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SilverZone iSSO Class 7 exam guide

SilverZone iSSO Class 7 sample paper, 2026–27

What is actually on the SilverZone iSSO Class 7 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 SilverZone Foundation’s own site on 28 September 2026.

Where this stands

Is there a paper to download?

No — OlympAI does not publish a practice paper for this exam. OlympAI’s question bank covers maths, science and English. We hold no social science questions yet, so there is no social science paper to give you — for this body or any other.

The paper

What the body's own paper looks like

International Social Studies Olympiad (iSSO) Class 7 section structure
SectionQuestionsMarks each
Theme A — India and the World: Land and the People62.5
Theme B — Tapestry of the Past62.5
Theme C — Our Cultural Heritage and Knowledge Traditions62.5
Theme D — Governance and Democracy62.5
Theme E — Economic Life Around Us62.5
Scholar's Zone55
Total35100 marks · 40 minutes

The five themes carry 15 marks each, exactly as they do at Class 6, so no theme can be skipped and none is worth cramming over another: history, geography, civics and economics are weighted identically at 6 questions apiece. What changes between Class 6 and Class 7 is not the paper, it is the book behind it. The Class 6 book gives each theme one contiguous run of chapters; the Class 7 book runs through all five themes and then runs through them again, so Theme A is chapters 1, 2, 3, 13 and 14, and Theme B is 4, 5, 6, 7, 15 and 16. Six questions on the past are drawn from six chapters sitting either side of eight chapters about something else. The Scholar's Zone is 5 questions at 5 marks — a quarter of the paper on one seventh of the questions — and SilverZone names no topics for it, at this class or any other. At 35 questions in 40 minutes this is about 69 seconds a question, the same clock as SilverZone's English, maths and science papers. Two limits of what the body publishes, stated rather than filled in: iSSO runs for Classes 1 to 10 where its maths, science and English papers go to 12, and its iSSO pages carry no level structure at all, where the iOM, iOS and iOEL pages describe a Level 2 and iOEL a Level 3 — so nothing here says iSSO does or does not have one. Ask your coordinator.

What it covers: Social Science for Class 7

  • Ch 1. Geographical Diversity of India

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme A — India and the World: Land and the People

  • Ch 2. Understanding the Weather

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme A — India and the World: Land and the People

  • Ch 3. Climates of India

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme A — India and the World: Land and the People

  • Ch 4. New Beginnings: Cities and States

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme B — Tapestry of the Past

  • Ch 5. The Rise of Empires

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme B — Tapestry of the Past

  • Ch 6. The Age of Reorganisation

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme B — Tapestry of the Past

  • Ch 7. The Gupta Era: An Age of Tireless Creativity

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme B — Tapestry of the Past

  • Ch 8. How the Land Becomes Sacred

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme C — Our Cultural Heritage and Knowledge Traditions

  • Ch 9. From the Rulers to the Ruled: Types of Governments

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme D — Governance and Democracy

  • Ch 10. The Constitution of India — An Introduction

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme D — Governance and Democracy

  • Ch 11. From Barter to Money

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme E — Economic Life Around Us

  • Ch 12. Understanding Markets

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme E — Economic Life Around Us

  • Ch 13. The Story of Indian Farming

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme A — India and the World: Land and the People (the theme's second stretch)

  • Ch 14. India and Her Neighbours

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme A — India and the World: Land and the People (the theme's second stretch)

  • Ch 15. Empires and Kingdoms: 6th to 10th Centuries

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme B — Tapestry of the Past (the theme's second stretch)

  • Ch 16. Turning Tides: 11th and 12th Centuries

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme B — Tapestry of the Past (the theme's second stretch)

  • Ch 17. India: A Home to Many

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme C — Our Cultural Heritage and Knowledge Traditions (SilverZone writes it "India, a Home to Many")

  • Ch 18. The State, the Government and You

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme D — Governance and Democracy

  • Ch 19. Infrastructure: Engine of India's Development

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme E — Economic Life Around Us

  • Ch 20. Banks and the Magic of Finance

    Olympiad syllabus label: Theme E — Economic Life Around Us

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