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About ICSE

• The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education popularly known as ICSE as mentioned in the ICSE official website is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) which is a private board of school education in India for Class 10. The CISCE board is headquartered in New Delhi, which is considered as one of the popular boards of education in India that conducts the ICSE Class 10 and ISC Class 12 board examinations every year.
• The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education has been designed to provide an exam in a course of general education, according to the New Education Policy 1986, through English medium. The ICSE Board focuses on a student’s overall growth, so it provides a balanced curriculum to all its learners. Students can also find all the information related to the ICSE Board in their ICSE official website.

Board Details

• CISCE aims to serve its learners through quality education and empowering them to contribute towards humanity, pluralistic society, by creating an exciting learning experience. The contact details of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations is given below.

ICSE Syllabus

• The ICSE syllabus is well-structured, comprehensive and aims to build analytical skills and practical knowledge to its students. ICSE Board is known for its vast syllabus, and students must give importance to all the subjects. The board focuses on a detailed study of each subject which helps students to have the flexibility of selecting specific subjects in higher classes.
• The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education also considers the internal assessments to be very important for a student’s development. The practical exam results are aggregated with the student’s overall score.
• Students who are studying under the ICSE Board should be completely familiar with the exam syllabus to prepare effectively for their examination. Click the link given below to get the complete details about ICSE Syllabus.

ICSE Practical Syllabus

• The practical syllabus of ICSE will help students to get an idea about the types of experiments they need to perform for Physics, Chemistry, and Biology in their respective school lab.
• The experiments mentioned in the syllabus are framed in accordance with the theory part so that students can understand the importance of it. Before performing the experiment students should have a thorough understanding of the theoretical concepts. Click the link given below to download the latest ICSE practical syllabus.

ICSE Affiliations

ICSE Curriculum Details

The detailed curriculum of the board from class 1 to class 10 is provided below.

• Class 1 to 5

The ICSE Board focuses more on refining the skills of students. All the schools under the CISCE have the freedom to select their textbooks for classes 1 to 5. The board has guidelines for every subject which the schools must follow to make the syllabus relevant to the students studying under the ICSE board.

• Class 6 to 10

No prescribed syllabus but only guidelines are provided for students of classes 6, 7, and 8. For classes 9 and 10, a well-structured syllabus is provided by the council. The council also provides a list of books from which the schools can choose for their students. There is no textbook set by the council.

Moreover, from 2021, new subjects will be included in the curriculum. Group I history, civics, and geography (Thailand) will be offered to aspirants of Thai nationality compulsorily while others can also opt for the same. The students will have a choice to study either history civics and geography or history civics and geography (Thailand).

ICSE Class 10 Board Exam

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations conducts the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) exam for Class 10 students.

• ICSE Class 10 Board Exam

The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) has been designed to provide an exam in the course of general education, according to the New Education policy 1986. The ICSE Class 10 Board exam is conducted for Class 10 students. There are 7 subjects in the examination, out of which 4 are compulsory subjects, and 3 have a choice of subjects. The ICSE Board conducts all school-level ICSE Board exams for subjects like English, History, Commercial Studies, Science, Environmental Science, etc.

ICSE Compartmental Exams

• ICSE Board exam will start from 27th February 2020 till 30th March 2020. After the exams are over the results will be declared after few months. Once the results are declared the Board will release the time-table for ICSE compartmental exam for 2020.
• From this year ICSE Board started conducting compartmental exams for Class 10 students only in one subject. ICSE compartmental examinations are conducted from July 15 to 17, 2019.
• Candidates who fail to secure pass certificates will be permitted to appear for the compartmental examination in one subject in which they have not secured the pass mark. However, the candidates should have secured the pass mark in English (compulsory) and three other subjects in the ICSE 2019 examination. The entries of all the candidates will be submitted online to the Council by the Head of the concerned school, and the results of the compartmental exams will be declared in August 2019.

ICSE Practical Exams

• Practical exams are also an important part of the syllabus like theory paper. Practical help students to clear all the concepts and doubts related to the topic. Along with the theory part scoring well in practical exams is also necessary so that you can score well in that subject. Practical work promotes experimental learning. ICSE conducts practical exams for subjects such as Art, Physics, Indian Music, Home Science, Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Computer Science and Fashion Designing.

ICSE Study Materials

• Students who are studying under ICSE Board must prepare hard for their examination. Visit ICSE Study Materials to get the latest question papers, previous year papers and sample papers of ICSE Board exam. These study materials will help you to prepare effectively for your upcoming board exam.

ICSE Sample Papers

• ICSE Sample Papers will help students to build a strong foundation for solving the problem in their board exams. These ICSE Sample Papers are prepared as per the latest ICSE syllabus and considered as the important study material while preparing for their board exam. The ICSE Board classwise sample papers are provided in the table below.

ICSE Previous Year Question Papers

• ICSE Previous Year Question Papers are based on the current and updated curriculum by ICSE Board. By referring more and more ICSE Previous Years Question Papers, students become perfect in the question paper pattern for a particular class and subject, learn about the possibility of repeating questions. Also, it helps in reducing the student’s nervousness while answering their question paper in ICSE Board exam.

ICSE Important Questions

• ICSE Important Questions give you an idea of the portions you should not miss and hence solving them will help you in covering the types of important question or important topics from the ICSE syllabus that are likely to appear for the ICSE Board examination. So, solving these important questions is an unavoidable task for the students. The classwise ICSE Important Questions are mentioned below.

