Question 1

When does registration close for SilverZone iSSO?

Accepted Answer

SilverZone publishes one cutoff covering every paper it runs, not one per exam: 30 September 2026, re-read on the body's own endpoint on 9 September 2026 and unchanged. It moved once — the endpoint said 31 August 2026 until 1 September and 30 September from the 2nd, with no notice anywhere on the site. On this paper that leaves a contradiction in SilverZone's own schedule: iSSO's first exam date is 29 September 2026, one day BEFORE the cutoff. The two later sittings, 28 October and 1 December, are unaffected. Ask your coordinator now, and ask SilverZone directly about the September date.

Question 2

Does iSSO test anything outside my child's Class 7 book?

Accepted Answer

Not among the topics SilverZone names. All twenty chapters on its Class 7 iSSO list are chapters of the 2026-27 Exploring Society: India and Beyond, under the book's own five themes, and every chapter of the book is on the list. The one part of the paper not drawn from a named chapter is the Scholar's Zone, 25 of the 100 marks, for which the body publishes no topic list at all.

Question 3

Is the Class 7 paper harder than the Class 6 one?

Accepted Answer

SilverZone publishes nothing about relative difficulty, so nothing here claims any. What it does publish is that the two papers have the same shape: 35 questions in 40 minutes, five themes at 15 marks each and a 25-mark Scholar's Zone, no negative marking, OMR sheets. The real change is the book. Class 6 covers its five themes once, in order; Class 7 covers them twice, so the same six history questions are drawn from chapters 4 to 7 and 15 to 16 rather than from one run of the book.

Question 4

How is SilverZone iSSO different from SOF ISSO?

Accepted Answer

They are different bodies running same-named papers on different clocks. SilverZone runs iSSO for Classes 1 to 10 on 29 September, 28 October and 1 December 2026, with a single registration cutoff covering every paper it runs — 30 September 2026. SOF runs its own ISSO for Classes 3 to 10 on 30 November 2026 and 19 January 2027, and SOF has no fixed cutoff at all: its rule is that schools may send registrations by 30 days before the chosen date of each exam, so if your school picks 30 November, registrations reach SOF by 31 October. SOF also states that ISSO is a single-level exam, unlike its own maths, science and English papers. So a child can sit both, and the two deadlines are two months apart.

Question 5

Is there negative marking in iSSO?

Accepted Answer

No. SilverZone states that all questions are objective-type with multiple-choice answers and that there is no negative marking, and that OMR answer sheets are provided for every class. Students keep the question paper; the answer sheet goes back to the foundation for evaluation. With 35 questions in 40 minutes, answer everything and leave nothing blank.

Question 6

Can a parent register a child directly for iSSO?

Accepted Answer

No. SilverZone registers through participating schools only — "Social Studies (iSSO)" appears as a subject checkbox on its school registration form, and there is no individual route. If your school does not run it, four other bodies take a family directly: CREST, Unified Council for its online sittings, Indian Talent Olympiad on its individual online route, and Humming Bird. For this subject exactly one of the four is any use, and it is a real door rather than a technicality: Indian Talent Olympiad's individual online route runs NSSO, the National Social Studies Olympiad, for Classes 1 to 10 — slot 1 on 7 December 2026, slot 2 on 5 January 2027, with individual registration closing 30 October 2026. CREST, Unified Council and Humming Bird publish no social science paper at any class. So a family whose school skips iSSO is not out of options for this subject; they are down to one.

Section	Questions	Marks per question	Section total
Theme A — India and the World: Land and the People	6	2.5	15
Theme B — Tapestry of the Past	6	2.5	15
Theme C — Our Cultural Heritage and Knowledge Traditions	6	2.5	15
Theme D — Governance and Democracy	6	2.5	15
Theme E — Economic Life Around Us	6	2.5	15
Scholar's Zone	5	5	25
Total	35 questions	—	100 marks · 40 minutes

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