INDIAN CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION
THE COUNCIL
Examinations
Origin
6. The Council conducts the Indian Certificate of
Secondary Education, the Indian School Certificate and the Certificate of Vocational Education
Examinations.
1. The Council for the Indian School Certificate
Examinations was established in 1958 by the
University of Cambridge Local Examinations
Syndicate with the assistance of the Inter-State
Board for Anglo-Indian Education. It is registered under the Societies Registration Act No. XXI of
1860.
7. There is a Committee on Examinations and Subject
Committees for drawing up and revising syllabuses and receiving criticisms and suggestions. The
Council has its own teams of trained examiners, specialists and advisers.
Recognition
INDIAN CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY
EDUCATION EXAMINATION
2. The Delhi Education Act, 1973, passed by
Parliament, in Chapter 1 under Definitions Section
2 (s), recognises the Council as a body conducting public examinations.
CHAPTER 1
A. Introduction
Constituents
1. The Indian Certificate of Secondary
Education Examination has been designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance with the recommendations of the Education Policy
1986, through the medium of English.
3. The Council has been so constituted to secure suitable representation of : Governments responsible for affiliated schools in their
States/Territories - the Inter-State Board for
Anglo-Indian Education, the Association of Indian
Universities, the Association of Heads of
Anglo-Indian Schools, the Indian Public Schools’
Conference, the Association of Schools for the
I.S.C. Examinations and eminent educationists.
2. The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
Examination will ensure a general education and all candidates are required to enter and sit for seven subjects (as detailed on pages 3 and
4) and Socially Useful Productive