Some brief analytical points about Home Science optional from my experience.

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After Reading this article, you will get the answer of the following questions.

Is Home Science a good optional subject?
How can I prepare for optional Home Science?
Which optional subject is best for OAS?
Is Home Science subject in UPSC?

Home Science is a very popular optional subject in Odisha Civil services examination(popularly known as OAS examination). This optional is not a UPSC optional so the online materials for this optional are limited. From my experience, I am telling you, this is very scoring optional. You can score very high marks preparing for a limited period of time. But before taking this optional you should keep certain things in mind.

1. This optional is a combination of both humanities and science topics. So it requires both an analytical and expressive mind.

2. The Nutrition Section of this optional is a topic from life Science. One should not have bio-phobia in his or her mind.

3. The Human Development or Child Development Section is a topic from Developmental psychology. Here we need to memorize certain facts so one should not feel bore of memorizing facts.

4. The Familly Life-Cycle chapter is a Sociology topic and very easy. Try to memorize some thinkers and their contribution to family studies and mention them while answering 20 markers or 60 markers questions. It will fetch you some extra marks.

5. The family resources utilization section is very common sense in nature. So one or two-time readings are enough to answer a 60 marker or 20 markers.

6. Housing and interior decoration is again a common sense topic. It also includes certain technical terms from civil engineering, particularly in the building construction part.

7. The Textile section consists of certain topics from textile engineering. It includes certain technical jargon but it is high scoring once you understand those things in a lucid manner.

8. The wardrobe management section is a topic from fashion technology but it is again a common sense topic. So one or two-time readings is enough.

9. The Extension Education section is the cakewalk of this optional and you can score 250+ marks in the paper-2 because of this section.

Basing on the above points we can say Home Science is a very nice optional. It is both scoring and easy. You are reading this article, it means, you are thinking of taking Home Science optional or you have already taken Home Science optional. But don't worry, I will help you. In my Blog, there is a Forum. You register there and let me know your queries so that I will try my best to answer your questions(This is absolutely free).

Sample Lecture From the Author.

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Home Science Syllabus

PAPER – I

Section A - Food & Nutrition.

1. Study of Foods: Importance, Composition, the nutritive value of Cereals, Pulses, Vegetables and Fruits, Fleshy foods (Meat, Fish, Poultry, Egg), Milk & Milk products, Fats, and oils.

2. Study of Nutrients: Classification, sources, function, requirement and deficiencies of Proteins, Fats, Carbohydrates, Minerals, Vitamins, Water and Roughages.

3. Utilisation of Food: Digestion, absorption, and metabolism of Proteins, Fat and Carbohydrates. Basal metabolism and factors affecting Basal metabolism methods of measurement of Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), Total energy requirement, and factors affecting the requirement.

4. Therapeutic Nutrition: Therapeutic adoption of normal diets, Factors to be considered in planning therapeutic diets. Dietary management in case of Diabetes, Nephritis, Peptic ulcer, Hypertension, Atherosclerosis, Liver Cirrhosis, and hepatitis.

5. Food spoilage: Causes of food spoilage and food contamination. Food adulteration and food poisoning measuring the quality of food, control of food quality (Codex Alimentarius, Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) FPO, Ag mark, ISI).

6. Malnutrition: Causes and effect of malnutrition on the vulnerable section of the society, the effect of malnutrition on national development. Measures to combat malnutrition – National nutrition policy and programs. Role of ICDS, WHO, UNICEF, NIN, NFI, CFTRI, FTRI, NNMB in combating malnutrition.

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Section B - Human Development and Family Studies.

1. Basis of human development: How life begins, the role of genetic and environment factors affecting human development, stages, and factors affecting pre-natal growth and development.

2. Development of children (0-5 years): Physical and Motor development, Intellectual development (Piaget’s stages of development) Development of emotion.

3. Development of children (0-5 years). Speech development, Social development, Personality development (Role of family, School, Community, and Mass Media).

4. Exceptional Children: Meaning, Classification of exceptional children. Management and care of Gifted Mentally and Physically challenged and Sensory impaired children.

5. Adolescent Development: Physical and sexual development, Social and Emotional changes, Development of aspiration and achievement, Personality development and Family relationships.

