Class 8 · Grade VIII
Class 8 English Olympiad syllabus
4 units and 14 topics for GEO 2026-27. Everything below is drawn from the standard Class 8 English curriculum.
1
Word power
- High-level vocabulary
- Idioms and proverbs
- Word pairs
- Connotation
2
Grammar
- Advanced clauses
- Parallelism
- Modality
- Ellipsis and substitution
3
Reading
- Discursive passages
- Poetry and drama extracts
- Evaluating argument
4
Writing & usage
- Editing
- Sentence combination
- Discourse markers
Paper at a glance
- Band
- Senior (Grades VIII – X)
- Duration
- 60 minutes
- Questions
- 50
- Total marks
- 60
- Negative marking
- None