Nepal Army Officer Cadet cheat sheet

Nepal's constitution, promulgated 20 September 2015, establishes a federal democratic republic with seven provinces and 753 local units.

Nepal's legislature is bicameral: the House of Representatives has 275 members (165 first-past-the-post, 110 proportional) and the National Assembly has 59 members.

Nepal became a member of the United Nations in 1955; it contributes troops to UN peacekeeping and is among the largest troop-contributing countries.

SAARC was founded in Dhaka in 1985 with seven members; Afghanistan joined in 2007, bringing membership to eight.

Nepal's neighbours are China (north) and India (south, east, west); the country is landlocked and roughly 1,47,181 sq km in area.

Mount Everest (Sagarmatha) stands at 8,848.86 m, the joint China-Nepal figure announced in December 2020.

Nepal's currency is the Nepalese rupee (NPR), issued by Nepal Rastra Bank, established in 1956.

Key Nepali dates: Prithvi Jayanti (11 January), Democracy Day (19 February), Republic Day (29 May), Constitution Day (19 September).

Nepal's major rivers include the Koshi, Gandaki, Karnali and Mahakali; the Koshi is the largest by discharge.

Subject-verb agreement: singular subjects take singular verbs; collective nouns (army, team, committee) take singular verbs when acting as one unit.

Articles: 'a' before consonant sounds, 'an' before vowel sounds (an hour, a university); 'the' for specific or unique referents.

Tenses: present perfect (has/have + past participle) for past actions with present relevance; past simple for finished past time with a stated time marker.

Active to passive: object becomes subject, verb becomes be + past participle, agent introduced by 'by' (The army defeated the enemy → The enemy was defeated by the army).

Prepositions of time: 'in' for months/years, 'on' for days/dates, 'at' for clock times and specific points.

Conditionals: first (if + present, will + base), second (if + past, would + base), third (if + had + past participle, would have + past participle).

Common confusions: affect (verb) vs effect (noun); lie/lay; its (possessive) vs it's (it is); principal (main/head) vs principle (rule).

Reported speech: shift tense back one step and adjust pronouns and time words (today → that day, tomorrow → the next day).

Synonyms for military writing: 'assist' for help, 'commence' for begin, 'utilise' for use, 'sufficient' for enough - prefer plain forms in orders.

Average = sum of terms / number of terms; for consecutive integers the average equals the middle term.

Percentage change = (new − old) / old × 100; successive changes of a% then b% give a net change of a + b + ab/100 percent.

Simple interest = P × R × T / 100; compound amount = P(1 + R/100)^T.

Speed = distance / time; for equal distances at speeds x and y, average speed = 2xy / (x + y).

Work: if A finishes in x days and B in y days, together they take xy / (x + y) days.

Ratio and proportion: if a : b = c : d then ad = bc; divide a quantity Q in ratio m : n as Qm/(m+n) and Qn/(m+n).

Number series: check differences, then ratios, then alternating or square/cube patterns before assuming a rule.

Blood relations: draw a family tree with gender markers; 'only son of my father' = the speaker's brother or the speaker himself.

Coding-decoding: convert letters to positions (A=1 … Z=26); common shifts are +1, −1, +2, and reversal of the alphabet (A↔Z).

Direction sense: track net displacement on N-S and E-W axes; use Pythagoras for straight-line distance.

The Nepal Army (Nepali Sena) traces its origin to 1744 (1801 BS) under King Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha.

The President of Nepal is the Supreme Commander of the Nepal Army; the Ministry of Defence provides political direction.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) heads the Nepal Army and holds the rank of General; the army headquarters is at Bhadrakali, Kathmandu.

Ranks ascend: Second Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, General.

The Nepal Army's core roles are territorial defence, internal security support, disaster response, and international peacekeeping.

The Nepal Army has a distinguished record in UN peacekeeping since 1958, serving in missions including UNIFIL, MONUSCO and MINUSCA.

The Nepal Army runs the Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences (NAIHS) and the Army Command and Staff College at Shivapuri.

Officer cadets are trained at the Nepalese Military Academy (Nepal Sena Academy), Kharipati, Bhaktapur.

The Nepal Army's motto is 'Sthirata, Sahas, Suraksha' - stability, courage, security - and its quick-response disaster units include the high-altitude rescue teams.

The Nepal Army's core roles are territorial defence, internal security support, disaster response, and international peacekeeping.

The Nepal Army has a distinguished record in UN peacekeeping since 1958, serving in missions including UNIFIL, MONUSCO and MINUSCA.

The Nepal Army runs the Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences (NAIHS) and the Army Command and Staff College at Shivapuri.

Officer cadets are trained at the Nepalese Military Academy (Nepal Sena Academy), Kharipati, Bhaktapur.

The Nepal Army's motto is 'Sthirata, Sahas, Suraksha' - stability, courage, security - and its quick-response disaster units include the high-altitude rescue teams.