General Knowledge

The Internet has changed a lot of things about the world. People now routinely do things like shop, conduct business, and even date online. It is said that we are in the information age, and there is certainly no shortage of information available today. People can now find out almost anything they care to, just by opening a web browser. This opens a world of convenience to people, but it also poses a risk as people search out all sorts of general knowledge that may or may not be correct.
Businesses have come to love the Internet. Vast new markets have been opened up. Now, like at no other time in history, small businesses find themselves able to expand their growth exponentially for a relatively paltry sum of money. A global marketplace has opened up. A business that can offer information about the products people are looking for, and then go on to close the sale stands to do very well, as long as they can get themselves seen among the crowd of competitors. Generally, legitimate businesses are a reliable source for information when people want to find out more about a product. Likewise, there are many sites that provide the service of offering unbiased reviews of products which can prove very helpful to shoppers.
The search for knowledge runs into problems when people start to assume that everything they read is true. The explosive growth of the Internet has led to easy access to a wealth of knowledge, but it has also led to some people being duped. It is important that people realize, and that they teach their children to realize, that reading something online or in print does not make it true. People must be willing to use their common sense when they are online, just as they would in the "real" world. Students who are looking for information for school projects should must be taught to stick to established and trusted sources. Wikis that allow readers to post information may be interesting to read, but unless they are backed by documentation, they should not be considered solid research.
For people who crave knowledge, our mega-connected world is an amazing place. For shoppers, finding bargains and product information has never been easier. We must temper our enthusiasm a bit though and keep ourselves grounded in reality as we explore the ever expanding virtual landscape.

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General knowledge or General aptitude is the most essential factor for identifying how much of functional knowledge one possesses about his or her society. Functional implies the fact that the said issue is reliably effective in its co-operability with the surroundings. Therefore, when we speak of General Knowledge and General Aptitude being the functional knowledge, we imply that it is that specific knowledge which helps with the coordinated and comprehensive interaction with the world around us.
Too many big words eh?! Plainly speaking, it's about your knowledge about general affairs around the world, staying in touch with the recent developments. How much are we actually bothered about the world, when we know that the problems and concerns at home are too big to even spare some attention to some other things like: who killed whom at a recent gun-duel, or why Fidel Castro is still alive and revered etc.
Would you not be concerned if the rising prices in Indian Market are actually the reason why your 30,000 per month salary is still not enough to help you buy that family car? And how much more would you be concerned if it dawned on you that the rise in prices and the spiraling market conditions have been motivated and instigated by various socially relevant events of relatively local magnitude? Alright, now that I drove the point home that how important your General Knowledge/General Aptitude is important; let me clarify where does General Knowledge fit in the scope of major national and international examinations!
Well, they exams are not really testing your skills in general awareness, but they actually intend to force the candidates to keep a tab of the latest happenings, since this will really help in the long run where crunching large chunks of social information on general issues becomes a norm in almost every field or profession!

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Master English Language

For many people, English is a Big challenge. English seems to be a very difficult language to master with all its irregularities, exceptions and rules. English in reality is a very peculiar language. Not only does it have so many grammatical rules, but, irritatingly enough, there are also hundreds of exceptions to those rules, which one can master only through persistence, dedication, and indefatigable energy. To reach flawlessness in the use of English is an seemingly impossible task. At times it may become frustrating and embarrassing to make mistakes but eventually one learns to accept them. By focusing more on understanding the mistakes rather than judging yourself one can become fluent in English. Moreover when we make it our hobby and not just a chore and above all have fun while we learn is the righteous path to effective English Mastery.

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Problems with English

1. Not Original Language - The spelling of a word may not show what the pronunciation of the word is. This is because English words came from many different sources. It is not a 'pure' language because English came from two main sources - old French, and old Anglo-Saxon, there is a very large vocabulary of words. Words with similar meanings may have come from both sources. For example, START (from Anglo-Saxon) and COMMENCE (from old French).


