English Olympiad for Class 6

It is high time for class 6 students to go internationally with the CREST English Olympiad Exams. This English test evaluates advanced language abilities, grammar mastery, creative expression, and many more.

CREST Olympiads organizes English Olympiad every year. Only the online English Olympiad exam is organized for grade 6. The exam aims to boost the confidence of students, along with making them more efficient in English language skills. Students get tested on vocabulary, grammar, spelling, etc.

a. Sign up through your school, or on your own if your school is not registered with CREST. Both routes lead to the same class 6 English Olympiad.

b. Boards and borders don't matter: the Class 6 paper is open to CBSE, ICSE, IB and State Board schools, and CREST draws entries from 60+ countries.

c. Nobody may sit with you, because this exam is a solo one, done at home in front of a running webcam. The FAQ lists what can get a student disqualified: someone sitting with you, your face not fully visible, someone else using your test, or a calculator, mobile or other device during the exam.

d. What you need: a laptop, desktop or tablet whose screen measures more than 11.5 inches, running Windows 8 or above, or a Mac or an iPad, plus a stable internet connection and the latest Google Chrome (Edge or Firefox also work; Safari doesn't). Phones are ruled out.

e. The Class 6 English Olympiad is a two-level exam. Get into the top 55.56% of Level 1 scores and you are in Level 2. If your school has more than 25 students in Class 6 and you registered through it, finishing among its top 3 also earns a place.

1. Reading real formats. Class 6 reading questions use brochures, itineraries, diary entries, posters and formal and informal letters. Knowing how each one is built helps with school composition too.

2. Agreeing, refusing and apologising politely. The Spoken and Written Expressions topic for Class 6 covers agreement and disagreement, requests, refusals and apologies, all of it English you use every day.

3. Thinking beyond recall. One Class 6 review says the exams engaged higher order thinking skills and ran on a systematic schedule, and mentions an International Rank won in English.

4. A good first online exam. Another Class 6 testimonial comes from someone sitting an online Olympiad for the first time, who felt their problem-solving and analytical thinking improve and wanted to aim higher.

International English Olympiad registration for class 6 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 6 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 6 changes the reading material more than the grammar. Compared with Class 5, Information Retrieval now works with brochures, formal and informal letters, itineraries, short narratives, diary entries and poster making. What Class 5 called Active-Passive Voice and Reported Speech now goes by Voices and Narration, Jumbled Words comes back, and Spoken and Written Expressions returns as a topic of its own. Homonyms and Homophones drop out this year.

Twenty topics fill Section 1 of the class 6 English Olympiad syllabus, and here they are: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Articles, Prepositions, Punctuation, Jumbled Words, Conjunctions, Tenses, Voices, Narration, Spellings, Collocations, Phrasal Verbs, Idioms, Words (Related to Everyday Problems, Relationships, Health and Medicine, Travel etc.), Information Retrieval from Various Text and Image (Brochures, Formal and Informal letters, Itinerary, Short Narratives, Time-tables, News Stories, Diary Entry, Poster Making, Messages etc.), Spoken and Written Expressions (Agreement and Disagreement, Requests, Refusals, Apologies, etc.).

Nothing new is added for the Achievers Section; its ten Higher Order Thinking Questions test the same twenty topics with more thinking involved.

You have 60 minutes for 50 questions worth 60 marks, split into 40 questions of 1 mark and 10 Achievers questions of 2 marks. Level 2 is the same, and wrong answers are not penalised.

The exam dates for CREST English Olympiad (CEO) for Class 6 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.

Give yourself about eight weeks. Plan four or five sessions a week of 40 minutes each, and keep one day for revision.

Begin with reading formats, since Class 6 leans on them. Collect a travel brochure, a train itinerary and a notice from school, and practise pulling facts out of each in under two minutes. Write one formal and one informal letter on the same topic and compare them. Keep a diary for a week. For grammar, convert five sentences a day between active and passive voice and between direct and indirect narration. Learn phrasal verbs and idioms in small groups by theme, for example health or travel.

With the formats practised, attempt the class 6 English Olympiad sample papers, and after them last year's paper. Note every wrong answer by topic, and settle spelling doubts in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, which CREST uses as its reference.

On timing, you have 72 seconds for each of the 50 questions in the hour. Practise full papers in one sitting, and take the free trial test alone, as you will on the day.

One CREST English Olympiad rank holder, International Rank 2 in Class 6, learned each topic properly when school covered it, did all the practice questions, rested one unit of time for every three spent studying, and did not cram. The same rank holder has a published collection of short stories, written before fifth grade (both facts are on the Hall of Fame profile). For practice questions, use the CREST English workbook, and the official preparation partner, Olympiad Success, runs an Olympiad trainer site with extra material.

English Olympiad cut-off & ranking for class 6 is published in order to establish a minimal grading standard for determining who will pass & fail. On the website, students can check everything they need to know about the cutoff criteria for awards & the level 2 exam.

The answer key helps students to predict their scores before the declaration of the actual results. These answer key dates are made public & can be checked on the Olympiad exam dates page. Answer keys are declared for both levels. English Olympiad answer keys for class 6 can be checked on the CREST Olympiad website by logging in.

CREST releases the Level 1 results of the English Olympiad for Class 6 within 10 days of the last Level 1 answer key date, and the Level 2 results within a month of the last Level 2 answer key date. Log in to your account with your registered details to view them.

Your Level 1 result shows whether you cleared the cut-off for Level 2. CREST runs the exam over different days and sessions with different question papers, so final ranks are normalised across papers.

Awards are based on Level 2. Gold medals go to the 96th percentile and above and to zonal ranks of 10 or less, silver to the 93-96 band and bronze to 90-93. The top 3 in the world receive Achiever's Trophies, and the top 25% a Merit Certificate. Nobody leaves without a certificate: a digital one for participation is on every dashboard.

Once results are out, rank holders and cut-offs are listed on the Awards and Cut-off and Ranking Criteria pages. Class 6 is also a good year to start tracking your own progress: next year, compare your score with this one rather than only chasing a medal.

a. Awards for the Class 6 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. Is the syllabus of class 6 English Olympiad the same as the school syllabus?

The questions asked in the English Olympiad exams are mostly based on the school curriculum. The questions are generally framed from the curriculum of educational boards namely CBSE, ICSE and other State boards respectively.

2. How can I participate individually in the class 6 English Olympiad examination?

Students can participate in the examination through schools as well as individually. Students willing to participate individually in CREST English Olympiad (CEO) can register here.

3. How can I pay the registration fee for the class 6 English Olympiad exam?

Below are the ways through which candidates can make payment for CREST English Olympiad registration -

a. Credit/Debit card
b. UPI
c. NEFT

For more details, please write to us at info@crestolympiads.com

4. Do you provide preparation material for class 6 Olympiad of English exams?

For English Olympiad preparation, students can purchase the CREST English Olympiad Workbook designed by top-notch course providers. Students can go for online study material as well.

5. Whom should I contact for queries related to English Olympiad exams for class 6?

For any query related to the English Olympiad exams for class 6, use the below details to get resolved.

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