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Maharashtra SSC English Important Questions 2026
: To prepare the important questions, you are advised to focus on reading, writing, and literary skills through various sections like reading comprehension, writing skills (including grammar), and literature. The poetry and prose sections are inlcuded in "Kumarbharati" textbook. You need to study eight poems, typically two from each unit, and various prose pieces. As per the
Maharashtra SSC English Syllabus 2025-26
, poetry section includes both classical and modern poems. You need to understand the poems as well as analyze them, identify literary devices like figures of speech (e.g., alliteration, personification). The prose section includes short stories, essays, and excerpts from novels. You need to study the prose pieces with comprehension, understand the author's intention, and analyze the writing style and structure. Some of the important poetry pieces are Where the Mind is Without Fear, Animals, The Pulley, Night of the Scorpion, A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever. While in Prose, the important pieces are The Thief's Story, Three Questions, The Luncheon, The Old Man and the Sea (Book Review). Read the complete article to know more on the Maharashtra SSC English important questions 2026.
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Maharashtra SSC English Previous Year Question Papers
Maharashtra SSC English Important Questions 2026 for 1 Mark (Section I: Language Study)
- Write two compound words:
- Punctuate the following sentence: im so sorrydreinstein she said
- Fill in the blank using the appropriate form of the verb from the bracket: I did not _______________ it at all. (understood/ understand)
- Punctuate the following sentence: Turning to me he asked what is the reverse of what can I give
- Rewrite into indirect narration: “Forgive me!” said the bearded man in a weak voice.
- Rewrite the sentence beginning with: The French Army ………:Joan led the French Army to several victories during this war.
- Identify the verb and state its tense. I didn‟t have much to say.
- Find two hidden words of minimum four letters from: COLOSSAL
- Spot the error and rewrite the correct sentence: Twenty dollars a week don't go far.
- Fill in the blank using the appropriate homophone: Is that box made of tin or……………….? (Steel/ Steal)
- Arrange the following words in alphabetical order: science, tense, script, undermine
Maharashtra SSC English Important Questions 2026 for 2 Marks (Section I: Language Study)
- Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function: Governments must make child-friendly policies.
- Rewrite the sentence as a simple sentence using a present participle: She had read a book of mine and had written to me about it.
- Rewrite into indirect narration: He asked me: “Is the world so poor that it cannot give me a toy and a book?
- Rewrite the sentence using not only ----but also: The state parties are responsible for identifying and nominating new sites.
- Rewrite the sentence in simple future tense: had never even thought of going there.
- Make two sentences by using the given words as a noun and as a verb: Rain
- Rewrite the sentence as a complex sentence using the subordinator: Hemingway's novel is based on real events.
- Rewrite into indirect narration: He asked me: “What is my fault?”
- Rewrite the sentence using No sooner ………. than: As soon as he came, they all gave an applause.
- Frame sentences using the homophones: Waste, Waist
- Identify the clauses and state the type of clauses: The nerves that controlled his muscles were shutting down.
Maharashtra SSC English Important Questions 2026 for 5 Marks (Section III: Poetry)
More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours, more insects, and the endless rain.My mother twisted through and through, groaning on a mat.
My father, sceptic, rationalist, trying every curse and blessing,
powder, mixture, herb and hybrid.
He even poured a little paraffin upon the bitten toe and put a match to it.
I watched the flame feeding on my mother.
I watched the holy man perform his rites to tame the poison with an incantation.
After twenty hours
it lost its sting.
My mother only said
Thank God the scorpion picked on me
And spared my children.
- State whether the following statements are true or false:
(i) The narrator's father was a rationalist
(ii) It was summer when the incident took place –
(iii) Mother found relief after twenty hours –
(iv) Mother thanked the neighbours for sparing her children.
- What were the efforts taken by the father and the holy man to reduce the pain of the mother?
- Find out an example of 'Antithesis' from the extract:
- Appreciation of the poem:
Where the Mind is Without Fear.......
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by Thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
-Rabindranath Tagore.
Points:
- Title:
- The poet:
- Rhyme scheme:
- Figures of speech:
- Central Idea/Theme:
so placid and self-contain'd
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with
the mania of owning things.
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that
lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth,
So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
They bring me tokens of myself, they evince
them plainly in their possession
I wonder where they get those tokens,
Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
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State whether the following statements are true or false:
(i) Animals show their relations to us.
(ii) Humans have given up many good qualities.
(iii) Animals sweat and whine about their condition.
(iv) Animals are placid and self-contained. -
Answer the following question with the help of the given extract:
(i) What craze do animals never display? Why? - Pick out one example of Rhetorical question from the extract.
- Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format:
I remember the night my mother
was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours
of steady rain had driven him
to crawl beneath a sack of rice.
...
My mother only said
"God's will, the serpent picked on me
And cursed my children."
Poem:
- The title and the poet of the poem
- Rhyme scheme
- Figures of speech
- Central Idea/Theme
Maharashtra SSC English Important Questions 2026 for 5 Marks (Section VI : Creative Writing)
- Expand the theme/ idea : 'Nothing will work unless you do'.
- News Report :
'Dengue fever claims 10 lives in Dhule'.
Developing a story/ Narrating experience :
- Develop a story :
................................................................................................................................................................ they learnt a lesson to live with the thought "Be Punctual".
-
Narrate an experience of given beginning.
It was raining heavily and I was going to ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ -
Expand the theme:
Expand the following idea into 100 words:
"Be the change you want to see" -
News Report:
Prepare a news report based on the following:
"Sweeper's daughter/ son scores 96% in Class XII." - Developing a story/ Narrating experience:
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Develop a story in about 80-100 words with the following beginning. Give a suitable title:
He boarded the train happily and he searched his pocket for the tickets and found -
Narrate an experience in about 80-100 words with the following ending. Give a suitable title:
I promise myself to work hard in order to achieve success.
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