Alluvial: Most suitable for Paddy, Common to Indo gangetic plain, Requires least use of fertlizers

Black: Also called banzar or Regur soil, Swells when wet & develops crack when dry, Requires
least tilling, Most suitable for cotton cultivation. (This year India became the No. 1 producer of
cotton after 26 years cheers)
Laterite soil: Also called red soil, owes its color to oxides of iron, poor in soluble salts
Ranii ki vav in Patan,Gujrat is the country,s latest entry to Uneesco world heritage site. It was
built by Udaymati for her husband Bimdev(Solanki ruler)
Godavari is called Dakshin Ganga
Kaveri is called Vrihad Ganga
Except Narmada, Tapti & periyar (they flow into Arabian sea) all Indian rivers flow into Bay of
Bengal
Remember Nagarjunasagar Dam is on Krishna river whereas Krishnaraja Sagar dam is on Kaveri
river

Dances :

Bharat Natyam: TN; Kathakali: Kerela; Mohini Attam: Kerela; Oddisi: Odhisa; Kuchipudi: AP;
Kathak:UP
Sattriya: Assam; Jhumar: Rajasthan; Garba: Gujrat; Gidda, Bhangra:Punjab; Yakshgana:
Karnataka;
Purulichau: West Bengal; Tamasha: Maharashtra; Bihu and Buguramba - Assam

Nuclear Power plants of India

Tarapur:Rajasthan; Kalpakam: TN; Rawatbhata: Kota;, rajasthan; Narora:UP; Kakrapar: Gujrat

Kudankulam:TN

A new nuclear power plant is proposed to set up at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri Maharashtra. This project will
be the largest in world in terms of net electrical power.

Hydraulic Brakes: Pascal Law; Theory of flight: Bernoulis; Recoil of gun: Newton 3 law
Ship Floats: Archimedes; Foods cooks faster in pressure cooker: BP increases as Pressure
increases
Rotating liquid in container stops after removal of atirrer: Viscocity
Rise of oil wick in lamp: Capilarity / Surface tension both are correct. Capillarity will be more
approppriate if both are given as options
Two ice cubes stick together: Hydrogen bonding
Twinkling of stars, Bending of object when dipped in water, oval shape of sun in morning and
evening: Refraction
Sparkling of diamond, Mirage & looming, Shining of air bubble in water, sun becomes visible
even before sun rise and after sunset, optical fibre( remember they are used in endoscopy):
Total internal reflection
Rainbow: dispersion of light
Blue color of sky & beautiful red color of rising & setting sun: scattering of light

Economy :

Consumer price index: Way to measure change of prices in an economy

GDP can never be considered as an index of welfare of a country
4 factors of production are: Labor(wage), interest, profit and rent (Entreprenuership)
Velocity of circulation of money: No. of times a unit of money changes hand during a unit
period of time
Liquidity trap: If market rate of intrst is low & we expect it to rise in future (causing capital loss)
nobody will wish to hold bonds . everyone will hold their wealth in money balance or cash. This
is liquidity trap. This theory was given by Keynes
Currency notes and coins are also called fiat money and legal tender
CDR(currency deposit ratio): Ratio of money held by public in currency to that they hold in bank
deposit. AAjkal Diwali hai CDR increase ho jata hai during festivals
RDR(Reserve deposit ratio): Bank holds a part of money that people deposit and lend out rest
(loan). RDR is proportion of total deposit banks keep as reserve . Keeping more reserve is
unprofitable for banks byaz nahi mil pata hai kyonki loan zyada nahi de pate hain
CRR(Cash reserve ratio): fractions of their deposits that bank must keep with RBI
Bank Rate: Rate at which commercial banks can borrow from RBI
Borrowing Rate: Rate of interest offered by banks to deposit holder
Lending Rate: Rate of intrest at which banks give loan
RBI: has total liability of monetary authority of our country. Also called Monetary base and High
powered money. Also called Lender of last Resort( Agar har koi eh hee din me SBI se apna paisa
nikalna chahe to SBI ki to lag jayegi kyonki usne kaafi paisa loan me baat diya hai to wo unko
paisa kahan se degi jinka account hai is samay RBI unke liye bhagvan banke saamne ati hai)
OMO(Open market operations): RBI buys or sells govt. securities to & from general public to
increase or decrease the stock of high powered money in the economy
A112: is related to Budget.
Budget is no term in constitution. It is derived from french word Bouget which means briefcase.
It is actually called annual finance statement
Fiscal Deficit(India)= Total Expenditure- total earning+other liabilities+ market borrowing. This
formulae was proposed by Sukhmoy Chakravarty committee
BOP(Balance of Payments); BOP records the transactions in goods, services and assets between
residents of a country with rest of world
BOT(Balance of trade): Difference between countrys Imports and exports
A misconception cleared please note that corporation tax is never taken by state
A265- No tax shall be collected except by authority of law
A269- Taxes collected by union but assigned to state
National income= NI calculation ke basics
NNP(market price)= GNP- Depreciation at market price
NNP at factor cost= NNP(market price)- Net Indirect taxes+ Subsidaries
This NNP(at Factor cost) is the National Income (Method it is calculated in India)
Personal Income = PI
PI= NI- Undistributed Profit- Net intrest payment by household- corporate tax+ transfer
payments to household 4m govt. and firms
Personal Disposable Income= PI- tax payments

