CBSE Class 8/910 - English Grammar - Prepositions (Worksheet) (#cbsenotes)(#englishgrammar)(#eduvictors)

English Grammar - Prepositions Worksheet

Fill the blanks with the correct prepositions:

1. He is interested _______ (on/at/in) learning karate.

2. I will pick you up _______ (on/at/in) 8 a.m. on Monday.

3. I am going to lose at least 5 kgs _______ (on/at/in) one month.

4. I have a doctor’s appointment _______ (in/on/at) Saturday.

5. Could you get me this shirt _______ (on/at/in) a smaller size?

AIPMT/ NEET CLASS 12 - BIOLOGY MCQs (#eduvictors)(#cbsenotes)

NEET/ AIPMT/ CET - BIOLOGY MCQs 

1. Unicellular algae, diatoms and protozoans are the members of 

(a) Monera
(b) Fungi
(c) Protista
(d) Plantae

2. Which of the following is also known as ‘amphibian of the plant kingdom’?

(a) Algae
(b) Bryophytes
(c) Pteridophytes
(d) Gymnosperms


3. Yeast is not included in protozoas in fungi because

(a) chlorophyll is absent
(b) it has eukaryotic organisation
(c) cell wall is made up of cellulose and reserve food material as starch
(d) some fungal hyphae grow in such a way that they give the appearance of pseudomycelium


4. An association between roots of higher plants and fungi is called

(a) lichen
(b) fern
(c) mycorrhiza
(d) None of these

CBSE CLASS 12 - Biology - Digestion - Five Digestive Juices (#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

Digestion - FIVE DIGESTIVE JUICES

Image credits: LadyOfHats (Wikimedia)

There are five digestive juices i.e.

① Saliva,

② Gastric juice

③ Pancreatic juice

④ Intestinal juice (succus entericus)

⑤ Bile juice

CTET/NTSE/Entrance Test - Reasoning Quiz (#eduvictors)(#entrancetest)

Reasoning Ability Test 

Directions (Q 1-5): In the following graph, the percentage profit earned by six companies during three years 2010, 2011 and 2012 is shown. Answer the following questions based on this graph.

Q1: If the income of Company B in the year 2011 was Rs 40 lakhs, what was its expenditure in that year?
1) ₹ 24 lakhs
2) ₹ 25 lakhs
3) ₹ 30 lakhs
4) ₹ 32 lakhs
5) None of these

Entrance Tests/CLAT/BBA/BCA/NTSE - General Intelligence Test (#eduvictors)(#bbaentrance)

CLAT/BBA/BCA/NTSE
General Intelligence Test 

 

Q1: Find the odd one out:

a) earrings
b) shoes
c) gloves
d) caps


Q2: Find the odd one.

a) spear
b) sword
c) arrow
d) missile


Q3: Supply the missing numbers.
2, 2, 4, 12, 60, ___, ____

a) 420, 4620
b) 480, 4260
c) 820, 4620
d) 880, 4260

Entrance Exams/ CTET/ NTSE - Reasoning Ability Test (#entranceexams)(#eduvictors)

Reasoning Ability Test 

Directions (Q 1-5): Read each statement carefully and answer the following questions:

Q1: Which of the following expressions will be true if the expression P > O = Q > M< W is definitely true?

a) O>W
b) M<P
c) W>Q
d) M=O
e) W<P

Q2: Which of the following symbols should replace the question mark (?) in the given expression in order to make the expressions M > P as well as T S L definitely true?

M > L ? P 2 N = T

a) ≤ 

b) > 

c) < 

d) 2 

e) Either ≤ or <

Q3: Which of the following symbols should be placed in the blank spaces respectively (in the same order from left to right) in order to complete the given expression in such a manner that makes the expressions P > Q as well as A ≤  B definitely true?

P_ B _ F _ Q _ A

a) =, =, ≥, ≥

b) >, ≥, =, >

c) >, <, =, ≤

d) >, =, =, ≥

e) >, =, ≥,>

Entrance Exams/CTET/NTSE/Class 9 - Agricultural Revolutions (#ntsenotes)(#entranceexams)(#eduvictors)

Agricultural Revolutions

Protein Revolution 
- higher productivity (Technology driven 2nd green revolution)
- coined by - Modi & Arun Jaitely

Green Revolution 
- Food grains
         - Green revolution "word" COINED by  William S Goud - UK

White Revolution or Operation Flood
-Milk production
-VARGHESE KURIEN

CBSE Class 10/11/12/NTSE/Entrance Exams - English - Cloze Test and Error Correction (#ntse)(#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

English - Cloze Test and Error Correction

(Questions 1 to 8) Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option from each list according to the corresponding number in the passage.

For Ananya, Mathematics was extremely(1) hard to understand. In order to keep her results high enough to succeed and to satisfy her parents, Ananya attempted a number of strategies(2). The answer(3) though(4) was simple. She had to work constantly and dilajentley(6) at applying the different formulas to a range of contexts. Often she was envious of(7) her peers to whom comprehension came easily. However, at the end of the year, it seemed her relentless work was rewarded(8) when her results put her amongst the leading scholars of her class.

Q 1. Which of these would be the best word to use to replace the word ‘extremely’ as it is used in the passage above?

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.

Current Affairs - Know Your Cabinet Ministers, President and other Famous Persons(#general knowledge)(#eduvictors)

Current Affairs - Who is Who

Q1: Who is External Affairs minister?

Q2: Name the Defence minister.

Q3: Who was the first president of India?

Q4: Who was popularly called Iron Man of India?

Q5: Who is the Chief Minister of Odhisha?

Q6: Name the capital of Maharashtra?

