Last minute suggestions on guess computer application – theory and practical questions for ISC 2013 students

ISC computer practical examination carries 100 marks and in this site students can get the programs and solutions of previous year papers. From those practical papers, one can guess what type of question may come in ISC 2013 computer application examination.

Practical computer application for ISC 2013

If we look back to previous years papers, the findings can be summed up as follows:

In 2010 ISC computer application practical examination, the first program was on number. The amount was entered by user and the amount was displayed in words and the denomination available in descending order was also displayed. Second program on the same year was on kaprekar numbers in a specific range and the third program was completely on string.


In ISC 2011 computer application practical paper, the first program was on displaying number in word like if the entered value is 29, the output will be: TWENTY NINE
Second program was again on string, encryption of message and the third was on displaying total number of days of a specific date from the start of year which was an int type array program.

In 2012 ISC computer application practical paper, the first program was on prime-palindrome integers within a range.The second one was on string, manipulation with words
And the third was on 2-d array finding largest and smallest  numbers with position.

From the above it is clear that programs on string and array ( both 1-d and 2-d) are common in all the previous years. This year students of ISC 2013 can expect programs from the following list in their practical examination.


Program on queue, queue implementation of queue for printing job or like that.

BlueJ program on String array - arranging the words in ascending order

Write a program to accept a date in the string format (dd/mm/yyyy) and accept the name of the day on 1st January of the corresponding year. Find the day for the given date.

BlueJ program on decoding encoded string with removing extra blank spaces and modification on alphabet cases

Program on 2-d array may be set in 2013 Computer application practical of ISC 2013. The program may be of finding maximum value row wise and columkn wise, sorting the elements etc .

Reversing words of a string

Finding unique digit numbers

BlueJ Program on displaying date in specific format

BlueJ program on valid Email id checking

Program to reverse a string. Example: Input:I like computer applications Output:I ekil retupmoc snoitacilppa.

BlueJ program on circular decoding

BlueJ program on re-arranging numbers in an array with positive numbers first

BlueJ program to find the total number of days between two dates

For theoretical paper in ISC 2013 computer application examination

Follow the suggestion and guess of ICSE 2013 and the followings topics:

Inheritance in BlueJ 

What is meant by a user defined data type?

 What is the use of static in the main function?

The basic condition for binary search and compare binary search with linear search technique.

Program on merging two ascending lists

Basic String class Functions in BlueJ

BlueJ programs using String Functions

Also go through suggestions for ICSE 2013.