The Class 8 English Olympiad Sample Paper is designed to help students refine their language skills, practise complex grammar and comprehension, and get a clear idea of the Olympiad exam format.
What's Inside the Class 8 English Olympiad Sample Paper?
Challenging MCQs covering grammar, vocabulary, and reading skills
Divided into English Language and Achiever's Section
Comes with an answer key for self-check and guided learning
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Section 1: Synonyms, Antonyms, Analogies and Spellings, Collocations, Phrasal Verbs, Idioms, Proverbs, Homonyms and Homophones, One Word, Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Articles, Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases, Participle Phrases, Conjunctions, Determiners, Jumbled Words, Punctuations, Tenses, Voices and Narrations, Question Tags, Words (Related to Leisure, Household Items/Issues, Social Causes, Outdoor Locations, Activities, etc.), Information Retrieval from Texts (News Reports, Blurb, Dictionaries, Instruction Manual Format, Messages, Editorials, Essays, etc.), Spoken and Written Expressions (Requesting, Giving Information, Expressing Surprise, Pronunciation, etc.)
Achievers Section: Higher Order Thinking Questions - Syllabus as per Section 1
Please note that the dictionary which will be used for reference is Oxford Learner's Dictionary. This will be w.r.t. spellings & meanings. In case, if the word is not found in this dictionary, then it is assumed that this word does not exist.
Choose the option with the same meaning as the idiom:
The handsome young man became the head of the department in his father's management. The job was handed to him 'on a platter'.
Q.2
Choose the antonym of the word in bold:
Poisonous gases emitted from factories contaminate the air we breathe in.
Q.3
Read the text and fill in the blank:
Family Dollar was established in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1959 by a 21 year old entrepreneur named Leon Levine. He was interested in operating a low-overhead, self-service retail store. Levine’s main goal was to offer a variety of high-quality merchandise to customers for under $2.00. If everything in the store wasn’t a dollar to begin with, why did he name the store Family DOLLAR? The fact is that any person can be influenced in a different way just by the way someone words a sentence or phrase. A prime example of this is a Family Dollar store. The problem is that Family Dollar doesn’t sell everything in its store for a dollar, like Dollar Tree does. Dollar Tree is seen to be one of the very few true dollar stores there is that sell everything for a dollar. The name of the store, Family Dollar, just catches everyone’s eye and makes them think that they are getting a better deal on the items they purchase there. The fact is that everyone who goes into the store is thinking that generally everything in the store is going to be a dollar, but it’s not. That is the purpose of the usage of words in the title of the store. Dollar General is also another store that has the same usage of words in their store name to make their customers think the same way. Every customer is baited into thinking that everything in the store is going to be a dollar, but in the end their thoughts will be different. This kind of word usage is a part of businesses everywhere around the world. It is known as cognitive grammar. Cognitive grammar is known to influence people by making them think something you want them to think.
The names Family Dollar and Dollar General are ____________.
Q.4
Find the correctly spelt word:
Q.5
Fill in the blank with the right option:
For this X-mas, I can play a few ______ on the guitar.
Q.6
Select the correctly punctuated sentence:
The study of mass communication is chiefly concerned with how the content persuades or otherwise affects the behaviour attitude opinion or emotion of the people receiving the information
Q.7
Choose the most appropriate option:
Though Samuel did not appear to be particularly ______, he was easily the ______ player in the entire team.
Q.8
Complete the proverb:
Beggars can't be _________.
Q.9
Fill the blank with a suitable option:
I'm a doctor and _____ my husband. We are both working in the same hospital.
Q.10
Fill in the blanks with suitable articles:
With his new promotion _____, Max went to London. He went to do his ______ higher studies but unfortunately he failed ______ in his exams.
Your Score: 0/10
Answers to Sample Questions from CREST Olympiads:
Q.1
c
Q.2
d
Q.3
a
Q.4
b
Q.5
a
Q.6
b
Q.7
a
Q.8
c
Q.9
c
Q.10
a
Answers to Sample Questions from CREST Olympiads:
Q.1 : c | Q.2 : d | Q.3 : a | Q.4 : b | Q.5 : a | Q.6 : b | Q.7 : a | Q.8 : c | Q.9 : c | Q.10 : a
