The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education

The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) is an examination conducted by CISCE (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination). It has been designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 1986(India), through the medium of English.

ICSE Board is basically a national level private board of Education in India. The main idea behind starting it was to replace the overseas Cambridge School Certificate Examination with an All India Examination.

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) is in now a day is normally in charge of conducting the Class X and Class XII examinations.