ICSE and ISC 2027 Date Sheets Are Out: Class 10 Starts February 15, Class 12 Starts February 9

Right behind CBSE's 2027 date sheet, CISCE has published both of its own. The ICSE (Class 10) and ISC (Class 12) timetables for the Year 2027 examinations are dated 10 November 2026 and signed by the council's Chief Executive and Secretary, Dr Joseph Emmanuel. Class 12 students start first: the ISC examination opens on Tuesday, 9 February 2027. ICSE candidates walk in six days later, on Monday, 15 February. One structural surprise for Class 12 families: almost every ISC paper is an afternoon exam, starting at 2:00 p.m. That changes how a student should be sleeping and eating by January.

ICSE Class 10: the dates most parents need

Most ICSE papers start at 10:15 a.m. (Art papers begin at 9:00 a.m.). English Language and Literature are split three days apart at the very start, then the rhythm settles into two papers a week - Physics, Chemistry and Biology each get their own day across the second and third weeks of March, with four days between Physics and Chemistry and three between Chemistry and Biology. That spacing lets single-science revision blocks sit in the gaps rather than compete. The last entries in CISCE's published table fall on Wednesday, 31 March. Mathematics is a three-hour paper; English and the sciences are two hours each.

ISC Class 12: afternoon papers, and a long tail

Every ISC paper is three hours. Apart from the Art papers, which run at 9:00 a.m. on Saturdays and one Wednesday, the entire Class 12 timetable sits at 2:00 p.m. A PCB student finishes with Biology on 15 March, a PCM student with Computer Science on 17 March; a commerce student's core run ends with Commerce on 29 March; but humanities and elective students can be writing until 8 April. If your family books anything for late March, check your child's actual combination first - the tail of this timetable is long and uneven.

Exam-day rules worth knowing months early

• Every paper includes 15 minutes of reading time on top of the writing time. For ICSE's 10:15 a.m. papers, reading starts at 10:00 a.m. and students must be seated by 9:45 a.m. For ISC's 2:00 p.m. papers, reading starts at 1:45 p.m. and students must be seated by 1:30 p.m. (9:00 a.m. papers: reading at 8:45, seated by 8:30.)
• School uniform is the stated dress code for regular candidates.
• The banned-items list now names the devices of this decade: AI-enabled smart glasses, AR glasses and Bluetooth-enabled spectacles, smart watches, wireless earbuds, smart rings, scanner pens and translation pens. Phones and any internet-capable device are out, as always - and so are wallets and currency notes.
• CCTV surveillance covers candidates and examination staff, and schools may frisk candidates at the door.
• ISC candidates may carry a calculator - but only a Casio fx-82 MS, another make with similar functions, or a basic-function calculator. Anything with retrieval features is barred. ICSE's permitted-items list has no calculator at all.

After the last paper: results, rechecks and second chances

CISCE says ICSE and ISC Year 2027 results will be declared in April or May 2027, on cisce.org only - not from the council's office. Two deadlines are printed in the timetable itself, and both are short. A recheck request must reach CISCE within four days of the result declaration; it is a paid, online service, and it checks only that every answer was marked and the totals were added and transferred correctly. A re-evaluation - where a subject expert re-reads the script - must be filed within three days of the recheck result, costs a non-refundable fee per subject, and comes with a warning parents should read aloud: the re-evaluated marks, whether increased or decreased, are final.

There is also a same-year safety net. Every candidate who sits the 2027 main examination - qualified or not - may take the Improvement Examination in up to three subjects in the same year. The theory paper is compulsory for any subject chosen, project and practical marks from the main exam carry forward, and schools register candidates online. Students declared ABSENT are the only ones shut out. Those who do not qualify in 2027 may reappear in 2028, but in all their registered subjects, and not beyond 2028 without returning to school.

What to do now

1. 1Download the official timetable PDFs from cisce.org and mark only your child's papers on the family calendar. Both documents also carry the full directions to candidates - worth one careful read together, not the night before the first exam.
2. 2ISC families: start shifting revision sessions to early afternoon by January. A child whose brain peaks at 10 p.m. is training against a timetable that examines them at 2 p.m.
3. 3ICSE families: note the early double-header. English Language and Literature arrive on 15 and 18 February, before any other core subject - English revision cannot wait for the exam season.
4. 4For ISC candidates who use a calculator, buy the approved model now and make sure your child practices with exactly that one.
5. 5Plan travel around your child's own last paper, not a generic end date: core ICSE papers run to 31 March in the published table, and the ISC timetable stretches to 8 April for some combinations.