2. Abundance of Common Words - To become even just a moderately competent speller of English one has to memorise at least 3695 common words with exceptional spellings


3. Spelling Patterns - English has 88 main basic spelling patterns, but they all have some exceptions. 88 spelling patterns have so many exceptions that they are not really patterns at all.


4. Idioms - Native English speakers use a lot of idioms, that is - words used in a way which is not their obvious meaning. An English speaker may say, "I do not think much of bananas." Communicating is much more easier than actually understanding proper usage of English.

How to Improve your English? / How to Master English?

1. Motivation - On needs to have a lot of Motivation to be able to master English. Often we give up out of Frustration because we are not motivated to learn English. To Motivate on needs to question himself -
Why do you need to learn/improve English?
Where will you need to use English?
What skills do you need to learn/improve? (Reading/Writing/Listening/Speaking)

How much time can you afford to devote to learning English.
Do you have a plan or learning strategy?
2. Regular English Study - It's important to study English every day. But don't Overdo! Short, steady practices are much impactful for learning than long periods on an irregular basis. This habit of studying keeps English fresh in our brain.
3. Communicate in English - Communication in English has many forms like - Speaking, Writing Letters, Text Messaging, Placing an Order, E-mail etc. There is nothing like communicating in English, especially when there are so many Forms to Communicate.
4. Use a dictionary - Using a Dictionary while Reading or even while watching English programme is helpful in improving Vocabulary.
5. Listening English music - One of the effortless and easiest way is listening to music anytime or while doing daily chores etc. It can help in getting used to the natural rhythm and tone of English speech. The more time and attention you give to a song, the more you will learn from listening to it again in the future.
6. Read the Lyrics - If the lyrics are not given in the CD booklet, one can find them on the internet to understand the language. When you have read and understood the lyrics, listen the song and read at the same time, this can be a good way of understanding how sounds change in fast, natural, informal speech.
7. Listen to news in English - Listening to English spoken by newsreader either on Radio, T.V. or Internet makes it easier to get the grab of English
8. English Speaking Native/Foreigner Friend - An interesting way to not only learn English but new cultures as well if one finds a foreign boyfriend or girlfriend. It can be Online or Conventional friend and it can be a great motivator to improve your language skills.
9. English Courses - Those who are really serious about getting it right all the time can join various intensive and extensive courses
10. English Subtitled Movies - Another resourceful methods is to watch English movies with subtitles.
11. English Karaoke - If you have a music system which features Karaoke then one can, after understanding and memorising a song, use it in remembering which words rhyme at the end of each line. This can also be a good way of starting to learn English pronunciation.
12. Similar Words - Learning as many words as one can of one category, e.g. animal words can both expand overall vocabulary and make them easier to learn by forming links between the words in the brain.
13. Record your voice - Many people don't have much or any correction of pronunciation from a teacher so recording yourself and listening it makes it easier to hear whether you are really making the right pronunciation required.
14. Learn English From Internet - Many websites provide free and paid online Tutorials for improving English.
15. Take English language exams - It looks tough but taking up such exams reflects your mistakes. Even if you don't need to and don't want to or can't take a special course to study for it, paying to take an exam like TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS or FCE can really motivate one to take English studies seriously.
16. English Language Blog - Another Creative way of getting along with English is to describe your life and interests etc. on the net. People who might read will point out your mistakes and give you free suggestions.
17. Visit an English Speaking Country - Most preferably England or any one which is easily accessible, is the best option. Certain Holiday Packages are available and one can take an English speaking tour or activity holiday.

English Grammar

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Indonesia's Most Haunted Places

Indonesia is a mystical land, that is dotted with ancient temples, old colonial buildings, and a local belief in ghosts. Any visitor to this mysterious land can discover some of the most haunted places in Asia.
1. Old Kota, Jakarta
Imagine a huge expanding modern city, with a crumbling colonial section, and you discover "old Kota." At night few locals like to venture in this mainly abandoned area of the city, as the ghosts of Indonesia's dark past are said to stalk the dark, ill lit streets, and abandoned buildings. Although the offices of the former Dutch governor, overlooking a large square, still attract visitors seeking quietness, in a loud and often sleepless city.

