TNPSC key notes

Every key note in the app

Tamil Nadu: history, culture and movements (31)

• Imperial Chola kings in the app
• Pandya kings of Madurai in the app
• Sangam-age Chera Kings in the app
• Pallava Kings of Kanchi in the app
• Sangam poets and their patrons in the app
• Nayaks of Madurai, Thanjavur and Gingee, and the Sethupathis in the app
• The Poligar leaders of Tamil Nadu in the app
• The five thinais of Sangam society in the app
• The Self-Respect Movement: milestones in the app
• Thirukkural: structure and world reputation in the app
• Bharathiyar and Bharathidasan in the app
• Women freedom fighters of Tamil Nadu in the app
• The freedom movement in Madras Presidency: a timeline in the app
• Sangam-age excavations and Roman trade in the app
• The Justice Party: milestones in the app
• Dravidian-movement newspapers and their founders in the app
• Prehistoric Tamil Nadu: sites and their discoverers in the app
• Social reformers of Tamil Nadu and their cause in the app
• Freedom fighters of Tamil Nadu: their titles in the app
• Temples of Tamil Nadu and who built them in the app
• Inscriptions and copper plates of South India in the app
• Tamil Nadu's social and political firsts in the app
• Tamil language and identity: milestones in the app
• Nationalist newspapers of Madras Presidency in the app
• Chola administration: the vocabulary in the app
• Who translated the Thirukkural, and into what in the app
• Tamil writers and their Sahitya Akademi / Jnanpith awards in the app
• Tamil literary firsts in the app
• Pallava architecture: the styles and their pioneers in the app
• Sangam polity: academies, script, grammar and court terms in the app
• Ramalinga Adigal (Vallalar): life, institutions, works in the app

Indian polity (45)

• Prime Ministers of India since 1947 in the app
• Landmark Constitutional Amendments in the app
• Fundamental Rights: Article to Right, 12–35 in the app
• Panchayati Raj committees in the app
• Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha: the numbers in the app
• Finance Commission chairmen in the app
• Constitutional bodies and their Article in the app
• The three Emergencies in the app
• Lokpal and Lokayukta in the app
• The Preamble: words, dates, verdicts in the app
• Governor and state executive: Article to subject in the app
• Directive Principles: Article to provision in the app
• The 12 Schedules of the Constitution in the app
• Landmark Supreme Court Cases in the app
• Sources of the Indian Constitution in the app
• The 11 Fundamental Duties in the app
• Centre-State relations: the committees in the app
• The Right to Information Act, 2005 in the app
• Citizenship: Articles and how it is acquired in the app
• Constituent Assembly: committees and chairmen in the app
• How the states of India were formed in the app
• Backward Classes Commissions in the app
• Parliamentary committees in the app
• Judiciary: Article to subject in the app
• Union Executive: Article to subject in the app
• Panchayati Raj: Article to subject in the app
• Presidents of India in the app
• Elections: Article to subject in the app
• Chief Justices of India (1st–25th) in the app
• Chief Justices of India (26th–53rd) in the app
• Chief Election Commissioners of India in the app
• Vice-Presidents of India in the app
• Urban local government: corporations and cantonments in the app
• Union, State and Concurrent Lists: sample subjects in the app
• Federalism: key Articles in the app
• Consumer Protection Act and Lok Adalat in the app
• Watchdog bodies: when they were set up in the app
• Political parties: founding years in the app
• Parliamentary devices and motions in the app
• State Legislature: composition rules in the app
• Electoral reform committees in the app
• Speakers of the Lok Sabha in the app
• Commissions of inquiry: who probed what in the app
• High Courts: when, where, for whom in the app
• Preventive detention and security Acts in the app

History and culture of India (38)

