BSEB Matric Home Science case studies
BSEB Matric Home Science · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Bihar Board Class 10 Home Science (गृह विज्ञान) is one of the elective subjects a matriculation candidate in Bihar can choose, and it is examined by the Bihar School Examination Board as part of the Class X written examination. The subject suits students who want a practical, everyday-life science: what to eat and why, how to plan meals for a family on a budget, how food is preserved at home, how household money, time and energy are managed, how cloth is chosen and cared for, how children grow, and how basic hygiene and first aid work. The BSEB Matric Home Science case studies are 5 cases and about 4,690 words.
1The 14-month-old who lives on tea and biscuits
Sunita, an anganwadi worker in a village near Muzaffarpur, visits Rekha's home. Rekha's son Arjun is 14 months old and weighs 7.4 kg; his upper-arm band reads yellow.
945 words, about 5 min2One kitchen, five people, three medical needs
The Sharma family in Patna: father 48, newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, BMI 27.4, on metformin; mother 44; son 16; daughter 10 with haemoglobin 8.9 g/dL; and grandmother 72, who has no molars, wears her dentures only for outings and complains of constipation. The food budget is ₹7,000 a month for five people.
965 words, about 5 min3Thirteen kilos of surplus in a house without a fridge
It is the third week of May in Bhagalpur. Power cuts run six to eight hours a day and the family has no refrigerator.
931 words, about 5 min4Two white shirts, hard water and a borrowed silk dupatta
Meena, a Class 10 student in Gaya, has two white cotton uniform shirts and one white cotton-polyester blend shirt that she wears five days a week. The mohalla water is hard.
958 words, about 5 min5Pressure cooker scald on a rainy night
in a home in Darbhanga, 11-year-old Rahul lifts the lid of a pressure cooker that has not cooled; steam and hot dal spill over his right forearm and the front of his shirt. His forearm is red within minutes and two blisters the size of a rupee coin appear over an area about the size of his own palm; the shirt front is stuck to the skin over his chest.
891 words, about 4 min