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The syllabus

Next paper: Sunday, 15 November 2026, live 11:00 am–5:00 pm IST, online and free. Your class decides your category.

Class 8–9

Thinking Challenge

20 questions · 30 minutes · +4 correct, no minus for a wrong answer, 0 skipped

Logical reasoning

  • · Number and letter series
  • · Analogies and odd one out
  • · Coding–decoding
  • · Direction sense
  • · Blood relations
  • · Ordering and ranking
  • · Simple linear arrangements
  • · Venn diagrams and classification

Data interpretation

  • · Reading tables and bar-chart data
  • · Totals and averages
  • · Simple percentages

Number sense

  • · Ratio and unitary-method puzzles

Class 10

Problem Solving Challenge

20 questions · 30 minutes · +4 correct, −1 wrong, 0 skipped

Logical reasoning

  • · Linear and circular seating
  • · Scheduling and calendars
  • · Selection and grouping with conditions
  • · Syllogisms
  • · Statements and conclusions
  • · Input–output

Data interpretation

  • · Multi-table sets
  • · Percentage change and growth
  • · Ratio and proportion
  • · Averages
  • · Caselets

Quantitative reasoning

  • · Percentages
  • · Profit and loss
  • · Time, speed and distance in puzzle form

Class 11–12

Competitive Thinking Challenge

20 questions · 30 minutes · +4 correct, −1 wrong, 0 skipped

The Class 11–12 paper follows the BBA and IPM entrance exams: quantitative ability, data interpretation and logical reasoning, and verbal ability, the sections of IPMAT (IIM Indore, IIM Rohtak), JIPMAT, NMIMS NPAT, Symbiosis SET and the CUET General Test.

Quantitative ability (8 questions)

  • · Arithmetic: percentages, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, ratio and mixtures, averages, time and work, time, speed and distance
  • · Number system: divisibility, HCF and LCM, remainders, unit digits
  • · Algebra: linear and quadratic equations, inequalities, AP and GP, logarithms, functions
  • · Permutations, combinations and probability
  • · Geometry and mensuration: triangles, circles, areas and volumes, coordinate geometry
  • · Class 11–12 maths asked in IPMAT Indore: sets, matrices and determinants

Data interpretation and logical reasoning (6 questions)

  • · Tables and caselets, percentage change and growth
  • · Arrangements, seating and scheduling with conditions
  • · Games and tournaments
  • · Venn diagrams and distributions
  • · Syllogisms, statements and conclusions
  • · Coding–decoding, blood relations and series

Verbal ability and reading comprehension (6 questions)

  • · One reading passage with 3 questions: main idea, inference, tone
  • · Vocabulary in context: synonyms, antonyms, idioms
  • · Grammar: sentence correction and fill in the blank
  • · Para-jumbles and the odd sentence out

The exams it prepares you for

IPMAT Indore (IIM Indore)
Quantitative ability, verbal ability
IPMAT Rohtak (IIM Rohtak)
Quantitative ability, logical reasoning, verbal ability
JIPMAT (NTA: IIM Bodh Gaya, IIM Jammu)
Quantitative aptitude, DI and logical reasoning, verbal ability and RC
NMIMS NPAT
Quantitative, logical and verbal reasoning
Symbiosis SET
English, quantitative, analytical and logical reasoning (plus general awareness)
CUET General Test
Numerical ability, quantitative and logical reasoning (plus general knowledge)

No physics or chemistry (no BBA exam tests them) and no general knowledge (only SET and CUET have it). Check each exam's official notice for its exact pattern.

Figure-based reasoning (mirror images, cubes, figure series) is not included yet.

Prizes, rules and past winners: xambaaz.com/olympiad