Council For The Indian School Certificate Examinations [CISCE] Complaints & Reviews

Respected Sir,

I secured 76% in the recent ICSE 10th Board results and secured admission to FYJC in Mumbai. Subsequently, I attempted the Improvement exam for Maths and secured a lower score dropping my percentage to 73%. I was asked to submit the original marksheet and a new marksheet with the reduced percentage was allotted. My concerns are listed below
1. At the time of application for improvement exam, I wasn't informed by the school that if the marks weren't improved, the original marks would be cancelled and the lower marks would be final
2. The notice sent by your Board on improvement exams wasn't shared with me by the school as it was an internal notice
3.Your web site FAQ doesn't also address the question on what happens if the score isn't improved
4. Considering that if I had failed, I would have lost the year and would have to repeat the 10th exams again, would have made me not attempt the improvement exam
5. Since I have secured admission to FYJC based on the original marksheet, I have now submitted the revised original marksheet and have to explain the discrepancy in marks

I have received no help from your helpline nor from the mails sent nor from the school..hence forced to send this on a public forum

Hoping for a resolution

Thank You

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Teachers teaching 10, 11, 12 are above 60 years of age, the chief examiner is nearing 70 years, can't the board take action and give chance for young people to work, and have Government rules applied to private schools.

School is forcing parents and kids to come for offline classes. We are not comfortable. Sending kids until few more months and want school to have hybrid mode of education until we parents are comfortablrsending kids to school. My son is studying in 8 gradeNBIS bengaluru.
I request board to take some action around this and have school help parents with both mode of education and not force them for offline classes. We have lost many of our close family members and do not think it's right time to risk our kids life

Respected sir,
I am a student of Sacred Heart Convent School, Jamshedpur. I am a 10th grader and will be giving my 1st board semester in December. I would like to bring to your notice that our school is giving us extra load as well as mental pressure. Our exam is just around the corner and they are giving us projects at this point of time. We have got in total 4 projects in economic application of which 2 we had to do in our summer vacation, 3 in maths of which 1 we had already done earlier, one English literature project and many more.
This is causing anxiety among us as well as making us feel pressurized. There is already a lot of confusion about how exams are going to be conducted and every other day we get to hear a new news coming from the board. Please understand our situation and do something for us. All this pressure can also result in suicidal thoughts in children.
I hope you are going to help us out and will talk to our school.
Thank You.

I am a student of class 12 and appearing for board exam this year .I have very simple mathematics calculation to show to the board authority.According to board, they want student to give this semister I exam and it will end on December.Again prepare for pre board held by the school.And again prepare for board exam in March which will go till April.And again prepare for competitive exam.Why so "prepare " prepare ...

I would like inform you that School AM Oxford public school Which is in Kareli Allahabad 211016.Is always conducting 3 term. instead of 2 term.Which adhere ICSE guide line.
Kindly inform AM OXFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Kareli Prayagraj 211016 that only 2 term should be taken as per the ICSE guidelines.

Respected Sir/Madam
This is to inform you about the current situation of our children who are appearing for boards this year 2021. This is to request you conduct a online examination for our children since we don’t want to take any risk in this current pandemic situation of our country. Cases are still rising in many states and children are suffering from COVID-19. We request you to take parent consult from each and every parent of the children . Due to this current situation children are not safe to go out from home and hence we request you to take the Boards online from home rather than taking the examination in the school. 97% population of parents all over India had sent the Google forms and requested for a online board examination. WE CANNOT TAKE ANY RISK REGARDING SENDING OUR CHILDREN TO THE SCHOOLS HENCE, WE REQUEST FOR AN ONLINE BOARD EXAMINATION FOR ICSE AND ISC 2021.
I hope you acknowledge our request. This the matter of our children. I hope our request is considered.
Thank you

Respected Sir/Madam
This is to inform you about the current situation of our children who are appearing for boards this year 2021. This is to request you conduct a online examination for our children since we don’t want to take any risk in this current pandemic situation of our country. Cases are still rising in many states and children are suffering from COVID-19. We request you to take parent consult from each and every parent of the children . Due to this current situation children are not safe to go out from home and hence we request you to take the Boards online from home rather than taking the examination in the school. 97% population of parents all over India had sent the Google forms and requested for a online board examination. WE CANNOT TAKE ANY RISK REGARDING SENDING OUR CHILDREN TO THE SCHOOLS HENCE, WE REQUEST FOR AN ONLINE BOARD EXAMINATION FOR ICSE AND ISC 2021.
I hope you acknowledge our request. This the matter of our children. I hope our request is considered.
Thank you
Regards,
Nitu Shaw

