Maharashtra SSC Scouting and Guiding Grade study plan

Build a dated timeline of the origins and spread of Scouting and Guiding, from the founding experiment to its arrival and growth in India, listing at least ten milestones with years.

Recite the Scout/Guide Promise and Law from memory, then write each Law point in your own words with one concrete example of how a young person could keep it at school, at home, and online.

Explain the meaning of the Promise and the symbolism of the badge, salute, motto and left-handshake, and state the age sections of the movement and their distinguishing features.

Distinguish the fundamentals (Promise and Law, patrol system, learning by doing, service, nature, adult support) from optional activities, and list three things that are activities rather than fundamentals.

Draft a patrol structure for a unit of 24 young people, assigning patrol names, patrol leaders, assistant patrol leaders and a duty roster that rotates every week.

Write a 30-minute patrol-in-council agenda and explain the respective roles of the Scout/Guide, patrol leader, assistant leader and adult leader in running it.

Design one unit meeting of 90 minutes with opening ceremony, skill instruction, game, patrol corner and closing ceremony, noting the purpose of each segment and the safety checks.

Describe how you would induct a new member over their first four weeks, including the investiture and the first-class/guide badge pathway, and list the records a unit must keep.

Plan a two-night camp programme for a unit, covering site selection, permission and notification, water and sanitation, cooking arrangements, tent layout, night routine and emergency evacuation.

Tie and demonstrate at least eight knots from memory, stating for each one the situation in which it is the right choice and one common mistake.

Demonstrate and explain four lashings (square, diagonal, shear, tripod or similar), and state the load each is suited to carry.

Build a simple pioneering project such as a camp table, flagstaff or gateway, and describe the materials, measurements, safety precautions and dismantling steps.

Write the hiking checklist and route card for a half-day hike, including distance, timing, water points, first-aid kit contents and buddy-pair rules.

Explain and practise at least five tracking signs, then design a short tracking trail with six clues that a patrol could follow safely.

Describe the rules of observation games such as kim's game, and explain how to train a young person's memory and attention through them.

Send and receive a simple message in semaphore and in Morse, and state the visual and sound signalling methods used in the field along with their limitations.

Estimate distance, height and weight by at least two methods each, and explain how pacing and the timing method are calibrated.

Work through first-aid scenarios for bleeding, burns, fractures, sprains, fainting, heat stroke, snakebite, drowning and choking, and state what must never be done in each case.

Assemble a patrol first-aid kit and justify every item in it, including what is deliberately left out.

Identify fifteen common trees, birds or plants of your region from leaves, bark, calls or field marks, and note one conservation issue affecting each.

Explain the causes and consequences of soil erosion, deforestation, water wastage and plastic pollution, and list the practical actions a patrol can take locally.

Plan and describe a community service project lasting at least four weeks, with beneficiaries, tasks, safety, permission and how the impact will be measured.

Explain the duties of a citizen as expressed in the Constitution of India, and describe how the movement builds national integration and respect for diversity.

Draft a short campfire or ceremony programme that presents India's diversity through song, story or role-play without stereotyping.

Redo the tracking, signalling and estimation exercises under time pressure, cutting errors to near zero on a self-marked quiz.

Run a mock emergency in writing: a patrol member is injured two kilometres from the road; set out the sequence of decisions, who does what, and how the casualty is moved or kept still.

Re-plan the camp programme to include a night watch roster, hygiene inspection and a weather contingency, and check it against a written safety audit.

Explain how a young person's health, hygiene, nutrition and physical fitness are monitored in a unit, and describe how to handle suspected abuse or bullying disclosure.

Answer twenty recall questions on history, fundamentals, Promise and Law without notes, and correct every wrong answer with a written note on why it was wrong.

Explain how the Promise and Law are taught to different age sections, and how a leader handles a member who breaks the Law without humiliating them.

Describe the full badge and proficiency badge pathway, the court of honour, and the adult training and warrant process in the movement.

Compare the patrol system with a conventional classroom and argue in writing why small-group self-government works for character formation.

Answer a full-length mixed mock paper across all ten domains under exam timing, then mark it and list weak areas with a revision action for each.

Rehearse the ten first-aid scenarios aloud as if instructing a patrol, keeping each answer under two minutes.

Present a three-minute spoken briefing on a conservation action and a three-minute briefing on a service project, as a leader would to a unit.

State the qualities of a good leader in the movement and give one example each of leadership by example, by delegation and by correction, drawn from your own unit or family experience.

Compile a single final revision sheet of no more than two pages covering all ten domains.