• Indian National Congress: Sessions, Venues and Presidents in the app
• Mughal emperors: reigns and succession, Babur to Aurangzeb in the app
• Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army in the app
• Socio-religious reform movements and their founders in the app
• Delhi Sultanate: five dynasties and their rulers in the app
• Cabinet Mission to Partition, 1945-1947 in the app
• Governors-General and Viceroys: Their Defining Acts in the app
• Gandhi's Satyagraha Campaigns, 1917–1942 in the app
• Simon Commission to the Government of India Act, 1927–1935 in the app
• Newspapers of early nationalism and social reform, and who ran them in the app
• Gupta Empire: emperors and their achievements in the app
• Vijayanagara Empire: Four Dynasties and Their Kings in the app
• Revolt of 1857: leaders, centres and how each one ended in the app
• Indus Valley sites: location, river/state and excavator in the app
• Maratha power: Shivaji to the Peshwas in the app
• Acts of the British Parliament for India, 1773–1947 in the app
• Titles and nicknames of national leaders in the app
• Foreign travellers to India in the app
• Revolutionary organisations and conspiracy cases in the app
• Battles that made and unmade the Mughal Empire in the app
• Carnatic Wars, Plassey and Buxar in the app
• Land revenue systems: Permanent, Ryotwari, Mahalwari in the app
• Vedic literature: Vedas, layers and Vedangas in the app
• Political associations before the Congress in the app
• Battles of ancient and medieval India in the app
• Chalukyas and Rashtrakutas in the app
• The Bahmani kingdom and the five Deccan Sultanates in the app
• European trading companies in India: who settled where in the app
• After the Mauryas: Sungas to Harsha in the app
• Tribal and peasant uprisings against British rule in the app
• Buddhism and Jainism: councils, texts and key facts in the app
• World War II and the Quit India Movement in the app
• Newspapers of the Gandhian era and their founders in the app
• Laws for women, 1795–2005 in the app
• Delhi Sultanate administration: offices and departments in the app
• Shivaji's Ashtapradhan: the council of eight in the app
• Bhakti saints, Sufi orders and Sikh Gurus in the app
• Magadha before the Guptas: Haryanka to the Mauryas in the app

Geography (53)

• India's major dams and multipurpose projects: river and state in the app
• Soils of India: formation, properties and crops in the app
• Major rivers of India: where each one is born in the app
• Local winds and regional storm names, matched to place in the app
• Tribes of India (and the world) and their homeland in the app
• Census 2011: India vs Tamil Nadu, the numbers TNPSC keeps asking in the app
• Crop and the state that leads India in growing it in the app
• Indian Railways: every zone and its headquarters in the app
• Tamil Nadu districts: what each one is famous for in the app
• Disaster management: the agency, the acronym, the hazard in the app
• Tamil Nadu districts: who tops and who trails in the app
• India's major ports, east coast to west in the app
• Metals and the ores they come from in the app
• Tamil Nadu's minerals and where they are found in the app
• Lakes of India and their states in the app
• The monsoon's machinery: terms and the people behind them in the app
• Tamil Nadu's wildlife sanctuaries, by district in the app
• Climate agreements: what each one actually did in the app
• Shifting cultivation: same practice, different name everywhere in the app
• Major disasters in and around India, a timeline in the app
• Biosphere reserves of India in the app
• Steel plants of India in the app
• Straits, gulfs and islands around India in the app
• Ocean currents and trenches, matched to their ocean in the app
• Tamil Nadu: rivers and irrigation facts in the app
• World deserts and grasslands, by region in the app
• Stages of demographic transition in the app
• Mountain passes: the Himalaya and Tamil Nadu in the app
• Pressure belts and the atmosphere's layers in the app
• Rivers and their tributaries in the app
• Water laws, treaties and missions: a timeline in the app
• India: size, borders and location, in numbers in the app
• Tamil Nadu's seasons and rainfall in the app
• National highways and the Golden Quadrilateral in the app
• International airports and the names behind them in the app
• Tamil Nadu's power plants, by type in the app
• Renewable energy: India's and Tamil Nadu's landmarks in the app
• The Census of India: a short timeline in the app
• Species conservation projects of India in the app
• Population and migration: theory and thinker in the app
• River water disputes and the states involved in the app
• Himalayan peaks, tallest to shortest in the app
• Koppen's climate codes, as applied to India in the app
• How Tamil Nadu got its districts in the app
• Classifying a hazard: types and examples in the app
• Hill stations of Tamil Nadu and India in the app
• Agriculture words TNPSC defines by asking in the app
• Forest types of India, by rainfall in the app
• Tamil Nadu transport: firsts and landmarks in the app
• India's industrial firsts in the app
• Towns by function: what each one is known for in the app
• Rocks: igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic in the app
• Global environmental organisations: when founded in the app