Net= Gross- Depriciation example: Net Investment = gross investment- depreciation

NDP (Net Domestic Product)=GDP- depreciation
GDP= Sum of all goods and services produced within the country( Humare desh ke seemaon me
jo bhi production ho raha hai chahe wo bhartiya bana rahe hain ya fir koi videshi in dono ka sum
GDP hai)
GNP= if we talk about GNP for India- Sum of all goods and services produced by Indians wether
living in India aor abroad matlab
GNP= GDP+ humari country ke log jo bahar value de rahe hain- jo foreigners humari country me
value de rahe hain
GNP= GDP+ Income earned by domestic fraction employed in rest of world- income earned by
rest of world employed in domestic country
National Income :We calculate it by following methods:1) Product method 2)Income method 3)Expenditure
method.
In our country we use product & Income method.
In 1876 Dadabhai nairoji gave 1st estimate of national income.
National income committee was set up in 1949(Mahalanobis was head).
Since 1955 NI estimates are prepared by Central statistical organisation
SSC generally focuses on Macroeconomics which is analysis of how country's total production &
level of employment are relatedc to variables like prices, ROI, wages, rates, profit etc.
Adam smith is the father of Economics. He wrote the book "An enquiry into nature & cause of
wealth" whereas macroeconomics emerged from Keynes & his book was" The general theory of
Employment, Intrest & money".
Final good is a good that would not pass through any more process of production or
transformation. Goods are 2 types: Capital (tools, machines) & consumption( foods, cloth,
recreation)

SHORTCUT TO REMEMBER DIRECT TAXES

(we-pro.co.in)

we=wealth tax; pro=property tax; co=corporate tax; in= income tax

SHORTCUT TO REMEMBER INDIRECT TAXES (excuse

me)

ex= excise; cu=custom; se = service tax; m= market tax/VAT; e= entertainment tax

SCIENCE :Tear gas is generally phenacyl chloridde or pepper spray or anything which has DIBENZOXAZEPINE
Group
Top crude oil/Natural gas importing countries:

China,US,India,Japan/ Japan,Korea,UK,spain,India

Top crude oil/Natural gas producing countries:

Russia, Saudi A, US, Japan/ US, Russia, EU, Iran

Top crude oil/Natural gas consuming countries:

China, US, Russia, India/ US, Russia, EU, India

Top crude oil/Natural gas reserve countries:

Venezuela,Saudi A, Canada, Iran, Iraq/ Russia, Iran, Qatar, Turkmenistan,US

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Any base which is soluble in water is called alkali

Electron- Discovered by JJ thompson name given by Stoney
Proton- Discovered by goldstein & name given by rutherford
Neuton- Discovered & named by Chadwick
Rusting will Increase weight of iron
Titanium is called strategic metal cos it is lighter than iron
Galium metal is liquid at room temprature
Palladium metal is used in Aeroplane
Cobalt60 is used in cancer treatment
Gold & silver are most malleable metal
Lithium is the lightest & most redundant element
Silver nitrate is used as marker in election
In gold jewellery we wear copper is mixed
Mercuary is kept with iron cos it does not forms amalgam with it
Age of fossil fuels is determined by Carbon 14( It is radioactive)
Chloroform is always stored in colored bottles cos in sunlight it will form poisonous gas
phosgene(CoCl2)
In Talcom powder Theo Phestal Mineral is used
to avoid melting of ice Gelatine is used
Glycerol is added to ATF(aviation turbine fuel) to reduce freezing point
Please remember humans have 22 pair of auto chromosomes & 1 pair of sex chromosome
Meischer discovered DNA its structure was discovered by watson & crook
Selenology is the study of moon
Oneriology is the study of dreams
Dactylogram is finger marks recogniser

Census:

2011 15th census of the country Incharge :- Dr C Chandramouli

2011 decrese of population growth rate from 21.59 to 17.64
U.P. most populous city having population more than brazil
Sex ratio 940 versus world 984

U.T. Maximum (Sex ratio) Puducherry(1038); Minimum Daman and Diu(618)

Highest Sex Ratio(among states)

Kerala(1084); Tamil nadu(995); Andhra(992)

Least sex ratio

Haryana(877); J and K (883); Sikkim (889)

Highest literate state

1 Kerala 2 Mizoram 3 Tripura

Least literate state

1 Bihar 2 Arunachal 3 Rajasthan

National literacy average 74.0%

Male literacy 82.14% Female literacy 65.46%

Maximum Gap in male female literacy:- Rajasthan

Most densely populated states

1 Bihar 2 West Bengal 3 Kerala

Least densely populated states

1 arunachal 2 mizoram 3 sikkim

Population Density U.T.

1 Delhi 2 Chandigarh

Census is a union subject (article 246) and is listed as entry 69 of VIII schedule of the constitution
The sex ratio among children declined from 927 in 2001 to 914 in 2011

Largest State
population wise areawise
u.p. rajasthan
maharashtra m.p.
bihar maharashtra

smallest states
population wise areawise
sikkim goa
mizoram sikkim
arunachal tripura