ICSE Commerce Paper 2019: The Commercial Studies Paper for the ICSE class 10 examination received mixed bag reactions here in Lucknow. Students felt that apart from couple of tricky questions in Section B it was a relatively easy paper. The paper had direct questions with no twist and confusion, examinees said after writing the exam on Tuesday afternoon.

Students of Hoerner College, Saurabh Saini and Apoorva Gupta opined that it was an easy paper. Sneha Singh and Nidhi felt the balance sheet was a bit tricky but otherwise it was a scoring paper. Their teacher Meenakshi Bajaj felt the paper was neither tough nor easy as it needed application of understanding the questions thoroughly. The Principal Mala Mehra was happy to see confident faces and was sure of a good outcome.

Abin B Sam, a student of St Teresa’s College, Aashiana said that paper was easy as compared to the pre-board exam. “The paper had direct questions with no twist and confusion. It was altogether very easy paper,” Sam said.

Shabham said that questions paper was awesome and very easy. Areeba Siddiqui paper was easy and she is expecting good marks. Commerce teacher at St Teresa’s College, Aashiana, Rajeev Pandey said the ICSE Commercial Studies paper was very scoring.

“There could be no other paper easier than this. The paper was very straight forward without even a single question that could be termed tricky or out of syllabus. It was as per expectations and all the questions were well- practiced by the children. Children may expect this to be most scoring paper out of all,” Pandey said.

ICSE (Class X) students at City Montessori School, Aliganj also felt that commercial students question paper was easy and straight forward. Section A was easier than Section B. No tricky questions were asked, they said.

According to Mansi Jain, Anshika Gupta and Mahmood Ahmad, the questions were very well framed, direct and specific. Akanksha Yadav and Anshita Trivedi said, “We completed our paper within the time limit”.

As per the Commerce teacher, Praneeta Garg the paper was on expected lines and all students will definitely succeed in the examination. The school principal, Jyoti Kashyap was happy for the children and said that she was confident that all of them will pass with flying colours.

First Published: Mar 19, 2019 14:34 IST