NTSE/ Entrance Exams - Geography - Astronomical Terms (#eduvictors)(#ntsenotes)(#ctetnotes)

ASTRONOMICAL TERMS

THE CELESTIAL SPHERE is an imaginary sphere upon the surface of which all the stars in the sky appear to be studded to an observer stationed at its centre.


THE ZENITH is the intersection of a vertical line through the observer's station with the upper portion of the celestial
sphere. It is the point on the celestial sphere immediately above the observer's station.


THE NADIR is the intersection oI a vertical line through the observer's station with the lower portion oi the celestial sphere. It is the point on the celestial sphere vertically below the observer's stations.

CBSE Class 10 - History - The Making of A Global World (Short Questions and Answers) (#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

HISTORY - THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD (Short Q A)

Q1: What was the importance of the Indian trade for the British?

Answer: Indian trade was important for the British for the following reasons:

• Trade Surplus –
Britain had a Trade Surplus with Indian. Britain used this Surplus to balance its trade deficit with other countries.

• Home Charges – 
Britain’s trade Surplus in India also helped to pay the so-called home charges that included private remittance by British officials and traders, interest payments on India’s external debt and pensions of British officials in India.

• Major Supplier of cotton – 
India remained a major supplier of raw cotton to British which was required to feed the cotton textile industry in Britain.

• Supplier if indentured workers – 
Many indentured workers from Bihar, U.P., central India migrated to other countries to work in mines and plantations.


Q2: How did Bretton Woods System Work?

CBSE CLASS 10 - HISTORY - THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD (Very Short Q A) (#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

HISTORY - THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL WORLD (Very Short Q A)

Q1: What was the Bretton wood system?

Answer: It was post-war international economic system


Q2: What did indentured labour mean?

Answer: It means bonded Labour


Q3: What were  Canal Colonies?

Answer: It stood for irrigated areas.


Q4:  Which food travelled west from China to be called ―Spaghetti's?

Answer: Noodles

CBSE Class 10 - Social Studies - 2nd Term Sample Question Paper - (2017-18) (#eduvictors)(#cbseNotes)

CBSE Class 10 - Social Studies -
2nd Term Sample Question Paper - (2017-18)

CBSE class 10/9/8/7 - Social Science - Civics- Types of Government (#eduvictors)(#cbseNotes)

Know Different Types of Governments

Republic: 
A government whose authority is based on citizen’s votes ,which are represented by elected or nominated officials chosen in free election.

Democracy: 
Democracy means ‘rule of people’. The term today refers to political system in which the people or their elected representatives govern themselves.

Communism: 
As a system of government, commission is a system of government in which the states owns and operates industry on behalves of the people.

CBSE Class 10 - Economics - Money and Credit - Concept Points (#eduvictors)(#cbseNotes)

Economics - Money and Credit
Concept Points

✱ Money is anything which is commonly accepted as a medium of exchange and in discharge of debts.

✱ People exchange goods and services through the medium of money. Money by itself has no utility. It is only an intermediary. The use of money facilitates exchange.

✱ Direct exchange of goods against goods without use of money is called barter exchange (i.e. exchange of goods for goods). This is also known as CC economy (i.e. commodity for commodity economy).

Class 10 - Economics - CONSUMER RIGHTS (Long Q and A) (#cbseNotes)

Economics - CONSUMER RIGHTS (Q & A)

Q1: What factors gave birth to consumer movement in India.

Answer: In India 'social force' led the consumer movement.  Rampant food shortages, hoarding, black marketing, adulteration of food and edible oil gave birth to the consumer movement in an organized form in the 1960s.

Following are the main factors that gave rise to consumer movement in India:

⑴ The dissatisfaction of the consumers regarding the market practices

⑵ The gradual withdrawal of the government from production fields after the introduction of New Economic Policy.

⑶ Increasing awareness of the people

⑷ Increasing unfair trade practices

⑸ Emergences of foreign companies

 A major step taken by the Indian govt was enactment of Consumer Protection Act 1986 (COPRA).


Q2: What are the rights of the consumers?

CBSE Class 10 - Economics - GLOBALISATION AND THE INDIAN ECONOMY (Important Points To Remember) (#cbseNotes)

GLOBALISATION AND THE INDIAN ECONOMY 

(Important Points To Remember) 

Special Economic Zone

 ① Globalisation refers to the integration of the domestic economy with the economies of the world. 

② An MNC is a company that owns and controls production in more than one nation.

③ Foreign Investment is an investment made by MNCs.

④ Liberalisation means the removal of barriers and restrictions set by the government on foreign trade.

CBSE Class 10 - Geography - Minerals and Energy Resources (Short Q and A) (#cbseNotes)

Class 10 - Geography Minerals and Energy Resources (Short Q and A)

Q1: What are Placer deposits?

Answer: Minerals that occur as alluvial fans in sands of valley floors, and the base of hills.


Q2: Define Rat-hole Mining.

Answer: In the tribal areas of North-East India mining is carried out by individuals or communities illegally. The mining is done in the form of a long narrow tunnel known as Rat hole mining.


Q3: Write two uses of Mica and also areas famous for mica deposits.

Answer: Mica is used in electric and electronic industries
Areas found in:
(a) Gaya-Hazaribagh inJharkhand, and
(b)Ajmer and Beawarin Rajasthan

CBSE Class 10 - Social Science - Periodic Test Paper 2 - (2017-18) (#cbsePapers)

CBSE Class 10 - Social Science - Periodic Test Paper 2 - (2017-18)

CBSE Class 10 - History - Chapter 4 - The Making of a Global World (Important Terms To Remember) (#cbseNotes)

Chapter 4 - The Making of a Global World (Important Terms To Remember)

Trade:
It is an activity of buying selling or exchanging goods or services between people firms or countries.



