Nepal TSC Secondary Teaching License flashcards

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Nepal constitution parts and articles

The 2015 constitution has 35 parts, 308 articles and 9 schedules. It establishes a federal democratic republic with three tiers of government.

House of Representatives composition

The lower house has 275 members: 165 elected by first-past-the-post and 110 by proportional representation. Members serve five-year terms.

Nepal Standard Time offset

Nepal Standard Time is UTC plus 5 hours 45 minutes. The 45-minute offset makes it one of only three such time zones worldwide.

SAARC founding details

SAARC was founded in Dhaka in 1985 with seven members; Afghanistan joined in 2007. Its permanent secretariat is located in Kathmandu.

Piaget concrete operational stage

Spanning roughly ages 7 to 11, this stage is marked by mastery of conservation, classification and reversibility, but reasoning remains tied to concrete objects rather than abstractions.

Zone of Proximal Development

Vygotsky's concept describing the gap between what a learner can do independently and what they can achieve with adult or peer guidance. Scaffolding operates within this zone.

Formative versus summative assessment

Formative assessment is ongoing and diagnostic, guiding instruction during learning. Summative assessment certifies achievement at the end of a unit, term or programme.

Bloom revised taxonomy order

The six cognitive levels in ascending order are remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create. The lowest three emphasise factual recall and basic use.

Nepali honorific registers

Nepali verbs and pronouns distinguish three honorific levels: तँ for intimates or inferiors, तिमी for informal equals, and तपाईं for formal or respected addressees.

Nepali karak categories

Eight case relations link nouns to verbs: कर्ता, कर्म, करण, सम्प्रदान, अपादान, सम्बन्ध, अधिकरण and सम्बोधन. Postpositions such as ले and लाई mark them.

Nepali samasa types

Compound types include द्वन्द्व, तत्पुरुष, बहुव्रीहि, कर्मधारय, द्विगु and अव्ययीभाव. Classification depends on which member carries the compound's principal meaning.

Nepali sandhi meaning

Sandhi is the phonological change occurring when sounds meet at word boundaries. For example, विद्या plus आलय becomes विद्यालय through vowel combination.

Third conditional form

Used for unreal past situations: if plus past perfect in the condition clause, and would have plus past participle in the result clause.

Non-defining relative clause

A clause giving extra, non-essential information, separated by commas. It cannot use 'that' as the relative pronoun and cannot be omitted without losing grammar.

Reported speech tense shift

When the reporting verb is past, present tenses shift to past and past to past perfect. Pronouns, time words and place words adjust accordingly.

Subject-verb agreement rule

Indefinite pronouns such as everyone, each, nobody and either take singular verbs. Collective nouns take singular verbs when the group acts as one unit.

Successive percentage change formula

Two successive changes of a percent and b percent produce a net change of a plus b plus ab divided by 100. Signs indicate increase or decrease.

Compound interest formula

Amount equals principal times one plus rate over 100, raised to the number of years. Half-yearly compounding halves the rate and doubles the periods.

Mean proportional rule

In a continued proportion a:b equals b:c, the middle term b is the mean proportional, satisfying b squared equals a times c.

Combined work rate rule

If A finishes in A days and B in B days, their combined rate is one over A plus one over B, giving total time AB divided by A plus B.

Ohm law and power

Voltage equals current times resistance. Electrical power equals voltage times current, equivalently current squared times resistance or voltage squared divided by resistance.

Photosynthesis equation

Six carbon dioxide plus six water plus light energy yield glucose and six oxygen, catalysed by chlorophyll inside chloroplasts. Respiration reverses this energy flow.

Ten percent energy rule

In an ecosystem, only about ten percent of energy at one trophic level transfers to the next. Energy flow is unidirectional and lost mainly as heat.

pH scale interpretation

The scale runs from 0 to 14. Values below 7 are acidic, 7 is neutral, and above 7 is basic. Litmus turns red in acid and blue in base.

Five constitutional writs

Article 133 empowers courts to issue habeas corpus, mandamus, certiorari, prohibition and quo warranto against unlawful detention or abuse of authority.

Local government structure

Nepal has 753 local units: 6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, 276 municipalities and 460 rural municipalities, each with an elected assembly.

Universal Declaration year

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948 and contains 30 articles covering civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

Federal power schedules

Schedules 5 to 9 of the 2015 constitution list federal, provincial, concurrent, local and residual powers, defining the division of authority among tiers.

Secondary level grade range

In Nepal, secondary level covers grades 9 to 12. The secondary Teaching License examination tests the chosen subject at grade 11 and 12 depth.

Curriculum Development Centre role

This body designs school curricula and subject grids in Nepal, setting unit weightage and working hours that examination question distribution follows.

5E instructional model

A sequence of Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate phases, commonly used for inquiry-based science lessons where learners construct understanding from exploration.

Specific objective verbs

Objectives should use observable action verbs such as define, explain, calculate and compare, so achievement can be assessed, rather than vague verbs like know.