Cheatsheets: One-Page Revision Notes for Government Exams
One-page references worth keeping open the week before a paper: formulas, rules and lists that are faster to revise from a single sheet than from a chapter. Updated when the syllabus they cover changes.
86 cheat sheets
Data Sufficiency Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on data sufficiency for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the golden rule of judging sufficiency without solving, the standard five answer options, a clear step-by-step method for testing each statement, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Decision Making Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on decision making for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers how these questions give eligibility conditions and a candidate's data, the standard outcomes, how to apply each condition and its exceptions, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Course of Action Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on course of action for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what a course of action is, the three tests a good one must pass, when a course of action does not follow, the standard answer choices, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Logical Sequence Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on logical sequence of words for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers how to arrange words or events in a natural order, the common ordering patterns, the method of spotting the right chain, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Statement and Arguments Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on statement and arguments for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what makes an argument strong or weak, the tests you apply to each argument, the standard answer choices, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Statement and Conclusions Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on statement and conclusions for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what a conclusion is, the rule that it must follow only from the given statement, when a conclusion does not follow, the standard answer choices, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly.
Conditional Statements Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on conditional statements for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the if-then form, the converse, inverse and contrapositive, which of these are logically equivalent, necessary and sufficient conditions, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Cause and Effect Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on cause and effect reasoning for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers how to tell a cause from an effect, the standard relationship options, the role of time order, independent events and a common cause, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly.
Statement and Inferences Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on statement and inferences for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what an inference is, the five-way grading from definitely true to definitely false, how to judge each inference from the passage alone, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Statement and Assumptions Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on statement and assumptions for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what an assumption is, the negation test for whether one is implicit, when an assumption is not implicit, the standard answer choices, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly.
Assertion and Reason Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on assertion and reason for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the structure of an assertion-reason question, the standard answer options, the step-by-step method of judging each statement and the link between them, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly.
Geometric Progression Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on geometric progression (GP) for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the nth-term formula, the sum of the first n terms, the sum to infinity for a decreasing GP, the geometric mean, and the key shortcuts, with worked examples to revise quickly before the exam.
Logarithms Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on logarithms for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the definition of a logarithm, the product, quotient and power laws, the change-of-base rule, the standard values, and the common and natural logs, with worked examples to revise quickly before the exam.
Problems on Ages Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on problems on ages for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers how to set up present, past and future ages, the ratio method, the standard equation form, and the quick checks that catch wrong answers, with worked examples to revise quickly before the exam.
Boats and Streams Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on boats and streams for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers downstream and upstream speed, how to recover the boat's speed in still water and the stream's speed, the average-speed idea, and the time taken for a round trip, with worked examples to revise quickly.
Surds and Indices Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on surds and indices for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the laws of indices, zero and negative powers, fractional powers, the rules for surds, and how to rationalise a denominator, with worked examples to revise quickly before the exam.
Variance and Standard Deviation Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on variance and standard deviation for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the mean, the variance formula and its shortcut form, the standard deviation, what the two measures tell you about spread, and the effect of adding or multiplying the data, with worked examples to revise quickly.
Permutations and Combinations Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on permutations and combinations for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the factorial, the permutation and combination formulas, when order matters and when it does not, the key identities, and arrangements with repeated letters, with worked examples to revise quickly before the exam.
Problems on Trains Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on problems on trains for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the km/h to m/s conversion, a train crossing a pole, a train crossing a platform, two trains passing in the same and opposite directions, and the relative-speed idea, with worked examples to revise quickly.
Arithmetic Progression Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on arithmetic progression (AP) for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the nth-term formula, the sum of the first n terms in both forms, the arithmetic mean, and the standard shortcuts, with worked examples to revise quickly before the exam.