HOME SCIENCE – PAPER II

Odisha Civil Services Mains 2024

Time: 3 Hours
|Full Marks: 250

GROUP A

10 × 15 MARKS

Instructions: Attempt 10 (ten) questions. Word limit: 250 words.

Write about the application of family’s financial and spending plan of money management for saving and investment.
What are the problems associated to the three phases of Communication in each episode?
What are the available resources for a family? Discuss with the help of examples highlighting their characteristics.
Write the properties of silk fibres. Differentiate between cultivated and wild silk.
Explain the significance of communicator-communicatee relationship for a communication process.
How do teaching aids help in the community development activities?
“Extension Education combines with both adult education and informal education.” How does it reflect upon the concern areas?
Write about the interdependence and interrelationship of the steps involved in the process of family management.
What are the principles of organising a house?
What are the criteria for selecting and purchasing fabric for family members?
Discuss the weaknesses of the planned programme for development of a community.
Accessories are important in interior decoration of a space in homes. How?

05 × 20 MARKS

Instructions: Attempt 05 (five) questions. Word limit: 300 words.

Discuss the importance of twist in a yarn. What are the different types of twists given to a yarn? Explain its effect on the durability of a fabric.
Plan a programme of extension work in rural areas of an Indian State for women in agriculture.
What is non-formal education? Write a note about its content and also enumerate about its contributors.
What are the functions of communication? Explain with the help of components used in communication models.
How does the change in workplace, storage and equipment facilitates the workers’ performance?
Write about the types, causes and remedies of fatigue for work in home.

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