General science (41)

• Endocrine glands and the hormones they secrete in the app
• Diseases: the pathogen that causes them and its type in the app
• Cellular respiration: stage, location and ATP yield in the app
• Biology's founding scientists and what each is known for in the app
• Blood: composition, groups and clotting — key facts in the app
• Physical quantities and their SI units in the app
• The planets: order, revolution period and one defining fact in the app
• Vitamins: B-numbers, sources and deficiency diseases in the app
• Computer and IT terms: what the abbreviation stands for in the app
• National parks and sanctuaries of India, by state in the app
• Physics and chemistry: the scientist behind the discovery in the app
• Vaccines: the disease, the maker, the type in the app
• Environment and wildlife laws, by year in the app
• ISRO centres and their locations in the app
• Common chemicals: trivial name and chemical identity in the app
• Common alloys and what they are made of in the app
• Fertilizers: formula, type and the nutrient it supplies in the app
• Instruments and what they measure in the app
• Natural sources of acids in the app
• Chromosomal disorders and their karyotype in the app
• Acid-base indicators and their colour change in the app
• Cell organelles and their functions in the app
• Laws of motion with everyday examples in the app
• Minerals in the diet and their deficiencies in the app
• The electromagnetic spectrum and its uses in the app
• Plant hormones and what they do in the app
• ISRO's major missions and their launch vehicles in the app
• Indian scientific institutions and where they are in the app
• Hormone excess or deficiency and the disorder it causes in the app
• Units for the very large and the very small in the app
• Everyday technology and the principle it runs on in the app
• Plant movements: the plant and its movement in the app
• Diagnostic tests and the disease each detects in the app
• Common salts: everyday name and formula in the app
• Taxonomic hierarchy, smallest to largest in the app
• pH of everyday substances in the app
• Mirrors and lenses: images and uses in the app
• Common plants and their scientific (binomial) names in the app
• Algae: pigment, colour and stored food in the app
• Isotopes, isobars and isotones in the app
• Elements named from Latin: the name behind the symbol in the app

Indian economy (38)

• Tamil Nadu government schemes of the last 10 years — Education in the app
• Tamil Nadu government schemes of the last 10 years — Health in the app
• TN schemes of the last 10 years — Women and girl children in the app
• Tamil Nadu Schemes of the Last 10 Years — Agriculture & Rural in the app
• Tamil Nadu Schemes of the Last 10 Years — Governance & Welfare in the app
• India's Five Year Plans in the app
• Central Flagship Schemes, with Launch Years in the app
• NITI Aayog: structure and functions in the app
• Rural employment and poverty-alleviation schemes, in order in the app
• Goods and Services Tax: the facts TNPSC asks every year in the app
• Banks and financial institutions, with founding years in the app
• Economists and what they are known for in the app
• Central health programmes, with launch years in the app
• Acts and schemes: women, children, the differently-abled in the app
• HDI and the indices built from it in the app
• Named "revolutions" in Indian agriculture in the app
• Committees of Indian economic policy, and what each was for in the app
• Who drew India's poverty line in the app
• Education commissions and committees in the app
• Agricultural institutions and their acronyms in the app
• Land reforms in India and Tamil Nadu in the app
• GDP, GNP, NNP, NDP — what each means in the app
• RBI's monetary policy tools in the app
• Direct and indirect taxes in India in the app
• Plans before the Planning Commission in the app
• Types of unemployment in the app
• Health and education acronyms TNPSC tests in the app
• Tamil Nadu's industrial agencies, with founding years in the app
• District revenue administration and land records in the app
• Sustainable Development Goals and Tamil Nadu in the app
• Economic and consumer Acts, with years in the app
• India's Industrial Policy Resolutions in the app
• Tamil Nadu's e-governance agencies in the app
• The Constitution's budget and tax articles in the app
• Types of budget deficit, and how each is calculated in the app
• Primary to quinary sectors — and the 'collar' workers in the app
• Industry nicknames and Tamil Nadu's industry clusters in the app
• Helpline numbers to memorise in the app

Aptitude and mental ability (30)

