ISC 2015 Syllabus

The ICSE board or CISCE board is one of India’s premier boards of education.  CISCE stands for Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations.  The examinations conducted for class 12 by the ICSE board are known as the Indian School Certificate or ISC exams.

Class 12 is a crucial year in the life of a student.  It is also a continuation of what is learnt in class 11 at a more advanced level.  The ISC examinations for class 12 students enable students to enter college and university with a high standard of proficiency in subjects studied.

ISC 2015 Syllabus

The ISC or the Indian School Certificate 2015 syllabus has been carefully prepared to equip students to do well in college and university.  It is known for maintaining very high standards in subject matter.  It is also designed keeping in mind recent trends in education and the professional scenario.  

In class 12, English is a compulsory subject.  ICSE allows great flexibility in class 12 with 30 types of elective subjects to choose from.  Normally, this would be continuum of the subjects studied at the class 11 level.   

Among languages, these include Indian languages, modern foreign languages and classical languages as well as elective English.

For students interested in humanities or civil service careers, history, political science, geography, sociology, psychology and economics are elective subjects that they could choose from and study. On the commerce side, commerce, accounts and business studies are normally elective subjects that commerce stream students study.

In the science stream, the following subjects are available as per the ISC 2015 syllabus: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Electricity and Electronics, Engineering Science and Computer Science.  Home Science, Geometrical and Mechanical Drawing, Geometrical and Building Drawing, Art, Music, Physical Education, Environmental Science and Biotechnology are the other elective subjects which are available as per the ISC 2015 syllabus.  Thus, one can see that students can choose from a wide variety of subjects and appear for the ICS 2015 examinations.  Good scores in ICS examinations serve as a good passport for higher studies in India and abroad.