The Maharashtra State Board syllabus, and how to find your child's

Three separate bodies, three separate jobs - and the one whose name parents use most often, Balbharati, is the printer, not the author.

• MSCERT - the Maharashtra State Council of Educational Research and Training - sets the curriculum, syllabus, and learning outcomes, and trains teachers. It started as a State Institute of Education in 1964, changed its name in 1984, and was redesignated a Vidya Pradhikaran (educational authority) in 2016. It handles curriculum development, textbook development, and educational quality benchmarks.
• Balbharati - formally the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research, established 27 January 1967 - writes and prints textbooks for Standards 1 to 12 across every medium the state supports. The digital library is at ebalbharati.in.
• MSBSHSE - the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, established 1 January 1966 - conducts the SSC examination at Standard 10 and the HSC at Standard 12 through nine divisional boards.

None of these bodies examines a child in Standard 3, 4, or 5. If your child's school gives her a state board exam in primary, that paper was set by the school itself. Full details are on our Maharashtra State Board page, and the textbooks themselves are on the Balbharati page.

This is the single most important thing for a Maharashtra parent to know before reading any syllabus page, ours included.

The state's School Education Department has approved the State Curriculum Framework (Basic Level) 2024 and (Advanced Level) 2024, prepared by MSCERT, aligning Maharashtra to the 5+3+3+4 structure of NEP 2020. State Board schools have begun moving to an NCERT-aligned curriculum and books, starting with Standard 1 in the 2025-26 academic year and Standard 2 in 2026-27, with further standards due to follow year by year. On these newest books EVS is being renamed, following NCERT's own newer titles, as The World Around Us.

Practically, a family with two children in the same school may be looking at two different curricula at once - the newer NCERT-aligned one in the standards it has reached, and the established Balbharati one everywhere above it. An older sibling's book is not a guide to a younger sibling's year, and a chapter list published before the transition describes a book that some children no longer have.

That is why this page will not print one. It would be out of date for at least one standard on the day it was written.

We have not yet received Maharashtra's 2026-27 syllabus documents, and we will not publish information we cannot verify. This principle holds everywhere on this site: no invented statistics, reviews, or chapter lists.

For Maharashtra specifically, this caution matters more than elsewhere. Because textbooks change one standard per year, any chapter list in print will be correct for some grades but wrong for others—with no way to tell which. Instead, we focus on what remains stable—who decides, which book to plan from, which languages are compulsory, when EVS splits, where the first external exam sits—rather than exact chapter lists.

If you need the current chapter list for your child's standard, your school has it, and the printed textbook contains it.

Marathi is settled by law. The Maharashtra Compulsory Teaching and Learning of Marathi Language in Schools Act, 2020 - Maharashtra Act No. 3 of 2020, enacted on 9 March 2020 - requires Marathi to be taught as a mandatory subject from Standard 1 to Standard 10 in every school in the state, whatever its board or medium, phased in from 2020-21. A September 2024 government directive confirmed it as a compulsory, non-graded core subject with strict enforcement from 2025-26, and the state has warned of penalties for schools, including CBSE and CISCE ones, that do not comply. Even a CBSE school in Mumbai or Pune falls under this rule. Our Marathi subject page covers the language itself.

The third language position is still uncertain. In April 2025, Maharashtra issued a Government Resolution making Hindi the compulsory third language from Standard 1 to 5 in English- and Marathi-medium State Board schools. Following significant public opposition, the government said it would remove the word mandatory, then issued a second resolution on 17 June 2025 making the third language optional among Indian languages (with a minimum of 20 students per grade), and subsequently withdrew both resolutions entirely. A committee chaired by Dr Narendra Jadhav is now reviewing how and from which standard the three-language formula should be applied. No final policy has been confirmed at our latest update.

So when you ask "is Hindi in the syllabus", your school has the answer and we do not. Check directly with them this year rather than relying on 2025 headlines—even the accurate ones have changed by now.

Medium of instruction is a genuine choice. Seven media are officially recognised - Marathi, English, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Sindhi and Kannada - and a distinct Semi-English model, enabled by a 2009 government resolution, allows a Marathi-medium school to teach Mathematics and Science in English while conducting the rest of the day in Marathi.

Standard 10 is where the syllabus stops being internal to your school. MSBSHSE conducts the SSC examination, and it is the first external, certificate-bearing exam your Maharashtra state board child sits. Everything before that is set and marked by the school itself, across nine divisional boards covering Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Kolhapur, Amravati, Nashik, Latur and Konkan.

Because nothing external has assessed your child until then, Standard 10 is where accumulated gaps surface all at once. Your child can pass every school test for nine years and still meet the SSC without the arithmetic or the writing stamina it expects. This is not a syllabus problem - it is a measurement problem. The fix is to start looking a year earlier - see Class 9 and Class 10 tuition.

We do not publish the paper pattern or the mark distribution here. MSBSHSE publishes what it publishes, and your Standard 10 family should be reading the board's own material rather than a tuition site's summary.

We teach from your child's actual textbook, in the order her school is covering it, while maintaining our own progression underneath. This means gaps get caught even when the class moves forward.

• The actual textbook, this year's edition. Whether your child's standard has shifted to the newer NCERT-aligned book or still uses the established Balbharati edition, we start with what's actually in her bag.
• Marathi treated as compulsory, because it is—especially in CBSE and ICSE schools, where it's usually the overlooked subject.
• EVS kept intact through Standard 5, then deliberately bridged into General Science, History and Civics, and Geography. The three-way split is particularly pronounced here.
• Semi-English respected precisely, where Mathematics and Science genuinely run in English within an otherwise Marathi-medium day.

Group and one-to-one rates are on the fees page. Free online tests are available whether or not you book a class.