Goa SSC Exam Pattern 2026: Check Goa SSC Pattern & Marking Scheme Here

SECTION A: (Comprehension):

1.  Narrative Passage

2.  Descriptive Passage

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SECTION A: (Comprehension):

1.  Narrative passage

2.  Tree diagram

(4)

(4)

SECTION B:

PROSE:

1.  1. A Letter to God

2.  Nelson Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom

3.  Two Stories about Flying:

a)  His First Flight

b)  The Black Aeroplane

4.  From the Diary of Anne Frank

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SECTION B: PROSE:

1.  Glimpses of India:

a)  Baker from Goa

b)  Coorg

c)  Tea from Assam

2.  Madam rides the Bus

3.  The Sermon at Benares

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POEMS:

1.  Dust of Snow

2.  Fire and Ice

3.  A Tiger in the Zoo

4.  The Ball Poem

5.  Amanda

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POEMS:

1.  Animals

2.  The Trees.

3.  Fog

4.  Tale of Custard the Dragon

5.  For Anne Gregory

(4)

SUPPLEMENTARY READER:

1.  A Triumph of Surgery

2.  The Thief’s Story

3.  The Midnight Visitor

4.  A Question of Trust

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SUPPLEMENTARY READER:

1.  Footprints without Feet

2.  The Necklace

3.  The Hack Driver

4.  Bholi

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SECTION C:

1.  Gap Filling: Pronouns/ Articles/ Conjunctions/ Degrees of Comparison/ Adverbs/ Determiners / Relative Pronouns/ Prepositions/ Compound words (anybody, somebody, everyone)

2.  Modals

3.  Verb Forms: Tenses to be tested: Present/Past:

(Simple, Continuous and Perfect)

4.  Active/Passive Voice: Present/Past:

(Simple, Continuous and Perfect)

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SECTION C:

1.  Reported Speech

2.  Do as directed:

i)  As soon as/ No sooner -than/ Hardly - when

ii)  Too/ so-that

iii)  Complete with a Conditional Clause

iv)  Question Tags

v)  Join sentences with/ without Connector

vi)  Combine by nominalizing the verb

vii)  Degrees of Comparison

viii)  In spite of / Although

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(2)

SECTION D:

SECTION D:

1. Pie Chart

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1. Picture description

(3)

2. Notice Writing

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2. Report Writing

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NB: Prose:

Hundred Dresses I & II and Mijbil, the Otter (not for testing but could be used for reading and assignment.)

Knowledge

12

30%

Understanding

16

40%

Application

12

30%

Total

40

100%

1

Chemical Reactions and Equations

4

No Deletions

2

Acids, Bases and Salts

5

No Deletions

3

Metals and Non-Metals

4

No Deletions

7

Control and Coordination

6

No Deletions

8

How do Organisms Reproduce?

7

No Deletions

12

Electricity

6

No Deletions

13

Magnetic Effects of Electric

Current

5

No Deletions

14

Sources of Energy

3

No Deletions

Total

40

Long Answer Type (LA)

4

03

12

Short Answer Type (SA-I)

3

03

09

Short Answer Type (SA-II)

2

03

06

Very Short Answer Type (VSA)

1

03

03

Total

12

30

Easy

30%

Average

60%

Difficult

10%

Knowledge

9

30%

Understanding

12

40%

Application

7

23%

Skill

2

7%

Total

30

100%

1

Carbon and its Compounds

5

No Deletions

2

Periodic Classification of

Elements

4

No Deletions

3

Life Processes

5

No Deletions

7

Heredity and Evolution

3

No Deletions

8

Light : Reflection and

Refraction

5

No Deletions

12

Human Eye and Colorful World

4

No Deletions

13

Our Environment

2

No Deletions

14

Management of natural

resources

2

No Deletions

Total

30

Long Answer Type (LA)

12

03

36

Short Answer Type (SA-I)

05

03

15

Short Answer Type (SA-II)

06

03

18

Very Short Answer Type (VSA)

02

03

06

Total

75

1

Real Numbers

5

2

Polynomials

5

3

Pair of Linear equations in two variables

7

15

Probability

3

8

Introduction to Trigonometry

7

7

Co-ordinate Geometry

5

10

Circles

3

12

Areas related to Circles

5

Total

40

4

Quadratic Equations

8

5

Arithmetic Progressions

5

14

Statistics

7

6

Triangles

5

9

Some Applications of Trigonometry

3

11

Constructions

6

13

Surface Areas and Volumes

6

Total

40

H.1.

Early trade Activities

3

H.2.

The Age of Industrialisation

3

H.3.

Post -Industrialisation Age

2

H.4

The American War of Independence

3

H.5.

The French Revolution

2

P.S.10

Union Legislature

3

P.S. 11

Union Executive

2

P.S. 12.

Judiciary

2

Total

20

H.6.

Unification of Germany

2

H.7.

Unification of Italy

2

H.8.

Emergence of Nationalism in India

4

H.9.

Goa’s Struggle for Freedom

4

P.S.13.

State Legislature

2

P.S. 14.

State Executive

2

P.S. 15.

Urban Local Government

2

P.S. 16.

Panchayat Raj System in India

2

Total

20