ICSE Class 10 Commercial Studies Question Papers with Solutions (2024-2026)

Searching for a 2027 specimen paper? CISCE did not publish one for Commercial Studies. Its circular of 9 October 2026 names the ICSE subjects that got new 2027 specimens, and for every other subject it says the 2026 rubrics and assessment structure will apply. So the 2026 board paper is the closest model of what you will write in 2027.

ICSE Commercial Studies 2026 paper pattern

• 80 marks, 2 hours of writing, plus 15 minutes of reading time at the start. Internal assessment (a project) adds 20 marks.
• Section A, 40 marks, all compulsory: Question 1 has 16 one-mark MCQs, then Questions 2 to 4 have twelve 2-mark short answers.
• Section B, 40 marks: answer any four of the six 10-mark questions (5 to 10). Questions 5 to 9 each have two 5-mark parts. Question 10 is one 10-mark final accounts sum.
• The MCQs were not all plain recall. Two were assertion-reason, one was based on a picture of a sales promotion, one asked which two of four statements about budgets were true, and one was a single true-or-false line on gratuity.

Two hours for 80 marks gives you 1½ minutes a mark. That is about 24 minutes for the MCQs, 36 for the twelve short answers and 15 for each Section B question.

Chapter-wise marks in the ICSE 2026 Commercial Studies paper

We matched each question to the seven Class 10 units in CISCE's syllabus. Section A is compulsory, so its marks are fixed. Section B offers 60 marks and you answer 40 of them:

• Finance and Accounting: 15 of 40 in Section A; 15 of 60 in Section B, plus half of one mixed part
• Marketing and Sales (including consumer protection and ERP): 8 in Section A; 15 in Section B
• Human Resources: 6 in Section A; 10 in Section B
• Logistics (transport, warehousing, insurance): 4 in Section A; 5 in Section B, plus half of one mixed part
• Banking: 3 in Section A; 5 in Section B
• Environment protection: 3 in Section A; none in Section B
• Stakeholders: 1 in Section A; 5 in Section B

Source: CISCE ICSE 2026 Commercial Studies question paper and ICSE Commercial Studies syllabus for 2027, Gradehunt analysis. The mixed part is Question 6(ii): a principle of insurance plus a note on preference shares.

Finance and Accounting carried more than a third of Section A by itself: capital and revenue items, costs, budgets, shares and debentures, and the trading account. Students who treat accounts as optional because of the Section B choice still meet 15 compulsory marks of it.

Should you attempt Question 10, the final accounts sum?

Question 10 gave the trial balance of XYZ & Co. Ltd, 19 items in all, and asked for a Trading Account, a Profit and Loss Account and a Balance Sheet. The only adjustment was closing stock, exactly as the syllabus limits it. That makes it the one Section B question where every mark depends on getting the numbers right.

If your accounts are tidy, it is 10 marks with no long writing. If not, Questions 5 to 9 give you five theory options and you need only four. Decide before the exam, not in the reading time, and practise the format from the 2026, 2025 and 2024 papers either way.

Case-based questions in the 2026 paper

• Mrs Basu's car is damaged, the insurer pays ₹60,000, and she also recovers ₹30,000 from the driver. You had to name the principle of insurance and judge whether she was right.
• Mrs Pandit's chilli powder changes the colour of her food. Name the type of consumer exploitation and what she can do.
• Rahul thinks advertising wastes money; his partner Aman disagrees. Pick a side and give four points.
• Infosys recruits from IIT Kanpur. Name the source of external recruitment and one advantage.

Each one tests a definition you already know, set inside a story. Read the case twice, name the concept first, then explain it in the words of the syllabus.

How to use these papers

• Write the 2026 paper first, under a 2-hour timer, and mark it against the solution.
• Then do 2025 and 2024 the same way. Note which units cost you marks in all three.
• Revise environment protection from the syllabus even though it had no Section B question in 2026. A unit missing one year can still return as a 10-mark question.

Board questions from the ICSE exams of 2016 to 2026, solved step by step and sorted chapter by chapter, are in Gradehunt's 10 Years Solved Papers (PYQ) for ICSE Class 10.

Also taking Economics? See the ICSE Class 10 Economics past papers.