d, sum = n/2[2a+(n-1)d]; geometric progression nth term ar^(n-1), sum = a(rⁿ-1)/(r-1) for r≠1.

  • Percentage and profit: profit% = (SP-CP)/CP × 100; successive discounts of a% and b% equal a+b-ab/100 percent.

  • Time-speed-distance: distance = speed × time; for equal distances at speeds x and y, average speed = 2xy/(x+y).

  • Mensuration: circle area πr², circumference 2πr; cylinder volume πr²h, curved surface 2πrh; sphere volume (4/3)πr³, surface 4πr².

  • Trigonometry: sin²θ+cos²θ=1; values sin30=1/2, sin45=1/√2, sin60=√3/2; tanθ = sinθ/cosθ.

  • Simple and compound interest: SI = PRT/100; CI amount = P(1+R/100)^T; for 2 years CI exceeds SI by P(R/100)².

Quick reference

Reasoning and Mental Ability

  • Number series: check differences first, then ratios, then squares/cubes or alternating two-series patterns before assuming a rule.

  • Coding-decoding: map letter positions A=1 to Z=26 and check both forward and reverse (A=26) shifts; reversal of the alphabet is a common rule.

  • Blood relations: draw a family tree with gender marks; 'mother's brother' = maternal uncle, 'father's sister's son' = cousin.

  • Direction sense: fix north up; a right turn from north is east; net displacement uses Pythagoras on the north-south and east-west totals.

  • Seating arrangement: for a circle, facing centre means left is clockwise; facing outward reverses left and right.

  • Syllogism: apply Venn diagrams; a conclusion is valid only if true in every possible diagram of the premises.

  • Clock and calendar: hands coincide 11 times in 12 hours; angle = |30H - 5.5M| degrees; a normal year shifts the weekday by 1, a leap year by 2.

Quick reference

Basic Computer Knowledge

  • Memory hierarchy by speed: registers > cache > RAM > secondary storage; RAM is volatile, ROM and flash are non-volatile.

  • 1 byte = 8 bits; 1 KB = 1024 bytes, 1 MB = 1024 KB, 1 GB = 1024 MB.

  • OSI model has 7 layers; TCP/IP has 4; IPv4 addresses are 32-bit, IPv6 addresses are 128-bit.

  • Shortcuts: Ctrl+C copy, Ctrl+V paste, Ctrl+X cut, Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+S save, Alt+Tab switch windows, Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens Task Manager in Windows.

  • File extensions: .docx Word, .xlsx Excel, .pptx PowerPoint, .pdf portable document, .exe executable, .html web page.

  • Malware types: virus attaches to files, worm self-replicates over networks, trojan disguises as legitimate software, ransomware encrypts data for payment.

  • Internet basics: HTTP/HTTPS for web, SMTP for sending mail, POP3/IMAP for receiving; URL identifies a resource, DNS resolves names to IP addresses.

Quick reference

Hindi and English Language

  • Hindi संधि: स्वर संधि (अ+इ=ए), व्यंजन संधि, विसर्ग संधि; संधि-विच्छेद करते समय मूल वर्ण पहचानें।

  • Hindi समास: तत्पुरुष (अंतिम पद प्रधान), द्वंद्व (दोनों पद प्रधान, 'और' लोप), बहुव्रीहि (अन्य पद प्रधान), द्विगु (संख्यावाची पूर्वपद)।

  • Hindi पर्यायवाची/विलोम और मुहावरे अर्थ सहित याद करें; 'अंधे की लाठी' का अर्थ है एकमात्र सहारा।

  • English parts of speech: identify the word's function in the sentence, not its meaning; 'fast' can be adjective, adverb or verb.

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

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

  • Spotting errors: check subject-verb agreement, article use, preposition collocation (depend on, consist of) and parallelism in lists.

Quick reference

Engineering Discipline (Civil / Electrical / Mechanical / Agriculture)

  • Civil: stress = force/area; strain = change in length/original length; Young's modulus E = stress/strain in the elastic range.

  • Civil: for a simply supported beam with central point load W and span L, maximum bending moment = WL/4; with uniform load w per unit length, M = wL²/8.

  • Civil concrete: nominal mixes M15 (1:2:4), M20 (1:1.5:3), M25 (1:1:2); water-cement ratio controls strength and workability.

  • Electrical: in a series circuit current is common, voltage divides; in parallel voltage is common, current divides; total resistance of two parallel resistors = R1R2/(R1+R2).

  • Electrical: three-phase power P = √3 V_L I_L cosφ; transformer EMF per turn is constant, so V1/V2 = N1/N2.

  • Mechanical: Carnot efficiency = 1 - T_cold/T_hot (absolute temperatures); Otto cycle efficiency = 1 - 1/r^(γ-1) with compression ratio r.

  • Mechanical: first law of thermodynamics Q = ΔU + W; for an adiabatic process Q = 0, so W = -ΔU.

  • Agriculture: NPK ratio denotes nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen via Rhizobium in root nodules; seed rate and spacing determine plant population per hectare.