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International Social Studies Olympiad

iSSO serves as a platform for students to demonstrate their grasp of diverse social studies concepts. It goes beyond mere rote memorization, challenging students to apply analytical and critical thinking skills.

Beyond academics, iSSO fosters a genuine interest in social studies by encouraging students to delve into current affairs, global issues, and the rich tapestry of global history. It seeks to cultivate a holistic understanding of the world, nurturing curiosity about different cultures and perspectives.

Participation in iSSO offers students invaluable opportunities for personal growth. It sharpens cognitive faculties, broadens cultural horizons, and refines analytical abilities. Ultimately, iSSO empowers students to navigate and comprehend the complexities of our interconnected world. In essence, iSSO serves as a conduit for students to test their acumen in social studies, fostering a deeper appreciation and understanding of the global community.


About Test paper

The language medium is English only. The examination is being conducted for all classes from 1st to 10th with the following details.
  • For Classes 1-2: There will be 25 questions and the duration will be of 40 Minutes.
  • For Classes 3-5: There will be 30 questions and the duration will be of 40 Minutes.
  • For Classes 6-8: There will be 35 questions and the duration will be of 40 Minutes.
  • For Classes 9-10: There will be 40 questions and the duration will be of 50 Minutes.

The precise instructions for administering the test will accompany the question papers. All questions will be in an objective format, featuring multiple-choice answers. Notably, there is no negative marking system in place.

For every class, OMR answer sheets will be provided. Students are permitted to keep their question papers for reference, while the answer sheets will be collected and returned to the foundation for evaluation and scoring.

Marking Scheme

Utilizing a chapter-wise marking scheme can enhance students' performance in SilverZone Olympiads

All About Me

No. of Questions

(3)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (10.5)

Chapters

  • Body Parts
  • Family
  • Safety Rules
  • Good Habits and Manner
  • Good Touch and Bad Touch

My Needs

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (7)

Chapters

  • Food, Clothes and Shelter

My Community

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (7)

Chapters

  • School and Neighbourhood
  • People Who Help Us

Our Country

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (7)

Chapters

  • National Symbols
  • Festivals and celebrations

Our Surroundings

No. of Questions

(3)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (10.5)

Chapters

  • Air and Water
  • Environment
  • Plants and Animals

Settled Life

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (7)

Chapters

  • Transport and Communication

Earth and Sky

No. of Questions

(1)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (3.5)

Chapters

  • Sun and Moon
  • Seasons
  • Weather

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (4.75) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (47.5)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (25)
  • Total Marks (100)

All About Me

No. of Questions

(3)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (10.5)

Chapters

  • Body Parts
  • Family
  • Safety Rules
  • Good Habits and Manner
  • Good Touch and Bad Touch

My Needs

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (7)

Chapters

  • Food, Clothes and Shelter

My Community

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (7)

Chapters

  • School and Neighbourhood
  • Our Helpers
  • Places of Worship

Our Country

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (7)

Chapters

  • National Symbols
  • Festivals and celebrations
  • Great people
  • Historical Monuments in India

Our Surroundings

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (7)

Chapters

  • Air, Water and Land
  • Environment

Settled Life

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (7)

Chapters

  • ime and Directions
  • Transport and Communication

Earth and Sky

No. of Questions

(1)
  • Marks (3.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (3.5)

Chapters

  • Universe
  • Weather and Seasons

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (4.75) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (47.5)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (25)
  • Total Marks (100)

All About Me

No. of Questions

(4)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (12)

Chapters

  • Body Parts
  • Family
  • Safety Rules

My Needs

No. of Questions

(4)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (12)

Chapters

  • Food, Clothes and Shelter

Occupation

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (6)

Chapters

  • Community Helpers
  • Agriculture

Our Country

No. of Questions

(5)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (15)

Chapters

  • Freedom Fighters
  • Historical Monuments in India
  • Festivals and celebrations
  • Four Metrocities

The Story of Early Man

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (6)

Chapters

  • Story of Fire
  • Invention of Wheel
  • Growing Food

Our Environment

No. of Questions

(4)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (12)

