#Exam guides

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Top 10 Publishers to Consider this Exam Season!

As the exam season approaches, students across the globe are gearing up for one of the most crucial periods in their academic journey. With the pressure mounting and the stakes high, it's essential to have the right study materials at hand to ace those exams. Thankfully, there are several top-notch publishers out there dedicated to providing comprehensive and reliable resources to help students succeed. Here's a rundown of the top 10 publishers you should consider this exam season:

Arihant Publishers: Known for their extensive range of study guides, practice papers, and reference books, Arihant Publishers have been a trusted name in the educational publishing industry for years. Their well-structured content and thorough coverage of various subjects make them a go-to choice for students preparing for competitive exams.

2. S Chand & Co Ltd: With a legacy spanning over seven decades, S Chand & Co Ltd has established itself as a leading publisher of educational books and materials. Their diverse catalog includes textbooks, guidebooks, and reference materials catering to students across different academic levels and disciplines.

3. Disha Publication: Disha Publication is synonymous with quality study materials and exam-oriented resources. From entrance exams to board exams, their books cover a wide array of subjects and topics, helping students build a strong foundation and excel in their exams.

4. Ramesh Publishing House: Ramesh Publishing House is renowned for its comprehensive study guides and practice sets for competitive exams. Their books are meticulously crafted to cover the syllabus effectively, making them an invaluable resource for aspirants preparing for various government job exams.

5. Lucent Publication: Specializing in general knowledge and objective-type questions, Lucent Publication is a trusted name among students preparing for competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, and banking exams. Their books are known for their clarity, conciseness, and relevance to exam patterns.

6. Upkar Prakashan: Upkar Prakashan is a leading publisher of study materials for competitive exams in India. With a focus on current affairs, general knowledge, and aptitude tests, their books help students stay updated and well-prepared for a wide range of exams.

7. Prabhat Prakashan: Prabhat Prakashan offers a diverse range of educational books covering subjects like history, geography, science, and mathematics. Their well-researched content and student-friendly approach make them a preferred choice among students and educators alike.

8. Mtg Learning Media: Mtg Learning Media is known for its comprehensive study guides and question banks for school exams, board exams, and competitive entrance exams. Their books are designed to enhance conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills among students.

9. Oswaal Books: Oswaal Books is synonymous with excellence in educational publishing, offering a wide range of study materials, question banks, and sample papers for CBSE, ICSE, and various competitive exams. Their books are crafted to provide students with a competitive edge and help them achieve academic success.

10. Dhanpat Rai Publications: Dhanpat Rai Publications, popularly known as D. R. Gupta Publications, is a trusted name in the field of educational publishing. Their books cover a wide range of subjects and are tailored to meet the specific requirements of students preparing for school exams, board exams, and competitive entrance exams.

As you embark on your exam preparation journey, consider these top 10 publishers to access high-quality study materials and resources that will help you succeed. Remember to choose materials that align with your exam syllabus and study preferences, and don't forget to supplement your preparation with regular practice and revision. With the right resources at your disposal, you'll be well-equipped to tackle any exam with confidence and achieve your academic goals.

[inky-duchess]

Fantasy Guide to Building A Culture

Culture is defined by a collection of morals, ethics, traditions, customs and behaviours shared by a group of people.

Hierarchy and Social Structures

Within every culture, there is a hierarchy. Hierarchies are an important part of any culture, usually do ingrained that one within the culture wouldn't even question it. Hierarchy can be established either by age, gender or wealth and could even determine roles within their society. Sometimes hierarchy can may be oppressive and rigid whilst other times, ranks can intermingle without trouble. You should consider how these different ranks interact with one another and whether there are any special gestures or acts of deference one must pay to those higher than them. For example, the Khasi people of Meghalaya (Northern India), are strictly matrillineal. Women run the households, inheritance runs through the female line, and the men of the culture typically defer to their mothers and wives. Here are a few questions to consider:

How is a leader determined within the culture as a whole and the family unit?

Is the culture matriarchal? Patriarchal? Or does gender even matter?

How would one recognise the different ranks?

How would one act around somebody higher ranking? How would somebody he expected to act around somebody lower ranking?

Can one move socially? If not, why? If so, how?

Traditions and Customs

Traditions are a staple in any culture. These can be gestures or living life a certain way or to the way a certain person should look. Traditions are a personal detail to culture, they are what make it important. Tradition can dictate how one should keep their home, run their family, take care of their appearance, act in public and even determine relationship. Tradition can also be a double edged sword. Traditions can also be restrictive and allow a culture to push away a former member if they do not adhere to them, eg Traditional expectations of chastity led to thousands of Irish women being imprisoned at the Magdelene Laundries. Customs could be anything from how one treats another, to how they greet someone.

How important is tradition?

