Indian Talent Olympiad Maths Olympiad (IMO) Class 8: syllabus, dates and exam pattern (2026–27)

Indian Talent Olympiad publishes thirteen Class 8 maths entries: Rational Number, Exponents and Powers, Square and Square Roots, Cube and Cube Roots, Math Magic, Factorization, Comparing Quantities, Direct and Indirect Proportion, Operation On Algebraic Expressions, Understanding Quadrilateral and Practical Geometry, Mensuration, Data Handling and Logical Reasoning. This is the best-aligned Indian Talent Olympiad paper on this site, and the reason is worth knowing if you have just come from the Class 7 page. The two topics that page flags as gaps — Mensuration, which has no Class 7 chapter at all, and Exponents and Power, which is Class 8 material a Class 7 child can be asked about — are both chapters here: Area (chapter 14) and Power Play (chapter 2). A year on, the book has caught up with the paper. One entry has no chapter, and it is the same one SOF's Class 8 list produces: Data Handling. The split matters, because half of it is in the book. Chapter 12, Tales by Dots and Lines, covers the Cartesian plane, reading and drawing graphs, and mean and median. What the book does not contain is the frequency-distribution, histogram and pie-chart material an older question bank files under that name — those are exactly the curator taxonomy's three Grade 8 Extra Topics rows (Frequency Distribution & Histograms, Pie Charts, Advanced Cryptarithms), all three of which name this paper, and all three of which our Class 8 maths practice keeps in scope. One entry we will not guess at: "Math Magic". Indian Talent Olympiad publishes the name and no description anywhere on the page. Searched across all five grade sheets, the only "magic" in our taxonomy is Magic Squares, which is Class 6 material — so rather than assert an equivalence the body has not published, the table above names the Class 8 chapter closest to it by content and says the mapping is ours. And two chapters your child will study that are on no ITO entry: The Baudhayana-Pythagoras Theorem, and Algebra Play — linear equations in one variable, which ITO names explicitly on its Class 7 list and drops at Class 8, where the book teaches it. Indian Talent Olympiad nowhere states that its list is exhaustive, and its own pattern page defines Section 3 as drawing on Section 1, so treat those two as lower priority for this paper rather than as excluded. The thirteenth entry, Logical Reasoning, is not a maths chapter anywhere: it is the separate ten-question Section 2, and ITO names the same fifteen topics inside it at Class 8 as at Class 7 — series completion and inserting the missing character, alpha-numeric sequence, analogy and classification, coding-decoding, blood relations, direction sense, logical Venn diagrams, puzzles, mathematical operations, analytical reasoning, mirror and water images, embedded figures and figure formation, figure matrices, ranking, and construction of squares. The chapter mapping above is ours, not ITO's: the body publishes topic names with no map to the new book.

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