Chapters

  • TAir, Water and Land

Settled Life

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (6)

Chapters

  • Transport and Communication

Earth and Sky

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (6)

Chapters

  • Solar System
  • Weather and Seasons

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(5)
  • Marks (5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (30)
  • Total Marks (100)

Our Country

No. of Questions

(5)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (15)

Chapters

  • National Symbols
  • Landscape and its people
  • Our Heritage

Resources

No. of Questions

(6)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (18)

Chapters

  • Natural Vegetation and Soil
  • Air and Water

Work and Play

No. of Questions

(4)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (12)

Chapters

  • Agriculture
  • Industries
  • Sports

Our Government

No. of Questions

(3)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (9)

Chapters

  • Fundamental Rights and Duties
  • Public Services

Time and Directions

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (6)

Chapters

  • Time
  • Mapping Neighbourhood

Settled Life

No. of Questions

(2)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (6)

Chapters

  • Transport and Communication

Earth and its Neighbours

No. of Questions

(3)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (9)

Chapters

  • Solar System
  • Moon and Artificial Satellites
  • Climate and Seasons

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(5)
  • Marks (5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (30)
  • Total Marks (100)

History and Its Evidence

No. of Questions

(7)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (21)

Chapters

  • Freedom Struggles and Independence
  • Important Dates
  • Great Personalities and Achievers
  • Inventions and Discoveries

Governance

No. of Questions

(4)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (12)

Chapters

  • Structure of Government
  • Fundamental Rights and Duties
  • United Nations and Other Regional organisations

Earth and its Inhabitants

No. of Questions

(4)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (12)

Chapters

  • Landforms
  • Weather and Climatic Zones
  • Map
  • Natural Disaster and Mitigation

Heritage

No. of Questions

(3)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (9)

Chapters

  • Music styles and Dance forms
  • World Heritage Sites
  • Handicrafts

Environment

No. of Questions

(4)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (12)

Chapters

  • Pollution
  • Conservation of Environment
  • Healthy Lifestyle

Settled Life

No. of Questions

(3)
  • Marks (3) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (9)

Chapters

  • Transport and Communication

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(5)
  • Marks (5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (30)
  • Total Marks (100)

History

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (2.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)

Chapters

  • Timeline and Sources of History
  • India, That Is Bharat
  • The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation
  • India's Cultural Roots

Geography

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (2.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)

Chapters

  • Locating Places on E
  • Oceans and Continents
  • Landforms and Life
  • Unity in Diversity, or 'Many in the One'

Political and Social Life

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (2.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)

Chapters

  • Family and Community
  • Governance
  • Rural Local Government
  • Urban Local Government
  • The Value of Work
  • Economic Activities Around Us

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(5)
  • Marks (5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (35)
  • Total Marks (100)

History

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (2.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)

Chapters

  • Introduction: Tracing Changes through a Thousand Years
  • Kings and Kingdoms
  • 12th to 15th Centuary
  • The Mughals (16th to 17th Century)
  • Tribes, Nomads, and Settled Communities
  • Devotional Paths to the Divine
  • The Making of Regional Cultures
  • Eighteenth-Century Political Formations

Geography

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (2.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)

Chapters

  • Environment
  • Inside Our Earth
  • Our Changing Earth
  • Air
  • Water
  • Human-Environment Interactions – The Tropical and the Subtropical Region
  • Life in the Deserts

Political and Social Life

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (2.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)

Chapters

  • On Equality
  • Role of the Government in Health
  • How the State Government Works
  • Growing up as Boys and Girls
  • Women Change the World
  • Understanding Media
  • Markets Around Us
  • A Shirt in the Market

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(5)
  • Marks (5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (35)
  • Total Marks (100)

History

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (2.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)

Chapters

  • How, When and Where
  • From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power
  • Ruling the Countryside
  • Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age
  • When People Rebel 1857 and After
  • Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation
  • Women, Caste and Reform
  • The Making of the National Movement: 1870s – 1947

Geography

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (2.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)

Chapters

  • Resources
  • Land, Soil, Water, Natural Vegetation and Wildlife Resources
  • Agriculture
  • Industries
  • Human Resources