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2. Lawang Sewu, Semarang
Semarang is a city of contrasts, once a favored city for Dutch colonists, it has a dilapidated old quarter with one of Indonesia'a oldest churches. This eerie sector is not the most haunted, but a building called the "thousand doors" is.
Located in the center of the city, Lawang Sewu, was once the headquarters of the Dutch railway company, and is a tropical- European style building with open verandas, and hundreds of individual offices. The day the Japanese army entered Semarang, was the day this unique building became infamous in Indonesia.
In the most Dutch of Javanese cities, the dreaded Kempeitai secret police took over the offices, and it became the building of death for hundreds of Dutch prisoners, and some unfortunate Indonesians.
Since Independence, Lawang Sewu, has been feared by the locals, and dispite being a local landmatk, the building has never been reused as offices. During the daytime visitors can explore the building, but most people avoid it, and rarely venture near it after dark.
3. The Jungles of Kalimantan (Borneo)
Borneo is home to some of the last virgin Jungles in South East Asia, where fierce Dayaks still roam, as the island develops. Ancient tribes used to "head hunt," where they would roam the deep forests, and cut of the heads of their enemies.
Many an expatriate has told the tale of seeing bright lights in the most remote jungle settlements, and local legend has it that these lights are what remains of the headless victims of the head hunters.
Despite our World becoming similar with most cities having the same looking buildings, cars, and shopping malls.

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Introduction to Psychology - Test Interpretation

A researcher administers one form of a test on one day, and then administers an equivalent form to the same group of people at a later date/time. Alternate forms reliability (or "coefficient of equivalence;" parallel-forms reliability) of reliability is being sought in this example. When correlations are obtained among individual test items, Internal consistency (or "coefficient of internal consistency") reliability is being assessed; the 3 methods for obtaining this reliability include split-half (involves dividing test into 2 parts then correlating responses from the 2 parts), Kuder-Richardson Formula 20 (used when test items are dichotomously scored- e.g., "true/false"), and Cronbach's coefficient alpha (used for tests with multiple-scored items- e.g., "never/rarely/sometimes/always").

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While the split-half reliability coefficient usually lowers the reliability coefficient artificially, the Spearman-Brown formula can be used to correct for the effects of shortening the measure. Speed tests, as the correlation would be spuriously inflated are measures of internal consistency not good at assessing reliability for.
Instruments that rely on rater judgments would be best to have high Inter-rater (interscorer) reliability, which is increased when scoring categories are mutually exclusive (a particular behavior belongs to a single category) and exhaustive (categories cover all possible responses/behaviors). The formula for the standard error of the measurement is SEmeas = SDx (standard deviation of test scores) / rxx (reliability coefficient).
The probability that a person's true score lies within a range of plus or minus 1 standard error of measurement (SEM) of their obtained score and plus or minus 1.96 (2) SEM, and finally, plus or minus 2.58 (2.5) SEM is 68% of the time, 95% of the time, and 99% of the time. Hypothetically, a test with a reliability coefficient of +1.0 would have a standard error of measurement of 0.0. A test with perfect reliability will have no error.
The standard error of measurement is inversely related to the reliability coefficient (rxx) and positively related to the standard deviation of test scores (SDx). Classical test theory states that an observed score reflects true score variance plus random error variance. Methods of recording behaviors include duration recording (elapsed time that behavior occurs is recorded), frequency recording (number of times behavior occurs is recorded), interval recording (rater notes whether subject engages in behavior during given time period), and continuous recording (all behavior during an observation session is recorded). Simply put, validity refers to the degree a test measures what it purports to measure.
A depression scale that only assesses the affective aspects of depression but fails to account for the behavioral aspects would be lacking Content validity, which refers to the extent to which test items represent all facets of the content area being measured (e.g., EPPP). Content validity assessment requires a degree of agreement between experts in the subject matter, thus it includes an element of subjectivity. In contrast to content validity, Face validity occurs when a test appears to valid by examinees, administrators, and other untrained observers; it is not technically a type of test validity. A personality test that effectively predicts the future behavior of an examinee has Criterion validity-related validity, which is obtained by correlating scores on a predictor test to some external criterion (e.g., academic achievement, job performance).

