Economic Applications Commercial Applications Art (any two papers to be offered) Paper 1: Drawing or Painting from Still Life Paper 2: Drawing or Painting from Nature Paper 3: Original Imaginative Composition in Colour Paper 4: Applied Art Performing Arts Home Science Cookery Fashion Designing Physical Education Yoga Technical Drawing Applications Environmental Applications A Modern Foreign Language Mass Media & Communication Hospitality Management Beauty & Wellness (Skin & Beauty) Beauty & Wellness (Hair Styling) Group I and Group II subjects consist of an 80-mark written examination along with 20 marks of project work or practical work (in the case of Science). Group III subjects, on the other hand, consist of a 100-mark written examination along with 100 marks of project work. Grading ICSE grades are awarded in two ways. One is the percentage in each subject — the pass percentage in all subjects is 40% — and the other is a numerical scale with descriptions as follows. Legal validity challenged In the year 2015, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (now called Ministry of Education) had asked the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), which conducts the ICSE and the ISC examinations, to furnish evidence to justify its existence. Criticism In 2013, a 20-year-old Indian student studying in the US, Debarghya Das, claimed in his personal blog to have downloaded the ICSE scores for over 100,000 students by scraping. His analysis of the data showed interesting patterns in the marking system, suggesting that the marks were rounded off with no student getting under 33 marks out of a possible 100. The reason for this was reportedly attributed to moderation; a practice also followed by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), it involved tweaking candidates' marks to account for paper variances. References External links of CISCE (homepage) School qualifications of India Secondary school qualifications