The ICSE council has asked schools to provide the average marks of subjects scored by the 2021 Class X candidates in Classes IX and X school exams.

The council has cancelled the ICSE (Class X) board exam and has initiated the process of “collating and collecting data” for ICSE 2021 candidates

On Thursday, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) sent a circular to the heads of schools with candidates for the ICSE examination.

“...the CISCE is in the process of collating and collecting data, which will be required from all our schools. Therefore, you are requested to provide the following information of the candidates registered & confirmed for the ICSE Year 2021 Examination:

1. The average marks of papers/subjects scored by the concerned candidates in the examinations conducted by the school at Class IX level for the academic year 2019-20. (In percentage form/out of 100)

2. The average marks of papers/subjects scored by the concerned candidates in the examinations conducted by the school at Class X level for the academic year 2020-21. (In percentage form/out of 100),” said Gerry Arathoon, the chief executive and secretary of the CISCE, in the circular.

In the circular, the council has also mentioned that the average marks of papers/subjects have to be submitted online, “through the internal assessment module on the careers portal”. Schools have been asked to submit the consolidated mark sheets of Class IX and X from the school records to corroborate the marks given on the careers portal, the council said.

The documents have to be authenticated, and then stamped, dated and signed by the head of the school, it added.

The internal assessment module has been activated from April 30. Schools have to upload the consolidated mark sheets by May 15. In states where there is “a total lockdown,” the schools must submit the data by May 22.

For any candidate who took a transfer from one ICSE school to another, the average marks of Class IX or the Class IX report card of the candidate has to be sourced from the previous school.

“Any delay in the submission of the above information will subsequently affect the processing and cause a delay in the declaration of the ICSE Year 2021 results,” Arathoon has said in the circular.

The council had cancelled the ICSE examination on April 19 given the “worsening situation of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country”.

Several school heads said they would collate the data next week after internal meetings.

All schools could conduct in-person exams for Class IX before the institutions closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic.

For Class X, the schools had to take online examinations. Many schools could not conduct full length papers for the students.

On February 12, the state government allowed schools to reopen for in-person classes. Following which some schools conducted pre-boards on the campus while others continued with the online exams or gave students the option to choose between online and offline exams.