BSEH Secondary Computer Science case studies
BSEH Secondary Computer Science · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The BSEH Secondary Computer Science examination is the computer science paper taken by students at the secondary (Class 10) level under the Board of School Education Haryana. It is intended for regular school candidates completing their secondary schooling and for private or reappearing candidates who need to clear this subject to complete the secondary certificate. The BSEH Secondary Computer Science case studies are 5 cases and about 3,599 words.
1Packing Section and Roll Number into One Byte
A small school in a hill town has an attendance kiosk built by last year's computer club. Each student's record is stored in one 8-bit byte: the lower 6 bits hold the roll number (1-48) and the upper 2 bits hold the section code (00 = A, 01 = B, 10 = C).
768 words, about 4 min2The Lab Upgrade That Slowed Down
Sunrise Public School has a 12-station computer lab used for two different jobs: senior students edit 1080p video for the annual magazine about 6 hours per week, and juniors practise spreadsheets and typing about 20 hours per week. The lab has 12 identical desktop PCs: Intel Core i3-8100, 8 GB DDR4 RAM in a single stick, 1 TB 5400 rpm HDD, integrated graphics, and a 450 W power supply.
751 words, about 4 min3The Marks Summary That Keeps Growing
The computer club secretary writes a Python program to summarise marks from a text file. Each line is meant to be 'name,marks', but some lines are blank and one line has 'absent'.
678 words, about 3 min4The Library Card That Issued the Same Book Twice
The library at Greenfield School has 1,200 physical book copies, about 380 titles, and 450 students. For six years the librarian has tracked issues in one spreadsheet with the columns AccessionNo, Title, Author, ISBN, MemberID, MemberName, Class, IssueDate, DueDate.
716 words, about 4 min5The Lab That Has Internet but No Web
Greenfield School has a 30-PC lab connected to a 100 Mbps fibre line through a router at 192.168.1.1. The router's DHCP pool is 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.150, the network printer is manually set to 192.168.1.50, and the library server is 192.168.1.10.
686 words, about 3 min