Gujarat Board Class 10 Social Science Syllabus 2026-27 and Chapter-wise Weightage

The Gujarat Board Class 10 Social Science paper is 80 marks in 3 hours, set from the 23 chapters of the GSEB textbook. The latest official paper pattern is the 2025-26 one GSEB issued with its circular of 28 August 2025. As of 6 November 2026 the board has not posted a new Social Science pattern for 2026-27, so the March 2027 paper is expected to follow it.

Below you will find the marks each chapter carries in that pattern, the full chapter list, how the paper is built, and how students actually scored in Social Science in March 2026, from GSEB's own result booklet.

GSEB Class 10 SST chapter-wise weightage 2026-27

The pattern gives two figures for every chapter: its marks in a paper without options, and its marks once the optional questions are counted. The paper prints 109 marks of questions, and you answer 80. Grouped by theme:

• Chapters 1 to 7, India's heritage: 25 marks (36 with options)
• Chapters 8 to 14, resources, farming, industry and transport: 25 marks (36 with options)
• Chapters 15 to 18, economics: 13 marks (20 with options)
• Chapters 19 to 21, human development and society: 13 marks (13 with options)
• Chapters 22 and 23: 4 marks (4 with options)

Source: GSEB Std 10 Social Science paper pattern for 2025-26, circular of 28 August 2025, Gradehunt analysis.

Heritage and geography together make up 50 of the 80 marks. Six chapters gain the most once options are counted: Agriculture (5 to 9), the science and technology heritage chapter (4 to 8), Poverty and Unemployment (4 to 8), Sculpture and Architecture (4 to 7), Natural Resources (4 to 7) and Price Rise and Consumer Awareness (3 to 6).

In GSEB's model paper, six of the seven long-answer options in Section D came from just three chapters: 5, 10 and 17. The board notes that the with-option figures follow its model paper and can differ in the real one, so treat this as a guide to where long answers tend to sit.

GSEB Class 10 Social Science syllabus 2026-27: chapter list

Chapter names are translated from the Gujarati-medium pattern; English-medium textbook titles may be worded a little differently. Marks are shown as without options / with options.

• Heritage: 1 Heritage of India (3/5), 2 Cultural Heritage: Traditions, Handicrafts and Fine Arts (3/5), 3 Cultural Heritage: Sculpture and Architecture (4/7), 4 Literary Heritage (4/4), 5 Heritage of Science and Technology (4/8), 6 Places of Cultural Heritage (4/4), 7 Preserving Our Heritage (3/3)
• Geography: 8 Natural Resources (4/7), 9 Forest and Wildlife Resources (4/4), 10 India: Agriculture (5/9), 11 India: Water Resources (3/3), 12 India: Minerals and Energy Resources (3/5), 13 Manufacturing Industries (3/5), 14 Transport, Communication and Trade (3/3)
• Economics: 15 Economic Development (3/3), 16 Economic Liberalisation and Globalisation (3/3), 17 Economic Problems and Challenges: Poverty and Unemployment (4/8), 18 Price Rise and Consumer Awareness (3/6)
• Society: 19 Human Development (4/4), 20 Social Problems and Challenges of India (5/5), 21 Social Change (4/4)
• Short chapters: 22 Nutrition System in Nature (2/2), 23 Road Safety and the Driver (2/2)

Older versions of this page listed NCERT chapters such as Nationalism in India and Federalism. Those are CBSE chapters and are not part of the GSEB Class 10 Social Science pattern.

GSEB Class 10 Social Science paper pattern

• Section A, Questions 1 to 24, 24 marks, all compulsory: five matching, five true or false, five fill in the blanks, five MCQs and four one- or two-word answers.
• Section B: answer 9 of 13 questions, 2 marks each, about 15 to 35 words.
• Section C: answer 6 of 9 questions, 3 marks each, 60 to 80 words.
• Section D: answer 4 of 7 questions (47 to 53), 4 marks each, 120 to 150 words. Question 54 is a compulsory India map with four places, 1 mark each.

Objective questions are 30% of the paper, the share GSEB fixed in its circular of 12 October 2023 under NEP 2020; the other 70% is written answers with a general option. The pattern also splits marks by skill: knowledge 16, understanding 40, application 15 and higher-order thinking 9. Half the marks, 40 of 80, test understanding rather than recall, so memorised definitions alone will not carry you far.

How did students score in GSEB Class 10 Social Science in 2026?

In March 2026, 755,470 regular students appeared in Social Science and 711,241 passed: 94.15%, against 87.48% in Science and 84.86% in Basic Maths. 3,475 candidates scored the full 80 in the board paper. The grade spread looked like this:

• A1 (91 to 100): 56,328 students, 7.5%
• A2 (81 to 90): 97,159 students, 12.9%
• B1 to C2 (41 to 80): 520,894 students, 69.0%
• D (33 to 40): 36,604 students, 4.8%
• E1 and E2, not passed: 44,229 students, 5.9%

Source: GSEB SSC February-March 2026 result booklet, Gradehunt analysis. The other 256 students are differently abled candidates who passed under the 20% rule.

So failing is rare, about 1 student in 17, while A1 went to roughly 1 in 13. With 56 of the 80 marks in written answers, that is where an A1 is won or lost. To pass, you need at least 26 of 80 in the board paper and 7 of 20 in school internal marks. GSEB's result circular warns that 33 out of 100 overall is not enough if the board paper score is under 26.

How to prepare for GSEB Class 10 Social Science 2027

• Start with chapters 5, 10 and 17. They carry the most marks with options and supplied most of the long-answer options in the model paper.
• Practise the map. Question 54 is compulsory. The model paper asked for alluvial soil, Periyar sanctuary, coffee-growing Coorg and a jute-producing state, so soils, crops, sanctuaries and industries from chapters 8 to 13 come first.
• Write to the word limits. Three hours for 80 marks is 2¼ minutes a mark, so a 4-mark answer gets about 9 minutes.
• Do not skip the short chapters. Section A has no choice, and the model paper's one-mark questions included the age for a heavy vehicle licence and helmet rules from the road safety chapter.
• Solve full papers in 3 hours, then check every answer against the textbook.

Gradehunt's Gujarat Board test series includes Class 10 Social Science. You write full papers by hand, upload them and get them back checked within 48 hours of upload.

For the March 2027 timetable, see our Gujarat Board exam date 2027 page. To download the textbooks, use the GSEB Class 10 textbook guide.