Maharashtra HSC Commerce Exam Pattern 2025: Know Marking Scheme & Exam Duration

Exam On: 11 Feb '25 - 11 Mar '25

This exam is conducted for courses given below:

Science, Commerce, Arts Science Commerce Arts

Updated on Jun 21, 2024 14:54 IST

Maharashtra HSC Commerce Exam Pattern 2025: The exam pattern of Maharashtra HSC 2025 is different for all Commerce subjects namely Accountancy, Economics, Business Studies. The exam is held in offline mode, and students have to answer very short, short, long, and essay-type questions. The questions are asked from the syllabus of Maharashtra HSC 2024. Students should go through the 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.

Exam for each commerce subject is held for 100 marks, wherein 80 marks are allotted to theory and 20 marks to practicals/oral/project.
For subjects: Geology, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, agriculture science and technology, and animal science and technology - 70 marks are allotted for theory exam and 30 marks are fixed for practical/oral/project.
Each student will have to attain 35 per cent marks in each subject to pass an exam.

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Maharashtra HSC Scheme of Evaluation

Maharashtra HSC Scheme of Evaluation

Particulars	Marks
Written Examination	80
Project Preparation (with Viva)	20
Total	100

Maharashtra Board HSC Subjects for Commerce

Compulsory Subjects	Elective Subjects
English	Mathematics and statistics Economics Geography Book-keeping and Accountancy Organisation of Commerce and Management Mathematics and Statistics Secretarial Practice Co-operation Occupational Orientation Defence Studies English Literature Information Technology

Maharashtra Board HSC Commerce preparations

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.

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 which do not match your answer
Work with the options which 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 for 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 year 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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