ICSE Textbook Solutions

• ICSE board does not prescribe any specific textbook to the student. Most students of ICSE board study through various reference books.

Concise Selina Solutions

• The book by the Selina publisher is the most sought out books by ICSE students. This book contains several questions from each chapter with varying difficulty levels. Here we have provided the Selina Solutions for Class 8, 9 and 10. Students can access the chapter-wise ICSE Textbook Solutions from the table below.
• ML Aggarwal Solutions The books published by ML Aggarwal is one of the best reference books of Mathematics, designed for the students studying in ICSE board.
• These ML Aggarwal Solutions contains detailed answers for the questions present n the book ICSE Books The ICSE syllabus includes some of the most important topics that form the basic foundations. So, it is very important to be well-equipped with all the ICSE Books and have a proper understanding of the concepts.
• Students can download ICSE books in PDF format, which helps them while preparing for the ICSE Board exam.ICSE Exam PatternThe ICSE exam pattern for all the compulsory subjects provided below so that students can overview of the exact question paper pattern, weightage of marks for each section and number of questions in each section.
• By knowing the exam pattern, they get to know the important topics which need to be focused more. Students should go through the exam pattern before they start preparing for the ICSE Class 10 Board exam.

ICSE Grading PatternThe ICSE Board marking scheme is given below. Group 1 is compulsory, but students can select any 2 subjects from group 2 and any 1 subject from group 3.

How to Prepare for ICSE

• The preparation tips mentioned below will guide students on how to schedule their study plan effectively. It will give them some idea on how to begin their preparation according to the subject. Students are advised to go through these tips before they start their ICSE Board exam preparation so that they can work on it smoothly.

ICSE Latest Updates

• ICSE’s latest updates help students to be updated with the recent changes and notifications released by the ICSE board. Knowing the updates will help students to know all the changes initiated by the board and how it will benefit them. Given below the table of all the notifications issued by the ICSE board related to syllabus, compartmental exams, ICSE Board exam etc. The latest updates are taken from the ICSE official website so that students are updated with the latest changes implemented by the board.

Revised ICSE Time Table 2020 for Class 10

• The Council has released the Indian Certificate for Secondary Education (ICSE) revised date sheet for the remaining Class 10 board exams on 22nd May 2020. The exams are starting on 2nd July 2020 with Geography H.C.G (Paper 2) and will end on 12th July 2020 with an Economics paper. Students are advised to plan their studies as per the revised schedule. Using this time effectively will surely help students to ace the exam with good marks.

ICSE Videos on Important Topics

• To make learning easier and fun through interactive videos. Here we have provided the links of few videos. Go through them and enjoy learning.

TCT COUNCIL’S MISSION

• The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations is committed to serving the nation’s children, through high-quality educational endeavor’s, empowering them to contribute towards a humane, just and pluralistic society, promoting introspective living, by creating exciting learning opportunities, with a commitment to excellence.

TCT ETHOS OF THE COUNCIL

• Trust and fair play.
• Minimum monitoring.
• Allowing schools to evolve own niche.
• Catering to the needs of the children.
• Giving freedom to experiment with new ideas and practices.
• Diversity and plurality – the basic strength for the evolution of ideas.
• Schools to motivate pupils towards the cultivation of:
  • Excellence – The Indian and Global experience.
  • Values – Spiritual and cultural – to be the bedrock of the educational experience.
• Schools to have an ‘Indian Ethos’, strong roots in the national psyche, and be sensitive to national aspirations.

As a leader in the provision of world-wide educational endeavors, the Council’s vast experience and wisdom is called upon in many forums such as the Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE), State Education Departments, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the Ministry for Human Resource Development and the Planning Commission, affirming the intrinsic integrity and credibility of the Council and the system it espouses.

TCT EXAMINATIONS

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations conducts three examinations, namely, the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE –Class X); The Indian School Certificate (ISC – ClassXII) and the Certificate in Vocational Education (CVE – Year 12). The subject choices and syllabuses prescribed for these examinations are varied and aimed at nurturing the unique gifts of individual pupils

• THE ICSE (CLASS X)

  The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education has been designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 1986, through the medium of English. Private candidates are not permitted to appear for this examination.

  [For more details see Regulations and Syllabuses booklet.]

• THE ISC (CLASS XII)

  The Indian School Certificate Examination is an examination, through the medium of English, designed in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 1986, after a two-year course of studies beyond the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (Year 10) examination or its equivalent examination.

  [For more details see Regulations and Syllabuses booklet.]

• THE C.V.E (YEAR 12)

  The Certificate of Vocational Education Examination (CVE – 12) has been created as an examination, in accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) through the Joint Council of Vocational Education (JCVE) established under the National Policy of Education 1986. This examination can be taken by candidates after a two-year course of studies beyond the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (Year 10) examination or its equivalent examination, through the medium of English.

  [For more details see Regulations and Syllabuses booklet.]

  The C.V.E. course is intended to prepare candidates for specific vocations. Private candidates are not permitted to appear for these examinations.

ABOUT TCT TRAINING

• The Council carries out training on a gamut of educational concerns, geared towards improving or affirming teaching practices in the classroom, new syllabi thrusts or managerial skills in education. Requests for training may be made to the Council’s office.