SilverZone Foundation · English · Class 7
International Olympiad of English Language (iOEL) 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 SilverZone Foundation's own site on 24 August 2026. Exam dates re-checked on 14 October 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" — the body's own dates, but not marked 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.
SilverZone also lists an online-mode sitting of iOEL on 12 December 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, iOEL 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 iOEL 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 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 |
| Brilliance Zone | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| Total | 35 questions | — | 100 marks · 40 minutes |
The single most useful thing to know about this table is what it does NOT show. Class 6 and Class 7 iOEL have exactly the same section sizes — 12, 8, 3, 7 and 5 questions, at exactly the same marks — so a parent comparing the two years sees an identical paper. The difference is inside the cells: at Class 7, SilverZone names four more topics within the same question count. Reading adds judging the completeness of a process; Writing drops subject and predicate and adds sequence of sentences, question tags and cloze. The paper does not get longer, it gets denser, and the per-question demand rises without anything on the surface saying so. Beyond that: grammar and vocabulary together are 50 of the 100 marks against 7.5 for reading comprehension, which is close to the inverse of how a Class 7 English year is spent; the Brilliance Zone is five questions at 5 marks each, one seventh of the questions carrying a quarter of the paper; and 35 questions in 40 minutes is about 69 seconds a question, the same clock as SilverZone's maths and science papers. One caution about the body's own pages: the iOEL overview prints two section lists labelled "(For Classes III-VI)" and "(For Classes VII-XII)", and its class-wise tables disagree with both. Where they disagree, the class-wise table is the one to trust, and it is the one this page is built from.
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 7, 2026-27)
Ch 1. The Day the River Spoke
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — prose; Vocabulary Knowledge — vocabulary in context
Ch 2. Try Again
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — poetry and theme
Ch 3. Three Days to See
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — reflective prose
Ch 4. Animals, Birds, and Dr. Dolittle
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — narrative prose
Ch 5. A Funny Man
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — humorous verse; Vocabulary Knowledge — wordplay and puns
Ch 6. Say the Right Thing
Olympiad syllabus label: Writing and Speaking Ability — spoken and written expression
Ch 7. My Brother's Great Invention
Olympiad syllabus label: Writing and Speaking Ability — describing processes; Reading — judging completeness of a process
Ch 8. Paper Boats
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — poetry
Ch 9. North, South, East, West
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — informational text; Vocabulary Knowledge
Ch 10. The Tunnel
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — narrative and setting; Vocabulary Knowledge
Ch 11. Travel
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — poetry
Ch 12. Conquering the Summit
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — account; Vocabulary Knowledge — near-synonyms
Ch 13. A Homage to Our Brave Soldiers
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — prose
Ch 14. My Dear Soldiers
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — letter form
Ch 15. Rani Abbakka
Olympiad syllabus label: Reading and Comprehension Skill — biography; Vocabulary Knowledge
This table has to be honest about something the maths and science guides on this site do not: for English, the book and the paper barely meet. Poorvi Class 7 is fifteen reading pieces, and everything in it feeds the 7.5-mark comprehension section. The 50 marks of grammar and vocabulary come from somewhere a Class 7 English textbook does not go, which is why "her English marks are fine" predicts very little about this paper. Now the part about our own material, because a page that names a gap in the school book and hides one of its own is not worth reading. Of the eight grammar topics SilverZone names for Class 7, our curator taxonomy backs tense and modals outright, and treats error finding as a question format built on the grammar rows rather than a topic. Parts of speech, articles, determiners and subject-verb agreement are all in our Grade 6 and Grade 8 material but have no Grade 7 row, so a Class 7 child practising with us meets them a year early or a year late rather than in the year they sit this paper. Gerund and infinitive we do not cover at Grade 6, 7 or 8 at all, and we say so rather than implying otherwise. The vocabulary section is the plainest gap: SilverZone names jumbled words, synonyms, antonyms, one-word substitution, spelling and idioms for 20 of the 100 marks, and not one of those six has a Grade 7 row in our taxonomy — five of the six sit at Grade 6. Our four Grade 7 vocabulary rows are chapter-context word lists tied to Poorvi passages, which is real reading work and not word-relationship practice. That gap is filed and open as a curator ticket; naming it here is the only version of this page worth publishing. What we do carry well at Grade 7 is the writing and structure half: voice, reported speech, phrases and clauses, conditionals, phrasal verbs, formal letters, dialogue and descriptive composition — which is most of the Writing and Speaking section. And as at Class 6, the Brilliance Zone names no topics on any SilverZone table, so nothing about its content is published by anyone.
Try it yourself
Today's english question
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Practice in the iOEL format
No — OlympAI does not publish a practice paper for this exam. SilverZone publishes this paper’s structure, but OlympAI cannot yet place a question in the section the body names: our English topics carry one code for its four subject sections, and its Reading section needs passages we do not hold.
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