ICSE Class 10 exams cancelled amid spiralling Covid-19 cases

The safety and well-being of our students and teaching faculty is our top-most priority and of paramount interest, CISCE said

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has announced that it has decided to cancel the ICSE Class 10 examinations due to the rising Covid-19 cases.

“Given the present worsening situation of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, the CISCE has decided to cancel the ICSE (Class 10) 2021 examination…The safety and well-being of our students and teaching faculty is our top-most priority and of paramount interest,” Gerry Arathoon, chief executive and secretary of CISCE said in a letter to all heads of schools.

On April 16, the CISCE had postponed the Class 10 and Class 12 examinations. It had given the Class 10 students an option to opt out of the examination or appear for written tests alongside Class 12 students at a later date.

Arathoon said the April 16 circular has now been withdrawn.

He said the CISCE was committed to a “fair and an unbiased criterion” on the basis of which the Class 10 results would be declared. The criterion and the date of result declaration would be announced later.

Arathoon advised all CISCE-affiliated schools to begin the admission process for Class 11, if they had not already done so.

Schools should prepare a schedule for starting online classes for Class 11 students, he said.