Last 3 Days Revision Prelims 2020

Last 3 Days Revision Prelims 2020

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Polity

• Presidential vs Parliamentary System and Separation of Power
• Charter Act 1853, 1892,1909,1919 : Parliamentary tradition and Question Hour
• Amendment of constitution and Basic structure
• Concept of citizen in Constitution and CAA , NPR ,NRC
• Human Right
• FR : 19, 20,21,22,23,24, 29,30,32
• DPSP : 42^ND CAA
• FD
• Sessions of Parliament
• Zero hour ,Question hour : Types of question starred and unstarred
• Parliamentary control
• Consolidated Fund of India
• Delimitation and Delimitation Commission
• Parliamentary STANDING Committee
• Private Member BILL
• Office of profit
• Parliamentary privileges
• Nominated members
• Speaker and deputy speaker
• Bills – lapsing provisions
• RS election
• RS special powers
• State Legislative Council and its abolition
• Disqualification of member
• Business Advisory Committee
• Quorum
• No confidence Motion
• Floor test
• Governor and Assembly
• Ordinance
• MPLAD
• Joint Session of Parliament
• Motions
• Nominated member
• Speaker Role in State Assembly
• Anglo Indian nomination
• Parliamentary conventions
• Money Bill
• Adjourn sine die
• Private Member’s Bills Passing
• Bill passing
• Demand of grant
• Pro term speaker
• No confidence motion
• Cabinet
• Cabinet Committee
• President power – Impeachment of President
• Supreme Court: jurisdiction
• Independence of judiciary judges, removal
• Role of SC and HC in protection of HR
• Transfer of judge
• Constitutional Bench
• High Court : creation, number of judges, removal of judge
• NALSA
• Writs of HC vs SC
• Gram Nyayalayas
• Contempt of court
• Chief Justice of India and HC
• Consumer Rights
• Consumer Protection Act
• 7^th Schedule
• Inter – State Water Disputes
• 5^th, 6^th Schedule
• GST Compensation Act
• Presidents rule and Art 356
• Governors appointment and removal
• Governor’s discretionary power
• NHRC
  (HRA amended)
• CIC(RIT amended)
• CVC
• National Minorities Commission
• Lokpal and lokayukta act
• Official language Act, Schedule 8 language, High Court Language, Disaster Management Act, Epidemic Act
• National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, DPCO , CDSCO, Central administrative Tribunal
• Schemes for Unorganized Sector, migrant workers Inter State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979

Economy

• RBI  and its functions
• Inflation targeting and MPC
• Monetary policy : Open market operation, Bank rate, Repo rate, Reverse Repo Rate LAF, SLR,MCLR
• Money supply ( M0, M1 , M2, M3 and M4) and Currency in circulation
• OMO and Operation Twist and OMO and bond yield, Yield inversion
• Ways and Mean Advances
• Forex Reserves

