ITO NHO Class 8 sample paper, 2026–27
What is actually on the ITO NHO Class 8 paper for 2026–27: the sections the body itself publishes, how many questions each one carries and what each is worth — read off the body's own site, and stamped with the date we last checked it.
Last verified against Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO)’s own site on 28 September 2026.
Where this stands
Is there a paper to download?
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The paper
What the body's own paper looks like
| Section | Questions | Marks each |
|---|---|---|
| Section 1 — Subjective (syllabus) | 35 | 1 |
| Section 2 — Logical Reasoning | 10 | 1 |
| Section 3 — Higher Order Thinking (HOTs) | 5 | 1 |
| Total | 50 | 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.
What it covers: Hindi for Class 8
Ch 1. स्वदेश (कविता) — गयाप्रसाद शुक्ल 'सनेही'
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named on ITO's Class 8 list — feeds the unseen poetry passage item as practice only
Ch 2. दो गौरैया (कहानी) — भीष्म साहनी
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds गद्यांश reading, which the paper asks for as अपठित prose
Ch 3. एक आशीर्वाद (कविता) — दुष्यंत कुमार
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds अलंकार recognition, which ITO does list at this class as figures of speech
Ch 4. हरिद्वार (पत्र) — भारतेंदु हरिश्चंद्र
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — औपचारिक पत्र-लेखन is composition, and NHO is 50 multiple-choice questions
Ch 5. कबीर के दोहे
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — its सधुक्कड़ी भाषा work feeds वर्ण-विचार and vocabulary; ITO names no poet at any class
Ch 6. एक टोकरी भर मिट्टी (कहानी) — माधवराव सप्रे
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds गद्यांश reading
Ch 7. मत बाँधो (कविता) — महादेवी वर्मा
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds प्रतीक and अलंकार, so it reaches the figures-of-speech item indirectly
Ch 8. नए मेहमान (एकांकी) — उदयशंकर भट्ट
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — एकांकी-लेखन is composition; the form itself is never asked about
Ch 9. आदमी का अनुपात (कविता) — गिरिजा कुमार माथुर
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds पद-बोध
Ch 10. तरुण के स्वप्न (उद्बोधन) — सुभाषचंद्र बोस
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — भाषण-लेखन is composition, and an उद्बोधन is a prose form the paper never names
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