Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE)

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Students can seek answer sheets, re-evaluation: CIC

Hemali Chhapia, Students can now seek ICSE answer sheets, re-evaluation: Info panel, Feb 6, 2017: The Times of India

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Students will be able to get copies of answer books and also apply for re-evaluation

This order follows two high court judgments holding that CISCE was not a public authority

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has brought the private Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) board under the purview of the RTI Act. The ruling came after the appellant's request for copies of his son's ICSE exam answer sheets for six subjects was turned down. Kaushik's father had applied for rechecking of his son's papers, but CISCE norms only allow the verification of marks at a fee of Rs 4,000 for all papers.

Under the new rules, students will be able to get copies of answer books and also apply for re-evaluation. "An examining body like CISCE might have an intellectual property right over the question paper, but they do not have any such right over answer sheets of students," the CIC said in its order. "Without sharing evaluated answer sheets, the board cannot assure justice to students who, at times, might be victims of unreasonable evaluation. It is not proper on the part of this prestigious council to leave students remedy-less in such situations of injustice," the order said. This order follows two high court judgments holding that CISCE was not a public authority. "The issue is not whether it is a public authority but whether it should be accountable or not," the CIC order stated. The SC had earlier directed the CBSE to share answer sheets with students who seek re-evaluation.

Class XII

2019

Class XII topper trend (%, all qualifying subjects), 2015-19
From: SHRADHA CHETTRI, May 8, 2019: The Times of India

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Class XII topper trend (%, all qualifying subjects), 2015-19

Classes X and XII

2024

Shreya Ghosh, May 7, 2024: The Times of India

Class X (ICSE) and Class XII (ISC) results , 2024
From: Shreya Ghosh, May 7, 2024: The Times of India

New Delhi: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) released the Class X (ICSE) and Class XII (ISC) results. The pass percentage in ICSE was 99.5% and in ISC, 98.2%. Girls have outperformed boys with a pass percentage of 99.7% compared with 99.3% for boys in ICSE, and 98.2% against 97.5% in ISC. To avoid “unhealthy competition” among students, CISCE discontinued announcing the names of toppers this year.


The exams started on February 21 and concluded on March 28 for Class X, and on February 12 ending on April 3 for Class XII.


There were candidates from 2,695 schools for the ICSE exams, with an impressive 82.5% of schools attaining a 100% pass percentage. For ISC exams, 1,366 schools had presented candidates, and 66.2% of the institutions achieving a perfect pass percentage. Uttar Pradesh led the tally with the highest number of schools presenting candidates for both ICSE and ISC examinations.


For the ICSE exam, covering 60 written subjects, the highest number of examines came from the Northern region comprising Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, New Delhi & NCR, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. But the Western region boasted the highest pass percentage of 99.9%, closely followed by the Southern region (99.8%, which had also sent the highest percentage — 49.5% — of girl candidates.


For ISC, with 47 written subjects, the Northern region again contributed the maximum number of candidates. The Southern region outshone others with the highest pass percentage (99.5%), while the Western region sent the highest percentage of female examinees (50.6%).


CISCE chief executive Joseph Emmanuel said that the board had decided to discontinue the compartment examinations for ICSE and ISC from 2024. Highlighting the exceptional performances, Emmanuel said, “This year’s results are slightly higher than last year’s performance. Many students have scored 100% marks in different subjects and languages, including English. Even though higher order thinking skills questions were included in this year’s papers, the children scored high which is an indication of high educational standards maintained by the CISCE schools.”


Schools abroad, particularly in Indonesia, Singapore, and Dubai, also returned exemplary performances with a 100% pass percentage in both the ICSE and ISC examinations.


The ICSE examination for 2024 had 60 written subjects, among them 20 Indian languages, 13 foreign languages and one classical language. It commenced on February 21 and concluded on March 28. The ISC examination, involving 47 written subjects, including 12 Indian languages, four foreign languages and two classical languages, commenced on February 12 and ended on April 4.


In the ICSE examination, there were 1,088 candidates with learning difficulty cases, of whom 98 obtained marks above 90%. Among the 40 visually challenged candidates, 12 scored above 90%. In the ISC examination, 236 candidates had learning difficulties and of them 18 obtained marks above 90%.


Two of the 11 visually challenged candidates who appeared for the exams got marks above 90%.