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Applied Scholastics

As a home schooler, teaching our children how to learn should be a primary goal. Learning is more than facts and figures. It involves the ability to think, analyze, and use the thought process. "The end goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all of that the survival level of that society."
Do you agree with the concept? The key to a dynamic society is to value learning and education. Our goal as home schoolers should be to instill an insatiable quest for learning in our children. Don't freak out or stop reading this article when I tell you who made above statement, because the study technology created by this visionary is extremely valuable. I am talking about a technology - not a philosophy. You must separate these concepts!

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The person who made the above quoted statement was L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. Because of the antics of Tom Cruise, the religion of Scientology is relegated to the kook fringe. Separate the religion/philosophy of Scientology from their study technology. I do not support or subscribe to their religion. I do not pretend to be knowledgeable of the beliefs or the religious parts of Scientology. But I do know first hand the value of their study technology in their educational program of Applied Scholastics.
Ron Hubbard's study technology and the Applied Scholastics curriculum addresses the foundation of all learning. It focuses on our brains, its operation and how to train it. The study technology does not promote or intrude on your personal beliefs. The study technology is NOT the religion! It can run parallel to and support any type of religious or secular home school curriculum. It has no spiritual or philosophical component at all. I want to underscore this point because I understand the fear of this religion.
Let's get back to the key goal of educating our children and I will attempt to explain this study technology. When people learn a subject, this process can get short-circuited or blocked and the path to mastering it can be derailed. What if that blockage could be identified and cleared up at that precise moment it occurs so the learning could continue, the mastery achieved and frustration avoided? That in a nut shell is the study technology of Applied Scholastics .
The fundamental premise is that there are three barriers to learning that interrupt the flow, create resistance and frustrates the learning process. It also explains how to identify these barriers, provide methods to fix them, and encourages natural flow of learning. This concept is important to the education of our children.
These barriers inhibit learning and can result in a shutdown of the process. This shutdown can be seen in schools today as the runaway diagnosis of learning disabilities, behavior problems or just boredom with learning, all resulting in a disinterested student body and society.
Mr. Hubbard explains that when a student hits one of these barriers, the trained instructor can identify it, clear it up, and resume the natural flow of learning.
I will define these barriers and explain how they affect the student and interfere with learning. These are simplistic and cursory examples of the study technology in Applied Scholastics in which students learn how to learn! You can find more details at http://www.appliedscholastics.org/
1. Lack of mass. The need to touch, feel or make (a prototype) something that demonstrates the subject matter. It may not be sufficient for a student to simply read about the subject. Many times the physical interaction, touching, modeling out of clay (something to TOUCH) is important to the learning. For example, when learning adding and subtracting, it is much more effective when demonstrated with blocks or physical objects. When studying muscles, tendons and ligaments, examine a chicken wing, identify the parts and SEE how they work.
A physical reaction to hitting this barrier could be the student putting their hands over their ears, looking confused, or showing anger (breaking pencils, "blow", and leave the area).
2. The gradient is too steep. This means that elemental steps taken to learn a subject are not fully understood by the student. This predictably ends in frustration.
A physical reaction would be a dizzy or reeling feeling in the student. If the students feel like their heads are spinning, stop! 3. Misunderstood word. Have you ever been reading and then realized when you get to the bottom of the page that you cannot remember what you just read? Somewhere you encountered a word you misunderstood, a word that did not makes sense in context, so you tuned out.
Children do it all the time. Trained educators and parents are aware when their student becomes confused. They understand the importance of clearing up the misunderstanding to understand the subject and proceed with the learning. They know how to trace the confusion back to the offending word(s) and clear up the misunderstanding. They have the children look up the word in a dictionary and redefine it within the context. Only then can effective learning proceed. The physical manifestations may be daydreaming, yawning or a confused or far out look.
This study technology is a great basis for any home school curriculum. Give this study technology a more complete look and consider adding it to your own curriculum.

