ICSE Class 10 Maths Previous Year Question Papers with Solutions (2020-2026)

You will not find a 2021 paper. CISCE cancelled the ICSE Class 10 board exams in April 2021 because of Covid, so no paper was written that year.

CISCE has also released a 2027 Maths specimen paper with a draft marking scheme on its specimen papers page. Section for section, it follows the 2026 board paper.

ICSE Class 10 Maths 2026 paper: chapter-wise marks

Every part of the 2026 paper is tagged to its chapter group below. The first figure is that group's share of the 40 compulsory marks in Section A. The second is its share of the 70 marks printed in Section B, where you answer four of the seven 10-mark questions.

• Algebra (quadratics, factorisation, matrices, AP and GP, ratio and proportion, inequations): 17 and 17
• Geometry (similarity, circles, ruler-and-compass construction): 11 and 8
• Commercial maths (GST, recurring deposits, shares and dividend): 3 and 9
• Coordinate geometry (equation of a line, mid-point and section formula, reflection): 2 and 10
• Statistics (mode, histogram, mean by step deviation, ogive): 1 and 11
• Mensuration: 5 and 4
• Trigonometry: 0 and 8
• Probability: 1 and 3

Source: CISCE ICSE 2026 Mathematics question paper, Gradehunt analysis.

What the 2026 Maths paper tells you

• Trigonometry got no marks in Section A. Both of its questions, a 3-mark identity and a 5-mark heights-and-distances sum with a flagpole on a building, sat in Section B.
• Statistics was the reverse: one MCQ on the mode of a mobile number in Section A, then 11 printed marks in Section B. The ogive alone was 5 marks.
• Quadratic equations came three times: nature of roots as an MCQ, solving to three significant figures, and a word problem where two numbers differ by 5 and their reciprocals add up to 3/10.
• Circles were the biggest single chapter in geometry: an MCQ on a cyclic quadrilateral and two 4-mark angle questions built on tangents.
• Section B needed graph paper twice (the ogive and a reflection of parallelogram OABC) and maths tables twice (the quadratic and the flagpole). Question 7 was the only question split 5 and 5.
• Question 1 had 15 MCQs, two of them assertion-reason.

The real pressure was in Section A. Algebra and geometry took 28 of its 40 marks, including a 5-mark construction of an equilateral triangle, its circumcircle and a locus. Skip either chapter group and the compulsory half of the paper starts with a gap.

Is the ICSE Maths 2027 paper the same as 2026?

Mostly. The 2027 specimen keeps the 80-mark, three-hour paper, 15 MCQs in Question 1, Questions 2 and 3 worth 12 and 13 marks, and any four of seven 10-mark questions in Section B. Two details move: in the specimen the 5-mark part of Question 3 is a graph question rather than a construction, and the 5-and-5 question is Question 9, not Question 7.

CISCE's circular of 9 October 2026 says questions that test apply, analyse, evaluate and create will carry about 50% of the weightage in 2027. For the time split and how the draft marking scheme awards step marks, see our Maths paper pattern and marking scheme guide.

How to practise with ICSE Maths previous year papers

• Write 2026 and 2025 first, in three hours each, with graph paper and maths tables on the desk. Then do 2024 and 2023.
• The two 2022 semester papers each covered half the syllabus, and 2020 is older, so use those three for chapter practice.
• Show every step. The paper's own instructions say that leaving out essential working loses marks, and rough work goes on the same sheet.
• Round as the question asks. The 2026 paper wanted three significant figures in one sum and the nearest metre or whole number in others.
• Choose your four Section B questions in the 15 minutes of reading time. Trigonometry and statistics live mostly in Section B, so decide early whether you are taking them on.

When you have finished these years, our 10 Years Solved Papers (PYQ) for ICSE Class 10 gives you ten years of Maths board papers sorted chapter-wise, with answers, updated to the latest CISCE syllabus. The 2026 questions are solved there too.

For the full chapter list, see our ICSE Class 10 Maths syllabus. Physics past papers are here too.