Maharashtra SSC Health & Physical Education Grade study materials
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Maharashtra SSC Health & Physical Education Grade study plan

Maharashtra SSC Health & Physical Education Grade · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Physical Fitness and Health-Related Components

  • Define each health-related component of fitness (cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition) in one precise sentence each and give one Maharashtra-appropriate field test for each

  • Distinguish health-related from skill-related components and classify ten given fitness activities correctly

  • Compute BMI from given height and weight values and state the healthy adult range

  • Explain how the FITT principle (frequency, intensity, time, type) is applied to build a weekly fitness programme

Your checkpoint

A one-page comparison table listing all components of fitness with definition, field test, and one local example, plus five solved BMI calculations

Week 2

Physical Fitness and Health-Related Components & Fundamentals of Major Sports and Games (rules, terminology, skills)

  • Describe the standard procedures for measuring height, weight, and pulse rate in a school setting

  • State the playing area dimensions, player numbers, and basic scoring rules for kabaddi, kho-kho, and volleyball

  • Match ten sports terms (e.g., raid, struggle, ace, spike, libero) to their correct game

  • List the warm-up and cool-down sequence for a school physical education period

Your checkpoint

A rules summary sheet for three games with dimensions, player count, and ten terminology matches answered correctly

Week 3

Fundamentals of Major Sports and Games (rules, terminology, skills)

  • Explain the rules of cricket, football, and hockey at the level of overs, offside, and penalty corner respectively

  • Identify the correct technique cues for at least three fundamental skills in any two games

  • Describe the role of the referee or umpire and two common fouls in each major game

  • Sequence the standard order of events in an athletics track meet (sprints, relays, jumps, throws)

Your checkpoint

A two-page game-rules handbook covering five sports with dimensions, fouls, and skill cues, self-tested with twenty rapid-fire questions

Week 4

Yoga and Asanas (technique, benefits, precautions) & First Aid, Safety and Injury Management

  • Demonstrate and describe the correct technique for five asanas (e.g., Tadasana, Bhujangasana, Vajrasana, Shavasana, Trikonasana) with breathing coordination

  • State two benefits and two precautions for each of those five asanas

  • Apply the RICE protocol to a simulated ankle sprain and justify each step

  • Distinguish sprain, strain, fracture, and dislocation by cause and sign

Your checkpoint

A practical log of five asanas performed on four separate days with breathing notes, plus a written RICE case response

Week 5

First Aid, Safety and Injury Management & Nutrition, Diet and Personal Hygiene

  • Describe first-aid management for burns, bleeding, choking, and heat exhaustion

  • Assemble a school first-aid kit list of at least fifteen items with the purpose of each

  • Classify foods into the five food groups and plan a balanced day's diet for an adolescent

  • Explain the role of water, fibre, and micronutrients in adolescent nutrition and list three signs of deficiency

Your checkpoint

A one-day balanced diet chart with nutrient justification plus a fifteen-item first-aid kit checklist

Week 6

Nutrition, Diet and Personal Hygiene & Growth, Development and Adolescent Health

  • Describe personal hygiene practices for skin, teeth, hair, and menstrual hygiene with the health reason for each

  • Outline the stages of growth and development from childhood to adolescence with one physical change per stage

  • Explain the role of hormones in puberty and identify three common adolescent health concerns

  • State three lifestyle habits that protect adolescent health and three that harm it

Your checkpoint

A personal hygiene and puberty fact sheet of one page, checked against a ten-question self-quiz

Week 7

Sports Psychology, Motivation and Personality & Health Education, Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases

  • Define motivation, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and give one sporting example of each

  • Describe the trait and type theories of personality and relate them to athlete behaviour

  • Distinguish communicable from non-communicable diseases and give three examples of each with one mode of prevention

  • Explain how exercise supports mental health and stress management in adolescents

Your checkpoint

A mind map linking motivation, personality, and health behaviour with ten labelled examples

Week 8

Sports Administration, Tournaments and Careers in Physical Education & Physical Fitness and Health-Related Components & Fundamentals of Major Sports and Games (rules, terminology, skills) & Yoga and Asanas (technique, benefits, precautions) & First Aid, Safety and Injury Management & Nutrition, Diet and Personal Hygiene & Growth, Development and Adolescent Health & Sports Psychology, Motivation and Personality & Health Education, Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases

  • Draw and explain the knockout and league tournament fixtures for eight teams

  • List five careers in physical education with the qualification required for each

  • Revise all nine domains using a timed full-length mock paper

  • Correct every error from the mock paper and restate the underlying rule or fact

Your checkpoint

A completed timed mock paper with an error-correction sheet showing the corrected fact for each mistake

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 80% on a self-made 25-question quiz covering fitness components and sports rules

Week 4: Perform five asanas with correct alignment on four separate days and correctly apply RICE to a written sprain scenario

Week 6: Produce a balanced one-day diet chart and hygiene fact sheet that pass a 10-question self-check with no more than one error

Week 8: Complete a full-length timed mock paper across all nine domains and reach at least 70%, with every wrong answer corrected in writing