Maharashtra SSC Tamil (2nd/3rd) study plan

Split and rejoin 50 புணர்ச்சி (sandhi) pairs across the four விகாரம் types - இயல்பு, தோன்றல், திரிதல், கெடுதல் - writing the operating rule beside every pair.

Read the first two prescribed prose lessons (உரைநடை) closely enough to retell each in five sentences without opening the book.

Build a personal sandhi error log: every wrong split goes into a notebook with the corrected rule in your own words.

Collect 20 unfamiliar words from the two prose lessons and record meaning plus one sentence of your own for each.

Memorise the eight வேற்றுமை case markers with their questions (யார், எதை, ஒன்றனால், நான்கனை, ஒன்றினின்று, ஒன்றற்கு, ஒன்றனது, ஒன்றின்கண்) and decline six nouns through all eight.

Write 30 original sentences that each force a specific case ending, then check them against the table.

Distinguish தெரிநிலை, குறிப்பு, வினையெச்சம் and வினையாலணையும் பெயர் verb forms by tagging 40 verb forms pulled from prose lessons 1–2.

Map the characters and central theme of prose lessons 3 and 4 as a one-page chart naming each character, motive and turning point.

Annotate the first ten prescribed verses (செய்யுள்) with word-by-word meaning, the poet's name, the source work and the theme in one line each.

Identify and label the அணி in each of those ten verses - உவமை, உருவகம், தீவகம், சிலேடை, பின்வருநிலை - and justify the label in a single sentence.

Memorise 20 synonym pairs (இணைச்சொல்) and 20 antonym pairs (எதிர்ச்சொல்) drawn from the verse vocabulary rather than from a bare list.

Drill past-tense, present-tense and future-tense conjugation of 15 common verbs in all three persons.

Finish annotating the remaining prescribed verses and recite two of them aloud from memory with correct stress.

Re-read the remaining prose lessons and write the answer to one four-mark question per lesson in the prescribed length.

Sit a closed-book 25-mark self-test covering prose and poetry only, then classify every lost mark as memory gap, language gap or misread question.

Re-teach the three weakest grammar points from weeks 1–2 to yourself on paper, without looking at the rule sheet.

Work through three unseen passages (முன்னறியாப் பகுதி) by reading the questions first, marking keyword lines in the passage, then answering in your own words rather than lifting whole sentences.

Time each unseen passage at 12 minutes and record how many minutes were lost to re-reading.

Learn 30 பழமொழி with their exact meaning and write one original usage sentence per proverb.

Sort 40 words into இணைச்சொல், எதிர்ச்சொல் and பொருந்தும் சொல் groups and justify the placement of the ten hardest.

Outline the four essay types likely to appear - topical, reflective, descriptive, argumentative - with a reusable three-part skeleton (முன்னுரை, கருத்துரை, முடிவுரை).

Write four full essays of about 250 words each in 30 minutes, one per type, using at least two proverbs or idioms per essay.

Self-edit each essay against a checklist: paragraph unity, connector words, no spoken-Tamil forms, correct punctuation.

Build a 15-item idiom bank and insert each idiom into a short paragraph to prove you can deploy it naturally.

Memorise the prescribed layout of formal letters - sender address, date, receiver address, salutation, subject, body, closing - and write three formal letters (application, complaint, request).

Write three informal letters to relatives or friends on given prompts, keeping register casual but grammatically clean.

Translate 40 short sentences in both directions (English to Tamil and Tamil to English), checking tense and case endings on every verb and noun.

Return to the grammar error log and rewrite the 15 most repeated mistakes correctly from memory.

Sit two full-length timed mock papers of 100 marks covering all eight domains, with no notes and a strict clock.

Score each paper against the marking scheme and tabulate domain-wise loss to see which section still leaks marks.

Re-drill the two weakest domains identified by the mocks, using only the error logs and rule sheets you built in weeks 1–7.

Recite all memorised verses and re-read all prose summaries in one final pass two days before the exam.