Coronavirus: ICSE and ISC exams for Classes 10 and 12 postponed
Team Careers360 | March 19, 2020 | 11:06 AM IST | 1 min read
NEW DELHI: Following the Central Board of Secondary Education, or CBSE, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations has also postponed the Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations that were to be conducted between March 19 and March 30, 2020. The new schedule for the exam will be "notified in due course of time", says a statement from the board.
A statement issued by the chief executive and secretary of the CISCE board, Gerry Arathoon, says: In view of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spreading across the country and with much uncertainty and speculation in the air, the Council, in the interest of the health and well-being of the students and the teaching community, has decided to postpone all ICSE and ISC Year 2020 examinations scheduled to be conducted between the period 19th March 2020 to 31st March 2020."
The statement further says that the ICSE 2020 exams for Class 10 were scheduled to Class 12, on March 31.
Late on Thurday night, on the instructions of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), the CBSE cancelled all board exams and later, the National Testing Agency postponed the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) - or, JEE Main - as well.
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