• Probability Formulas in the app
• HCF and LCM Formulas in the app
• Number Series Pattern Types in the app
• Time and Work: the formulas in the app
• Averages Shortcuts in the app
• Area and Perimeter Formulas (Plane Figures) in the app
• Ratio and Proportion Formulas in the app
• Time, Speed and Distance Formulas in the app
• Simple and Compound Interest formulas in the app
• Volume and Surface Area Formulas (Solids) in the app
• Arithmetic and Geometric Progression formulas in the app
• Simplification and surds — the rules in the app
• Profit, Loss and Discount Formulas in the app
• Clock formulas in the app
• Calendar and odd days in the app
• Squares and cubes, 1 to 30 in the app
• Coding-Decoding Rules in the app
• Range, Variance and Standard Deviation formulas in the app
• Mean, Median, Mode Formulas in the app
• HCF and LCM of Polynomials — Identities in the app
• Mixtures and Alligation Formulas in the app
• Divisibility and unit-digit rules in the app
• Algebra and equations shortcuts in the app
• Painted cube and dice rules in the app
• Direction sense formulas in the app
• Permutations and Combinations formulas in the app
• Laws of Indices in the app
• Blood Relations Quick-Reference in the app
• Pie chart and graph formulas in the app
• Set and Venn diagram formulas in the app

Current events and miscellany (19)

• Books in the news — book and author in the app
• Important days — World / International in the app
• India's recent 'firsts' — defence, infrastructure and Tamil Nadu in the app
• Indian sportspersons and their sport in the app
• Important days — India in the app
• Headquarters of international organisations in the app
• National sports awards — what each honours in the app
• India's national symbols in the app
• India's civilian and gallantry awards, in rank order in the app
• Host cities of major international sporting events in the app
• Regional and global groupings — members, founding in the app
• Musicians, their instruments and their honours in the app
• People who were 'firsts' — barriers broken in the app
• Indian literary awards and the national Akademis in the app
• Global indices and who publishes them in the app
• Nobel Prize — Indian and India-linked laureates in the app
• Sports: cups, trophies and terms in the app
• Nicknames of places, and 'father of' epithets in the app
• Named operations and joint military exercises in the app

General Tamil (64)

• Verb forms: Vinaimutru, Echam and verbal nouns in the app
• Split & Join Word Patterns in the app
• Root Word → Derived Forms in the app
• Singular and plural (Orumai – Panmai) in the app
• Question & Answer Types in Tamil Grammar in the app
• Kindred, demonstrative and interrogative letters in the app
• Sandhi (Joining) Rules in the app
• Connective Words for Fill-in-the-Blank in the app
• Collective Nouns (Koottuppeyar) in the app
• Thogai (compound-word) types in the app
• Tamil Alphabetical Order Reference in the app
• Metonymy Types (Aakupeyar) in the app
• Yappu (யாப்பு) — Thodai, Thalai, Adi and Alapedai in the app
• Ani (அணி) — figures of speech in Tamil verse in the app
• The eight cases (Vetrumai, வேற்றுமை) in the app
• Tamil numerals (தமிழ் எண்கள்) in the app
• Porulkol and Vazhakku types (பொருள்கோள், வழக்கு) in the app
• Synonym Sets — Many Words, One Meaning (I) in the app
• Synonym Sets — Many Words, One Meaning (II) in the app
• Sound-Alike Words, Different Meanings in the app
• One word, many meanings (Palaporul Orusol) in the app
• Common Antonym Pairs (Etirchol) in the app
• Spoken vs Written Usage Pairs in the app
• Place-Name Contractions (Maruu) in the app
• One-Letter Words (Orezhuthu Oru Mozhi) in the app
• Pure Tamil for everyday loanwords in the app
• Thanvinai, Piravinai, Seyvinai, Seyappaattu Vinai in the app
• Punctuation Marks in the app
• Animal & Bird Marabu Words (Oli, Ilamai, Vinai) in the app
• Thinai (திணை) and Paal (பால்): two classes, five genders in the app
• Kalaichol — Office, Money and Business Terms in the app
• Kalaichol — Law, Governance and Society Terms in the app
• Technical Terms — Education & Medicine in the app
• Technical Terms — Science & Technology in the app
• Technical Terms — Geography & Media in the app
• Technical Terms — Information Technology in the app
• Proverbs Frequently Asked in the app
• Idiomatic Phrases (Marabu Thodar) in the app
• Simile Phrases (Uvamai Thodar) — the meanings TNPSC asks in the app
• General English-Tamil Word Pairs in the app
• Pathinen Keezhkanakku — the Eighteen Minor Works in the app
• Ettuthogai — the eight Sangam anthologies in the app
• 20th-century Tamil fiction, drama and essay writers and their works in the app
• Modern Tamil poets: titles and pen-names in the app
• Titles of Tamil scholars and reformers in the app
• Praise of Tamil — the line and who said it in the app
• Nayanmars and Azhwars — the Bhakti poet-saints and their works in the app
• Sirrilakkiyam (சிற்றிலக்கியம்) — minor literary forms and their works in the app
• The Dravidian language family and its branches in the app
• Thirukkural — who praised it, in which line in the app
• The Five Great and Five Minor Epics of Tamil in the app
• Pathuppattu (பத்துப்பாட்டு) — the Ten Idylls in the app
• Epics and Puranas — how many parts each has in the app
• Christian, Islamic and 19th-century works in the app
• Landmark Tamil works and their authors in the app
• Reformers and their lines — who said it in the app
• Dravidian and Tamil linguists — who said what in the app
• Tamil magazines and who ran them in the app
• Foreign scholars who served Tamil in the app
• Famous libraries and what each is known for in the app
• Tamil folk performing arts (நிகழ்த்துக் கலைகள்) in the app
• Thirukkural: the prescribed chapters (25) in the app
• Pa vagaigal (பா வகைகள்) — Tamil verse types in the app
• Paruvangal (பருவங்கள்): Pillai Tamil's ten and a woman's seven in the app

