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Quick Revision: Timeline, Numbers and Exam Technique

The last-week page. A one-page timeline of years, a number sheet, and how to tackle match-the-following, chronology and assertion-reason items.

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  1. 8.1One-page timeline (oldest first)Year Event 5th century CE Nalanda (Kumaragupta I); Taxila earlier 8th to 9th century Vikramshila (Dharmapala) c. 1193 Nalanda sacked (Bakhtiyar Khalji) 1781 / 1791 Calcutta…
  2. 8.2Number sheetItem Numbers to recall Buddhist ordination Pabbajja 8; Upasampada 20 Kothari Commission 10+2+3 pattern; 6 per cent of national income NEP 2020 5+3+3+4 ; 50 per cent GER by…
    • Pabbajja 8; Upasampada 20
    • 10+2+3
    • 6 per cent
    • 5+3+3+4
    • 50 per cent GER by 2035
  3. 8.3Question types, study strategy and exam techniqueUnit X of Paper 1 usually carries about five questions (ten marks), so the goal is not to memorise everything but to recognise the pattern of each question type.
    • Memory questions
    • Concept questions
    • Analysis questions
    • Study strategy
    • Exam technique

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8.1One-page timeline (oldest first)#

In brief

Year Event 5th century CE Nalanda (Kumaragupta I); Taxila earlier 8th to 9th century Vikramshila (Dharmapala) c. 1193 Nalanda sacked (Bakhtiyar Khalji) 1781 / 1791 Calcutta…

Year Event
5th century CE Nalanda (Kumaragupta I); Taxila earlier
8th to 9th century Vikramshila (Dharmapala)
c. 1193 Nalanda sacked (Bakhtiyar Khalji)
1781 / 1791 Calcutta Madrasa / Banaras Sanskrit College
1813 Charter Act: one lakh rupees for education
1835 Macaulay's Minute; Bentinck resolution
1847 Roorkee engineering college
1854 Wood's Despatch
1857 Calcutta, Bombay, Madras universities
1882 Hunter Commission
1904 Indian Universities Act (Curzon)
1916 / 1920 / 1922 BHU / AMU / Delhi University
1917 to 19 Sadler Commission
1937 Wardha Basic Education
1944 Sargent Report
1948 to 49 Radhakrishnan Commission
1951 IIT Kharagpur
1952 to 53 Mudaliar Commission
1953 / 1956 UGC inaugurated / UGC Act; AIIMS Act
1961 NCERT; IITs Act; IIMs Calcutta and Ahmedabad; Advocates Act
1964 to 66 Kothari Commission
1968 First NPE
1976 42nd Amendment (education to Concurrent List; Article 48A; 51A)
1985 / 1986 IGNOU / NPE 1986
1987 AICTE Act; NLSIU
1992 Modified NPE and POA; Rehabilitation Council Act
1993 NCTE Act
1994 NAAC and NBA
2002 / 2005 86th Amendment (Article 21A); TMA Pai (2002); Inamdar and Yash Pal cases (2005); 93rd Amendment (Article 15(5))
2005 to 09 National Knowledge Commission
2006 Central Educational Institutions (Reservation) Act; IISERs
2009 RTE Act passed (in force 2010); Yash Pal Committee; Central Universities Act; NMEICT
2013 NSQF; RUSA; UGC B.Voc
2015 NIRF; Skill India; GIAN
2017 NTA; SWAYAM; Institutions of Eminence; HEFA; IIM Act
2018 Draft HECI Act; UGC graded autonomy; PMRF; NCVET; Study in India
2019 NMC Act; EWS reservation (103rd Amendment)
2020 NEP 2020 (29 July); Central Sanskrit Universities Act; UGC ODL regulations
2021 ABC (28 July)
2022 CUET; UGC dual degree and twinning regulations; PhD regulations
2023 ANRF Act; NCrF; UGC foreign campus regulations; PM-USHA
2024 NAAC binary accreditation; classical languages expanded to eleven; IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi
Dec 2025 VBSA Bill introduced; sent to JPC
July 2026 Bill still pending before JPC

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8.2Number sheet#

In brief

Item Numbers to recall Buddhist ordination Pabbajja 8; Upasampada 20 Kothari Commission 10+2+3 pattern; 6 per cent of national income NEP 2020 5+3+3+4 ; 50 per cent GER by…

  • Pabbajja 8; Upasampada 20
  • 10+2+3
  • 6 per cent
  • 5+3+3+4
  • 50 per cent GER by 2035
  • 6 per cent of GDP
  • 3.5 crore seats
  • 7 years
Item Numbers to recall
Buddhist ordination Pabbajja 8; Upasampada 20
Kothari Commission 10+2+3 pattern; 6 per cent of national income
NEP 2020 5+3+3+4; 50 per cent GER by 2035; 6 per cent of GDP; 3.5 crore seats
Academic Bank of Credits 7 years validity; 40 credits per year; 1,200 hours; 120 and 160 credits
SWAYAM and IGNOU SWAYAM: 40 per cent credit cap. IGNOU: one credit = 30 hours; 70:30 weightage
ODL regulations 2020 NAAC 3.26 or NIRF top 100
Twinning programmes Foreign partner top 1,000; Indian partner NAAC 3.01 or NIRF top 100
Foreign campus Foreign university in the top 500
Reservation in central institutions SC 15, ST 7.5, OBC 27, EWS 10, PwBD 5
Frameworks and bodies NSQF: 10 levels; NMC: 4 boards; HECI: 4 verticals; VBSA JPC: 31 members (21 + 10)
Values and taxonomies Five core values; Spranger's six values; Kohlberg's 3 levels and 6 stages; Krathwohl's 5 levels
Counts Eleven classical languages; four biodiversity hotspots; 17 SDGs

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8.3Question types, study strategy and exam technique#

In brief

Unit X of Paper 1 usually carries about five questions (ten marks), so the goal is not to memorise everything but to recognise the pattern of each question type.

  • Memory questions
  • Concept questions
  • Analysis questions
  • Study strategy
  • Exam technique

Unit X of Paper 1 usually carries about five questions (ten marks), so the goal is not to memorise everything but to recognise the pattern of each question type. NTA tends to mix three kinds of items. Memory questions ask for a name, year, place or body (who founded Vikramshila, when was the UGC Act passed). Concept questions ask what a term means (autonomous college, deemed university, credit transfer, Kohlberg's stages). Analysis questions ask you to compare, sequence or judge (match the commission with its main recommendation, arrange events chronologically, assertion and reason, statement-based items).

Study strategy. Read the narrative once to build the storyline, then revise only the tables and bullet lists. For years and names, use the memory aids given. For commissions and policies, always learn the triple: who chaired it, which year, what was its signature recommendation. For regulators, learn the triple: body, Act and year, domain. Spend the most time on topics 2 and 6, because those produce the most questions and change the most often.

Exam technique. In match-the-following items, solve the pairs you are sure of first; usually that eliminates two options. In chronology items, anchor on one fixed year (for example 1854 Wood's Despatch, 1948 Radhakrishnan Commission, 1964 Kothari Commission, 1986 NPE, 2020 NEP) and place the rest around it. In assertion and reason items, first decide whether each statement is true independently, then ask whether R actually explains A.

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