Date sheet of ICSE Class 10th and ISC Class 12th annual exam for semester-1 has been released by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE). Students who would be appearing for the CISCE semester-1 exam 2021 for class 10 and 12 can visit the official website i.e. cisce.org.

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The ICSE Class 10th semester-1 exam will begin from November 15 and will continue till December 6. While ISC Class 12th semester-1 exam will begin from November 15 and will end on December 16.

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For ICSE class 10 exams, there is variation in time-duration as some paper like English, Environmental Science and Geography will be held for one hour duration and other papers like Mathematics will be held for one and half hours. But, for class 12 ISC board exams, the duration is one and half hours.

The Class 10 exams will start with English Language – English Paper 1 on the first day and the Class 12 exams will start with English Paper 2 – Literature in English on November 15. For ICSE class 10, the question paper will contain 80 marks and for ISC class 12, the question paper will carry 70 marks for each semester.

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Earlier, the exam conducting board, has said that for the 2022 board examination CISCE will follow a different method of conducting examinations as the academic calendar has been divided into two semester and each semester will cover the 50% of the syllabus.

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The board also reduced the syllabus for various courses for ICSE and ISC students due to disruption of educational activities caused by COVID-19. The reduced ICSE (Class 10) and ISC (Class 12) syllabus for the following year are divided into two parts and the units / subunits to be included in each semester are well defined.