Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF) · Maths · Class 7
International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) 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 Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF)'s own site on 11 August 2026. Exam dates re-checked on 24 August 2026.
2026–27 exam dates
Date 1
23 October 2026
Date 2
26 November 2026
Date 3
10 December 2026
Registration: Your school picks one of the three dates above, and registrations must reach SOF 30 days before that chosen date — so 23 September 2026 for the October date, 27 October for the November date, and 10 November for the December date. Two things parents miss: the school chooses the date, not the family, and once the school has chosen, the date cannot be changed. Ask your school coordinator which date they have picked, and work backwards from the cutoff for that date only.
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 27 October 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 27 September 2026
SilverZone Foundation — Every SilverZone paper
Registration closes 30 September 2026
The body publishes this date but has not marked it final — confirm with your school before treating it as fixed.
SOF ISO (Science) — if your school picks 30 October 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 30 September 2026
Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO) — School route — Set B
Registration closes 10 October 2026
SOF IHO (Hindi) — if your school picks 23 November 2026
Registrations must reach SOF by 24 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 20 September 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 IMO paper is structured
| Section | Questions | Marks per question | Section total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logical Reasoning | 15 | 1 | 15 |
| Mathematical Reasoning | 20 | 1 | 20 |
| Everyday Mathematics | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Achievers Section | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| Total | 50 questions | — | 60 marks · 60 minutes |
SOF states the split directly: 60% of Level 1 questions come from the current class syllabus and 40% from the previous class — so a Class 7 IMO paper is 60% Class 7 and 40% Class 6. The Achievers Section is the exception; those five questions are drawn from Class 7 material only.
Syllabus
Maths syllabus mapped to NCERT Ganita Prakash (Class 7, 2026-27) — Part 1 + Part 2
Ch 1. Large Numbers Around Us
Olympiad syllabus label: Knowing Large Numbers / Place Value
Ch 2. Arithmetic Expressions
Olympiad syllabus label: Order of Operations / Arithmetic
Ch 3. A Peek Beyond the Point
Olympiad syllabus label: Decimals
Ch 4. Expressions using Letter-Numbers
Olympiad syllabus label: Algebraic Expressions (introduction)
Ch 5. Parallel and Intersecting Lines
Olympiad syllabus label: Lines and Angles
Ch 6. Number Play
Olympiad syllabus label: Playing with Numbers / Factors and Multiples
Ch 7. A Tale of Three Intersecting Lines
Olympiad syllabus label: Triangles and their Properties
Ch 8. Working with Fractions
Olympiad syllabus label: Fractions
Ch 9. Geometric Twins
Olympiad syllabus label: Congruence of Triangles
Ch 10. Operations with Integers
Olympiad syllabus label: Integers
Ch 11. Finding Common Ground
Olympiad syllabus label: Comparing Quantities / Ratio and Percentage
Ch 12. Another Peek Beyond the Point
Olympiad syllabus label: Rational Numbers (introduction)
Ch 13. Connecting the Dots
Olympiad syllabus label: Data Handling / Statistics
Ch 14. Constructions and Tilings
Olympiad syllabus label: Practical Geometry / Tilings
Ch 15. Finding the Unknown
Olympiad syllabus label: Simple Equations
Two things to know about this list. First, the Logical Reasoning section (15 questions) is a separate spine — verbal and non-verbal reasoning, analogies, series, coding-decoding — and is not drawn from the chapters above. Second, SOF still publishes its Class 7 topic list using the older NCERT chapter names (Factors and Multiples, Decimals, Integers, Simple Equations, Lines and Angles, Triangles, Congruence of Triangles, Data Handling, Constructions and Tilings) — those are the same topics as the Ganita Prakash chapters above, just under their old labels. Chapters 11 and 12 (ratio and percentage, rational numbers) are not named separately in SOF's published list but sit inside the same Class 7 book, and other bodies' Class 7 maths papers do test them. One topic is genuinely outside the Class 7 book and inside olympiad scope — our curator taxonomy flags the perimeter-and-area extensions for parallelograms and circles, and our Class 7 maths practice keeps them in scope. Three others that Class 7 question banks still carry are not a gap at all in the 2026-27 spine, they simply moved up a year: exponents and powers, scientific notation (standard form) and 3-D solids with nets and views are all Class 8 chapters now — Power Play, and Views of Solids inside Exploring Some Geometric Themes.
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