SilverZone Foundation · English · Class 6
International Olympiad of English Language (iOEL) Class 6: syllabus, dates and exam pattern (2026–27)
Everything you need in one place — the exact NCERT chapters this paper tests, all 3 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 19 August 2026. Exam dates re-checked on 24 August 2026.
2026–27 exam dates
Date 1
21 October 2026
Date 2
26 November 2026
Date 3
10 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. One inconsistency worth knowing about: the schedule lists three dates, while the iOEL page itself still describes a two-date structure ("the school may opt from the two dates suggested"). Ask your coordinator which of the published dates your school has actually opted for.
Registration: SilverZone published one registration cutoff covering every paper it runs, iOEL included: 30 September 2026, on the same schedule it headed "Tentative Examination Schedule." SilverZone moved this date: its own exam-date endpoint returned 31 August 2026 on every read from 18 August to 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026 from 2 September, with no announcement anywhere on its site. It is not one deadline per exam, and it falls weeks before the first exam date. Registration is through participating schools only, so the date binds your school rather than you — ask your coordinator now whether the school is entering iOEL this year, or write to info@silverzone.org.
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. Four 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 the four.
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Registration closes 5 September 2026 · all five subjects
SOF IMO (Maths)
If your school picks 23 October 2026, registration closes 23 September 2026 · Maths
SOF IEO (English)
If your school picks 27 October 2026, registration closes 27 September 2026 · English
SilverZone — every paper
Registration closes 30 September 2026 · all five subjects
The body publishes this date but has not marked it final — confirm with your school before treating it as fixed.
Or read the full calendar on the site — no sign-up
Every deadline in this box was checked against that exam body's own website on 2 September 2026. Bodies do move dates — we re-check every Monday.
Exam pattern
How the iOEL paper is structured
| Section | Questions | Marks per question | Section total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Correct Application of Grammar | 12 | 2.5 | 30 |
| Vocabulary Knowledge | 8 | 2.5 | 20 |
| Reading and Comprehension Skill | 3 | 2.5 | 7.5 |
| Writing and Speaking Ability | 7 | 2.5 | 17.5 |
| Excellence Zone | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| Total | 35 questions | — | 100 marks · 40 minutes |
Three things a parent planning revision should take from this table. First, the shape of the paper is the opposite of the shape of the school year: grammar and vocabulary together are 50 of the 100 marks, and reading comprehension — which is essentially all a Class 6 English textbook contains — is 7.5. Second, the Excellence Zone is five questions at 5 marks each: one seventh of the questions carrying a quarter of the paper. Third, 35 questions in 40 minutes is about 69 seconds a question, the same clock SilverZone sets for its science and maths papers. One caution about the body's own pages: the iOEL overview page prints two section lists and labels them "(For Classes III-VI)" and "(For Classes VII-XII)", but its own class-by-class syllabus tables disagree — the list it labels III-VI is what Classes 1 and 2 actually sit, and Class 6 sits the second one, exactly as shown above. Where the two disagree, the class-wise syllabus table is the one to trust, and it is the one this page is built from. A smaller version of the same thing: at Class 6 the fifth section is the Excellence Zone, and from Class 7 the identical slot is renamed the Brilliance Zone.
SilverZone publishes no current-year/previous-year split for iOEL, so nothing is claimed here. The class-wise topic table is the whole of what the body publishes about what this paper contains.
Syllabus
English syllabus mapped to NCERT Poorvi (Class 6, 2026-27)
Ch 1. A Bottle of Dew
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — prose and folk tales
Ch 2. The Raven and the Fox
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — fable in verse; moral and figurative language
Ch 3. Rama to the Rescue
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — prose
Ch 4. The Unlikely Best Friends
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — prose; Vocabulary Knowledge
Ch 5. A Friend's Prayer
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — poetry and theme
Ch 6. The Chair
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — prose and theme; Vocabulary Knowledge — idioms
Ch 7. Neem Baba
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — dialogue and prose
Ch 8. What a Bird Thought
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — poetry
Ch 9. Spices that Heal Us
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — informational text; Vocabulary Knowledge
Ch 10. Change of Heart
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — prose; Vocabulary Knowledge
Ch 11. The Winner
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — prose
Ch 12. Yoga: A Way of Life
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — informational text; Correct Application of Grammar — imperative sentences (the book's only chapter-anchored grammar topic)
Ch 13. Hamara Bharat — Incredible India!
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — descriptive text and theme; Vocabulary Knowledge
Ch 14. The Kites
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — poetry
Ch 15. Ila Sachani: Embroidering Dreams with Her Feet
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — biography; Vocabulary Knowledge
This table is honest about something the other guides on this site do not have to be: for English, the book and the paper barely overlap. Poorvi is fifteen reading pieces — prose, poetry, a fable, a biography — and in the curator taxonomy exactly one of its chapters anchors a grammar topic (imperative sentences, inside "Yoga: A Way of Life") against six that anchor vocabulary. Everything else in the book feeds the 7.5-mark comprehension section. The 50 marks of grammar and vocabulary come from somewhere the Class 6 English book simply does not go, which is why "she reads well and her English marks are fine" is a poor predictor of this paper. What SilverZone actually names for Class 6, and where we stand on each: it publishes 24 topics across the four named sections. Fifteen of them map to a row in our curator taxonomy for Grade 6 English — sheet Grade6_English, the 24 rows in its "Grammar - Olympiad Scope" chapter, plus the idioms row on chapter 6 — and those fifteen are parts of speech, articles, determiners, modals, subject-verb agreement, tense, jumbled words, synonyms, antonyms, idioms and phrases, comprehension ability, jumbled sentences, types of sentence, voice and narration. Three are genuine gaps in our own coverage, and we do not claim them: gerund and infinitive, one-word substitution, and spelling. Two are partly covered — the taxonomy carries paragraph writing but not story writing, and notice writing but not letter writing. The last four (error finding, subject and predicate, sentence improvement and choosing the appropriate filler) are question formats built on the grammar rows above rather than separate topics, which is our reading of them rather than the body's. Two more things a Class 6 parent should know: "Excellence Zone" and the Class 7-8 "Brilliance Zone" name no topics at all on SilverZone's tables, so nothing about their content is published by anyone; and the paper is set for Classes 1 to 12, so this Class 6 syllabus is genuinely class-specific rather than a band.
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