Indian Certificate of Secondary Education


The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, a private board of secondary education in India. It 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.
The examination allows secure suitable representations of responsible for schools in their states or territories. Private candidates are also permitted to appear for this examination.

Subjects

In subjects where there are more than one paper, the marks obtained in the subject are calculated by taking the average of all the papers in the subject. Candidates appearing for the examination have to study six subjects, with one to three papers in each subject. This makes for a total of eight to eleven papers, depending on the subjects. ICSE results are taken from best five of six subjects out of which English marks is compulsory.

FOR classes IX, X

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Students are allowed to choose any four out of the following with the sixth one, English being compulsory. Subjects are offered in an array of combinations, based on the stream of education, and school picked.
In the year 2015, the human resource development ministry had asked the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, which conducts the ICSE and the ISC examinations, to furnish evidence to justify its existence.

Criticism

In 2013, a 20-year-old Indian student studying in the US, Debarghya Das, claimed in his personal blog to have downloaded the ICSE scores for over 100,000 students by scraping. His analysis of the data showed interesting patterns in the marking system, suggesting that the marks were rounded off with no student getting under 33 marks out of a possible 100. The reason for this was reportedly attributed to moderation; a practice also followed by Central Board of Secondary Education, it involved tweaking candidates' marks to account for paper variances.