Composition: Focus on where RBI puts this reserve

Value and Why it is increasing

Rank in world

Interest earned on forex reserve

Dividend  and Surplus

Liberalized Remittances scheme

RBI Contingency Fund

• Banking : Bank consolidation ,RBI regulatory role –Banking license, etc Cooperative banks and Urban Cooperative bank license, RRBs
• Run on Bank
• Priority Sector Lending and Certificates
• NBFC vs Bank and NBFC crisis ( Shadow Banking
  ) Asset Liability Mismatch
• FSDC
• BASEL norms, BASEL COMMIITTEE, Capital Adequacy Ratio, bank capitalisation
• Bank Nationalization : 50 years, Private banks vs PSU banks, SBI rank
• Payment Infrastructure Development fund
• Loan moratorium ,Insolvency code
• DICGC limit increased
• Inflation: CPI vs WPI, Headline vs Core, How to control, Inflation vs Growth
• Types of unemployment: Frictional, structural , disguised
• GDP calculation controversy, Economic growth formula,GDP VS GVA( GNP,NNP,PPI,NI) –trends are important for past one decade, Real vs Nominal GDP,NSO
• Base effect
• Stagflation
• IIP: Core sector
• Slowdown vs Recession vs Depression
• Recovery : V VS U VS W Shape
• FDI policy
• Savings and Investment rates trend
• Crowding in and crowding out of investments
• Foreign bonds
• ASEEM PORTALA
• Unorganized social security Act 2008
• PMSYM
• Global Commission on the Future of Work-ILO
• ILO -144
• Taxes: Direct vs Indirect, Trends in Direct and Indirect Tax, Corporate Tax cut , Composition of Direct Tax, Tax buoyancy vs Tax elasticity, Tax base, Revenue foregone
• Predatory pricing
• CCI
• Commercial papers (CPs), debentures and certificates of deposit(CDs)
• Off budget items
• Disinvestment, strategic disinvestment, ways of disinvesting
• Inverted Duty structure
• Controller general of Account
• Equalization levy / google tax, BEPS
• National Infrastructure Pipeline
• KUSUM
• Agriculture infrastructure Fund
• Bharat Net
• Digital divide
• Strategic Petroleum reserves
• Infrastructure Investment trusts, Real estate investment trusts
• Fiscal Deficit and FRBM Act, FRBM Escape Clause Borrowing of state and center, 15^th Finance Commission, Non-tax receipts, Capital receipts, Revenue receipts, Revenue expenditure,  Monetization of deficit
• Fiscal consolidations vs Fiscal stimulus, Revenue foregone
• Anti-dumping duty VS Countervailing duty , DGTR
• Cess vs Surcharges
• Equalization levy / google tax, BEPS
• Disinvestment
• GST Compensation
• BOP basics : current account and capital account composition and trends( FDI,FII, P-notes), External Commercial Borrowing
• Currency devaluation and appreciation ( Rupee devaluation) causes and remedy, its impact on inflation and other macro economy indicators
• Atmanirbhar Bharat
• Negative List

Budget Related:

• Smart Meter
• Ease of living
• Budget theme
• Seaweed
• Cropping pattern
• Integrated farming system
• ZBNF
• TECH Textile
• National Gas Grid
• TReds
• Nirvik

History and art and culture 

• Indus valley civilization sites and trade relations: Lothal:-a national maritime heritage complex is being planned. Rakhigarhi
• Aryan origin
• Buddhist sites and religion
• Sangamage,Keeladi excavation
• Gupta’s
• Thirukkuzhal and Thiruvalluvar
• Mamallapuram and Pallava architecture
• Indian ancient languages and literature
• Brihadeshwara temple
• Ancient Indian universities
• Taxilla university 2.Nalanda university
• Guru Nanak,Sikhism and Bhakti
• Shankardeva
• Kabir
• Medieval literature
• Bhakti saints
• Vedantadeshikan
• Port cities in India
• Scientific contributions of Ancient India and famous Scientific literature
• Indian Science Congress
• Indian colleges and universities
• Paika rebellion
• Stupa art and architecture
• . DaraSikhon
• Mughal Chronicles

MODERN HISTORY

• Mahatma Gandhi and movements
• INA Subhash Bose:-
• Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
• Anglo-Maratha wa
• Educational developments in colonial period, Macaulay’s minutes, education commissions
• Colonial laws, legal reform, Governor General
• Cellular Jail ,INA
• Swadeshi and Boycott movement
• Noncooperation movement, Khilafat Movement
• Marathas:- political history and administration system
• Poona Pact and Ambedkar
• Ghadr movement, Freedom movements outside India
• History of state reorganization
• Nehru-Liaqat pact, Assam Accord.
• Malabar rebellion
• Lal-Bal-Pal
• Dada Bhai Naroji
• Quit India
• Cellular jail and INA
• Polygars
• Aurobindo Ghosh
• Vaikom Satyagraha,Anti-Brahmin Movement,  Periyar, Sri Narayan Guru
• INC and Second world war , Individual satyagraha
• Events leading to independence
• Bhagat Singh and Assembly case 

Arts and culture: 

• Zardozi
• Temple architecture
• Rajput paintings
• Gothic architecture
• Lutyens and Bakers
• Warli painting
• Saint Ravidasa
• Indian theatre
• Indian philosophy
• Scientific development in medicine
• Classical music and Gharana

Environment:

