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- Formative assessment
- Ongoing, diagnostic assessment during instruction that gives feedback to adjust teaching and learning. It is low-stakes and not used for final grading or ranking.
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Vygotsky's term for the gap between what a learner can do independently and what they can do with guidance. Scaffolding and peer support operate inside this zone.
- Piaget concrete operational stage
- Roughly ages 7 to 11, when children master conservation, classification and reversibility but still need concrete objects. Abstract hypothetical reasoning is not yet reliable.
- Bloom revised taxonomy
- A hierarchy of cognitive objectives: remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate, create. Teachers use its verbs to write measurable learning outcomes at the right level.
- Article 356
- The provision allowing President's Rule in a state when constitutional machinery fails. Its misuse led to the S.R. Bommai judgment, which made judicial review of such proclamations possible.
- Fundamental Duties
- Eleven duties of citizens listed in Article 51A, inserted by the 42nd Amendment in 1976 on the Swaran Singh Committee's recommendation. They are non-justiciable.
- Money bill
- A bill dealing only with taxation, borrowing or Consolidated Fund matters, certified by the Speaker and introduced only in the Lok Sabha. The Rajya Sabha cannot amend it.
- Repo rate
- The rate at which the Reserve Bank lends short-term funds to commercial banks against securities. Raising it usually tightens credit and cools inflation.
- Fiscal deficit
- Total government expenditure minus total receipts excluding borrowings. It measures how much the government must borrow to fund its spending in a year.
- GST destination principle
- Tax is levied where goods or services are finally consumed, not where produced. This is why GST is described as a destination-based value-added tax.
- Permanent Settlement 1793
- Cornwallis's land revenue system in Bengal fixing revenue permanently with zamindars as proprietors. It created a class of loyal landlords but froze state revenue.
- Kalinga war
- Ashoka's campaign in Kalinga around 261 BCE, whose bloodshed turned him toward Buddhism and the policy of dhamma inscribed in his edicts.
- Partition of Bengal 1905
- Curzon's division of Bengal, which sparked the Swadeshi Movement and a boycott of British goods. It was annulled in 1911 after sustained protest.
- Tropic of Cancer
- The 23.5° north latitude circle. In India it passes through eight states, including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.
- Rain shadow
- The dry leeward side of a mountain range. Moisture-bearing winds drop rain on the windward slope, leaving the opposite side arid, as in the Deccan interior.
- Regur soil
- Black cotton soil of the Deccan, formed from lava. It is clayey, moisture-retentive and rich in iron and magnesium, making it ideal for cotton.
- Chandrayaan-3
- ISRO's 2023 lunar mission whose Vikram lander touched down near the Moon's south pole, making India the first country to land in that region.
- G20
- A grouping of major advanced and emerging economies that coordinates on global economic and financial issues. India hosted its summit in 2023.
- Ohm's law
- For a conductor at constant temperature, current is directly proportional to potential difference, giving V = IR. Resistance is measured in ohms.
- Photosynthesis equation
- 6CO₂ + 6H₂O → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂ in the presence of light and chlorophyll. It converts light energy into chemical energy stored in glucose.
- pH scale
- A logarithmic measure of hydrogen ion concentration from 0 to 14. Values below 7 are acidic, 7 is neutral, and above 7 is basic.
- Syllogism rule
- A conclusion is valid only if it holds in every possible Venn diagram of the premises. Two particular premises never yield a universal conclusion.
- Calendar odd days
- Extra days beyond complete weeks. A normal year has 1 odd day, a leap year 2, a century 5 unless divisible by 400, which gives 0.
- Blood relation tree
- A diagram of family links with explicit male and female symbols. Vertical lines show generations and horizontal lines show marriage or siblingship.
- Subject-verb agreement
- A verb must match its subject in number and person. With either/or and neither/nor, the verb agrees with the subject nearest to it.
- Present perfect tense
- Formed with has/have plus the past participle. It links a past action to the present, often with since, for, already, yet or just.
- Active to passive voice
- Move the object to subject position, add the correct form of be, and use the past participle. The original tense and aspect are preserved.
- বহুব্রীহি সমাস
- যে সমাসে কোনো পদের অর্থ প্রধান না হয়ে অন্য একটি বাইরের অর্থ প্রধান হয়; যেমন দশানন = দশটি মুখ যার (রাবণ)।
- কারক ও বিভক্তি
- বাক্যে ক্রিয়ার সঙ্গে বিশেষ্যের সম্পর্ককে কারক বলে; সেই সম্পর্ক প্রকাশকারী প্রত্যয়কে বিভক্তি বলে, যেমন কর্তৃকারকে শূন্য বিভক্তি।
- উপমা অলংকার
- যেখানে এক বস্তুর সঙ্গে অন্য বস্তুর সাদৃশ্য বোঝানো হয়, সাধারণত 'প্রায়', 'ন্যায়', 'মতো' ইত্যাদি অব্যয় দ্বারা; যেমন মুখ পদ্মের মতো।
- Successive percentage change
- Two successive changes of a% and b% give a net change of a + b + ab/100 percent. A 20% rise then 20% fall leaves a net 4% fall.
- Average speed for equal distances
- When equal distances are covered at speeds x and y, average speed is 2xy/(x + y), the harmonic mean, not the arithmetic mean of the speeds.