Good afternoon, wanted to complain you all that can’t you do your own icse thing you were only the one who had given us option to choose between online or offline board exams eventually half o[censored]s chose online so now you people want to change that as such and say that the exams are postponed because now u want to keep the exam offline is it, see I am telling you now it self it won’t make any change let it be online itself. It’s too much now do you own this icse as cbse removed the new law which is offline exams now you want to copy that right please don’t do that as we were very well prepared to do our exams in front of the laptop if you want you remove a strict proctor scheme but let the exams be online. Not for yours but at least children’s sake. You people have clearly mention everywhere that the first semester will be online and the second according to the covid situation so how ever covid situation it is in November or December it has to be held online. Or all the icse students have to start to tweet #go online icse. #give us the choice to attend the exams online or offline. #stop copying cbse icse do your own thing. Thank you please try to understand.

We received a sudden notification on 19th October that the ICSE class 10 exams have been postponed due to reasons beyond control. This is 3 weeks before the 1st semester boards are to be conducted, while as a parent I am able to reason, it aches to see our children go through the stress and fear over the uncertainty in the format and frequent change in the schedule of the exams. There is already immense anxiety in students due to the covid situation and with the vaccine yet to be made available for children, they anyways feel like they've been neglected by the govt. system and furthermore with the pressure put on them by schools for doing well and meeting the online requirements, they feel over burdened and their situation underestimated. Let's not forget that they are still children and can handle only so much mental and emotional challenges thrown at them. This is a humble request to make concrete decisions and also a request that the internet instability be kept in mind while conducting online exams. Also, please have schools tone down on the pressure they put on children, probably the board is unaware but the schools seem to worry more about the school reputation of scoring at the top than the well being of children. In their language, children request the board and schools to have a heart and soul while making decisions. That being said we are grateful to the board for reducing the portion and bifurcating this academic year into 2 terms. Request your kind consideration for the wellbeing of our children.

Good evening, as your new circular has been sent. i.e. postponing of board semester 1 exam icse. I know that you guys have postponed the exam due to the reason that cbse students have been complaining about our boards to be in our choice that is you have given us option to choose whether we want our boards to be held online or offline. So, obviously half o[censored]s chose online and cbse students have to go and write the means in an offline mode, and now because of that I don’t want our exams to be held offline. I really want online exams as my parents haven’t been sending me anywhere out because of this covid pandemic and they should not send also, so how do you guys expect us to come and write the exams in school, I really want you guys to release the date of exams as soon as possible and the exam mode should be held with our preferences, not yours please. I am see, I got for your reply as soon as possible please once again try to do anything like you can choose a very strict platform, for our online exams to be held but it should be online and not offline, and we all know that covid is still there existing somewhere and can affect us, that too we are not yet vaccinated please try to keep the exams online.Thank you!!

ICSE board has asked schools to allow hybrid mode of examination .
But the school in bengaluru where my son is studying in 8 grade ICSE, managment is denying to have online exams and forcing us to send the kid to school for exams. We would like to wait until vaccination is done for kids and have their lives at risk .
Schools name- NBIS

Dear sir,
I am a student of ICSE, request you to conduct the offline exam for class 10 first semester examination.
Sir, actually during online exam we face a lot of problems like regarding network issue which is the biggest problem, infrastructure problems, some group of students also do cheating by keeping notes on another device or using advanced electronic devices etc. We students are not concerned regarding the exam because we had the thought of doing malpractices and even we students don't feel the competitive mood since it was announced that our exam will be online.
Actually, I wrote my preboard where I faced a lot of problems regarding network issue and others. People's all around me says that the online exam do not determine the potential of a student, at that time I feel helpless that whether I could achieve what I wanted to or not because 10th matters a lot.
Actually, I thought it is better to find the solution rather than live in stress that's why I am writing this mail to you and also I want the conduction of offline exam where the potential of each and every student can be determined i.e who works how much .if online exam will be conducted then we won't be able to know our own potential.
In short, offline exam will only be good to the one who worked hard while online exam will be good to the one who had planned, how to give exam that is by doing malpractices, cheating etc, this is the truth we all know Whereas, offline exam will boost up our mind and what ever marks we will score, we will be satisfied with it.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully
A student.

Repected Sir/ Maam,
My son is studying in class II in a School in kanpur Up-359 is the school code, here school is hiring untrained teachers that are not even able to give proper worksheets here I am enclosing the worksheet in which question no 2 in math is wrong. How can we assume that they are teaching well, when I went to school for complaining they start insulting parent.

