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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, all 3 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.

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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. Four 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 the four.

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  • Indian Talent Olympiad — Set A

    Registration closes 31 August 2026 · all five subjects

  • SilverZone — every paper

    Registration closes 31 August 2026 · all five subjects

    The body publishes this date but has not marked it final — confirm with your school before treating it as fixed.

  • SOF IEO (English)

    If your school picks 30 September 2026, registration closes 31 August 2026 · English

  • SOF IMO (Maths)

    If your school picks 23 October 2026, registration closes 23 September 2026 · Maths

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Every deadline in this box was checked against that exam body's own website on 24 August 2026. Bodies do move dates — we re-check every Monday.

Exam pattern

How the IMO paper is structured

SectionQuestionsMarks per questionSection total
Logical Reasoning15115
Mathematical Reasoning20120
Everyday Mathematics10110
Achievers Section5315
Total50 questions60 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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