Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO) · English · Class 6
Indian Talent Olympiad English International Olympiad (EIO) Class 6: syllabus, dates and exam pattern (2026–27)
Everything you need in one place — the exact NCERT chapters this paper tests, its published exam dates, the registration window, and the full marking scheme. Updated for the 2026–27 session.
Last verified against Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO)'s own site on 21 September 2026.
2026–27 exam dates
Through school — Set A
5 October 2026
Through school — Set B
26 November 2026
Through school — Set C
16 December 2026
Individual online — slot 1
3 December 2026
Individual online — slot 2
7 January 2027
The three Set dates are the school route: the school picks one Set for English and the child sits it with the class. The two slot dates are the individual online route a family can take without the school, on different dates from all three Sets. Indian Talent Olympiad publishes the online dates as tentative and says the final schedule will be updated 20 days before the exam. Once a Set or a slot is chosen it cannot be changed. Set A is still ahead on 5 October, but its registration closed on 10 September, so for a child not already entered the school dates that remain are Set B and Set C.
Registration: Two routes with separate clocks. Through the school, registration closes on three published dates: 10 September 2026 for Set A, which has passed, 10 October 2026 for Set B and 10 November 2026 for Set C. Set A moved twice before it closed, from 31 August to 5 September and then to 10 September, each time on the day it was due, so treat the two later dates as figures the body can move too. The school collects ₹175 per student per subject, keeps ₹25 for organising costs and sends ₹150 to Indian Talent Olympiad. The school deadline is a postal one: the body's fee page requires the registration form, the student list and the fee as a demand draft to reach its Mumbai office by the cutoff, by registered post or courier, so the envelope has to leave the school days before the date rather than on it. Directly, without the school, individual online registration for Classes 1 to 10 closes 30 October 2026 for slot 1, at ₹500 per subject; slot 2 has no published cutoff. For English that is one of several direct routes — CREST, Unified Council's online UIEO and Humming Bird also take a family without the school.
The deadline is set by your school, not by you
Most parents find the exam date and assume they have until then. The registration window closes long before it, and for some papers it has already started closing. Here is how it actually works.
- Your school registers your child and your school picks which of the 2–3 dates the class sits. The family does not choose.
- For SOF papers, registrations must reach SOF exactly 30 days before that chosen date — and once the school has chosen, the date cannot be changed.
- Most bodies register through the school. These do not have to: CREST (online, no published cutoff), Unified Council — directly for NSTSE itself at ₹350 against ₹150 through a school, and on three online sittings, NSTSE-Online, UIMO-Online and UIEO-Online, at ₹354 each including GST — Indian Talent Olympiad on its individual online route (its own later dates — Slot 1 closes 30 October), and Humming Bird (online, ₹150 a subject, no published cutoff — its two dates are picked as you register). CREST is the simplest of them. SilverZone also runs an individual registration form alongside its default school route; which papers it offers we have not been able to confirm.
Closing next
SOF IMO (Maths) — if your school picks 23 October 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 23 September 2026
SOF IEO (English) — if your school picks 27 October 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 27 September 2026
SilverZone Foundation — Every SilverZone paper
Registration closes 30 September 2026
The body publishes this date but has not marked it final — confirm with your school before treating it as fixed.
SOF ISO (Science) — if your school picks 30 October 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 30 September 2026
Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO) — School route — Set B
Registration closes 10 October 2026
Or read the full calendar on the site — no sign-up
Every deadline in this box was re-read against the exam body's own website on or after 20 September 2026. Each table carries its own source link and its own date. Bodies do move dates, so check against the body's own site before you act on one.
Exam pattern
How the ITO-E paper is structured
| Section | Questions | Marks per question | Section total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Section 1 — Subjective (syllabus) | 35 | 1 | 35 |
| Section 2 — Logical Reasoning | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Section 3 — Higher Order Thinking (HOTs) | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Total | 50 questions | — | 50 marks · 65 minutes |
The 65 minutes above is the school route. The individual online route gives the same 50 questions 45 minutes — both are the body's own figures, on its two schedule pages, and neither page mentions the other. Registering directly means planning for 54 seconds a question instead of 78. The body states that the Higher Order Thinking questions are drawn from Section 1, so 40 of the 50 questions come from the English chapter list below and the other 10 are reasoning with no English in them.
Every question is worth one mark, including the five Higher Order Thinking questions, so the harder end of the paper is not weighted. Section 1 is 35 of the 50 marks. Indian Talent Olympiad publishes no current-class versus previous-class split for any of its papers, so no proportion is claimed here.
Syllabus
English syllabus mapped to NCERT Poorvi (Class 6, 2026-27)
Ch 1. A Bottle of Dew
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (ITO chapter 12)
Ch 2. The Raven and the Fox
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12) — a fable in verse
Ch 3. Rama to the Rescue
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12)
Ch 4. The Unlikely Best Friends
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12); Word Power (1) — vocabulary
Ch 5. A Friend's Prayer
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12) — poetry
Ch 6. The Chair
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12); Idioms and Proverbs (13) — the idioms half
Ch 7. Neem Baba
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12) — dialogue
Ch 8. What a Bird Thought
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12) — poetry
Ch 9. Spices that Heal Us
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12) — informational text; Word Power (1)
Ch 10. Change of Heart
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12); Word Power (1)
Ch 11. The Winner
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12)
Ch 12. Yoga: A Way of Life
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12); Types of Sentence (6) — imperatives, the one grammar topic the book anchors to a chapter
Ch 13. Hamara Bharat — Incredible India!
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12); Word Power (1)
Ch 14. The Kites
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12) — poetry
Ch 15. Ila Sachani: Embroidering Dreams with Her Feet
Olympiad syllabus label: Comprehension (12) — biography; Word Power (1)
Indian Talent Olympiad names fourteen Class 6 English chapters: Word Power, Nouns and Pronouns, Adverbs, Adjectives, Conjunction and Clauses, Types of Sentence, Sentence Formation, Tenses, Voice, Speech, Composition, Comprehension, Idioms and Proverbs, and Logical Reasoning. The table above shows how little of that list the school book reaches: Poorvi is fifteen reading pieces, so it feeds Comprehension on every chapter, Word Power and idioms on a few, and one grammar topic — imperative sentences, in the yoga chapter. Nouns and pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, sentence formation, tenses, voice and speech have no Poorvi chapter at all. That is normal for English and it is the useful thing to know: preparing for this paper is grammar practice done outside the textbook, not more reading. At Class 6 our own practice reaches almost all of it — every one of those grammar chapters has a matching topic in our Class 6 English material, along with composition and unseen passages. The one half-gap is proverbs: we carry idioms, anchored on The Chair, and no proverbs at any class. Logical Reasoning, the fourteenth chapter, is not English: it is the separate ten-question Section 2, and for Class 6 ITO names fifteen topics inside it, ending in cubes and dice where the Class 7 and 8 lists end in construction of squares. The chapter mapping above is ours, not the body's; ITO publishes topic names with no map to the new book.
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