Political and Social Life

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (2.5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)

Chapters

  • The Indian Constitution
  • Understanding Secularism
  • Parliament and the Making of Laws
  • Judiciary
  • Understanding Marginalisation
  • Confronting Marginalisation
  • Public Facilities
  • Law and Social Justice

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(5)
  • Marks (5) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (25)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (35)
  • Total Marks (100)

History

No. of Questions

(8)
  • Marks (2) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (16)

Chapters

  • The French Revolution
  • Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution
  • Nazism and the Rise of Hitler
  • Forest Society and Colonialism
  • Pastoralists in the Modern World

Geography

No. of Questions

(8)
  • Marks (2) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (16)

Chapters

  • India-Size and Location
  • Physical Features of India
  • Drainage
  • Climate
  • Natural Vegetation and Wildlife
  • Population

Political and Social Life

No. of Questions

(8)
  • Marks (2) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (18)

Chapters

  • What is Democracy?
  • Why Democracy?
  • Constitutional Design
  • Electoral Politics
  • Working of Institutions
  • Democratic Rights

Economics

No. of Questions

(6)
  • Marks (2) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (12)

Chapters

  • The Story of Village Palampur
  • People as Resource
  • Poverty as a Challenge
  • Food Security in India

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (4) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (40)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (40)
  • Total Marks (100)

History

No. of Questions

(8)
  • Marks (2) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (16)

Chapters

  • The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
  • Nationalism in India
  • The Making of a Global World
  • The Age of Industrialisation
  • Print Culture and the Modern World

Geography

No. of Questions

(8)
  • Marks (2) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (16)

Chapters

  • Resources and Development
  • Forest and Wildlife Resources
  • Water Resources
  • Agriculture
  • Minerals and Energy Resources
  • Manufacturing Industries
  • Lifelines of National Economy

Political and Social Life

No. of Questions

(8)
  • Marks (2) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (18)

Chapters

  • Power- Sharing
  • Federalism
  • Gender, Religion and Caste
  • Political Parties
  • Outcomes of Democracy

Economics

No. of Questions

(6)
  • Marks (2) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (12)

Chapters

  • Development Sectors of the Indian Economy Money and Credit Globalisation and the Indian
  • Economy Consumer Rights

Scholar’s Zone

No. of Questions

(10)
  • Marks (4) (Each question)
  • Total Marks (40)
  • Scholar’s Zone
  • Total Questions (40)
  • Total Marks (100)

Raw Score Calculation

The raw score is computed by multiplying each correct answer by its corresponding base marks and summing the results. In mathematical terms: Raw Score = SUM (correct answer × subsequent base Marks).


Total Marks Calculation

Total Marks are determined by adding the raw score to the sum of the weightage of correct answers. Each question carries an additional weightage, starting from .0001 and increasing incrementally (.0002, .0003, and so forth). For instance, Question No. 1 has a weightage of .0001, Question No. 2 has .0002, and so on. This weightage is utilized to resolve ties when calculating Class/Zonal/Olympiads ranks.


Olympiad Rank

This encompasses all students from India and abroad belonging to the same class.


Class Rank

This encompasses all students from various sections/divisions of the same class within the same school.

Sample Papers

Sample Question Papers

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Prizes

The International Olympiad
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1st Olympiad rank

The 1st International Olympiad rank holder in each class will receive a Prize of Rs. 10,000/-.

2nd Olympiad rank

The 2nd International Olympiad rank holder in each class will receive a Prize of Rs. 7,500/-.

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3rd Olympiad rank

The 3rd International Olympiad rank holder in each class will receive a Prize of Rs. 5000/-.

Other Prizes

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Zonal & Categorization

To streamline operations and facilitate various functions, all states and Union Territories in India, along with participating international countries, have been organized into the following zones. This categorization serves the following purposes:

Determining zone toppers for performance-based awards.

Delhi NCR, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, J&K, Ladakh, Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh

Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, Daman & Diu, Dadara & Nagar Haveli, Madhya Pradesh

West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur, Chhattisgarh

Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar

All countries except India

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