English Olympiad Practice Test 1 — IEO-style (Class 6)
A free Maths, Science, English and Reasoning Olympiads (IMO, NSO, IEO style) practice paper for Grade 6 in the format of the real test: 50 questions in 60 minutes, covering Word and Structure Knowledge; Reading; Spoken and Written Expression; Achievers' Section. Word and Structure Knowledge, Reading, and Spoken and Written Expression are worth 1 mark per question; the Achievers' Section is worth 3 marks per question (60 marks in all). On this portal each answer counts once. Answer every question — there is no penalty for a wrong answer. Attempt it online — every question is marked instantly and the correct answers are shown at the end.
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Q1. Choose the correctly spelt word.
Q2. Which word is spelt incorrectly?
Q3. The old fort stood alone on a desolate hill, far from any village.
Choose the word closest in meaning to the underlined word.
Q4. Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to reluctant.
Q5. Choose the pair of words that correctly fills the blanks.
I ______ a pebble into the pond and watched it sink ______ the clear water.
Q6. Riya's new bicycle cost an arm and a leg. This means that the bicycle
Q7. After the warning from the principal, Aman decided to turn over a new leaf. This means Aman decided to
Q8. The girls sang beautifully at the annual function.
The underlined word is a/an
Q9. In which sentence is the word fast used as an adjective?
Q10. By the time we reached the station, the train ______.
Q11. Meera ______ in this school since 2022.
Q12. He is ______ honest boy who wants to become ______ engineer.
Q13. Which sentence uses the articles correctly?
Q14. She has been ill ______ Monday.
Q15. Rahul is good ______ chess but afraid ______ spiders.
Q16. Neither the teacher nor the students ______ aware of the change in the timetable.
Q17. Each of the boys ______ a new school bag.
Q18. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Q19. All the ______ books were kept in the staff room. (The books belong to several teachers.)
Q20. Choose the passive form of: The chef cooked a delicious meal.
Q21. Choose the passive form of: Who wrote this letter?
Q22. Priya said, "I am reading a book."
Choose the correct reported speech.
Q23. The teacher said to Arjun, "Have you finished your homework?"
Choose the correct reported speech.
Q24. The boy who won the race is my cousin.
The underlined part is
Q25. Choose the correct word to fill the blank.
______ it was raining heavily, the match continued.
Q26. Choose ONE word for: a person who can speak two languages well.
Q27. Choose ONE word for: a place where bees are kept.
Q28. Mount Everest is ______ than any other mountain in the world.
Q29. In which pair is the plural formed correctly?
Q30. Between you and ______, this plan will not work.
When the Mehta family moved to the small town of Rampura, eleven-year-old Kabir was sure he would be bored. There was no cinema, the market closed at seven, and the only library was a single room above the post office.
On his third evening there, while chasing a runaway kite, Kabir squeezed through a gap in a crumbling wall behind the old temple. He almost fell. At his feet, a flight of stone steps disappeared downwards into a deep, square pit choked with thorny bushes, broken bottles and plastic bags. Carved elephants, their trunks worn smooth, stared at him from the walls.
"That is the old baoli," said Mrs Rathore, the librarian, when he described it the next day. She pulled a dusty file from a shelf. "A stepwell. Two hundred years ago, the whole town drew water from it. Women climbed down those steps with brass pots, and in summer people sat on the lower landings because the air there was cool. When taps came, everybody forgot about it."
Kabir studied the faded photographs. In one, the steps were clean and the water at the bottom shone like a mirror. "Could it look like that again?" he asked.
Mrs Rathore smiled. "Not by wishing."
That Sunday, Kabir arrived at the wall with two sacks and a pair of gardening gloves. By noon he had filled both sacks and had barely cleared one step. His arms ached and a thorn had torn his sleeve. He sat down on the step and wondered whether he had been foolish to try.
He was not alone for long. Two boys from his class, who had been watching from the wall, climbed down to ask what he was doing. The following Sunday they brought their sisters. The Sunday after that, a retired mason named Iqbal Chacha came with his tools and showed the children how to reset the loose stones without cracking them. Mrs Rathore persuaded the town council to send a tractor to carry away the rubbish.
It took eleven weekends. On the last one, as the children lifted out the final bag, they noticed a dark, damp patch spreading across the bottom step. Iqbal Chacha knelt, pressed his palm to the stone, and laughed. "The rain has been waiting too," he said. "The old channels still work."
When the monsoon came, water rose up the steps for the first time in forty years. The council put up a small board beside the entrance. It named everyone who had helped, and at the very top, in letters slightly larger than the rest, it said: Found by Kabir Mehta, who did not wait for someone else to begin.
Kabir still thinks Rampura has too few shops. But he no longer finds it boring.
Q31. Why did Kabir first go behind the old temple?
Q32. According to the story, what is a baoli?
Q33. According to Mrs Rathore, why did the townspeople stop using the stepwell?
Q34. Mrs Rathore said, "Not by wishing." What did she mean?
Q35. Which word best describes how Kabir felt at noon on his first Sunday at the stepwell?
Q36. What did Iqbal Chacha show the children?
Q37. Which of these is not mentioned in the story as helping to clear the stepwell?
Q38. "The rain has been waiting too," said Iqbal Chacha. What did he mean?
Q39. In paragraph 2 the pit was "choked with thorny bushes, broken bottles and plastic bags". Here choked means
Q40. Which lesson does the story best teach?
Q41. Choose the best reply to complete the conversation.
Shopkeeper: Good morning! How may I help you?
Customer: ______
Shopkeeper: Yes, we have it in blue and in black. It costs ₹450.
Q42. Choose the best reply.
Anu: I'm so sorry I broke your pencil box.
Ria: ______
Q43. Arrange the sentences in the correct order.
P: When the rice was soft, she added sugar and cardamom and stirred well.
Q: First, Grandma boiled the milk in a heavy pan.
R: Finally, she decorated the kheer with chopped nuts.
S: After that, she put in the washed rice and let it cook slowly.
Q44. Which sentence is written correctly?
Q45. Choose the best reply to complete the conversation.
Rohan: Excuse me, could you tell me the way to the railway station?
Stranger: ______
Rohan: Thank you! Is it far?
Stranger: No, only about 500 metres.
Q46. Which sentence is correct?
Q47. Ananya is so meticulous that she checks every sum twice before handing in her work.
The underlined word means
Q48. The sentence below is divided into four parts. Which part contains an error?
The furniture in our classroom / is old, / so the principal has ordered / some new furnitures.
Q49. He said to me, "Please shut the door and don't make a noise."
Choose the correct reported speech.
Q50. Choose the passive form of: Open the window.
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