SOF IHO Class 8 sample paper, 2026–27

Three things in this table are worth planning around, and the first one is not in the table at all. SOF IHO is a ONE-LEVEL exam. Its participation page says so outright — "SOF अंतरराष्ट्रीय हिंदी ओलंपियाड एक स्तर पर आयोजित किया जाता है", the SOF International Hindi Olympiad is conducted at one level — and the pattern table on each class's syllabus page is headed LEVEL1 with no second table beneath it. IMO, ISO and IEO all have a second level; this paper does not, so there is no qualifying bar to aim at and the score on the day is the whole result. Second, मेधावी खंड, the Achievers Section, is 5 questions at 3 marks: a tenth of the questions carrying a quarter of the marks, and SOF names no topics of its own for it — it is higher-order questions drawn from the other two sections, so it rewards depth on the same material rather than a wider syllabus. Third, and this is what decides how a family should prepare, शब्द और व्याकरण बोध is 35 of the 60 marks on its own. Grammar and word knowledge are the paper. Three more of SOF's own statements about how it runs: the medium of the exam is Hindi, it is held during school hours, and the question papers follow the syllabi of boards including CBSE, ICSE/ISC and the state boards. One presentational note, so the table is not read as a running order: SOF's own pattern table lists मेधावी खंड first because it numbers the sections by प्राथमिकता, priority, while its participation page numbers the same three खंड-1, खंड-2 and खंड-3 in the order shown above. Same three sections and the same marks, two orderings. The English half of each section name is ours, added so the table is readable either way; the Hindi is SOF's own.