The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) has released the time table for the class 10 annual exams famously known as Indian Certificate of Secondary Education or ICSE examination 2019. The board has also released the date sheet of its 12th or ISC exam. The examinations for ICSE will start from February 22 and will conclude on March 25, 2019 while for ISC it will begin from February 4, 2019 and conclude on March 25, 2019.
Class 10th exams under CISCE are starting four days earlier this year. In 2018, the ICSE final examination began on February 26 and the ISC examinations started from February 7.
The ICSE exam will start from Friday February 22, 2019 with English Language paper 1 and will be concluded on Monday, March 25, 2019 with Biology Science paper 3.
The exams are set to start in two different timings, i.e. from 9.00 am and 11.00 am and the durations vary for different papers between 2 hours, 2 and half hours and 3 hours.
Apart from the scheduled exam time, the students will be given 15 minutes extra time to read the question paper. The question paper may be distributed to candidates at 10:45 a.m. to enable them to start writing at 11:00 a.m.
The CISCE has recently announced that it will give unsuccessful candidates a second chance to pass the examination in the same year, from 2019.
CISCE secretary Gerry Arathoon said compartmental exams will be held for ISC candidates having failed in the fourth subject and ICSE candidates in the fifth subject, in the same year, shortly after publication of the respective board results.
“Students of Class 12, having passed in English and two other subjects but not in the fourth subject and Class 10candidates, making it in English and three other subjects, but failing in the fifth subject, won’t have to waste one year under the new system”, he said.
“Mr Arathoon said. Those candidates can sit for the supplementary (compartmental) test in June-July. The results of the compartmental exam can then be published by August to enable successful students to enroll for higher studies”, Mr Arathoon, also the Chief Executive of CISCE, said.
ISC (Class 12) Board Exam 2019 Schedule
February 04, 2019 (9.00 AM): Art Paper 3 (Drawing or Painting of a Living Person)
February 05, 2019 (9.00 AM): Physics – Paper 2 (Practical)
February 06, 2019 (9.00 AM): Indian Music – Hindustani Paper 2 (Practical)/ Indian Music – Carnatic Paper 2 (Practical)/ Western Music – Paper 2 (Practical)/ Home Science – Paper 2 (Practical) – Planning Session
February 07, 2019 (9.00 AM): Chemistry – Paper 2 (Practical)
February 08, 2019 (9.00 AM): Biotechnology – Paper 2 (Practical)
February 11, 2019 (9.00 AM): Biology – Paper 2 (Practical)
February 12, 2019 (9.00 AM): Home Science – Paper 2 (Practical)
February 13, 2019 (9.00 AM): Computer Science – Paper 2 (Practical)
February 14, 2019 (9.00 AM): Fashion Designing – Paper 2 (Practical)
February 15, 2019 (2.00 PM): Economics
February 16, 2019 (9.00 AM): Art Paper 2 (Drawing & Painting from Nature)
February 18, 2019 (2.00 PM): Computer Science – Paper 1 (Theory)
February 20, 2019 (2.00 PM): Accounts
February 21, 2019, 2019 (2.00 PM): English – Paper 1 (English Language)
February 22, 2019 (2.00PM): Physical Education – Paper 1 (Theory)
February 23, 2019 (9.00 AM): Art Paper 1 (Drawing or Painting from Still Life)
February 25, 2019 (2.00 PM): English – Paper 2 (Literature in English)
February 26, 2019 (2.00 PM): Indian Music – Hindustani – Paper 1 (Theory)/ Indian Music – Carnatic – Paper 1 (Theory)/ Western Music – Paper 1 (Theory)/ Fashion Designing – Paper 1 (Theory)
February 27, 2019 (2.00 PM): Indian Languages / Modern Foreign Languages/ Classical Languages
February 28, 2019 (9.00 AM): Art Paper 4 (Original Imaginative Composition in Colour)
March 01, 2019 (2.00 PM): Chemistry – Paper 1 (Theory)
March 02, 2019 ((.00 AM): Art Paper 5 (Crafts ‘A’) 3 hrs.
March 05, 2019 (2.00 PM): Mathematics
March 06, 2019 (2.00 PM): Elective English
March 07, 2019 (2.00 PM): Business Studies
March 08, 2019 (2.00 PM): Psychology
March 11, 2019 (2.00 PM): Physics – Paper 1 (Theory)
March 12, 2019 (2.00 PM): Environmental Science – Paper 1(Theory)
March 13, 2019 (2.00 PM): Sociology
March 14, 2019 (2.00 PM) Biology – Paper 1 (Theory)
March 15, 2019 (2.00 PM):History
March 18, 2019 (2.00 PM): Commerce/ Electricity and Electronics
March 19, 2019 (2.00 PM): Political Science/ Biotechnology – Paper 1 (Theory)
March 22, 2019 (2.00 PM): Geography – Paper 1 (Theory)
March 25, 2019 (2.00 PM): Home Science – Paper 1 (Theory)/ Geometrical & Mechanical Drawing/ Geometrical & Building Drawing