Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO) · Hindi · Class 6
Indian Talent Olympiad National Hindi Olympiad (NHO) 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 28 September 2026. Exam dates re-checked on 28 September 2026.
2026–27 exam dates
Through school — Set A
1 October 2026
Through school — Set B
25 November 2026
Through school — Set C
7 January 2027
Three dates, and they are Sets rather than attempts: the school picks one Set for Hindi and the whole class sits it together, and Indian Talent Olympiad states that once a Slot is selected it cannot be changed and that a school may choose only one Slot per subject. Read the pairing carefully, because it is the thing parents get wrong on this body: each Set has its own registration deadline months before its exam date, and Set A's registration closed on 10 September 2026 while its exam date falls three weeks later, on 1 October 2026. A date on this row being later than the day you read it does not mean that Set can still be entered — the deadline decides that, not the exam date. Only Sets B and C can, and the dates above are the body's own, read off its offline schedule page.
Registration: Through the school, and only through the school. Registration closes on three published dates — 10 September 2026 for Set A, 10 October 2026 for Set B and 10 November 2026 for Set C — and Set A has already closed. That one moved twice before it did: it read 31 August 2026 until 1 September, then 5 September, and Indian Talent Olympiad extended it to 10 September on 5 September itself, each time on the morning the old date was due to close and neither time with an announcement. The school collects ₹175 per student per subject, keeps ₹25 towards organising and supervising the exam and sends ₹150 to Indian Talent Olympiad. Read the deadline as a postal one rather than a form-filling one: the body's fee page requires the completed Registration Form, the Student List and the fee as a demand draft payable at Mumbai to reach its Vikhroli office on or before the cutoff, by registered post or courier, with NEFT, RTGS and cash deposit offered as alternatives to the draft. A child who qualifies for Round 2 pays a further ₹100. One caution about which of ITO's own pages to trust on Set A: its schedule page reads "Extended Till 10th September, 2026", while its fee page and its dedicated Last Date of Olympiad Registration page both still read 31st August 2026 — the pre-extension date, on the page whose whole subject is the deadline. All three agree on Set B at 10 October and on Set C at 10 November, and the schedule page is the surface that has carried every correction, so it is the one to trust where they differ.
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
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
SOF IEO (English) — if your school picks 17 November 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 18 October 2026
SOF IHO (Hindi) — if your school picks 23 November 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 24 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 28 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-H 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 |
Two things about this table are worth knowing before a child prepares for it, and the first is that only 35 of the 50 questions are Hindi at all. Section 2 is ten logical-reasoning questions drawn from no Hindi book, and Section 3 is five higher-order questions which the body states are drawn from Section 1 — so the syllabus below accounts for 40 of the 50 marks and reasoning for the other 10. Second, every question carries one mark, the Achievers-style weighting that SOF and SilverZone both use is absent here, and the paper is therefore not tilted towards its harder end: a HOTs question is worth exactly what a vocabulary question is worth. The 65 minutes is the school route, which is the only route this paper has — Indian Talent Olympiad gives its individual online papers 45 minutes for the same 50 questions, and Hindi is not among the papers that route offers, so that figure does not apply here. Indian Talent Olympiad publishes no negative-marking rule and no marking scheme beyond the one mark per question shown above; it also states that the pattern is identical for every subject it runs except Drawing and Essay.
All 50 questions carry one mark, including the five Higher Order Thinking questions, so the paper is not weighted towards its harder end. Section 2's ten reasoning questions are a fifth of the marks and come from no Hindi book at all — Indian Talent Olympiad publishes them as a fourteen-chapter list of its own, under its National Logical Reasoning Olympiad, and the list is class-specific. At Class 6 the fourteen are series completion and inserting the missing character, alpha-numeric sequence, analogy and classification, coding-decoding, blood relations, direction sense test, logical Venn diagrams, puzzle, mathematical operations, analytical reasoning, mirror and water images, embedded figures and figure formation with figure matrix, ranking, and cubes and dice. Cubes and dice is the one that marks this class out: ITO ends the Class 6 list with it and drops it from Classes 7 and 8, which end with figure matrix instead. Indian Talent Olympiad publishes no current-class versus previous-class split for any of its papers, so none is claimed here.
