WBBSE Madhyamik Geography case studies
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Madhyamik Pariksha (Secondary Examination), commonly called Madhyamik or MP (S.E.), is the West Bengal board-level secondary examination conducted by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE). It is the first public board examination most candidates sit, taken after the secondary stage of schooling in West Bengal, and it functions as the gateway to higher secondary study and to later competitive pathways. The WBBSE Madhyamik Geography case studies are 5 cases and about 4,126 words.
1Rising Bed, Falling Freeboard: The Damodar Below Durgapur Barrage
Cross-sections surveyed in 1998 and again in 2023 along a 12 km reach of the Damodar in Paschim Bardhaman show that the lowest bed has risen by 1.6 m. Bed material is 78% sand and silt.
798 words, about 4 min2Salinity, Silt and the Choice of a Crop in a Sundarban Mouza
A mouza in Patharpratima block, South 24 Parganas, has 260 households and 190 ha of cultivated land. A tidal embankment breached in 2019 and was repaired in stages over two years.
883 words, about 4 min32,400 Workers, 38 Acres: What Should a Mill Town Do With a Closed Jute Mill?
A jute mill in Hooghly district closed in 2016. It had 2,400 workers on its rolls, about 60% of them over 50, and only 22% had provident fund records.
817 words, about 4 min4Two Road Alignments on a 1:50,000 Sheet: Shorter or Gentler?
A candidate is given a Survey of India 1:50,000 sheet with a 20 m contour interval, covering a hilly tract, and is asked to suggest a road alignment from village A, near spot height 312, to village B, near spot height 228. Two alignments are marked in the field notes.
829 words, about 4 min5One Data Set, Four Maps: Choosing How to Show Boro Paddy Intensity
A student must map the intensity of boro paddy across the eight community development blocks of a district, using a table that gives, for each block, net sown area, area under boro paddy and yield. The boro shares, as percentages of net sown area, are 4, 8, 11, 16, 19, 33, 38 and 71.
799 words, about 4 min