• Biodiversity: Meaning Type Causes Uses Millennium Ecosystem services-Types, The year 2020 is the “Super Year For Biodiversity”, as the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity with 20 global Aichi targets adopted in 2010 ends in 2020.
• Pollinators and Bio diversity
• Insitu and Ex situ Biosphere Conservation
• Unique role of bats in Ecosystem
• Zoonoses
• Impact of climate change on ocean and coral reefs( ocean acidification and coral bleaching)
• UNCCD- legally binding treaty on desertification, Causes of desertification, Land degradation neutrality, great green Waal initiative FLEUVE Project- Sahel region , Land for life programme, Global Land Outlook
• GEF- 5 environment conventions funded The GEF serves as “financial mechanism” to five conventions
• Climate engineering –carbon capture, Bio char, stratospheric aerosol injection
• Bioremediation
• Bio magnification and Bioaccumulation
• Carbon Neutrality
• Biomedical waste Rule
• WWF- Living Planet Report, Global Soil Biodiversity Report
• National policy on biofuels, generation of biofuels
• Wildlife trade and traffic, TRAFFIC ,CITES
• Green wall of India: Green belt projects in china and Africa
• Corals: Bleaching/ Coral rehabilitation programme
• Carbon Sequestration: soil organic content
• Black carbon
• Tiger census and Tiger reserves( Nagarhole,
• Asiatic Lion, Great Indian bustard
• Eco Sensitive Zone
• EIA
• EPA
• Blue flag certification
• CMA and Migratory species in India
• 6^th Mass Extinction
• BEE
• Green Bonds
• Covid 19 and impact on climate.
• HcFc 141 b and Ozone hole
• Carbon trading
• Amazon fire
• Coral bleaching and coral rehabilitation
• One health
• UNFCC report on cryosphere and Oceans
• Soil and Climate change
• Polymetallic nodules and impacts of mining
• Rare Earth metals
• Arogyapacha plant
• Smog
• Miyawaki method
• EPI
• Protected Agriculture Zone
• Bio fuel and Generation and policy
• Swarm vs surge vs Plague
• CAMPA20TH Live stock
• Algal boom
• CAMPA

IR

• International Court Of criminals vs ICJ
• OPEC and OPEC plus
• WHO role
• UNCTAD and Its report
• WHO Funding
• Developing country status
• World Food Programme (WFP)
• GAVI
• UNSC and Non-permanent member
• Mission Sagar
• Nathula and Line of Actual control
• Spirit of Wuhan and Mahabalipuram
• 75th UNGA
• FATF
• Economic Freedom Index 

Geography

• Western Disturbance
• Sunspots, Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejection
• Earthquake
• Pink Super Moon
• Monsson: Indian Ocean Dipole, El nina, La Nino, Retreating Monsoon
• Cyclone: Hotter Ocean and Super Cyclone, West Coast Cyclone
• Heat waves

Flash Flood

• Locust Attack
• Delhi Earthquake, What are Seismic zones of India, Faults and Earthquake, Richter Scale
• Asteroid 2020 ND and moon
• Impact of Climate Change
• Assam Floods
• Tuting-Tidding Suture Zone
• Moon
• Climate Neutrality
• Drought
• Mamallapuram or Mahabalipuram: The Great Relief
• Cryosphere
• Anticyclone
• Continental Drift Theory
• Smog
• Rat hole Minning
• Easterlies
• Strip Minning
• Withdrawal Of Monsoon
• Ozone and Stratospheric Ozone vs Troposphere Ozone
• Urban Heat Island
• Soil
• Desertification
• Indian Ocean Commission
• International Seabed Authority
• What are EEZ and Continental Self
• Tea and coffee
• Other Plantation crop
• Landslides

Government Schemes

• PM GaribKalyan Anna Yojana(PMGKAY)
• GaribKalyanRojgar
• Abhiyaan
• VandeMatarm Mission
• One Nation One Ration Card
• PMNRF vs PMCARES
• PM GaribKalyan Scheme
• National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF)
• Disaster Management Act, 2005
• PM CARES Fund
• Jal JeevanMissio,AtalBhujalYojna,Jal Shakti Abhiyaan
• Vivad se Vishwas
• MSME
• Nirvik Schemes
• DIPAM
• Fastags
• PoshanAbhiyan
• ,Ayushman Bharat
• Integrated Disease surveillance Program
  • Mission Indradhanush
• Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushdhi Kendra’s –PMBJK
• National AYUSH mission
• National Mental Health Program
• Social security 2008, PMSMDY
• Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (Ministry of Rural
• Development
• National Family Benefit Scheme (Ministry of Rural Development)
• Janani Suraksha Yojana (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare)
• RashtriyaSwasthyaBimaYojana (Ministry of Health and Family
• Welfare)
• Pradhan MantriShram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM)
• EPFO
• Inter State Migration Act
• PM MatsyaSampadaYojana
• Food Processing schemes
• One District One Product
• Open market Sale Scheme
• Agriculture Infrastructure Fund
• KUSU

