Odisha BSE HSC General Science case studies
Odisha BSE HSC General Science · Put your knowledge to work in context.
This independent study page supports candidates preparing for the General Science component of the Odisha Board of Secondary Education High School Certificate (HSC) examination, the Class X school-leaving credential in Odisha. The Board describes itself as a body corporate constituted under the Odisha Secondary Education Act, 1953; it regulates secondary education in the state, examines candidates who complete a prescribed course of study and awards certificates to successful candidates. The Odisha BSE HSC General Science case studies are 5 cases and about 4,087 words.
1Inverter backup that does not match the dealer's promise
A family in Cuttack runs their home during power cuts on a 12 V, 150 Ah tubular lead-acid battery with a 700 VA inverter. During a four-hour outage they switch on two ceiling fans of 75 W each, three LED lamps of 9 W each and a 40 W television.
768 words, about 4 min2Two plots, two pH readings, one bag of limestone
A Class 10 student spends a holiday at her uncle's two-acre vegetable plot near Balasore. A soil testing kit gives pH 5.1 for the upland plot where brinjal is grown, and pH 7.9 for a low-lying patch beside the pond where the plants are stunted and yellow between the veins.
835 words, about 4 min3A pale girl who cannot keep up on the hill road
A 13-year-old girl from a village near Koraput is brought to the health worker by her mother. She is pale, including the inside of her lower eyelids and her palms, and she says she cannot keep up with her friends when they climb the hill road to school, stopping to pant while they wait for her.
819 words, about 4 min4Eight kilos a day behind the school wall
A high school in Puri has 640 students and 22 staff. A waste audit shows about 8 kg a day: 4 kg of cooked food, vegetable peel and midday-meal leftovers, 2 kg of paper and cardboard, 1 kg of plastic (wrappers, broken buckets, some PVC pipe offcuts) and 1 kg of glass and metal.
843 words, about 4 min5The plank, the drum and the truck bed
Two workers in a warehouse in Rourkela must get a 120 kg drum onto a truck whose floor is 1.2 m above the ground. They have a straight wooden plank 4.0 m long, which they lean against the truck floor.
822 words, about 4 min