6. Family life cycle: Significance, stages, and developmental tasks, and problems associated with each stage of the family life cycle. Contemporary family problems Marital problems, Financial, Sickness, Accidents, Dowry, Divorce, Old age, Employed Women. Strengthening families through counseling.

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PAPER-II

Section A - (i) Family Resource Management

1. Management of family Resources: Time management – Time demand during the life cycle, Tools in time management, Leisure time, factors to be considered in making time plan. Energy management – Relation of energy to stages of the family life cycle, energy cost of household tasks, work simplification techniques.

2. Money management: Family income, stages of the family life cycle and use of money, budgeting, saving, and investing the money for the future. Supplementing family income.

3. Housing and Interior decoration: Selection of site, house layout, floor plans, space distribution with reference to activities, building components, and materials. Furnishing: types (furniture, curtains and draperies, wall treatment, floor covering, upholstery, lighting), planning, obtaining information, evaluating cost, principles of interior designing followed in furnishing the house.

(ii) Textile and clothing -

4. Textile fibers: Classification of textile fibers, according to sources and chemical composition, manufacturing process, physical, chemical, and other properties of Cotton, Wool, Silk. Rayon, Acrylic, Polyester.

5. Fiber to Fabric: Construction yarn making process, Types of yarns, fabric construction techniques, Weaving, parts of the loom, Types of weaves; Fabric finishes (textural finishes, functional finishes) Different dyeing and printing methods.

6. Wardrobe Planning, Colour combination in textile designing, criteria of selection of clothes for different age groups, climatic conditions and occasions for men, women and children.

Section B- Home Science Extension Education

1. Extension Education: Concept, philosophy, objectives, and scope of extension education. Role and qualities of extension worker. Need for Home-Science Extension Education.

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Sample Lecture From the Author.

2. Extension Education & Development: Objectives of Home-Science Extension Education, Development aspects of extension, Extension as a program and process, Field covered, financing, planning, and characteristic of extension.

3. Programme planning: Meaning, nature, principle, and scope of the program planning, steps of making a program characteristic of a good program planning program implementation and evaluation.

4. Communication in Extension: Importance, elements of Communication, Communication process, Communication models, scope and purpose of communication, communication channels.

5. Community Development: Concept, scope, principles, and limitation of Community development and Community Organization, Subject matter of community development. Community Development programs – objectives, principles and types of community development programs, Role of Panchayati Raj, Village Schools, Cooperatives, Mahila manuals, Youth and farmers club, Self-help groups, Government and non-Governmental agencies in Extension programs.

6. Teaching & Learning in extension: Education, extension teaching methods, classification and selection of appropriate method, feature, advantage and limitation of different methods of teaching (mass, group, individual) Audiovisual aids – planning, selection, and types of visual, audio, and audio-visual aids contribution of audio-visual aids in extension teaching.

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Book List for Home science:

1.Textbook of Home Science by Premlata Mullick.

2.Food And Nutrition by Arya Publishing House.

3..Textile by Subasini Mohapatra.

4. Extension education and Communication by V. K Dubey and Indira Bishnoi.

5.Extension Education in Home Science by Dr. Nibedita Mishra and Dr. Gayatri Bishwal.

6.You can refer to some +3 Home Science books for family resources management topics.

7.Arohan class notes for paper-1 and paper-2 are available online. These Pdfs are available in my Blog also and you can download them freely.

8. Extension Education Pdfs of Arohan class is also very nice.

9. Fiber to the fabric of NIOS is also useful for textile topics.

10. You can also refer to the EPG Pathsala and e-courses of the ICAR websites for various topics related to Home Science

11. Handwritten Notes for paper-1 and paper-2 available at A N Book Store, Old Bus Stand, Bhubaneswar.

12. OPSC OAS Home Science Paper I & II (Optional) by B K Editorial Board (Author)

13. OPSC OAS Home Science Optional by Sandhya Rani Mohanty (Author), Gayatri Biswal (Author)

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Note- I will publish a series of e-books for Home Science topics in my Blog. So regularly visit my Blog. It will be of immense help to you. Trust me.

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