Syllabus
Hindi syllabus mapped to NCERT Malhar (Class 6, 2026-27)
Ch 1. मातृभूमि (कविता)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named on ITO's Class 6 list — feeds शब्द-भंडार, which its synonyms and antonyms item does test
Ch 2. गोल (संस्मरण)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — its शब्द व मुहावरे work feeds ITO's idioms and proverbs item
Ch 3. पहली बूँद (कविता)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds उच्चारण, which ITO lists nowhere on this paper
Ch 4. हार की जीत
Olympiad syllabus label: Its संज्ञा व सर्वनाम work is on ITO's list (nouns, pronouns); the chapter itself is not
Ch 5. रहीम के दोहे
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds ब्रजभाषा vocabulary, and ITO names no literature or poet at any class
Ch 6. मेरी माँ
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — अनुच्छेद-लेखन is composition, and NHO is 50 multiple-choice questions
Ch 7. जलते चलो
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds रूपक व प्रतीक, which ITO does not list until figures of speech at Class 8
Ch 8. सत्रिया और बिहू नृत्य
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds गद्यांश reading, and ITO lists no passage work at Class 6 (it does at Classes 7 and 8)
Ch 9. मैया मैं नहिं माखन खायो
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds पद-बोध and ब्रजभाषा स्वरूप
Ch 10. परीक्षा
Olympiad syllabus label: Its क्रिया व काल work is on ITO's list (verbs, tenses); the chapter itself is not
Ch 11. चेतक की वीरता
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds भाषा-शैली
Ch 12. हिंद महासागर में छोटा सा हिंदुस्तान
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds यात्रा-वृत्तांत comprehension
Ch 13. पेड़ की बात
Olympiad syllabus label: Its विशेषण व भेद work is on ITO's list (adjectives); the chapter itself is not
Read the right-hand column, because the pattern in it is the finding: Indian Talent Olympiad names not one Malhar chapter for NHO Class 6. Its published Class 6 list, quoted from its own page, is language, script, grammar, alphabet concepts, word formation, prefixes and suffixes, sentence construction, nouns, gender, singular and plural, cases, synonyms, antonyms, one word for many words, words with multiple meanings, homophones, word pairs, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, tenses, indeclinable words, error correction, punctuation, and idioms and proverbs — grammar and word knowledge from end to end, with no poem, no दोहा and no prose piece in it. So a child who has revised the Hindi textbook thoroughly has revised very little of what this paper publishes; the book builds the language the paper then tests abstractly, which is a real relationship but not the one "revise the book" implies. Counted rather than asserted, against the curator taxonomy sheet Grade6_Hindi: of its 43 topic rows, only three grammar topics sit on a Malhar chapter at all — संज्ञा व सर्वनाम on chapter 4, क्रिया व काल on chapter 10 and विशेषण व भेद on chapter 13. The other 19 grammar and word-knowledge rows sit in chapter 99, व्याकरण — ओलंपियाड, a chapter the book does not have. Where we stand on ITO's own list, item by item: 20 of its 25 items have a row — language and script as भाषा, बोली व लिपि; grammar and alphabet concepts as स्वर व व्यंजन; word formation as शब्द-विचार; prefixes and suffixes as उपसर्ग व प्रत्यय; sentence construction as वाक्य-रचना; nouns as संज्ञा; gender, singular and plural as लिंग व वचन; cases as कारक; synonyms and antonyms as पर्यायवाची व विलोम; pronouns as सर्वनाम; adjectives as विशेषण; verbs and tenses as क्रिया व काल; indeclinable words as अव्यय; error correction as वर्तनी व वाक्य-शुद्धि; punctuation as विराम-चिह्न; and idioms as मुहावरे. Five are genuine gaps in our Class 6 coverage and we do not claim them: one word for many words, words with multiple meanings, homophones, word pairs, and the proverbs half of ITO's idioms-and-proverbs item. Each was searched across every field of the Grade 6, 7 and 8 sheets rather than only the topic titles. Four of the five are a matter of when rather than whether — अनेकार्थी arrives on our Class 7 sheet, लोकोक्तियाँ on Class 7, and एक-शब्द प्रतिस्थापन and श्रुतिसमभिन्नार्थक on Class 8 — but ITO asks for all of them at Class 6, so at this class they are gaps. Word pairs is the one with no row at any of the three classes. Running the other way, three of our rows are not on ITO's Class 6 list: संधि, समास and वाच्य. ITO says "word formation" and does not name संधि or समास until Class 8, where it lists compound words. Keeping them is our call, not the body's.
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