Schedule For CISCE Class 10th ICSE, 12th ISC 2025 Improvement Exams Out

NEW DELHI: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) which administers the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Class 10 and Indian School Certificate (ISC) Class 12 annual exams, has announced the schedule for the 2025 improvement exams.

The ICSE Class 10 and ISC Class 12 exams will be held from July 1. The detailed time table is available on the official website, cisce.org.

The Class 10 exams will begin with English language – English paper 1 and environmental science on the first day of exam. The Class 10 ICSE exam will conclude on July 14.

The Class 12 exams will start with the mathematics, environmental science, sociology and legal studies papers. The Class 12 exams will end on July 17.

In the ICSE and ISC improvement exams, candidates can improve their marks and grades. Candidates are allowed to appear in a maximum of two subjects.

The ISC Class 12 exams were started on February 13 and concluded on April 5. The ICSE Class 10 exams started on February 18 and ended on March 27. The CISCE results for both classes were declared on April 30.

The ICSE Class 10 exam was conducted in 67 written subjects, of which 20 were Indian languages 14 were foreign languages and one was a classical language.

The ISC Class 12 exam was held in 47 written subjects, 12 of them Indian languages, four foreign languages and two classical languages.

A total of 2,52,557 students from 2,803 schools took the Class 10 exams, of which 2,308 students could not clear the exams.

Of 1,184 students who had learning difficulties such as dyslexia, 112 have scored above 90%. Thirteen of 48 visually challenged candidates scored above 90%.

The western region has achieved the best pass percentage in Class 10 exams at 99.83, followed by the southern region of 99.73%.

In the ISC Class 12 exams, there were 99,551 students from 1,460 schools, and 973 of them could not clear the test. Girls performed better than boys in class 12 too, with girls’ pass percentage at 99.45 and boys’ is 98.64%. Among the total 257 students with learning difficulties who appeared for the Class 12 exams, 29 students scored above 90%.

The CISCE in 2024 discontinued compartment exams. Instead, they introduced the re-evaluation of answer scripts and improvement exams for students who wish to improve their marks in the same year of the examination. The CISCE improvement exams can be taken in a maximum of two subjects.