English Olympiad for Class 2

Your second-grader knows some English. We'll help them know it really well! This test challenges young minds gently, covering all basics plus fun extras. International ranks, school ranks, zonal ranks-recognition at every level.

CREST Olympiads conducts the English Olympiad for class 2 students. Only the online English Olympiad exam is conducted for grade 2. The CREST English Olympiad (CEO) exam intends to improve the kids' English language skills, like grammar, spelling, sentence structure, vocabulary, and much more.

a. Class 2 is the first year children take the English Olympiad on their own. Having a parent or teacher sit beside them during the paper can lead to disqualification, so try a few solo practice sessions at home first.

b. Children in Class 2 anywhere in the world can apply for the English Olympiad for class 2. CBSE, ICSE, IB and State Board schools are all included, and CREST counts 6000+ participating schools.

c. Sign up on the CREST website yourself, or go through the school if it is enrolled.

d. At home, your child will need a laptop, desktop or tablet with a screen above 11.5 inches and the webcam switched on, plus a stable internet connection. A Windows device must have Windows 8 or above; a Mac or an iPad can be used as well. Use the latest Google Chrome (Edge or Firefox are fine too, but not Safari). Phones and calculators are not allowed, and your child's face must stay fully visible to the camera.

e. The class 2 English Olympiad online test is held in 2 levels. Two groups move on to Level 2: the top 55.56% of Class 2 Level 1 candidates, and the three highest-scoring school-registered students from every school that has more than 25 children in Class 2.

1. Sharper spelling and word choice. Collocations, spellings and contractions are new on the Class 2 list. Knowing that we "make a wish" but "do homework", or that "don't" is short for "do not", shows up quickly in a child's writing.

2. English for real situations. Questions on thanking, greeting, asking permission and introducing yourself, plus reading short messages and invitations, practise the English a seven-year-old actually uses.

3. Concepts, not rote. In a Class 2 review, CREST gets credit for helping children build a strong base in concepts and see the practical reasoning behind them.

4. A first taste of competition. A published Class 2 testimonial calls the Olympiad a good initiative that builds enthusiasm for competitive exams, and this is the year ranks begin.

International English Olympiad registration for class 2 can be done by students on their own or through their respective schools.

The school has to fill in the form present here: https://www.crestolympiads.com/register-school, and it will be contacted within 48 working hours with the next steps.

Students who register separately from school & want to appear for the class 2 English Olympiad online test can follow these simple steps:
1. Go to the browser and copy-paste this link: https://www.crestolympiads.com/registration
2. The registration form pops up.
3. Fill in all the registration form details.
4. Select the exam at the bottom of the details filling section in the registration form you wish to appear in.
5. Read the instructions carefully.
6. Make the payment.
7. Registration is complete.

Note:

1. English Olympiad Individual registrations by students are accepted.

2. Students who have not done registration through school will have to take exams from home. The individual participating should have a webcam and a good internet facility. Use a laptop, desktop or tablet with a screen larger than 11.5 inches: a Windows computer or tablet running Windows 8 or above, a Mac, or an iPad. Phones cannot be used. Use the latest version of Google Chrome (Edge or Firefox also work); the exam cannot be taken on the Safari browser. The exam is monitored through a webcam.

Class 2 moves from word games to using English. Compared with Class 1, Collocations, Spellings, Adverbs, Contractions and Word Order are new, and two reading-and-speaking topics arrive: Information Retrieval from Various Texts, and Spoken and Written Expressions. Basic Tenses becomes Simple Tenses. Jumbled Letters, Making a Word, Word Pairs, Odd One Out, Feminine and Masculine, One and Many, Identify the Word From the Picture and Comprehension (Prose and Poetry) are no longer listed, and animals and their sounds now sit inside the Words topic.

Here is everything listed for Section 1 in the Class 2 English Olympiad syllabus:

• Collocations
• Spellings
• Words (Related to Animals and their Sounds, Clothes, Body Parts, Basic Emotions, Food, etc.)
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Verbs
• Adverbs
• Adjectives
• Articles
• Prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Contractions
• Word Order
• Punctuation
• Simple Tenses
• Information Retrieval from Various Texts (Stories, Short Dialogues, Messages, Invitations, etc.)
• Spoken and Written Expressions (Thanking, Greeting, Permission, Introduction, etc.)

Achievers Section: ten harder questions, which the syllabus calls Higher Order Thinking Questions, drawn from the seventeen topics above.

Format: 35 questions, 60 minutes and 45 marks, the same in Level 1 and Level 2. Each English Language question is worth 1 mark and each Achievers question 2, which is how 35 questions add up to 45 marks. No negative marking applies, so leaving a question blank never helps.

The exam dates for CREST English Olympiad (CEO) for Class 2 for the Academic year 2026-27 are as given below:

Note: Check Olympiad exam dates for other CREST Olympiads subjects as well.

