Pakistan Rangers Sepoy Test flashcards

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Passive voice formation

The object of an active sentence becomes the subject, followed by the correct form of 'be' and the past participle. Example: 'She writes a letter' becomes 'A letter is written by her.'

Subject-verb agreement rule

A singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb. Words like each, every, everyone and nobody are treated as singular.

a versus an

Use 'a' before a consonant sound and 'an' before a vowel sound. Sound decides, not spelling: 'an hour' but 'a university'.

Indirect speech tense shift

When the reporting verb is in the past, the reported verb usually shifts one step back: present to past, past to past perfect, will to would.

Lahore Resolution date

The Lahore Resolution, also called the Pakistan Resolution, was passed on 23 March 1940 at Minto Park in Lahore during the All-India Muslim League session.

Pakistan national symbols

The national animal is the markhor, the national bird the chukar partridge, the national tree the deodar, and the national flower jasmine.

Indus Waters Treaty

A water-sharing agreement between Pakistan and India signed in 1960. It divided the six rivers, giving India the eastern rivers and Pakistan the western ones.

Highest peak in Pakistan

K2, also called Chogori, stands at 8,611 metres in the Karakoram range. It is the highest peak in Pakistan and the second highest in the world.

Five pillars of Islam

Shahadah (declaration of faith), Salah (five daily prayers), Sawm (fasting in Ramadan), Zakat (obligatory charity) and Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah).

Number of Quran surahs

The Quran contains 114 surahs. Al-Baqarah is the longest and Al-Kawthar is the shortest; the first revelations came from Surah Al-Alaq.

Zakat rate

Zakat is 2.5 percent, or one fortieth, of qualifying wealth held for one lunar year above the nisab threshold.

Standing at Arafat

The central rite of Hajj is standing at Arafat on 9 Dhul Hijjah. A pilgrim who misses it must repeat the Hajj in a later year.

Profit percent formula

Profit percent equals selling price minus cost price, divided by cost price, multiplied by 100. It is always calculated on cost price.

Simple interest formula

Simple interest equals principal times rate times time, divided by 100. Time is in years and the rate is a percent per annum.

Speed unit conversion

To change kilometres per hour to metres per second, multiply by 5/18. To reverse it, multiply by 18/5.

Average of evenly spaced numbers

For evenly spaced values, the mean equals the first value plus the last value, divided by two. Example: the average of 5, 10, 15 is 10.

BODMAS order

Solve in this order: Brackets, Of or Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction. Division and multiplication rank equally, so work left to right.

Ohm's law

Voltage equals current multiplied by resistance, written V = IR. Current is measured in amperes, voltage in volts and resistance in ohms.

Photosynthesis inputs and outputs

Green plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce glucose and release oxygen. Chlorophyll in chloroplasts absorbs the light energy.

Normal human body temperature

A healthy adult body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius, which equals 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Water boils at 100 Celsius and freezes at 0.

Solar system planet order

From the Sun outward: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Jupiter is the largest planet in the system.

CPEC route

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor links Gwadar port in Balochistan to Kashgar in China. It forms part of China's Belt and Road Initiative.

SAARC membership

SAARC has eight members: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Its secretariat is in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Pakistan nuclear tests 1998

Pakistan conducted nuclear tests at Chagai in Balochistan on 28 May 1998. The date is observed as Youm-e-Takbir.

UN founding facts

The United Nations was founded in 1945. Its headquarters are in New York, and its principal organs include the General Assembly and the Security Council.

Alphabet position shortcut

Letters A to Z correspond to numbers 1 to 26. Remember EJOTY: E=5, J=10, O=15, T=20, Y=25, to locate letters quickly.

Ranking total formula

If a person is nth from the left and mth from the right, the total number in the row equals n plus m minus one.

Direction after a right turn

Facing north, a right turn leads to east. Facing east, a right turn leads to south. Each right turn rotates the facing 90 degrees clockwise.

Odd-one-out method

Find the property shared by most items, such as all prime, all even, all capitals or all units, then choose the item that breaks that property.

BMI formula

Body mass index equals weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. A normal adult range is roughly 18.5 to 24.9.

Normal adult pulse range

A healthy adult at rest has a pulse of 60 to 100 beats per minute, blood pressure near 120/80 mmHg, and 12 to 20 breaths per minute.

Common medical rejection grounds

Recruitment medicals commonly reject flat feet, knock knees, severe varicose veins, hearing loss, chronic asthma, epilepsy, and active skin or infectious disease.