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- Fewer versus less
- Use 'fewer' with plural countable nouns, such as fewer books, and 'less' with uncountable or mass nouns, such as less water or less time.
- Subject-verb agreement
- A verb agrees with its subject in number and person; phrases between them do not change the verb, so 'The box of pens is heavy' is correct.
- Active to passive
- In passive voice, the object becomes subject, the verb uses a form of 'be' plus past participle, and the doer may appear after 'by'.
- Semicolon use
- A semicolon joins two independent clauses without a conjunction; each side must be able to stand alone as a complete sentence.
- Second conditional
- The second conditional uses 'if' plus simple past in the condition and 'would' plus base verb in the result, expressing an unreal or unlikely present situation.
- Inference versus fact
- A stated fact appears directly in the passage; a valid inference follows logically from evidence in the passage without adding outside assumptions or personal opinion.
- Para jumble opening
- The opening sentence often introduces the topic broadly, lacks pronouns referring backward, and sets up later sentences that add details, examples, or consequences.
- Contextual synonym
- A contextual synonym fits the meaning of the word as used in a specific sentence, not merely a common dictionary meaning that may be wrong in that context.
- Percentage change formula
- Percentage change equals the difference between new and old values divided by the old value, multiplied by 100; use the original value as the denominator.
- Successive percentage change
- Two successive changes of a percent and b percent combine as a + b + ab/100 percent, where signs indicate increases or decreases; this avoids calculating step by step.
- Simple interest formula
- Simple interest is principal multiplied by annual rate multiplied by time in years, divided by 100; it is calculated only on the original principal each year.
- Compound interest formula
- Compound interest equals principal times the quantity one plus rate over 100 raised to time, minus principal; interest earns interest each compounding period.
- Weighted average
- A weighted average multiplies each value by its weight, sums those products, and divides by the total weight; it differs from a simple average when weights are unequal.
- Relative speed
- For two moving objects, relative speed is the sum of speeds when moving in opposite directions and the difference when moving in the same direction.
- Combined work rate
- If one worker finishes a job in a days and another in b days, their combined rate is 1/a plus 1/b jobs per day, so together they take ab/(a+b) days.
- Combination formula
- The number of ways to choose r objects from n distinct objects, order ignored, is n factorial divided by r factorial times n minus r factorial.
- Fundamental Rights
- Fundamental Rights are guaranteed in Part III of the Indian Constitution and are enforceable through writs, mainly under Article 32 for Supreme Court and Article 226 for High Courts.
- Directive Principles
- Directive Principles of State Policy appear in Part IV of the Indian Constitution, guide government policy, and are not directly enforceable by courts.
- Repo rate
- The repo rate is the rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends short-term funds to commercial banks, usually against government securities, to manage liquidity.
- CRR meaning
- The cash reserve ratio is the share of net demand and time liabilities that scheduled commercial banks must keep as cash with the Reserve Bank of India.
- GDP versus GNP
- GDP measures output produced within a country's borders, while GNP measures output by a country's residents, adding net factor income from abroad to GDP.
- WHO headquarters
- The World Health Organization is a United Nations specialized agency headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and works on global public health standards and responses.
- Ohm's law
- Ohm's law states that current through a conductor is directly proportional to voltage across it and inversely proportional to resistance, expressed as V equals IR.
- Bharat Ratna
- The Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award, given for exceptional service or performance of the highest order in any field of human endeavor.
- Syllogism all rule
- If all A are B and all B are C, then all A are C is valid; however, 'some A are C' is not necessarily true unless the premises guarantee existence.
- Blood relation diagram
- In blood-relation puzzles, draw a family tree using separate symbols for male, female, marriage, siblings, and generations; never assume a gender or relation not stated.
- Direction displacement
- For direction puzzles, track horizontal and vertical displacement separately; the shortest distance from start is the square root of the sum of squared net displacements.
- Circular seating left
- In circular seating, a person facing the center has left toward the clockwise direction; a person facing outward has left toward the anticlockwise direction.
- Number series check
- For a number series, first check constant differences, then ratios, then squares or cubes, and finally alternating or combined patterns before deciding the next term.
- Coding-decoding shift
- In letter coding, compare each coded letter with its original to find a fixed forward or backward shift; repeated words help confirm the mapping.
- Necessary assumption
- A necessary assumption is a condition without which the argument's conclusion cannot follow; negating it should make the argument fail.
- Either-or syllogism
- In syllogistic reasoning, an either-or conclusion is valid when two possibilities together cover all cases and neither can be concluded separately from the premises.