BSEB Matric Social Science study materials
BSEB Matric Social Science study resources

BSEB Matric Social Science case studies

BSEB Matric Social Science · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) Matric Social Science paper is the Class 10 social science component of the Bihar Board's secondary school leaving examination. It is taken by students completing Class 10 in Bihar-recognised schools, and the result feeds into the Matric certificate used for admission to Class 11 and for many state-level applications. The BSEB Matric Social Science case studies are 5 cases and about 2,746 words.

1

Champaran 1917: Which Explanation Does the Evidence Actually Support?

In a Class X history exhibition at Motihari, three groups make different claims about why the Champaran indigo cultivators' protest of 1917 succeeded. Group A argues that it succeeded because Gandhi was a London-trained barrister who understood British law.

530 words, about 3 min
2

Block K, North Bihar: Cropping Plan Under Flood and Falling Water Tables

Block K lies in the north Bihar plains. It receives about 1,480 mm of rain a year, but 82 per cent of it falls between mid-June and September.

581 words, about 3 min
3

Rampur Gram Panchayat: A No-Confidence Motion and Two Irregularities

Rampur Gram Panchayat has 11 wards, about 9,200 voters and 21 elected members. Ward 6 is reserved for women; the woman who won it rarely attends, and her husband has attended almost every meeting, signed the attendance register in her place and speaks for her.

565 words, about 3 min
4

Sunita's Goats: A Self-Help Group Chooses Its Lender

Sunita, a member of a 14-woman self-help group in a Bhagalpur village, wants ₹45,000 to buy 30 goats. In four years the group has built a common fund of ₹1,68,000 from ₹500 per member per month plus about ₹40,000 of interest earned by lending internally at 2 per cent a month.

570 words, about 3 min
5

1857 in Bihar: Why the Revolt Spread Unevenly

A group of Class X students in Patna is asked why the revolt of 1857 spread widely in some districts of Bihar and barely at all in others. Their notes contain four statements.

500 words, about 3 min