Hello Krish,

Kindly mention which class NSO and IMO you are talking about.

Practising NCERT and your school books question is advisable. Download previous year questions, and some preparatory books ussually MCQs of science. When talking about IMO, since most of the portion is mathematics, practising many books as well as other competitions papers can be an option. There are several other exams such as NTSE, NSTSE, RMO(for 10th), and many more. It is important to remember that the topics will be the same as that of the school syllabus however the level will be upgraded, therefore, try practising tricky and more logical questions of that topic.

For NSO, science is involved learning NCERT will be extremely beneficial especially for biology and chemistry related questions.

Try solving Mental ability questions from legit books, and forget to solve sample papers and previous year papers. Download from here:

https://www.sofolympiadtrainer.com/imo-sample-papers.jsp

http://www.sofworld.org/imo-previous-year-papers-rtp.html

hope this helps

You can download the SOF NSO answer  keys from the official website i.e., www.sofworld.org (//www.sofworld.org) . If you can not find the link to download answer keys, here are the direct links to download the answer keys for each set of question paper:

Set A: http://www.sofworld.org/sof-nso-answer-keys-set-2019

Set B: http://www.sofworld.org/sof-nso-answer-keys-set-b-2019

Set C: http://www.sofworld.org/sof-nso-answer-keys-set-c-2019

Set A: http://www.sofworld.org/sof-nso-answer-keys-set-2019

Set B: http://www.sofworld.org/sof-nso-answer-keys-set-b-2019

Set C: http://www.sofworld.org/sof-nso-answer-keys-set-c-2019

Hi aspirant,

The NSO exam by the SOF foundation will have their results for 1-12 standard declared on the same day. NSO 2019 level II examination will be held in 2nd and 3rd Sunday of February 2020. The NSO result 2019 will be announced in March 2020.

Thank you.

Ma'am, whether your child will qualify for the next round or not depends on various factors like her class, difficulty level of question paper and her relative performance w.r.t. other students of her class (school, zone as well as national level). We cannot predict it on the basis of last year cutoffs.

According to the official notice by SOF, students fulfilling either of the following 3 criteria will qualify for 2nd level Olympiads exams:

• Top 5% of students, class wise who appear for the 1st level exam. Due priority to marks scored in different sections will be given, in the decreasing order of Achiever's Section, Science and Logical Reasoning for NSO.
• Zone wise top 25 rank holders from each class.
• Class topper from each participating school where at least 10 students from a class appear in the exam & scores 50% qualifying marks.

All the best for the results.

Hello Mahak,

For NSO Level 2, the syllabus is same as level 1. Only, the difficulty level will be higher than level 1. Level 2 is difficult but with regular practice you can score a good rank. Attempt NSO level 2 previous years question papers and mock tests.

Basically syllabus is divided into 4 sections.

• Section 1: Logical reasoning- Patterns, coding decoding, mirror images, geometrical shapes, analogy and classification, water images, embedded figures, ranking test, alphabet test, logical sequence of words,  puzzle test, direction sense test
• Section 2: Science- Human body and health, plants, earth and Universe, matter, natural resources, force, work, energy, Pollution and calamities
• Section 3: Achievers section- same as section 2 but higher order of thinking

Good luck!

Dear aspirant,

If you are facing struggles with any of your main subjects then the first thing you should do is buy a good book of that subject. the type of questions that has been asked in competitive exams and your boards are quite different and required a different methodology to study them. The questions in your board examinations are more concentrated on direct application of the concept on the definition of the concept itself however the questions in competitive examinations are more of application of that concept. if you are in 11th class then you have a plenty of time to first get your basics clear and then I want to prepare for competitive exams in your next year.

Coaching is always a good idea if you are facing a lot of trouble in understanding the concepts you can always join a coaching.

Some of the good institutions for preparation are

RESONANCE, Aakash institute, etc.

Hope this helps. thank you.

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Hey,

NSO result will be declared in December 2019.

Qualification criteria for second level is:

top 5% students class wise, who took the first stage. Priority to marks scored in different sections will be given.

State wise 25 rank holder from each class.

Class toppers from each school where at least 10 students from the class have appeared in the exam and have secured more than 50% qualifying marks.

# If registration is received section wise, irrespective of the section the student who scored highest marks qualifies for the 2nd level.

All the Best!