The Council of Indian School Certificate ExaminationsBoard has announced the cancellation of ICSE (Class 10) examinations andpostponed ISC (Class 12) examination. The decision was taken after requestsfrom students and parents as the number of coronavirus cases spiked in thecountry.
Earlier, the CISCE board had postponed the examination ofboth classes and had made the Class 10th exam optional. However, witnessing the current situationclass 10 exams is cancelled and class 12 examinations will be scheduled afterthe covid situation improves.
While cancelling the exams the CISCE board said in acircular, “The safety and well being of our students and teaching faculty isour topmost priority and of paramount interest.” The notice was released by theBoard on the official site of CISCE and the affiliated schools were asked tostart in the admission process of Class 11. The schools have to prepare aschedule to conduct online classes and the syllabus to be followed for class 11is the ISC 2023 syllabus.
The notice regarding the results read, “CISCE iscommitted to devising a fair and an unbiased criterion as started earlier. Thecriterion on which basis the results will be declared for the ICSE students andthe date of results declaration will be announced by the CISCE later.”
Earlier, the ICSE examination was scheduled to beconducted from May 4 and the ISC examination were scheduled to start on April8, 2021. CBSE has also cancelled the examination for Class 10 and has postponedClass 12 examinations.
Meanwhile, India has reported 2.59 lakh fresh cases and1,761 fatalities in the last 24 hours. Daily India is recording more than twolakh cases taking the tally up to 1.53 crore coronavirus cases.