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Maharashtra High School Certificate 2025 ( Maharashtra HSC )

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Jasleen Taneja
Updated on Jan 6, 2025 17:21 IST

By Jasleen Taneja

Maharashtra HSC Exam Pattern 2024: MSBSHSE released the Maharashtra HSC blueprint 2024 for all the subjects. Maharashtra HSC exam is held in offline mode, and students have to answer very short, short, long, and essay-type questions. The questions in the exams are asked from the syllabus of Maharashtra HSC 2024. Students should go through the Maharashtra 12th exam pattern while they are preparing for the exam as it helps them work on their time management skills. They must practice previous years’ question papers to know the Maharashtra HSC exam pattern better. 

Each student will have to attain 35 per cent marks in each subject to pass the Class 12 exam. Maharashtra HSC 2024 exams will be conducted between February 21 and March 19, 2024 in pen and paper mode.

Table of content
  • Maharashtra Paper Pattern of HSC 2024 - Marking Scheme
  • Subject-wise Maharashtra Board 12th Class Exam Pattern 2024
  • FAQs on Maharashtra HSC Exam Pattern 2025
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Maharashtra Paper Pattern of HSC 2024 - Marking Scheme

Subjects Number
Mathematics and Statistics 100 (80+20)
English 100 (80+20)
Chemistry 100 (70+30)
Biology 100 (70+30)
Physics 100 (70+30)

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Subject-wise Maharashtra Board 12th Class Exam Pattern 2024

Subject Total marks Duration
(A) Compulsory Subjects
1. English
2. Environment Education
3. Health and Physical Education
Modern Indian Languages
1. Marathi
2. Hindi
3. Gujarati
4. Urdu
5. Kannada
6. Tamil
7. Telugu
8. Malayalam
9. Sindhi
10. Bengali
11. Punjabi
Modern Foreign Languages
12. German
13. French
14. Russian
15. Japanese
Classical Languages
16. Sanskrit
17. Pali
18. Ardhamagadhi
19. Persian
20. Arabic
21. Avesta-Pahlavi
(B)Elective Subjects
1. A Modern Indian Language
2. A Modern Foreign Language
3. A Classical Language
4. Marathi Literature
5. Hindi (Applied)
6. English Literature
7. History
8. Geography
9. Mathematics and Statistics
(For Arts and Science)
10. Mathematics and Statistics (For Commerce)
11. Geology
12. Political Science
13. Home Management (For Std. XI only)
14. Food Science (For Std. XI only)
15. Child Development (For Std. XII only)
16. Textiles
17. Sociology
18. Logic
19. Philosophy
20. Psychology
21. Economics
22. Book-keeping and Accountancy
23. Organization of Commerce and Management
24. Secretarial Practice
25. Cooperation
26. Physics
27. Chemistry
28. Biology
29. Drawing
30. Design and Colour
31. Pictorial Composition
32. History of Art and Appreciation
33. History and Development of Indian Music
34. Vocal Light Music
35. Vocal Classical Music
36. Instrumental Music
37. Percussion Instruments
38. Agriculture Science & Technology
39. Animal Science & Technology
40. Defense Studies
41. Education
42. Occupational Orientation
i) Library and Information Science
ii) Stenography: English, Marathi
43. Information Technology (Science)
44. Information Technology (Arts)
45. Information Technology (Commerce)
46. General Knowledge (for Military schools)
100 3 hours
Health and Physical Education 50 1.5 hours
Percussion
Information Technology
100 2.5 hours

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1. Addition of more objective-type questions comes with an additional advantage for students as they will be able to spare more time to write long and subjective type answers in their exams, hence will increase their chances of scoring better marks. To prepare for objective-type questions, students must clear all their concepts and learn all definitions, formulae and important terms/facts by heart.

While writing the exam:

  • Read the question and options carefully
  • Calculate the answer first in the mind and take out the suspected answers
  • Eliminate the options that do not match your answer
  • Work with the options that are near to the correct answer (according to you) to arrive at the correct one

2. As far as the reduction in the overall score is concerned, students need not make any different preparation arrangements for this change as it has nothing to do with their course syllabus or preparation techniques. They just need to work hard in each subject to score good marks so that they can have a decent aggregated score at the time of the final assessment. They should practice with model papers and previous years' question papers to get an idea of topics that are frequently asked in exams and also know the type of questions asked over years.

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3. Internal assessment aims at estimating a student’s educational progress and ability of learning. This requires students to be consistent in their performance throughout the year as the internal marks will be based on continuous evaluation instead of year-end evaluation. They should actively participate in the different activities conducted as a part of the internal assessment like test of listening and speaking skills in language subjects, conducting experiments for practical examinations, etc.

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