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- Article 32
- Called the 'heart and soul' of the Constitution by Dr B. R. Ambedkar, it gives every person the right to move the Supreme Court directly for enforcement of Fundamental Rights.
- Drafting Committee
- The Constituent Assembly body that prepared the draft Constitution under Dr B. R. Ambedkar's chairmanship; the Constitution was adopted on 26 November 1949.
- Fundamental Duties
- Added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976 and placed in Part IVA as Article 51A, they list duties of citizens and are non-justiciable, unlike Fundamental Rights.
- 73rd Amendment
- The 1992 amendment that gave constitutional status to Panchayati Raj institutions, adding Part IX and the Eleventh Schedule listing 29 subjects for panchayats.
- State symbols of West Bengal
- State animal is the fishing cat, state bird the white-throated kingfisher, state flower shiuli (night-flowering jasmine) and state tree chatim (devil's tree).
- Reserve Bank of India
- India's central bank, established on 1 April 1935 and nationalised on 1 January 1949; it issues currency notes, while one-rupee notes come from the Government of India.
- United Nations founding
- Founded on 24 October 1945 with headquarters in New York; India was a founding member, and 24 October is observed as United Nations Day.
- National Police Commemoration Day
- Observed every year on 21 October in memory of police personnel killed in the line of duty, including those who died at Hot Springs in Ladakh in 1959.
- Syllogism validity test
- A conclusion follows only if it is true in every possible diagram consistent with the given statements; a single contradicting diagram makes it invalid.
- Clock hand gain
- The minute hand gains 5.5 degrees on the hour hand per minute, so the two hands coincide every 65 5/11 minutes rather than every 60 minutes.
- Circular seating directions
- When people face the centre, a person's left is anticlockwise and right is clockwise; when they face outward, both directions are reversed.
- Blood relation notation
- Draw generations as vertical levels and siblings or spouses as horizontal links; never infer gender from a name, only from words like father, sister or wife.
- Net successive percentage change
- For successive changes of a percent and b percent, the net change is a + b + ab/100 percent; two 10 percent increases give a net 21 percent rise.
- Compound interest formula
- Amount = P(1 + R/100)^T when interest is compounded annually; compound interest equals this amount minus the principal P.
- Time and work shortcut
- If A alone takes x days and B alone takes y days, working together they finish the job in xy/(x + y) days, the harmonic combination of the two times.
- Train crossing a platform
- Crossing time equals the train's length plus the platform's length divided by the train's speed; for a pole, only the train's length is used.
- Alligation rule
- The ratio in which two ingredients at different prices are mixed equals (mean price minus cheaper price) to (dearer price minus mean price).
- Speed unit conversion
- To change kilometres per hour to metres per second multiply by 5/18; to change metres per second to kilometres per hour multiply by 18/5.
- Subject-verb agreement rule
- With 'either...or' and 'neither...nor', the verb agrees with the subject nearest to it, so 'Neither the boys nor the teacher was present' is correct.
- Since versus for
- 'Since' is used with a point of time (since 2019) and 'for' with a duration (for five years); both suit the present perfect tense.
- Affect versus effect
- 'Affect' is usually a verb meaning to influence, while 'effect' is usually a noun meaning a result; mixing the two is a common error.
- Passive voice formation
- The object becomes the subject, the verb becomes a form of 'be' plus the past participle, and the doer is introduced by 'by', keeping the original tense.
- Idiom: burn the midnight oil
- A fixed figurative expression meaning to study or work late into the night, unrelated to any literal burning of oil or lamps.
- বাংলা বর্ণমালার সংখ্যা
- বাংলা বর্ণমালায় স্বরবর্ণ ১১টি ও ব্যঞ্জনবর্ণ ৩৯টি, মোট ৫০টি বর্ণ; এছাড়া আ-কার, ই-কার ইত্যাদি কারচিহ্ন ব্যঞ্জনের সঙ্গে ব্যবহৃত হয়।
- স্বরসন্ধির উদাহরণ
- স্বরবর্ণের সঙ্গে স্বরবর্ণের মিলনে যে সন্ধি হয়, যেমন বিদ্যা + আলয় = বিদ্যালয় এবং হিম + আলয় = হিমালয়।
- বহুব্রীহি সমাস
- যে সমাসে অন্য পদ প্রধান হয়ে সমস্ত পদটি ভিন্ন অর্থ প্রকাশ করে; যেমন লম্বা দাড়ি যার = দীর্ঘদণ্ডী বা দশানন অর্থাৎ রাবণ।
- অপাদান কারক
- যা থেকে কিছু আলাদা হয় বা দূরে সরে যায় তা অপাদান কারক; এতে সাধারণত পঞ্চমী বিভক্তি হয়, যেমন 'গাছ থেকে ফল পড়ল'।
- বাগধারা: ডুমুরের ফুল
- একটি বাংলা বাগধারা যার অর্থ দুর্লভ বা অত্যন্ত বিরল বস্তু, এমন কিছু যা সহজে দেখা যায় না বা পাওয়া যায় না।
- Male chest measurement
- For the West Bengal Police PMT, male candidates normally need a minimum chest of 78 cm with an expansion of at least 5 cm on inflation.
- Male PET run standard
- Male candidates commonly must complete a 1600 metre run within about six minutes as part of the Physical Efficiency Test, which is qualifying in nature.
- Female PET standards
- Female candidates commonly complete an 800 metre run within about four minutes, plus a long jump of roughly 2.75 m or a high jump of roughly 0.90 m.
- Progressive overload
- Training principle of gradually increasing distance, pace or resistance over weeks so the body adapts without injury; sudden jumps in load risk strains.