The exam fee is INR 275 for students studying and enrolling from India. For students studying and residing outside of India, the fee is USD 15.

Your child will sit this one alone, so build independence first. Over five or six weeks, let them do 20-minute practice sets by themselves, then go through the answers together afterwards. Keep school-day sessions short and save the full paper for a weekend morning.

Focus on what is new in Class 2. Make a "goes together" list of collocations: fast food, heavy rain, brush your teeth. Turn "can not" into "can't" and "I am" into "I'm". Jumble a short sentence like "park the went we to" and ask for the right order. Read a birthday invitation together and ask when and where the party is. Role-play a few polite lines: thanking a friend, greeting a teacher, asking to borrow a pencil.

Once the new topics feel familiar, your child can attempt the class 2 English Olympiad sample papers, then last year's paper. If your child needs a push, read together about the CREST rank holder who topped the Class 2 English Olympiad internationally in 2021-22 (see the Hall of Fame profile).

Time per question is about 1 minute 43 seconds (35 questions in 60 minutes). Practise one full timed paper a week in the final month, and use the free trial test to check the webcam and browser. For extra practice, the CREST English workbook for Class 2 is linked below, and Olympiad Success, the official preparation partner of CREST, sells class 2 English Olympiad worksheets as part of its online test series.

Following the completion of the English Olympiad, the cut-off is announced. The cut-off is a set of minimum marks that students must get in order to pass the exam. Students who achieve a score equal to or more than the published cutoff are regarded to have passed the exam. Students can access the official website to learn more about the class 2 English cut-off & rankings.

CREST Olympiads has made guessing the score before the actual results easy by preparing an answer key list that is released after the actual examination. This answer key offers students with the correct answers to the questions asked in the English Olympiad for class 2. The answer key by CREST Olympiads is out on the answer key dates, which are easily available on the website’s exam schedule page.

Class 2 is the first year with ranks, so results day feels different. Log in with your registered credentials, open the dashboard, then Performance, then Results, and select CEO. Level 1 scores are normally ready within 10 days of the last Level 1 answer key date, and Level 2 scores within a month of the last Level 2 answer key date.

The Level 1 result tells you whether your child cleared the cut-off for Level 2 (the rule is in the eligibility section above). Awards are based on Level 2. A Level 2 percentile of 96 or more earns gold, as does a zonal rank of 10 or less, while 93 to 96 brings silver and 90 to 93 bronze. The overall top 3 in the world receive an Achiever's Trophy.

One Class 2 review calls CREST a great platform for children to evaluate their performance. That is the right spirit for a seven-year-old: look at which topics went well, not only at the medal. If no medal comes this year, the Level 1 score is still a clear record of where your child started.

a. Awards for the Class 2 CREST English Olympiad (CEO) are based on the Level 2 exam.

b. International Ranks 1 to 3 in each class receive an Achiever's Trophy and a Merit Certificate.

c. A Gold Medal and a Merit Certificate go to every student at the 96th percentile or above, every student with a zonal rank of 10 or less, and the top 3 school-registered students of each school that has more than 25 students in the class.

d. Students between the 93rd and 96th percentile receive a Silver Medal, and those between the 90th and 93rd percentile a Bronze Medal, each with a Merit Certificate.

e. The top 25% of students receive a Merit Certificate.

f. Students in the top 25% to 50% receive an 'Honourable Mention' Digital Certificate.

g. Every student who qualifies for Level 2 and whose Level 2 marks are not in the bottom 10% receives at least an 'Honourable Mention' Digital Certificate.

h. A student who meets two or more of these criteria receives the higher award. All awards are delivered to the school or home address given at registration.

i. Every online participant receives a Digital Participation Certificate in their dashboard.

j. Check Olympiad Awards & Prizes in detail now.

1. My son is in class 2 and has just given the English Olympiad exam. How can I access his result?

To view results for CREST English Olympiad, follow the steps:

You have to first log in with your credentials on https://www.crestolympiads.com/login and then go to dashboard -> Performance -> Results -> Select CEO > Select CEO Level 1 & result page will show up.

2. What is English Olympiad?

English Olympiads are international competitive exams held in online mode for students from Nursery to Class 10. CREST English Olympiad (CEO) is the best international English Olympiad conducted by CREST Olympiads (World’s Most Innovative & Largest Online Olympiad Exam).

3. What is the exam fee for the class 2 English Olympiad?

For CREST English Olympiad (CEO), the exam fee is Rs. 275 for students studying and enrolling from India. For students studying and residing outside of India, the fee is $15 (US Dollars). The exam is conducted for students from Nursery to Class 10.

4. Is a calculator allowed in the English Olympiad examinations for class 2?

No, students are not allowed to use calculators during the examination.

5. Whom should I contact for queries related to English Olympiad exams for class 2?

For any query related to the English Olympiad exams for class 2, use the below details to get resolved.

CREST Olympiads contact number: +91-98182-94134
CREST Olympiads email: info@crestolympiads.com