Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO) · Maths · Class 6
Indian Talent Olympiad Maths Olympiad (IMO) Class 6: syllabus, dates and exam pattern (2026–27)
Everything you need in one place — the exact NCERT chapters this paper tests, all 5 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 14 August 2026.
2026–27 exam dates
Through school — Set A
8 October 2026
Through school — Set B
1 December 2026
Through school — Set C
17 December 2026
Individual online — slot 1
5 December 2026
Individual online — slot 2
9 January 2027
Two different calendars sit above, and which one applies to your child depends on how they are entered. The three Set dates are the school route: the school picks one set, and the child sits the paper with the class. The two slot dates are the individual online route a family can take without the school — different dates entirely, and Indian Talent Olympiad publishes them with the caveat that they are tentative and that "the final exam schedule will be updated 20 days prior". Once a set or slot is selected it cannot be changed.
Registration: Registration closes on published, fixed dates rather than a rolling window — Indian Talent Olympiad is one of only two bodies we cover that publishes cutoffs at all. Through the school: Set A closes 31 August 2026, Set B closes 10 October 2026, Set C closes 10 November 2026. The school collects ₹175 per student per subject, of which ₹150 is remitted to ITO and ₹25 is retained for organising costs. Directly, without the school: individual online registration for Classes 1 to 10 closes 30 October 2026 for slot 1, at ₹500 per subject. That direct route matters more than it sounds — most bodies register only through the school, and four do not have to: CREST (online, no published cutoff), Unified Council's NSTSE (₹350 direct), Humming Bird (online, ₹150 a subject) and this one. The 31 August cutoff is the school route, and it is the earliest deadline of the year across every paper we cover; the individual route's 30 October is a separate, later clock and should not be read as softening it.
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. Four do not have to: CREST (online, no published cutoff), Unified Council for NSTSE (₹350 direct against ₹150 via school), 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 the four.
Closing next
Indian Talent Olympiad — Set A
Registration closes 31 August 2026 · all five subjects
SOF IEO (English)
If your school picks 30 September 2026, registration closes 31 August 2026 · English
SOF IMO (Maths)
If your school picks 23 October 2026, registration closes 23 September 2026 · Maths
Every deadline in this box was checked against that exam body's own website on 11 August 2026. Bodies do move dates — we re-check every Monday.
Exam pattern
How the ITO-M 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 |
Every question is worth one mark, including the five Higher Order Thinking questions — unlike SOF and CREST, ITO does not weight its harder section. That makes the 35-question Section 1 exactly 70% of the paper, and it means a child who runs out of time at the end loses the same marks per question as anywhere else. Indian Talent Olympiad does not publish a current-class versus previous-class split for its papers.
Syllabus
Maths syllabus mapped to NCERT Ganita Prakash (Class 6, 2026-27)
Ch 1. Patterns in Mathematics
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named separately on ITO's list — feeds both number patterns in Section 1 and the series-completion topics in Section 2
Ch 2. Lines and Angles
Olympiad syllabus label: Concept of Geometry
Ch 3. Number Play
Olympiad syllabus label: Number System; Arithmetic
Ch 4. Data Handling and Presentation
Olympiad syllabus label: Data Handling
Ch 5. Prime Time
Olympiad syllabus label: Factors & Multiples
Ch 6. Perimeter and Area
Olympiad syllabus label: Mensuration
Ch 7. Fractions
Olympiad syllabus label: Decimal Fractions
Ch 8. Playing with Constructions
Olympiad syllabus label: Concept of Geometry (the construction half)
Ch 9. Symmetry
Olympiad syllabus label: Symmetry
Ch 10. The Other Side of Zero
Olympiad syllabus label: Integers
Indian Talent Olympiad publishes twelve Class 6 maths topics: Concept of Geometry, Number System, Factors & Multiples, Integers, Decimal Fractions, Ratio & Proportion, Arithmetic, Basic Algebra, Data Handling, Mensuration, Symmetry and Logical Reasoning. Ten of those map onto a chapter in the 2026-27 Ganita Prakash, as the table above shows. Two do not have a chapter in that book at all: ratio and proportion including the unitary method, and basic algebra — algebraic expressions and simple one-variable equations. Both were chapters in the previous Class 6 NCERT, and both are still on ITO's published list, so they are worth marks on a paper the school book will not prepare a child for. Logical Reasoning is the twelfth item and is not a chapter in any maths book — it is the separate ten-question Section 2 spine, covering series completion, coding-decoding, blood relations, direction sense, Venn diagrams, mirror and water images, figure matrices, ranking, and cubes and dice. The chapter mapping above is ours, not ITO's: the body publishes old topic names and no map to the new book.
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