Citing the second wave of the Coronavirus outbreak in the country, the Council for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education on Friday deferred its exams for classes X and XII, days after CBSE made a similar announcement.

While a final call on the ISC or Std XII students will be taken in June, ICSE Std X students will have two options — either to take the exam along with ISC or skip it as the Council has developed a formula for results without exams. The decisions by CBSE and ICSE have brought great relief for many board students. With an explosion of cases in Maharashtra and a rapid surge in other states, students in Stds X and XII and their parents were under tremendous pressure. Now after ICSE’s announcement, almost all  boards have either cancelled or postponed board examinations.