The CISCE curriculum primarily focuses on hands-on learning, higher-order thinking skills, and a sustained focus on the English language. The curriculum is learner-friendly, and students can choose to take up the stream they deem a good fit for themselves at the end of grade 8 itself. The CBSE also has a structured curriculum that has similar goals but they do not offer the rigorous training for English that CISCE promotes with differentiated language and literature components. The subject choices for students are made available at the end of grade 10 in CBSE.