CHAPTER II
IMPORTANT NOTE: The responsibility for the correct selection of subjects to meet university or professional requirements of a candidate or candidates will be that of the school.
A. A. Subjects of Examination:
Part I: Compulsory
Candidates for the examination are required to have completed satisfactorily, courses in –
Internal Examination or Internal Assessment
(a) A third language from at least Class V to Class VIII (Internal Examination).
(b) Art (Internal Assessment).
(c) Socially Useful Productive Work and Community Service (Internal Assessment).
(d) Physical Education.
(e) Education in Moral and Spiritual Values.
(f) Environmental Education (as per syllabus prescribed).
NOTE ON THE THIRD LANGUAGE
The third language to be studied should be determined as under:
Candidates of Indian nationality
(i) offering Hindi as a compulsory subject for the External Examination (see Part II) will be required to study one of the following languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Lepcha, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu or any other Indian language approved by the Council.
(ii) offering one of the languages in (i) above other than Hindi, will be required to offer Hindi or any other Indian language approved by the Council.
Candidates of other nationalities may be exempted from the study of a third language from the list given in (i) above, provided that they study an approved language for which provision is made by the school.
Exemption from the study of a third language may be made in special cases: such candidates shall be required to complete a course of studies in another subject approved by the Council.
Part II
Subjects for the Examination at the end of Class X
Percentage Marks
External Internal
Examination Assessment
GROUP I:
(Compulsory)
1. English 80% 20%
2. Second Language 80% 20%
3. History, Civics 80% 20%
and Geography
4. Environmental Education 80% 20%
GROUP II:
(Any two of the following subjects)
5. Mathematics 80% 20%
6. Science 80% 20%
(Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
7. Economics 80% 20%
9. Technical Drawing 80% 20%
10. A Modern Foreign 80% 20%
Language
11. A Classical Language 80% 20%
12. Computer Science 80% 20%
13. Environmental Science 80% 20%
14. Agricultural Science 80% 20%
GROUP III:
(Any one of the following subjects)
15. Computer Applications 50% 50%
16. Economic Applications 50% 50%
17. Commercial Applications 50% 50%
18. Art 50% 50%
19. Performing Arts 50% 50%
20. Home Science 50% 50%
21. Cookery 50% 50%
22. Fashion Designing 50% 50%
23. Physical Education 50% 50%
24. Yoga 50% 50%
25. Technical Drawing Applications 50% 50%
26. Environmental Applications 50% 50%
27. A Modern Foreign Language 50% 50%
Note: It is expected that candidates will normally offer both Science and Mathematics from Group II. If they choose to take any other combination of subjects, Heads of Schools must apprise them of the implications. For the I.S.C. XII course, all combinations of subjects will be accepted.
Students offering Environmental Science are not eligible to offer Environmental Applications, and vice-versa.
Internal Examination
Socially Useful Productive Work and Community Service
Note: The school will make the assessment in “Socially Useful Productive Work and Community Service” and the result will count towards the award of the Certificate. The school will be required to follow the instructions sent by the Council in the matter of keeping records of the work and the assessment of each candidate in “Socially Useful Productive Work and Community Service”.
NOTE ON SECOND LANGUAGE
(a) Candidates of Indian nationality must offer one of the languages listed below:
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Lepcha, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu or any other language of an Indian community approved by the Council.
(b) Candidates of other nationalities must offer either one of the languages listed above, or one of the following for which provision is made by the school:
French, German, Spanish, or any other foreign language approved by the Council.
B. Choice of Subjects:
1. All candidates for the examination must enter and sit for seven subjects - namely English, a Second Language, History, Civics and Geography, Environmental Education, two of the subjects listed under Group II and one subject listed under Group III (vide page 3) and must have been examined by the school in practicals/project work in English, the Second Language, History, Civics and Geography, Environmental Education, the three subjects of their choice and in Socially Useful Productive Work and Community Service .
Provided that candidates reappearing for the examination without attendance at school, in accordance with the provision given in Chapter 1, B.3, will have to enter and sit for all the written papers of all the seven subjects.
2. A school may not enter candidates for subjects, for the teaching of which the school makes no provision.
Note: The responsibility for the correct selection of subjects to meet university or professional requirements of a candidate or candidates will be that of the school.
C. Awards and conditions for awards:
1. PASS CERTIFICATES will be awarded to candidates who attain the pass standard in at least five subjects, which must include the subject English.
Provided that no candidate, except as otherwise exempted by the Council, shall be awarded a Pass Certificate unless in addition to fulfilling the conditions above he has attained a pass grade in SUPW and Community Service as examined/assessed internally by the school.
2. SUPPLEMENTARY PASS CERTIFICATES will be awarded to candidates who have obtained PASS CERTIFICATES and who appear in a subsequent examination and reach the pass standard in one or more subjects.
3. STATEMENT OF MARKS will be issued to all candidates who appeared for the examination.
The pass marks for each subject are 35%.