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Withdrawals in respect of the news Civil Service Selection Schedule to the beginning of 2012, we published Latihan Exercise 2012 for you. As we all know that the bureaucratic reform programs in central agency that has not been completed and will be evaluated later this year have an impact on the local level. Target commencement of bureaucratic reform in the region this year, a stretch. Certainly, the plan remuneration attached to the bureaucracy reform program, also be delayed.

Deputy Program Reforms Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (kemenpan-RB) Mohammed Ismail said, this year it is more focused on the socialization of the bureaucratic challenges of reform in the region. To then set the area that will be the pilot of his project.

"Given this very broad area of ​​government, bureaucratic reforms done gradually until 2025. In mid-year we hold a socialization into the area first," Ismail said while giving a press conference at the Office of Kemenpan-RB, Jakarta, Wednesday (20 / 4).

Explained, socialization is not done to each region. Later, a number of representatives from several regions gathered in one place, or a system of regions, and provided explanations on bureaucratic reform and how pengusulannya.

"We'll divide into two regions, East and West Indonesia. There will be collected throughout the government. If approached one by one it can not be completed this year. Moreover, our target next year has already begun reforms in the region," he said.

In the determination of this pilot project, said Ismail, Kemenpan-RB will work closely with the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri). Mentioned, several regions have expressed readiness to become a pilot projet. Among Gorontalo, Jakarta, and Bali. "These areas are declared ready and this will be the government's attention," he said.

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Indonesian
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Scholastic Talent Test / TBS
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English
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General Knowledge Test / Tes Kemampuan Umum
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CPNS 2012 Start Recruitment Moratorium

The issue of temporary suspension of recruitment moratorium alias candidates for Civil Servants (CPNS) was not mere rhetoric. Three related ministries had agreed on the need for a moratorium on acceptance CPNS that will apply from next year.

Minister Gamawan Fauzi explained, is necessary lag time CPNS recruitment in order to give time to the government to conduct an evaluation and restructuring the staffing problem. Gamawan explained, it had to do with the discussion of this issue Agus Martowardojo Finance Minister and Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Reforms (Kemenpan-RB) EE Mangindaan.

When asked what the existing agreement, Gamawan answered already. Only, the final decision is still waiting for the president. "But this must by a presidential decree," said Gamawan in his office on Monday (11 / 7).

Gamawan explained, during this moratorium will the government will conduct the evaluation because a lot of staffing problems. Among others, the problem of uneven distribution of personnel. Where there are areas that belebihan number of employees, but some areas that are experiencing shortages. "We hope the problem is answered by the moratorium," he said.

Will be made equitable regulatory umbrella of civil servants. For example, for civil servants distribution centers across the province will be handled. Distribution of civil servants are being trans regency / city, there is authority in the province.

Was during this moratorium will total recruitment CPNS stopped? Gamawan said, there is still acceptance CPNS, but is restricted from track honoree, a graduate school official, and if considered urgent.

"Well, in urgent situations it is like, this would be included that will be reviewed," said Gamawan who began his career as a bureaucrat that.

Previously, specialized staff and Regional Autonomy Affairs Vice President Welfare, Lutfi A Mutti explained, vice president had met with the minister-RB, Minister of Home Affairs, and Finance Minister, discussed the moratorium on the appointment of CPNS. It is said, the meeting was already decided a moratorium on the appointment CPNS starting next year.

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