What are some rituals your culture undertakes?

What are some traditional values in your world? Does it effect daily life?

Are there any traditions that determine one's status?

Values and Opinions

Values and Opinions are the bread and butter of any culture. This is the way your culture sees the world and how they approach different life hurdles. These may differ with other cultures and be considered odd to outsiders, what one culture may value another may not and what opinion another holds, one may not. There will be historical and traditional reasons to why these values and opinions are held. Cultures usually have a paragon to which they hold their members to, a list of characteristics that they expect one to if not adhere to then aspire to. The Yoruba people value honesty, hard work, courage and integrity. Here are some questions to consider?

How important are these ethics and core values? Could somebody be ostracised for not living up to them?

What are some morals that clash with other cultures?

What does your culture precieved to be right? Or wrong?

What are some opinions that are considered to be taboo in your culture? Why?

Dress Code

For many cultures, the way somebody dresses can be important. History and ethics can effect how one is meant to be dressed such as an expectation of chastity, can impose strict modesty. While other cultures, put more importance on details, the different sorts of clothes worn and when or what colour one might wear. The Palestinian people (من النهر إلى البحر ، قد يكونون أحرارا) denoted different family ties, marriage status and wealth by the embroidery and detailing on their thoub.

Are there traditional clothes for your world? Are they something somebody wears on a daily basis or just on occasion?

Are there any rules around what people can wear?

What would be considered formal dress? Casual dress?

What would happen if somebody wore the wrong clothes to an event?

Language

Language can also be ingrained as part of a Culture. It can be a specific way one speaks or a an entirely different language. For example, in the Southern States of America, one can engage in a sort of double talk, saying something that sounds sweet whilst delivering something pointed. Bless their heart. I have a post on creating your own language here.

Arts, Music and Craft

Many cultures are known for different styles of dance, their artwork and crafts. Art is a great part of culture, a way for people to express themselves and their culture in art form. Dance can be an integral part of culture, such as céilí dance in Ireland or the Polka in the Czech Republic. Handicrafts could also be important in culture, such as knitting in Scottish culture and Hebron glass in Palestine. Music is also close to culture, from traditional kinds of singing such as the White Voice in Ukraine and the playing of certain instruments such as the mvet.

Food and Diet

The way a culture prepares or intakes or treats certain foods are important to a culture. In some cultures, there is a diet yo adhere to, certain foods are completely banned. With Jewish culture, pork is prohibited along with fish such as sturgeon, along with shellfish and certain fowl. Meat must also be prepared in a certain way and animal byproducts such as dairy, must never be created or even eaten around this meat. This is known as kosher. The way one consumes food is also important to culture. In some cultures, only certain people may eat together. Some cultures place important on how food is eaten. In Nigerian culture, the oldest guests are served first usually the men before the women. In Japanese culture, one must say 'itadakimasu' (I recieve) before eating. Culture may also include fasting, periods of time one doesn't intake food for a specific reason.

What are some traditional dishes in your world?

What would be a basic diet for the common man?

What's considered a delicacy?

Is there a societal difference in diet? What are the factors that effect diet between classes?

Is there any influence from other cuisines? If not, why not? If so, to what extent?

What would a typical breakfast contain?

What meals are served during the day?

What's considered a comfort food or drink?

Are there any restrictions on who can eat what or when?

Are there any banned foods?

What stance does your world take on alcohol? Is it legal? Can anybody consume it?

Are there any dining customs? Are traditions?

Is there a difference in formal meals or casual meals? If so, what's involved?

Are there any gestures or actions unacceptable at the dinner table?

How are guests treated at meals? If they are given deference, how so?

[l3xdrigo]

The concept of Zero

Inspired by someone commenting that like the number zero, Vertin or the role of the timekeeper itself is a concept.

The concept of zero being that it is the placeholder for writing numbers, it is the origin but it is also the one that is merely a concept to get more of an understanding or guide to natural numbers to integers. It is the invisible line from the positive to negative, it is the middle ground.

The concept of zero in a more mathematical sense is that it is a additive to other numbers to make them bigger (ex:100) but the number zero itself is a non existent and empty number, like an equator, it is an imaginary line that helps us grasp the locations and placements of continents. Both are imaginary, both are just man made concepts to guide us to a better understanding.

Vertin's soul number is zero, she is unchanging and is considered one of the middle ground between humans and Arcanist. In a sense, she is a guide to most, but once the storm reaches its end, she will become nothing more than a concept, the role of the timekeeper was created for the very purpose of recording the beginning and ends of eras and braving the storm to one day create the immunity for it. The moment that there is no need for the timekeeper anymore, either the storm ending or finding a full reliable immunity towards it, the more people that gain the ability, the more Vertin's role becomes more of the ordinary.