CBSE Class 12/Class 11/Class 9 - DISCOVERIES IN ATOMIC STRUCTURE (#eduvictors)(#cbsenotes)

DISCOVERIES IN ATOMIC STRUCTURE

1. Dalton(1803) : Proposed Atomic Theory

2. Julius Plucker (1859) : First discoverer of cathode rays

3. Goldstein(1886) : Discovered anode rays and proton

4. Sir.J.J.Thomson(1897) : Discovered electron and determined charge/mass(e/m) ratio for electron

5. Rutherford(1891) : Discovered nucleus and proposed atomic model

English Grammar - All About Coordinating Conjunctions (#cbseNotes)(#eduvictors)

English Grammar - All About Coordinating Conjunctions

One of the common use of conjunctions is to connect words or phrases that have the same grammatical function.



Coordinating conjunctions help in forming co-ordinate clauses. See the following sentences

1. He worked hard, but he failed each time.

2. He solved the entire assignment and submitted to the class teacher.


In the above sentences, 'but' & 'and' are coordinating conjunctions. Commonly used coordinating conjunctions are:

and
or / either - or
nor / neither - nor
but
yet
as well as
too
not less than
however
nevertheless
therefore
so


Types of Coordinating conjunctions are:

CBSE Class 10 - Biology - Study Notes about Plant Growth Hormones (Phytohormones) (#cbseNotes)

Plant Hormones (Phytohormones)

Plant hormones or phytohormones are small, simple chemical molecules, which are present in low concentration in plants and regulate growth, differentiation and development.


Two Categories of Phytohormones:

① Plant growth promoters: Examples are auxins, gibberellins and cytokinins.
② Plant growth inhibitors: Examples are abscisic acid, ethylene.


All about Auxins
⒈ Auxins are weakly acidic growth hormones.

⒉ Darwin (1880) was first to find about Auxins in the tip of canary grass.

⒊ These hormones are found in shoot apex, leaf Primordia and developing seeds.

CBSE Class 9 - Maths - Chapter 10 - Circles - Important Terms You Should Know (#cbseNotes)

Chapter 10 - Circles - Important Terms You Should Know

1. A circle is a collection (set) of all those points in a plane, each one of which is at a constant distance from a fixed point in the plane.


2. The fixed point is called the centre and the constant distance is called the radius of the circle.

3. All the points lying inside a circle are called its interior points and all those points which lie outside the circle are called its exterior points.

4. The collection (set) of all interior points of a circle is called the interior of the circle while the collection of all exterior points of a circle is called the exterior of the circle.

5. A line segment joining two points on a circle is called the chord of the circle.

English Vocabulary: 30 Commonly Used Phrasal Verbs You Must Know (#cbseNotes) (#EnglishVocabulary)

30 Commonly Used Phrasal Verbs
You Must Know

A phrasal verb is a group of words that functions as a verb and is made up of a verb plus a preposition, an adverb, or both. Phrasal verbs are very common in English usage. Therefore it is important to learn about these verbs. Moreover, the meaning of a verb often changes significantly when it is used in a phrasal verb.


1. bring about : cause

2. bring up : rear children

3. call back : return a telephone call

4. call off : cancel

5. catch up : reach the same position or level

6. check in : register at a hotel

General Knowledge - Tribes and Races Of the World (#compete4Exams) (#cbseNotes)

Tribes and Races Of the World

Afridis:
A race of hill men on the north-west frontier of Pakistan (tribal area of Waziristan).

Bedouins:
Nomadic tribe of Arabia, spread over the whole of Northern Africa and Western Asia.

Bhils:
A primitive Dravidian race inhabiting Central India.

Bhil Women

Boer:
A name applied to South Africans of Dutch or Huguenot descent, especially to early settlers of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and their descendants.

Bushmen:
They live in the Kalahari desert. They are probably the descendants of the earliest inhabitants of Africa. They rank among the most uncivilized and backward peoples in the world. Their food consists almost entirely of meat, often raw or decomposed, and in times of scarcity they will eat insects, snakes etc.

CBSE Class 9 - Biology - Why Do We Fall ill? ( Important Terms to Remember) (#cbseNotes)

Why Do We Fall Ill?  Important Terms to Remember 

Here a few definitions are listed. Can you identify the terms defined here.


Decrease in number of RBCs and heamoglobin concentration.


A condition in which the normal functioning of the body or any part of it is damaged or disturbed.


A rapidly appearing disease, which lasts only in a few days.


A long lasting or a persisting disease.

CBSE Class 6 -10 - English Grammar - Practice Jumbled Up Sentences (#cbseNotes)

 Practice Jumbled Up Sentences

Try online exercise

Jumbled Up Sentences or Rearrange words to form meaningful and grammatically correct sentence. These questions are pretty common in question papers.

You may try the following links to practice this exercise.

CBSE Class 10 - Biology - Heredity and Evolution - Origin Of Life On Earth (Concept Points) (#cbseNotes)

Origin Of Life On Earth (Concept Points)

① Most scientists believed that life arose from nonliving matter, mostly from gases. It originated in primitive form in the oceans of the earth.

② 4 billion years ago, the primitive atmosphere was formed. It had little oxygen and was likely thick with water vapor, along with compounds released by volcanic eruptions, such as nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen.

Learn English Vocabulary From News Papers - September 22 2017 (Day 16)

Learn English Vocabulary From News Papers - September 22 2017 (Day 16)

The Indian Express

Graft

Ex-Judge in CBI net for graft,...

meaning: (verb) piece of living tissue or plant cut from one body and used to repair other body damaged part.
(noun) act of getting money through dishonest way ( कलम लगाना, घूस,  कठोर परिश्रम)


examples:
1. Although he denied graft charges, the judge found him guilty.
2. It was a skin graft operation which restored his face.