UPSSSC Mukhya Sevika flashcards
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- Article 21A
- Constitutional provision inserted by the 86th Amendment in 2002 guaranteeing free and compulsory education to all children aged six to fourteen years.
- NITI Aayog
- Policy think tank formed on 1 January 2015, replacing the Planning Commission, chaired by the Prime Minister and advising on development priorities.
- दीर्घ संधि
- जब दो सवर्ण या असमान स्वर मिलकर दीर्घ स्वर बनते हैं, जैसे विद्या + आलय = विद्यालय तथा परम + आत्मा = परमात्मा।
- तत्पुरुष समास
- वह समास जिसमें उत्तर पद प्रधान होता है और पूर्व पद के कारक चिह्न लुप्त रहते हैं, जैसे राजपुत्र अर्थात राजा का पुत्र।
- Active and passive voice
- In active voice the subject performs the action; in passive the object becomes subject and the verb takes be plus past participle, as in 'The letter was written by her'.
- Present perfect tense
- Formed with has or have plus the past participle, it expresses an action completed in the past but connected to the present, often with since or for.
- Average speed formula
- For equal distances covered at speeds x and y, average speed equals 2xy divided by (x + y), which is the harmonic mean, not the simple average.
- Compound interest
- Interest computed on the principal plus previously earned interest, given by P(1 + R/100)^T minus P, where T is the number of years.
- Clock angle formula
- The angle between hour and minute hands equals the absolute value of 30H minus 5.5M degrees, where H is hour and M is minutes.
- Syllogism rule
- In deductive reasoning, a conclusion is valid only if it holds in every possible arrangement of the premises; 'All A are B' never implies 'All B are A'.
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Vygotsky's concept describing tasks a child cannot yet do alone but can accomplish with guidance from a more capable adult or peer, where scaffolding is most effective.
- Erikson's initiative vs guilt
- The psychosocial stage from roughly three to six years, where children assert purpose through play and exploration; over-control by adults produces guilt rather than initiative.
- Kwashiorkor
- Protein-energy malnutrition marked by oedema, fatty liver, skin and hair changes and apathy, caused mainly by protein deficiency despite adequate or near-adequate energy intake.
- Colostrum
- Thick yellowish first breast milk produced in the first days after birth, rich in antibodies, especially immunoglobulin A, and in proteins and minerals; it should not be discarded.
- Oral rehydration solution
- A mixture of one oral rehydration packet dissolved in one litre of clean water, given in small frequent sips to replace fluid and salts lost in diarrhoea.
- BCG vaccine
- Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine given at birth or as early as possible to protect infants against severe forms of tuberculosis such as tubercular meningitis.
- Poshan Abhiyaan
- National nutrition mission launched in 2018 aiming to reduce stunting, undernutrition, anaemia and low birth weight through convergence, technology and community monitoring.
- Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
- Maternity benefit scheme giving cash assistance to eligible pregnant and lactating women to compensate for wage loss and encourage health-seeking behaviour and institutional delivery.
- Community organisation
- A social work method in which a worker helps residents identify shared needs, plan together and mobilise local and outside resources for collective action.
- Social casework
- A social work method that works with an individual or family, through relationship and interview, to help resolve personal and social difficulties and improve functioning.
- RAM versus ROM
- RAM is volatile working memory that loses data when power is off, while ROM is non-volatile permanent memory holding firmware used during startup.
- Bcc field
- A field in email that sends a copy of the message to recipients whose addresses are hidden from other recipients, protecting privacy in group mail.
- ICDS services
- Six services delivered at Anganwadi centres: supplementary nutrition, immunisation, health check-ups, referral services, pre-school non-formal education and nutrition and health education.
- Kohlberg's pre-conventional level
- The first level of moral reasoning, where right and wrong are judged by punishment avoidance and personal reward rather than by social rules or principles.
- Iodine deficiency disorders
- Health problems caused by insufficient iodine, including goitre, hypothyroidism, cretinism and impaired mental development; prevented by using adequately iodised salt.
- Mahila Helpline 181
- A national women's helpline providing support, counselling and referral for women facing violence, distress or the need for emergency assistance.
- Participatory needs assessment
- A process where the community itself maps problems, ranks priorities and identifies resources, using tools such as social mapping, transect walks and focus group discussions.
- Ctrl+Z shortcut
- A keyboard command that undoes the most recent action in most applications, restoring the document or file to its previous state.
- उपसर्ग
- वे शब्दांश जो शब्द के आरंभ में जुड़कर उसके अर्थ में परिवर्तन या विशेषता लाते हैं, जैसे अनु + शासन = अनुशासन।
- Once in a blue moon
- An English idiom meaning something that happens very rarely or almost never, used to describe infrequent events or occurrences.
- Simple interest formula
- Interest calculated only on the original principal, equal to principal multiplied by rate multiplied by time, divided by one hundred.
- Odd days in a year
- The leftover days beyond complete weeks: an ordinary year has one odd day, a leap year has two, and a century leap year must be divisible by 400.