SilverZone Foundation · Hindi · Class 6
Akhil Bhartiya Hindi Olympiad (ABHO) 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 SilverZone Foundation's own site on 21 August 2026. Exam dates re-checked on 14 October 2026.
2026–27 exam dates
Date 1
6 October 2026
Date 2
5 November 2026
Date 3
17 December 2026
SilverZone publishes these under the heading "Tentative Examination Schedule for the year 2026-27" — they are the body's own dates, but SilverZone has not marked them final, so treat them as indicative until your school confirms which one it has picked. ABHO's third date, 17 December, is the latest of its three offline dates; SilverZone's online-mode sittings of iOM (26 December) and iOS (27 December) fall later.
SilverZone also lists an online-mode sitting of ABHO on 21 November 2026, under the same 31 October 2026 registration cutoff (moved from 30 September 2026). It was added to SilverZone's own exam-date data on 11 September 2026; the dates above are its offline sittings.
Registration: SilverZone publishes one registration cutoff covering every paper it runs, ABHO included: 31 October 2026, on the same schedule it heads "Tentative Examination Schedule." It was 30 September 2026 until SilverZone moved it: on 1 October 2026 the body's own exam-date endpoint still returned 30 September 2026 on all 34 of its records, and when we re-read it on 14 October 2026 every one returned 31 October 2026, with no notice of the change on the site. That is the second time this season SilverZone has replaced its cutoff only after the earlier date had gone by: the endpoint returned 31 August 2026 on every read from 18 August to 1 September 2026, and 30 September 2026 from 2 September. So treat 31 October as SilverZone's current date rather than a settled one, in either direction. If your school has not registered, ask your coordinator to confirm with SilverZone, at info@silverzone.org, which sitting of ABHO an entry made now would be for. Registration is through participating schools by default, so the cutoff binds the school rather than the family. SilverZone also runs an individual registration form at r.silverzone.org; which papers it offers, and what closing date applies to it, we have not been able to confirm.
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
SOF IEO (English) — if your school picks 17 November 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 18 October 2026
SOF ISO (Science) — if your school picks 19 November 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 20 October 2026
Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO) — School route — Set B (extended from 10 October)
Registration closes 22 October 2026
SOF IHO (Hindi) — if your school picks 23 November 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 24 October 2026
SOF IMO (Maths) — if your school picks 26 November 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 27 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 14 October 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 ABHO paper is structured
| Section | Questions | Marks per question | Section total |
|---|---|---|---|
| भाषा ज्ञान — Language knowledge | 8 | 2.75 | 22 |
| व्याकरणिक बोध — Grammar | 15 | 2.75 | 41.3 |
| तार्किक क्षमता — Reasoning and comprehension | 7 | 2.75 | 19.3 |
| विशेष योग्यता / स्कॉलर ज़ोन — Scholar's Zone | 5 | 3.5 | 17.5 |
| Total | 35 questions | — | 100 marks · 40 minutes |
Grammar alone is 15 of the 35 questions and 41.25 of the 100 marks — the single heaviest section in any paper on this site. Add the language-knowledge section and roughly two-thirds of the marks are grammar and word knowledge before your child reads a single passage. The Scholar's Zone is 5 questions at 3.5 marks each, a seventh of the questions for nearly a fifth of the marks, and SilverZone names no topics for it at all, so nobody can tell you what to revise for those. SilverZone publishes this paper's pages entirely in Hindi; the English half of each section name above is ours, added so the table is readable either way, and the Hindi is the body's own wording.