I, a student of grade 10 in an ICSE school, write on behalf of all my fellow 10th graders who are to write their semester one board examinations this November.
I am studying in Kerala where Covid Cases are not taking a break from increasing. This leaves us in a situation to give exams from home where many o[censored]s have unstable network connections. If there is a power/network outage in many places, we won't be able to give the exam on time, the exams which decide our fate for admissions in good colleges in 11th std. Many o[censored]s cannot afford to buy laptops or smartphones to carry it to the school to give exams and not all o[censored]s have stable network connections by which we can give the exams from home so I humbly request you to consider the cancellation of the Semester -1 examination with respect to the following:

1) Mass cheating
Though some schools have diligent teachers and obedient students, many schools do not. In such schools, there is mass cheating taking place on a regular basis. In my view, leaving the responsibility of proctoring to the hands of the school will be a grave mistake, and certain students are eagerly waiting for this same mistake, which is an opportunity for them to exploit the situation to their benefit.

2) Lack of hardware and software
In lines of the above argument, while some students are privileged enough to have access to laptops and desktops with proper webcams and a stable wifi connection, a significant portion of the students struggle to connect with the highly unreliable cellular data on their tiny smartphones, for many of whom, the ability to keep their video on at a decent position whilst answering an exam, is practically impossible. Also, with all due respect, the council is completely new to the online mode of testing and hence it is certainly difficult to come up with a flawless platform for a smooth conduction of this examination. The probability of technical errors being high, and the lack of experience in students too, clearly point out why this would not work out.

3) Inability to conduct the exam offline
As all are aware, the COVID situation in the country is still not favourable enough for offline conduction of exams. Moreover, most schools lack the facility and infrastructure to conduct online exams on their premises. The short notice of less than 80 days that was provided to the students does not help either. Also, a full fledged offline exam at this point is further pushed towards irrelevance by the fact that vaccinations for those under 18 has still not started, and it is extremely unsafe for them to walk out of their homes unvaccinated, to a place where hundreds of other students gather in a manner possibly against COVID protocols.

As an alternative to the online semester 1 exams, I suggest that the school prelim marks be considered instead of the board marks.

I sincerely hope you have gone through the aforementioned reasons and believe you are convinced of the need to immediately cancel this examination. It will come as a great relief to over 2 lakh students, who shall always be indebted to you for this favour.

According to the circular issued by the board students can appear for 1 st semester 2021 from school or from home. But the school is not ready to provide both the device as well as internet connectivity, then how can students appear for exams from school. Why can't board arrange for centres just like IIT exams and conduct the exams without any problem. Moreover if there would be any connectivity issue from home then who will be responsible?

I take admission at Burdwan Holy Child School due to that that school make me out from board exam at class 10 only i ask to drink water at board exam only for this school principal and seceratary are not allow to sit in exam and my year was lost can u fullfill my loss of 1 year after hard preparation it is a criminal acitivity against law and court case there is not any one ri ght to take spoild and play game to some one future i done court case and how your borad givd this person affilalion . The external examiner have no problem in my drinking water but my principal have a problem due to that they can play game with future of anyone.

Dear authority
With esteem I want to bring your concern regarding the mismanagement of this school. My child is studying in this school in III and it's quite disturbing to know that they dispersed my child outside of the school in hot day and she waited there for 2 hours for her auto. If anything wrong happens with the child who will be responsible for that and they didn't call also for the late. We were madly getting disturbed for our child.

So pls instruct the school regarding this

My school is not conducting online exam. The Principal of my school sent a message on whatsapp for offline exam. My parents are not allowing to give exam from school. My school name - Children's Home Day School in Bally, Howrah, West Bengal and West Point Academy in Serampore, West Bengal. Please told the school for conducting online exam.

To
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations


Respected sir/mam

I am a student of icse class 10th in holy suffah public school sambhal 244302 . My name is sameer and i want to say that my school is not allowing me to attend the sem 1 examination which a going to be held in 15th of november and they are saying that examination ragistration are closed and the matter was that i didnt attend the school since august because my father was not giving the consent letter to school because of covid 19 and we were in some problems at that time and the school didnt give the notice to us that exam ragistration are going on.
few days ago my parents contact to school in regarding of fees at that time school head said that we are not allowed to your ward to giving the exam and exam ragistration are closed etc.

I am requesting you that please take action on this and please help me because i want to give the exam otherwise my this class 10th year will be waste and this thing will be affect on my career.

Thanking you,
Your faithfully
Sameer