The IMSSS is an Examinations Body providing children and adults throughout Sri Lanka with the opportunity of following a course of education in Speech & Drama, Speaking Skills and Western Music according to a set Syllabus. Examinations are held from January to December each year at centres throughout the island.

The Speech Syllabus is approved  by the  STSD with the Licentiate Diploma in Speech & Drama education being accepted as a qualification for full member status of the STSD.

Speech & Drama includes the following subjects

Speaking Skills
Writing Skills
Speech & Drama (Practical)
Speech & Drama (Theory)
Prose Reading
Public Speaking
Solo Performance
Group Drama
Group Verse Speaking

The Music Syllabus is set so as to provide a support for the Local School syllabus curriculum for aesthetic subjects (Western Music) The Music Syllabus includes the following subjects

Pianoforte Practical
Pianoforte Theory
Recorder