HOME SCIENCE – PAPER II
Odisha Civil Services Mains 2024
Time: 3 Hours
|Full Marks: 250
|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?
GROUP B
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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