Syllabus
Hindi syllabus mapped to NCERT Malhar (Class 6, 2026-27)
Ch 1. मातृभूमि (कविता)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named on ABHO's list — feeds काव्य-बोध and chapter vocabulary
Ch 2. गोल (संस्मरण)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds गद्यांश practice and मुहावरे
Ch 3. पहली बूँद (कविता)
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds पद्यांश practice and उच्चारण
Ch 4. हार की जीत
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — its grammar work (संज्ञा, सर्वनाम) is on ABHO's व्याकरणिक बोध list
Ch 5. रहीम के दोहे
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds ब्रजभाषा vocabulary and छंद
Ch 6. मेरी माँ
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds अनुच्छेद-लेखन
Ch 7. जलते चलो
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds रूपक व प्रतीक
Ch 8. सत्रिया और बिहू नृत्य
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds गद्यांश comprehension
Ch 9. मैया मैं नहिं माखन खायो
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds पद-बोध and ब्रजभाषा
Ch 10. परीक्षा
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — its क्रिया व काल work is on ABHO's grammar list
Ch 11. चेतक की वीरता
Olympiad syllabus label: Not named — feeds रस and 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: Not named — its विशेषण work is on ABHO's grammar list
Read that table again, because the pattern in it is the finding. SilverZone names not one Malhar chapter for ABHO Class 6 — not a poem, not a prose piece, not a दोहा. Its published Class 6 syllabus is grammar, word knowledge and unseen passages from end to end: भाषा, स्वर, व्यंजन, वर्तनी सुधार, शब्दार्थ, शब्द भंडार, रिक्त स्थानों की पूर्ति, दैनिक जीवन में प्रयोग होने वाले शब्द and सम-विषम शब्द in the language section; सर्वनाम, क्रिया, सहायक क्रिया, लिंग, वचन, काल, विशेषण, विलोम शब्द, कारक, पर्यायवाची शब्द, उपसर्ग, प्रत्यय, संधि, अलंकार, समास and मुहावरे in the grammar section; and अपठित गद्यांश, अपठित पद्यांश, संबंध वाले शब्द, दो समान शब्दों में अंतर स्पष्ट करना and शब्दों का सही वाक्य प्रयोग करना in the reasoning section. So a child who has revised the Hindi textbook thoroughly has revised almost none of what this paper publishes — the textbook builds the language that the paper then tests abstractly, which is a real relationship but not the one "revise the book" implies. Where we stand on it, counted rather than asserted: the curator taxonomy sheet Grade6_Hindi carries 19 rows in its own olympiad-scope bucket (chapter 99, व्याकरण — ओलंपियाड), and 15 of the 16 items ABHO's grammar section names have a row there — सर्वनाम, क्रिया व काल, लिंग व वचन, विशेषण, कारक, पर्यायवाची व विलोम, उपसर्ग व प्रत्यय, संधि, समास, मुहावरे, and the rest. The sixteenth, सहायक क्रिया, sits inside our क्रिया व काल row rather than standing alone, which is our reading of it and not the body's. The language section maps almost as well: भाषा, बोली व लिपि, स्वर व व्यंजन, वर्तनी व वाक्य-शुद्धि and शब्द-विचार are all there. Two honest gaps, both in the reasoning section: our comprehension rows are anchored to Malhar's own chapters, so we practise गद्यांश and पद्यांश on passages a child has already read, and the sheet carries no row for अपठित passages as a skill in their own right; and it carries no row for संबंध वाले शब्द, the word-relationship items. That section is 7 questions and 19.25 marks, so it is worth working unseen passages from a separate source alongside. This is a gap in our coverage, not in the paper.
Try it yourself
Today's hindi question
Practice
Practice in the ABHO format
No — OlympAI does not publish a practice paper for this exam. OlympAI’s question bank covers maths, science and English. We hold no Hindi questions yet, so there is no Hindi paper to give you — for this body or any other.
Frequently asked questions
Related guides
Other olympiad syllabus guides
SilverZone Foundation · Class 7
ABHO Class 7 — hindi syllabus, dates and pattern
SilverZone Foundation · Class 8
ABHO Class 8 — hindi syllabus, dates and pattern
CREST Olympiads · Class 6
CMO Class 6 — maths syllabus, dates and pattern
CREST Olympiads · Class 6
CSO Class 6 — science syllabus, dates and pattern
Keep reading
Guides that answer the next question
The registration deadline has passed — can my child still sit an olympiad?
A closed olympiad deadline is almost never the season closing. Of the three routes due to close on 31 August 2026, only SOF’s actually did — SilverZone moved its cutoff to 30 September (and has since moved it again, to 31 October) and Indian Talent Olympiad extended Set A twice, to 10 September. Twelve of SOF’s thirteen sittings in Maths, Science, English, Hindi and Social Science were never on that clock at all, and some bodies take a registration straight from a family. Here is what is still open, subject by subject, with the date each route closes on.
Olympiad registration dates for October 2026, Classes 6–8
Eight olympiad registration dates for Classes 6 to 8 fall in October 2026. Five are SOF’s, each worked out from its 30-day rule and each real only if your school picks that sitting; two are Indian Talent Olympiad’s, published outright, one for schools and one for families; and one is SilverZone’s, the single date it publishes for every paper, which it moved to 31 October 2026. Here is each date, who it binds, and what to ask the school.
Or see every 2026-27 exam date and registration cutoff in one table, or browse all the papers we cover.
Practice these exact chapters, free
3 practice quizzes a day in each subject free, 10 olympiad-pattern questions each, and 5 with your choice of length and difficulty on OlympAI PRO — for Class 6 hindi, generated from the same NCERT chapters above and written to the shape of the real olympiad papers, then automatically checked before they can be served, the hardest ones re-solved by a second model that has to agree.
Start free