General English (46)

• Prepositions — the fixed combinations TNPSC tests in the app
• Simple, Compound and Complex sentences — the clues in the app
• Articles (a / an / the) — core usage rules in the app
• TNPSC's Favourite Sentence-Correction Traps in the app
• Question Tags — the Formation Rules in the app
• The twelve tenses — structure and example in the app
• The basic English sentence patterns in the app
• Gerund, Infinitive, Participle — the non-finite verb forms in the app
• Active ↔ Passive Voice — the conversion rules in the app
• Irregular and tricky plural forms in the app
• Recognising the eight parts of speech in the app
• Degrees of Comparison — Positive ↔ Comparative ↔ Superlative in the app
• Subject–verb agreement — the core rules in the app
• Direct ↔ Indirect Speech — the conversion rules in the app
• Sentence types and how TNPSC converts them in the app
• Common prefixes and their meanings (1 of 2) in the app
• Common suffixes and their meanings (2 of 2) in the app
• British English ↔ American English — word pairs in the app
• Blended (portmanteau) words in the app
• Phrasal verbs — the meanings TNPSC tests in the app
• Idioms — the meanings TNPSC tests in the app
• Homophones and confusable word pairs in the app
• One-word substitutes, including the phobia/mania family in the app
• Compound words — types and examples in the app
• Noun ↔ Verb ↔ Adjective ↔ Adverb — word-class conversion in the app
• The formal letter — parts in order, salutation, close and types in the app
• Administrative, legal, commerce and technical terms in the app
• Figures of Speech — with TNPSC's own quoted lines in the app
• People in the English Reader — one key fact each in the app
• Famous quotes: who said it (not Shakespeare) in the app
• Poet to poem, M-Z (poet's surname) in the app
• Poet to Poem: Surnames A–L in the app
• Which story: characters M-Z in the app
• Julius Caesar: who said that line in the app
• Which story: characters A–L in the app
• The Merchant of Venice: who said that line in the app
• British authors and their works in the app
• Indian writers and their works in the app
• American authors and their works in the app
• The Merchant of Venice: who everyone is in the app
• Julius Caesar: who everyone is in the app
• Literary forms: sonnet, ballad, dirge and the rest in the app
• Nobel and other awards in the English reader in the app
• What kind of writing is each prose lesson in the app
• Poets and their literary period in the app
• Dance forms and their states in the app