The role of the timekeeper will soon fade and become only an invisible line, the origin of how it first began, on how civilization reached the immunity of the storm, and how the threat of the storm ended. In the far future where the rain doesn't rise, the term timekeeper and the name "Vertin" will be nothing more of a concept to what once was a catastrophic phenomena that hinder the progression of time, a subtle reminder of how she guided the freedom of humans and Arcanist out of the grueling storm, and into a world where the rain falls and the sun rises; Vertin is the concept of zero.

[gynohorror]

[crabussy]

some specbio stuff that I will post properly later!!!!! kiatsoraks save me. guy on the top left is me

[wrenhavenriver]

overhearing the students i was helping in class today say "she's so sweet!" as they leave and then the professor coming up to ask me if i'm going into education because he thinks i'm really good at teaching

[l1veleak]

much to be said about the porsche 5 dynamic if you really think about it

[prince-liest]

Read your orchids tags and what a mood... I'm also someone who recently started having disposable income and definitely can spend money but have a lot of guilt about doing it anyway. Idk I guess it's just nice knowing that there's other people going through the same things and that adulting is Weird. I hope you get all the purple flowers! I hope we can both overcome our spending guilt!!! Raaa!!!

Aw, haha, I totally feel you anon! I've literally budgeted a certain percentage of my take-home income as "guilt free spending" and I'm pretty okay with spending it on relatively low-cost stuff, like a $20 game or whatever, but a $65 orchid seems nuts to me even though I'll probably obsess over it for months and months while the game sits unplayed in my Steam library, HAH. I keep thinking "I'm buying too much..." and then I do the math and actually, no, I'm under budget.

Starting last month is actually the first time in my life I've supported myself entirely off of my own income, and I'm 28, so I've jumped from "$100 is so much money" to, y'know, paying rent and bills and buying a couch and so on, and getting used to seeing sums of money that large come and go in my bank account has been an interesting adjustment. On top of that, I also just grew up fairly frugal. We were never in dire straits financially, but we immigrated to the USA without much money, and also, just, like... it's the broke Soviet expat attitude, hahaha. Even when we Had Money it was a matter of Should We Really Be Spending It? (Which has worked out great for my parents and made me like-minded! But even my dad has told me, like, "Worry less, it's not that much money," lol.)

I think it's not an uncommon way to feel, and sometimes I try to justify it to myself in "going to the movies" units of money. Going to a nice movie theator and having a good time without going crazy but still splurging on a snack or a drink or something runs on average about $25 and most people wouldn't consider that too unreasonable. Would this orchid be worth about three fun afternoons to me? Well, that no longer sounds excessive.

Not a super reliable measurement, but it's mostly just meant to put things into some perspective without actually being a strict judgment.

At the end of the day, though, I just tell myself that as satisfying as it is to transfer dollars into my Fidelity account to sit on like a dragon, this money is literally in my budget to enjoy on whatever. I have paid my bills. I have put money into savings and investments. I have enough for groceries. What is money for after that if not to enjoy life?

[aroanthy]

revolutionising the world w my nanami video essay someday i promise you guys. in the meantime this is a playlist of daise approved utena video essays if you even care. i have um’d and ah’d about including the clear and sweet aou analysis series bc i think it’s wonderful in so many ways but do disagree with the fundamental read of the movie so. ehh. my general rule for including something on this playlist is ‘the analysis must be considered, somewhat original, something that i either agree with or think is valuable to keep in mind’. if there was less ‘the series isn’t as good’ and half-reaching at what my interpretation of aou is, then that aou series would probably be on here. i do recommend it but it just doesn’t feel right to have it on here sorryyy

[ddejavvu]

if you guys were wondering how sacrificing sleep and free time and hobbies for the past three weeks to study for a tough exam went: i memorized all of the material, aced the study guide, and then failed the test so badly that i don't think i can save my grade no matter how high i score in the remaining ten weeks of the class

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

I was so responsible this week

*the paper and exam that’s due tomorrow staring at me from the depths of hell*

So productive I am going to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the night

[swans-chirping-in-the-distance]

Finals this week!!

[clarissaweasley-10]

Just thinking about how precise the memory of almost every AGGGTM character is.Like they can remember the timing of events that happened years ago with almost total accuracy while l can't even remember when l had my breakfast today..

[ardienothesieno]

dont you just love when the only times you actually feel motivated are the worst possible times to feel motivated

[todayisafridaynight]

took a modern japanese history class just to flex on everyone that the only reason why i know so much about the meiji period is because im mentally disturbed about a franchise about criminals and they just so happened to make a game specifically about the meiji period

[purity-town]

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Heather's making some big assumptions here -- thinking that Andrew was cursed by a demon, and that Chris can just easily waltz out and slay it as the newly-practicing mage he is. None of her assumptions are bad ones, but they are a bit off.