IMO 2025 Exam - Dates, Eligibility, Application, Admit Card, Result

There are no specific eligibility criteria for the IMO exam 2025-26.

• Students studying in Class 1 to 12 are eligible to apply for the SOF IMO 2025-26 exam. 
• Level 1 Exam will be held for Class 1 to 12 students.
• Level 2 exams will be held for students from classes 3^rd to 12^th for SOF IMO.

There will be only one mode to apply for the IMO exam 2025-26 i.e. Offline. Interested students should contact their respective schools. The registration forms will be sent to the school authorities. 

• Students must pay an application fee of Rs. 125 per student along with the application form. 
• In the case of international students, US$9 is applicable per student. It must be remembered that no student can apply for the IMO 2025-26 registration independently.
• SOF will not accept any application form directly from students. Students should contact their respective schools for their registration.

• The test duration for level 1 is 60 minutes.
• There will be a total of 35 objective-type questions (MCQs) for class 1 to class 4 and 50 objective-type questions (MCQs) for class 5 to class 12.
• The medium of the SOF IMO exam 2025-26 is English.
• There are separate SOF IMO 2025-26 question papers for each class.

IMO exam 2025-26 consists of four sections-

• Logical Reasoning
• Mathematical Reasoning
• Everyday Mathematics
• Achievers Section

Science Olympiad Foundation releases IMO sample papers for students to make them aware of important aspects like marking scheme, type of questions asked, important topics, etc. Solving IMO 2025-26 sample papers also helps in learning time management skills. The International Maths Olympiad sample papers are created based on the recent exam pattern of the question papers. Students can check their preparation level by solving the IMO 2025-26 sample papers.

After the release of the IMO level 1 admit card, students can collect it from their respective school authorities. The admit card for the level II exams is expected to be released in February 2026. Students will be able to download the same by visiting the official website of SOF.

Science Olympiad Foundation IMO level 1 and level 2 answer keys will be released a few days after the exam. The IMO answer keys 2025-26 will contain the correct answers to each question asked in the IMO exam 2025-26. Students can calculate their estimated scores with the help of the IMO answer key. 

• The Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF) will release the IMO result 2025-26 for level 1 in January 2026.
• Whereas, the IMO 2025-26 level 2 result are expected to be released in March 2026. 
• Students can access the results for IMO online from the official website at sofworld.org.
• SOF will send the IMO 2025-26 result and Student Performance Report (SPR) to school authorities.

SOF releases the IMO cutoff 2025-26 on the official website for the level 1 exam. The cutoff marks for the previous years are tabulated below:

IMO Cutoff 2023-24

IMO Cutoff 2022-23

IMO Cutoff 2019-20