Early schedule for ICSE, ISC exams

TT - 05 Dec 2018, Calcutta: The 2019 ICSE exams will commence on February 22, four days earlier than this year's test, and ISC on February 4, three days ahead.

Both exams will end on the same date: March 25.

The ISC exam will start with the practical tests. The first exam on the schedule is Art Paper-III (drawing or painting of a living person) on February 4.

The ISC theoretical exam will start on February 15 with Economics. The ICSE exam will start with English language (PaperI ) on February 22.

The timetables were posted on the website www.cisce.org on Monday morning.

Gerry Arathoon, chief executive and secretary of the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations, said 87,699 students would write the ISC exam. The number of ICSE examinees is 1,96,971.

The council has more than 2400 schools in India and abroad.

Arathoon said the exam schedule released on Monday was "final".

Until this year, the council THE TIMETABLES ICSE starts: Feb 22 ICSE ends: March 25 ISC begins: Feb 4 ISC ends: March 25 First ICSE exam: English language (English Paper-I) First ISC exam: Art Paper-III (drawing or painting of a living person) practiced the system of publishing a draft timetable in November and the final one was released in December. "There won't be any draft timetable this time. No other board publish draft timetable. The schedule that is to be released on December 3 will be final," Arathoon had said at a conference of school heads of ICSE schools in New Town last Friday.

The council had delayed the announcement of the exam schedules this time as it decided to have only one and final set of timetable from this time, the principal of a school in Calcutta said.

The ICSE exam in 2019 will start four days earlier than it did this year. The exam had started on February 26 in 2018. The 2019 ISC will start three days earlier than in 2018. It started on February 7 this year.

Both the tests will also end earlier than they did this year.

The ICSE exams had ended on March 28 and ISC on April 2 in 2018. Students will get an additional 15 minutes to read the question paper, the council notice said.

The question papers in ISC will have to be distributed to the candidates at 8.45am.

In ICSE, question papers will be distributed at 10.45am so that students can start writing at 11am, the notice said.