D. Issue of Results:
All results will be issued through the Heads of schools to whom the results will be sent as soon as possible after the award has been completed. The result sheets show the result in the examination as a whole and also indicate the standard reached in each subject taken, except Socially Useful Productive Work and Community Service by grades from 1 to 9, 1 being the highest and 9 the lowest. Very good is indicated by grades 1 and 2. Grades 3, 4 and 5 indicate a pass with credit, 6 and 7 indicates a pass and 8 or 9 a failure.
The standard reached in Socially Useful Productive Work and Community Service (Internally Assessed) will be shown on the result sheets by grades A, B, C, D or E; A being the highest and E the lowest. A, B, C or D indicate a pass and E a failure.
E. Certificates etc.:
1. Pass Certificates/Supplementary Pass Certificates will be issued through the Heads of schools as soon as possible after the issue of results.
2. Duplicates of Pass Certificates/ Supplementary Pass Certificates are not issued.
3. Duplicates of Statements of Marks will be issued on application accompanied by a certificate countersigned by the Head of school concerned stating that the original Statement of Marks has been actually lost, and on payment of special charges.
4. Migration Certificates will be issued at the request of Heads of schools concerned to candidates who have been awarded Pass Certificates on payment of special charges.
F. Ownership of answer scripts and other material:
All written replies (answer scripts), question papers and any other work done by candidates, during the examination and the copyright therein, are the property of the Council and will not be returned and every application to enter for the examination, (whether through a school or by an individual candidate) will be deemed to constitute an agreement by each candidate entered for the examination with the Council to assign such copyright to the Council.
G. Evaluation of answer scripts:
1. The evaluation of answer scripts and of the other work done by candidates during the examination is within the domestic jurisdiction of the Council and, therefore, no outside person or authority has jurisdiction to check/scrutinise the answer scripts or other work done by candidates.
2. The marking of answer scripts and of the other work done by candidates during the examination by the Council or its examiners and the results of such marking shall be final and legally binding on all candidates and the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council will not, except in his absolute discretion, enter into correspondence about results with candidates or their parents or guardians or the person claiming to act in loco parentis.
The Council does not undertake to re-evaluate the answer booklets after the issue of the results.
H. Enquiries concerning examination results:
1. All enquires concerning examination results on behalf of school candidates must be made to the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council by the Principal of the school concerned and must reach the Council's office, not later than the specified date. Schools are asked to bear in mind that a large number of answer scripts are re-marked by Chief Examiners before the award.
Enquiries should be restricted to results, which are significantly below the standard suggested by the candidate's school work in the subject.
2. The accuracy of a subject grade awarded will be checked on request, in one or more subjects, provided that the Principal of the school forwards the application. Such applications must be made in the proforma prescribed by the Council and must be received in the Council not later than one month after the receipt of the results by the schools. Schools will be required to pay the charges for each recheck as prescribed by the Council from time to time.
The recheck will be restricted to checking whether all the answers have been marked, and that there has been no mistake in the totaling of marks for each question in the subject and transferring marks correctly on the first cover page of the answer book, and whether the continuation sheets attached to the answer book mentioned by the candidate are intact. No other re-evaluation of the answer script or other work done by the candidate as part of the examination will be carried out.
(i) No candidate shall claim or be entitled to re-evaluation or disclosure or inspection of the answer scripts or other documents as the Council treats these as most confidential.
(ii) A competent person appointed by the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council will carry out the recheck.
iii) On rechecking the scripts, if it is found that there is an error, the marks will be revised.
(iv) The communication regarding the revision of marks, if any, shall be sent to the Principal of the school in the case of regular candidates within a reasonable time. In the case of other candidates it will be sent directly to the candidates within a reasonable time.
(v) The Council will not be responsible for any loss or damage or any inconvenience caused to the candidate, consequent to the revision of marks.
(vi) The Council shall revise the Statement of Marks and Pass Certificate in respect of such candidates whose result has changed after the previous Statement of Marks and Pass Certificate are returned.
The decision of the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council on the result of the scrutiny and recheck shall be final.
3. If the Principal of a school considers that the results in one subject are significantly below reasonable expectation, the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council is prepared to ask the examiners for notes on the main weaknesses shown by the work of a few selected candidates. It is necessary to limit such notes to one subject per school on any one occasion of examination and to restrict the enquiry to the work of not more than six candidates whose work is significantly below the standard as suggested by the candidate's school work in the subject. Applications for making special notes must be received in the Council's office not later than one month after the receipt of the results by the school. Charges commensurate with the work involved will have to be paid to the Council.
I. Re-examination:
The Chief Executive and Secretary of the Council shall have the power to hold a re-examination or an additional examination, if he is satisfied that such a re-examination or additional examination is necessary.
J. Last date for retaining answer scripts:
The Council does not undertake to retain answer scripts of candidates later than 60 days after the date on which the results are issued.
For enquiries concerning examination results attention is invited to paragraph H above
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