What does the SOF IMO Class 7 paper actually ask?
SOF IMO Class 7 is 50 questions for 60 marks in 60 minutes, across four sections — and five of those fifty questions carry a quarter of the marks. Here is each section with its real count and weight, what the Achievers Section does to the arithmetic of a score, how much of the paper comes from Class 6, and what OlympAI’s own Class 7 maths paper does and does not include.
The SOF IMO Class 7 paper is 50 questions for 60 marks, in 60 minutes, across four sections: Logical Reasoning, Mathematical Reasoning, Everyday Mathematics and the Achievers Section. Three of those four sections pay 1 mark a question. The fourth pays 3. That one difference is the most useful thing to know before a child sits the paper: five questions out of fifty — a tenth of the paper — carry fifteen of the sixty marks, which is a quarter of the total.
What is on the SOF IMO Class 7 paper?
Four sections. Logical Reasoning is 15 questions at 1 mark each. Mathematical Reasoning is 20 questions at 1 mark each. Everyday Mathematics is 10 questions at 1 mark each. The Achievers Section is 5 questions at 3 marks each. That is 50 questions and 60 marks, and SOF allows 60 minutes for all of them — an average of 72 seconds a question, which is the figure to hold on to rather than the hour. The paper is the same shape at Classes 6, 7 and 8; only the syllabus behind it moves.
| Section | Questions | Marks per question | Section marks | Share of the paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logical Reasoning | 15 | 1 | 15 | 25% |
| Mathematical Reasoning | 20 | 1 | 20 | 33% |
| Everyday Mathematics | 10 | 1 | 10 | 17% |
| Achievers Section | 5 | 3 | 15 | 25% |
| Whole paper | 50 | — | 60 | 60 minutes |
What does the Achievers Section do to a score?
It makes the last five questions worth as much as the first fifteen. Forty-five of the paper’s fifty questions are worth 1 mark; the five Achievers questions are worth 3. So a child who answers every one-mark question correctly and leaves the Achievers Section blank finishes on 45 out of 60. A child who gets five fewer of the one-mark questions — 40 of them — but answers four Achievers questions finishes on 52. The second child answered fewer questions correctly and scored 7 marks more. None of that is hidden: the weights are printed on the paper, and this is the one piece of arithmetic worth doing before the exam rather than after it.
How much of the SOF IMO Class 7 paper comes from Class 6?
SOF states the split directly: 60% of Level 1 questions come from the current class syllabus and 40% from the previous class, so a Class 7 IMO paper is 60% Class 7 and 40% Class 6. The Achievers Section is the exception — those five questions are drawn from Class 7 material only. Put the two facts together and the quarter of the paper that carries the heaviest marks is also the quarter with no Class 6 ground underneath it.
Is there negative marking in SOF IMO Class 7?
SOF publishes a marks-awarded scheme only — 1 mark a question in the first three sections, 3 marks a question in the Achievers Section — and publishes no deduction for a wrong answer on its Class 7 pages, as read on 10 August 2026. Read the instruction sheet on the body’s own official paper before the exam rather than taking our word for it. On what SOF publishes today there is no stated reason to leave a question blank.
What does OlympAI’s own Class 7 maths paper look like?
The same pattern with one section missing, and the missing section is named on the paper itself. OlympAI’s Class 7 IMO-pattern paper is 35 questions for 45 marks: Mathematical Reasoning 20 questions at 1 mark, Everyday Mathematics 10 at 1 mark, the Achievers Section 5 at 3 marks. It leaves out Logical Reasoning — 15 questions and 15 marks on SOF’s paper — and says why in its own words: “OlympAI doesn’t teach reasoning yet, and we’d rather leave the section out than fill it with questions that aren’t reasoning questions.” So it is out of 45 marks rather than 60, and the Achievers weighting lands harder on ours than on SOF’s: 15 marks of 45, a third of the paper instead of a quarter.
Is every OlympAI paper a different set of questions?
Not entirely, and the paper discloses it rather than leaving you to find out. OlympAI’s catalogue records that the questions in the Class 7 IMO paper are also used in its SilverZone iOM and ITO IMO Class 7 maths papers, and that only the section layout and the order differ. What is genuinely separate is the set: this paper comes in two, Set 1 and Set 2, and each set is a different paper. An address with no set in it is Set 1, permanently.
Where do these figures come from?
The SOF figures are SOF’s own. Its Class 7 IMO syllabus page carries the pattern, the topic list and the 60/40 split; they were read off that page on 10 August 2026 and are held cell by cell on our SOF IMO Class 7 guide, which is where to go for the chapter-level detail. The OlympAI figures are the platform’s own paper catalogue, read on 2 October 2026, which stamps this paper’s structure as checked on 19 September 2026. OlympAI is not affiliated with SOF: the pattern described above is SOF’s, and the paper described at the end is ours.
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