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Leaving Cert Home Economics: Family resource management

How often Family resource management comes up on the Home Economics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 4 of the last 10 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2023.

Family resource management, Higher Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Family resource management.

(a)Four stages of the management process in the home?
  1. Earning, budgeting, spending and saving money
  2. Planning, organising, implementing and evaluating
  3. Shopping, cooking, cleaning and tidying the whole home
(b)Example of a human resource in the home?
  1. Furniture, appliances and the car
  2. Money, property and savings
  3. Time, energy, skills and knowledge
(c)First stage in managing a household task or project?
  1. Setting a clear goal and planning
  2. Buying all the equipment needed
  3. Evaluating the result of the task
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(a) Planning, organising, implementing and evaluating

(b) Time, energy, skills and knowledge

(c) Setting a clear goal and planning

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Family resource management.

Higher Level

Asked on 4 of the last 10 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2023.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Q4
2022Not asked
2021Q4
2019Not asked
2018Q4
2017A9
2016Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Family resource management questions

Family resource management, 3 marks

In the systems approach to home management, what are the inputs?

  1. The results achieved, such as a clean and tidy home
  2. The actions taken to carry out the plan
  3. The resources used, such as time, money and skills
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The resources used, such as time, money and skills

Inputs are resources and demands, throughputs are the actions taken, and outputs are the results. Feedback improves the next plan.

Family resource management, 2 marks

Example of a material (non-human) resource in the home?

  1. Time and energy
  2. Money and equipment
  3. Skills and knowledge
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Money and equipment

Human resources are the people's skills, knowledge, time and energy. Material resources include money, equipment and the home itself.

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