Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO) · Hindi · Class 7
Indian Talent Olympiad National Hindi Olympiad (NHO) Class 7: 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 7 the fourteen are coding-decoding, analogy and classification, coding-decoding again, blood relations, direction sense test, logical Venn diagrams, puzzle, mathematical operations, analytical reasoning, mirror and water images, embedded figures and figure formation, construction of squares, figure matrix, and ranking. Two differences against Class 6, and the first is the body's own duplication rather than ours: ITO lists coding-decoding twice, as chapters 1 and 3 of the same fourteen, and its Class 7 list carries neither series completion nor alpha-numeric sequence, both of which it lists at Class 6 and again at Class 8. Construction of squares replaces cubes and dice. 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 7, 2026-27)
Ch 1. माँ, कह एक कहानी (कविता)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named on ITO's Class 7 list — its शब्द-भंडार व पर्यायवाची work feeds the synonyms item
Ch 2. तीन बुद्धिमान (लोककथा)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — a folk tale is the closest the book comes to ITO's unseen prose passage item, except that this one has been read
Ch 3. फूल और काँटा (कविता)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds the unseen poetry passage item only as practice, since that item asks for अपठित verse
Ch 4. पानी रे पानी (निबंध)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — अनुच्छेद-लेखन is composition, and NHO is 50 multiple-choice questions
Ch 5. नहीं होना बीमार (कहानी)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds गद्यांश reading fluency
Ch 6. गिरिधर कविराय की कुंडलिया (कविता)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — कुंडलिया is a verse form, and ITO names no form or metre at Class 7
Ch 7. वर्षा-बहार (कविता)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds अलंकार recognition, which ITO does not list until figures of speech at Class 8
Ch 8. बिरजू महाराज से साक्षात्कार
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — an interview is a prose form the paper never asks about directly
Ch 9. चिड़िया (कविता)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds पद-बोध
Ch 10. मीरा के पद
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds ब्रजभाषा vocabulary, and ITO names no poet at any class
Same shape as Class 6 and a longer list: Indian Talent Olympiad names not one Malhar chapter for NHO Class 7 either. Its published Class 7 list, quoted from its own page, is language, script, grammar, alphabet concepts, word formation, synonyms, antonyms, one word for many words, words with multiple meanings, homophones, prefixes, suffixes, nouns, gender, singular and plural, cases, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, tenses, indeclinable words, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, sentence construction, error correction, punctuation, idioms and proverbs, unseen prose passages, and unseen poetry passages. Two of those are new against Class 6 and both are worth planning for: the अव्यय family is spelled out as prepositions, conjunctions and interjections, and unseen passages appear for the first time. Counted against the curator taxonomy sheet Grade7_Hindi: of its 38 topic rows, only two sit on a Malhar chapter — शब्द-भंडार व पर्यायवाची on chapter 1 and ब्रजभाषा शब्द on chapter 10 — and the other 25 grammar and word-knowledge rows sit in chapter 99, व्याकरण — ओलंपियाड. That is a thinner overlap with the book than Class 6 has, not a thicker one. Where we stand on ITO's list: language and script as भाषा, बोली व लिपि; grammar and alphabet concepts as वर्ण-विचार; word formation as शब्द-विचार plus संधि and समास; synonyms, antonyms and words with multiple meanings as पर्यायवाची, विलोम, अनेकार्थी; prefixes and suffixes as उपसर्ग व प्रत्यय; nouns as संज्ञा; gender as लिंग; singular and plural as वचन; cases as कारक; pronouns as सर्वनाम; adjectives as विशेषण; verbs and tenses as क्रिया-काल with क्रिया के भेद beside it; indeclinable words, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections as अव्यय; sentence construction as वाक्य-रचना with वाक्य के भेद and पद-परिचय beside it; error correction as वर्तनी व वाक्य-शुद्धि; punctuation as विराम-चिह्न; and idioms and proverbs as मुहावरे व लोकोक्तियाँ, which at this class covers both halves of that item where the Class 6 sheet covers only one. Three are gaps we do not claim: one word for many words, homophones, and word pairs — all three searched across every field of the Grade 6, 7 and 8 sheets, with one word for many words and homophones arriving on our Class 8 sheet and word pairs appearing on none of the three. The fourth is the honest one and it is 2 of the 50 marks at most: our comprehension rows are anchored to chapters a child has already read (संपूर्ण पाठ विश्लेषण), and the sheet has no row for अपठित passages as a skill of their own, so unseen prose and poetry are worth working from a separate source. Running the other way, three of our rows are not on ITO's Class 7 list at all: वाच्य, अलंकार and शब्द-शक्ति. ITO does not reach figures of speech until Class 8. Keeping them is our call, not the body's.
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