Mapping

World:

• Strait of Hormuz
• Gulf of Oman
• Korea Mapping-38^th Parallel Line
• South China Sea and Island
• Australia
• Amazon
• Coral bleaching
• Vanilla Island
• Wuhan and China
• Bougainville islands
• Persian Gulf
• Mediterranean Sea
• Islands of Indian Ocean: The Comoros, Madagaskar Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles
• Alps
• Middle East
• Jordan
• Turkey
• Suez Canal

Indian Mapping:

• Dibang Valley
• Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh
• Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve
• Rohtang Tunnel
• Passess in India
• South Indian Rivers
• Kalapani
• LAC, LOC
• Depsang Valley
• Pongong Tso
• Rivers in ladakh and Jammu
• Major Ports in India
• Ladakh
• Gulf of Mannar
• Kerela Backwaters
• Sambhar Lake

Science:

• Golden jubilee PSL and GSLV vs PSLV
• ISRO latest dev (All imp missions)
• Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe)
• SpaceX achievement
• GAGANYAN MISSION (ISRO Manned mission).
• Asteroid and Meteor deflection assessment. (NASA)
• Free space optical communication-Google operation X
• NASA Mission- ANITA based on Antarctica.
• Black holes , Dark energy and matter
• Gravitational waves
• Blackbox in an airplane, Arrestor strength Material
• Generation of aircraft
• Rare Earth Metals-Lithium Ion battery
• Sun spots, Corona Mission Aditya Global magnetic field of the Sun’s corona

COMPUTER SCIENCE:

• Quantum Technologies/Supremacy
• Edge computing/fog computing/cloud computing
• Hyperloop/ Magnetic Levitation.
• Block Chain/Cryptocurrency.
• Industry 4.0
• Cyber Physical Systems Mission.
• National Supercomputing Mission.
• MALWARE/RAMSOMWARE/WANNACRY/BLACKROCK
• AI/Machine Learning.
• Cloud-of-Things based on IoT.
• Superconductivity at room temperature.
• E-waste (Management) Amendment Rules,2018
• Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management & Trans Boundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2019
• E waste clinic
• Block chain 

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

• What are pathogens
• Is virus living or non-living?
• Genome sequencing
• Viral diseases
• Livestock diseases
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Antigen and Antibodies
• Immunity and its types
• Unique role of BAT
• Biofuel
• Microbial fuel cells
• Fortification of Rice/Wheat/maize.
• Nano pharmaceuticals
• Traditional medicine
• DNA DNAprofilinDNA finger printing
• GM crops- Bt cotton and BT brinjal GEAC Genetherap GM Plants
• Golden rice
• Eradicated disease-polio/pox

COVID19 related

• Types of Virus
• Zoonosis
• Testing methods: PCR and Anti-body
• Phases of vaccine trials
• Plasma therapy
• Types of vaccines and its methodology
• Herd immunity
• One health
• Genome sequencing
• Cytokine Storm
• Happy hypoxia
• Tcell immunity
• REVERSE VACCINE
• HUMAN GENOMEGENOME India ProjectGene therapy
• Biosafety level
• Sanitizer
• MANAV Atlas
• Serological test
• Vaccine methodology
• Pandemic vs epidemic
• Stage of transmission
• Covid vs influenza
• Antigen-antibody
• IDSP
• Testing covid methods
• COVID Testing-. Rapid diagnostic test (RDT)
• Immunity passport
• Herd immunity
• Vertical Transmission vs Horizontal
• PM SIZE/MASK CORONA
• R0 Number
• Passive Immunity
• Genetically modified Mosquito
• Zoonotic
• Cytokine storm
• Super spreader
• Contact tracing
• Infection fatality rate
• COVAXIN
• T- Cell immunity
• Solidarity trials
• R0
• Contact tracing 

NUCLEAR SCIENCE

• ITER
• Indian 3 stage nuclear cycleResearch reactor Apsara-U v/s 3^rd generation Reactor.
• LIGO/Neutrino Project

MISCELLANEOUS

• 5G technology comparison with 4G.
• Fastag/RFID technology.
• Omega 3 fatty acids
• RUCO
• LiDAR
• PPVFRA/ITGFRA/CBD/UPOV
• Time Capsule
• Vit D

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