Indian School Certificate

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The Indian School Certificate (ISC) is a certificate awarded upon achieving a satisfactory result in an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, a private board designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 2020 (India), through the medium of English. [1] [2] The examination allows secure suitable representations of responsible schools (which are affiliated to it) in their states or territories. The examination allows secure suitable representations of responsible schools (which are affiliated to it) in their states or territories.

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ISC Grade 12

Candidates appearing for the ISC must write examinations in at least five or at most six subjects. Of these, four subjects will be included in their final grade — out of these four, one will compulsorily be English, even if it is the subject in which the student has scored the lowest marks. [3] [4]

Group I (compulsory)-

Group II (choose any four or five)


While ISC offers each of these subjects to students, the school affiliated to CISCE may or may not be offering all the subjects listed. Depending on the school's resources, only a few subjects may be available to students.

In addition to the subjects listed above ISC mandates an extra-curricular development to be displayed by students. This is achieved through a scheme called Socially Useful Productive Work & Community Service, commonly referred to as SUPW, introduced in 1978. [5]

In accordance to SUPW, candidates will be required to select one main craft and one subsidiary service or one main service and one subsidiary craft per year of preparation for the examination. The craft may be aligned with their studies. For example a candidate who has selected Art may submit pottery as their craft

Marking Scheme - ISC Grade 12

There are some subjects, which have 80 marks theory paper (Board Examination), along with 20 marks of internal assessments conducted by school (projects, exams, viva). Thus the split between external and internal assessments is 80% and 20% respectively.

However, there are few subjects which have 70 marks theory paper (Board Examination). Those subjects have a 30 mark internal assessment conducted by school (projects, practical, exam, viva). Thus, the split for them between external and internal assessments is 70% and 30% respectively.

To obtain marks out of 100, both external examination and internal assessment marks are added and the average is calculated and reported as final marks.

The pass marks for each subject is 33%.

Examinations - ISC Grade 12

The Indian School Certificate is conducted once a year, and usually spans 1.5 to 2.5 month. The registrations for supplementary examination and improvement examination are opened within a month after declaration of results of the main exam.

In the 1.5-2.5 month interval of the exams, there are leaving gaps in between each exam, giving candidates a large gap between their exams.

Each exam spans a duration of 3 hours writing time.

Improvement Examination

All candidates who appear for the ICSE and ISC Main Examination, are eligible to take the Improvement Examination conducted on the same year of Examination. [6]

Candidates are allowed to take the improvement examination for any two subjects they have enrolled themselves in. [7]

Certification

The CISCE will award to every candidate that sits for the necessary subjects, attaining an aggregate of their 5 best subjects in ICSE and 4 best subjects in ISC of above 33% and a grade of D or above in their SUPW.

  1. ↑ "CISCE". www.cisce.org. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "CISCE". www.cisce.org. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Counting 7 subjects is discriminatory, says ICSE Board". HT Correspondent. Hindustan Times. 3 June 2010. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "ICSE pupils can again draw best-5 score from six subjects". The Times of India. 11 January 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Does SUPW stand for 'Socially Useful Period Wasted?'". Times of India. 24 February 2019. Archived from the original on 16 January 2025. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  6. ↑ https://cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/0.4-ICSE-Regulations-26.pdf
  7. ↑ https://cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/0.4-ICSE-Regulations-26.pdf
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