Silk Route:
The Silk Route is a historical network of interlinking trade routes across the Afro-Eurasian landmass that connected East , South , and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world, as well as parts of North and East Africa. The name ‘silk routes’ points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route.


Indentured Labour:
A bonded labour under contract to work for an employer for a specific amount of time, to pay off his passage to a new country or home.

CBSE Class 9/10/NTSE/CTET - Important Rivers Of India (#cbseNotes)

Important Rivers Of India

CBSE Class 9 - Geography Notes

1. Ganga
States covered: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal
Length: 2,525 K.M.
Origin at: Gangotri
Ends at: Bay of Bengal


2. Yamuna
States covered: Uttarakhand,Himachal Pradesh,Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi
Length: 1,376 K.M.
Origin at: Garhwal in Yamunotri
Ends at: Bay of Bengal


3. Brahmaputra
States covered: Assam, Arunachal,Tibet
Length: 2,900 K.M.
Origin at: Lake Manasarovar
Ends at: Bay of Bengal

CBSE Class 10 - Social Science - Periodic Test 1 - Question Paper - (2017-18) (#cbsenotes)

CBSE Class 10 - Social Science  - Periodic Test 1 - Question Paper  - (2017-18) 

CBSE Class 10 - Marking Scheme of SA2 Social Science Sample Question Paper (2016-17)

CBSE Class 10  - Marking Scheme of SA2 Social Science Sample Question Paper (2016-17)

See Class 10 SA2 Social Science SQP (2016-17)

CBSE Class 10 - SA2 Social Science Sample Question Paper (2016-17) (#cbsepapers)

CBSE Class 10  - SA2 Social Science Sample Question Paper (2016-17)

See Marking Scheme of SA2 Social Science SQP (2016-17)

CBSE Class 10 - Economics - Consumer Rights (Short Q and A) (#cbseclass10)(#cbsenotes)

Consumer Rights

Class 10 - Economics 

Short Q & Answers


Q1: What are the different ways of exploitation of consumers in the market?

Answer:
 ① Higher price
 ② Quality lapse
 ③ Underweight & under measurement


Q2: Define consumer.

Answer: Consumer is a person who buys and uses a good or service from the market after making a payment.


Q3: What is CORPA?

Answer: is CORPA is the consumer Protection Act enacted by the government of India on 24th December 1986.

CBSE Class 10 - SA2 (Pre) Social Science Sample Question Paper (2016-17) (#cbsepapers)

CBSE Class 10  - SA2 (Pre) Social Science Sample Question Paper (2016-17)

CBSE Class 10 - History - Rise Of Nationalism in Europe (#cbsenotes)

Rise Of Nationalism in Europe 

Unification of Germany in 1848
image courtesy: wikimedia commons

MCQs based on NCERT Class 10 - History  Chapter 

Q1: In 18th century, political clubs became an important rallying point for people who wished to discuss government policies and plan their own form of action. Of them which club was most successful?

(a) The Jacobins
(c) The Bolsheviks
(b) The Marseillaise
(d) None of these


Q2: When dis industrialization begin in England?

(a) In the first half of the 18th century.
(b) In the second half of the 18th century.
(c) In the first half of the 19th century.
(d) In the second half of the 17th century.


Q3: ____ is a political philosophy that stressed the importance of tradition, established institutions and customs and preferred gradual development to quick change.

(a) Liberalism
(b) Conservatism
(c) Radicalism
(d) None of the above


Q4: Which one of the following types of government was functioning in France before the revolution of 1789?

(a) Dictatorship
(b) Militar
(c) Monarchy
(d) Council of French Citizen

CBSE Class 10 - History - THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

Commonly Asked Questions

Q1: What was Federic Sorrieu's dream of 'Democratic Republics'?

Answer: In 1848, Federic Sorrieu prepared a print called 'The Dream of Worldwide Democratic and Social Republic. He tried to visualise his dream of a world made up 'democratic republics'. According to him:

1. People of Europe and America marching and forming a long train towards the statue of liberty and offering homage to it.

2. He personified liberty as a female figure.

3. In his glorified dream, he grouped people of the world as distinct nations which are identified by their national costumes and national flags.

4. From heavens, Saints and angels gaze upon the scene symbolising the fraternity among the nations of the world.


Q2: How the concept of nation was visualised in Europe in 18th and 19th century?

Answer:
1. Artists in 18th and 19th centuries tried to give a face and personify the concept of a nation.
2. Nations were portrayed as female figures and alma mater (motherlands).
3. The Female figure became an allegory of the nation. e.g. Germania. In her visual representation, Germania wears a crown of oak leaves as the German Oak stands for heroism.

CBSE Class 10 - Economics - Globalisation and Indian Economy

Globalisation and Indian Economy

Q & A based on NCERT Chapter

Q: Define Globalisation.

Answer: Globalisation is an integration among the countries through foreign trade and foreign investments by MNCs. Its a linkage of nation's markets with global markets.


Q: What is MNC? Give two examples.

Answer: Multinational Corporation or MNC is a business firm operating in several countries but centrally managed from one (home) country.
Examples of MNCs in India: Nokia, Ford, L&T, Oracle


Q: List three factors for globalisation.

Answer:  Factors for globalisation are:

Ⓐ Liberalisation of trade and investment policies.
Ⓑ Improvement in Technology
Ⓒ Influence from international organizations.