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{{Short description|Private worldwide accepted education board}}{{More citations needed|date=June 2014}}{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}{{Use Indian English|date=June 2016}}The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) is 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.WEB,weblink CISCE, www.cisce.org, 2018-09-23, WEB,weblink CISCE, www.cisce.org, 2018-09-23, The examination allows secure suitable representations of responsible schools (which are affiliated to it) in their states or territories. The National Admissions and Accreditation agency of the UK, UCAS (Universities and College Admission Services) recognizes ICSE at par with the Higher School qualification of University of Scotland.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) is known for its comprehensive syllabus and primarily focus on English language and variety of subjects that it offers involving language, arts, commerce and science. ICSE is being taught in English Language only as a result ICSE student gain great command over English language and Literature from kindergarten which helps the students to acquire the art of writing compactly in English, which makes it easy for the ICSE passed out student to score well in competitive as well as language exams like IELTS, TOEFL etc.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}ICSE has always been regarded as one of the best educational boards in India {{By whom|date=October 2023}} in terms of their rigorous syllabus, tough marking scheme for examinations, progressive evaluation and promotion criteria.

Subjects

Students taking the ICSE must write examinations in any six, seven or eight subjects. Of these, five subjects will be included in their final grade — out of these five, one will compulsorily be English, even if it is the subject in which the student has scored the lowest marks.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150402144040weblink">weblink dead, 2 April 2015, Counting 7 subjects is discriminatory, says ICSE Board, Hindustan Times, HT Correspondent, 3 June 2010, 11 March 2015, WEB,weblink ICSE pupils can again draw best-5 score from six subjects, The Times of India, 11 January 2013, 11 March 2015, There are three groups of subjects. WEB, ICSE Class 10 Subjects, Syllabus & Study Plan and Material,weblink 2023-05-09, ALLEN Overseas, en, Group I - English, Second Language, Geography and History-Civics as compulsory subjects.Group II - Choose any two subjects from Science, Mathematics, Economics, Commercial Studies, etc.Group III - Choose any one subject from Home Science, Fashion Designing, Computer Applications, etc.

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 (CBSE), it involved tweaking candidates' marks to account for paper variances.NEWS NEWS

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External links

• {{owebweblink}} of CISCE (homepage)