CISCE (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations) has introduced the “item banks,” aka subject-based ICSE question banks, for ICSE Class 10 and ISC Class 12. These question papers are based on the notice released for the increased percentage of analytical and competency-based questions in the ICSE and ISC board exams 2025.
CISCE has sent notices to the affiliated schools about this information. The notice included, “These subject-based item banks will serve as a resource for the students as well as the teachers.
These banks are developed and scrutinised by external subject matter experts and will help teachers in creating a competency-based question repository.” The questions are available on the official website in the downloadable PDF format. CISCE has released the item banks for the following subjects.
ICSE Class 10
ISC Class 12
The subject-based item banks are easily available on the official website. To download
CISCE has already announced that the upcoming board examinations will have papers based on the 25% increase in competency-based questions. Students can include these practice questions along with the Class 10 ICSE Specimen Papers and ISC Class 12 Specimen Papers.