ICSE examinees will have their marks in English language, English literature, history-civics, geography and science subjects mentioned separately in their mark sheets from next year, the head of the council that conducts the exam said on Friday.

The schedule for the ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) exams will be announced on Monday.

The Council for Indian school Certificate Examinations has so long been publishing a draft exam timetable before releasing the final schedule. This year no draft schedule has been published.

Gerry Arathoon, chief executive and secretary of the council, said the marks of English language, English literature, history-civics, geography, physics, chemistry and biology would be mentioned separately in the ICSE mark sheets to enable the schools to better identify the strengths and weaknesses of each student.

Till the 2018 exams, the mark sheets showed the average score of English language (English Paper-I) and English literature (English Paper-II). The students were, however, required to write two papers of 100 marks each.

If a student scored 78 out of 100 in English language and 60 out of 100 in English literature, the mark sheet would show 69 in English.

“In the new system the scores in the individual papers will be mentioned.... But it will also show the average marks of English paper-I and II like before,” Arathoon said while addressing the principals of over 2,100 ICSE and ISC schools in New Town on Friday.

Like in English, in the earlier system the students would only get to know the average score of history-civics and geography, though they would write two papers of 100 marks each.

Similarly, they would write physics, chemistry and biology papers separately but would only know their average score.

Principals have long been demanding that the marks in the subjects be mentioned separately, Arathoon said. “Now that you can see the bifurcated marks, it will be easier for you to pull up the teacher of the subject in which students do not perform well,” Arathoon told the gathering.

Earlier:

Mark sheets had average of English language and literature; history-civics and geography; physics, chemistry and biology

From 2019:

Mark sheets will show scores for each of the subjects, as well as the average