ITSE Class 5 syllabus

The ITSE Class 5 syllabus for 2026-27, subject by subject: 274 topics to work through. On SkillStar, Class 5 children also get 6 mock tests marked instantly and sample papers to download.

Class
Class 5 (Grade 5)
Syllabus years
2026-27
Topics
274
Mock tests
6
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188

ITSE Class 5 syllabus 2026-27

General Awareness

  • National and international news: Recognise important recent events in India and other countries using suitable child-friendly reports. Discuss simple examples of government announcements or public initiatives. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Sports events and achievements: Identify major sports, competitions and well-known sporting achievements. Relate a player or team to the sport they play. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Awards and honours: Recognise important national and international awards, including the Bharat Ratna, Nobel Prizes and Oscars. Learn what an award honours using suitable examples. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Recent science and technology: Discuss simple examples of discoveries, inventions and useful new technology from reliable reports. Explain how an innovation can affect everyday life. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Economic news: Recognise that prices, jobs and government economic decisions can appear in the news. Begin with simple examples before introducing terms such as inflation or GDP. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Ancient civilisations: Locate and recognise the Indus Valley, Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilisations. Use simple stories and pictures to compare where and how people lived. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Indian dynasties and empires: Recognise the names and broad historical place of the Maurya, Gupta, Chola and Mughal dynasties. Connect each with suitable landmarks or achievements. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • India's freedom movement: Learn about colonial rule and the independence movement through suitable stories. Recognise the Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience and Quit India movements and associated leaders. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • World history and historical figures: Recognise broad ideas behind the Industrial Revolution, World Wars and Cold War using age-appropriate explanations. Connect important historical personalities with their contributions. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Landforms and climate: Identify mountains, plateaus, rivers and oceans on pictures or simple maps. Compare broad climate zones and the weather conditions associated with them. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • People, resources and occupations: Discuss where people live and the resources and work found in different regions. Introduce population distribution through simple comparisons. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Continents and countries: Identify continents and familiar countries on a map or globe. Recognise some major physical features and broad climate differences. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • India's physical geography: Identify the Himalayas, plateaus, coastal plains and major rivers, lakes and forests of India using a simple map. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • States and Union Territories: Recognise India's states and Union Territories and match selected ones with capitals, cultural features and landmarks using current reference material. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • The Constitution and citizenship: Understand the Constitution as a set of basic rules for the country. Introduce rights, duties and guiding principles using familiar child-level examples. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • National government and Parliament: Recognise the roles of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha, the President, Prime Minister and Council of Ministers. Use simple examples of public decision-making. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Courts and justice: Recognise the Supreme Court, High Courts and other courts as parts of the justice system. Discuss fairness and settling disagreements through suitable examples. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • State and local government: Recognise state governments, Panchayats and municipalities. Connect their work with familiar services in villages, towns and cities. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Constitutional changes and public schemes: Understand in simple terms that constitutional rules can be amended. Recognise examples of public schemes and government initiatives using current reliable sources. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Basic economic terms: Introduce production, spending and economic change through everyday examples. Gradually connect these ideas with GDP, inflation, deflation, recession and different economic systems. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Economic reforms: Recognise liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation as changes in how an economy works. Begin with simple comparisons involving businesses and trade. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Agriculture, industry and services: Sort familiar jobs and products into agriculture, industry and services. Recognise that government initiatives can support each sector. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Budgets and development planning: Understand a budget as a plan for earning and spending money. Connect a simple home or class budget with the broader idea of a government budget and development plan. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Force, motion and energy: Recognise pushes, pulls, movement and simple energy uses in everyday activities. Introduce work and power through suitable concrete examples. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Electricity and magnets: Recognise familiar uses of electricity and magnets. Discuss basic effects and safe everyday applications without handling live electrical equipment. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Light and simple optics: Recognise reflection, refraction and lenses through mirrors, water and safe optical examples. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Matter and chemical changes: Identify familiar materials as forms of matter and compare simple properties. Introduce elements, compounds, mixtures and chemical reactions through suitable examples. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Human body, health and disease: Recognise major body parts and simple functions. Connect healthy habits with preventing common illnesses and understanding why we sometimes need medical help. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Plants and animals in nature: Recognise broad groups of plants and animals using familiar examples. Compare their basic features and needs. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Ecosystems and conservation: Describe simple relationships between living things and their surroundings. Discuss biodiversity, pollution, conservation and using resources carefully. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Indian and international literature: Recognise selected classic and contemporary books and their authors. Use suitable Indian and international examples for the child's reading level. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Life stories and biographies: Distinguish a biography from an autobiography through simple examples. Connect a known person's life story with their contribution. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Books and literary awards: Recognise that some books receive major literary awards or become widely read. Use age-suitable examples from current reliable references. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Monuments and cultural traditions: Recognise important monuments, historical places, festivals, dances and traditions. Connect each with its region or cultural setting. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Inventions and discoveries: Match familiar inventions or discoveries with the people associated with them. Discuss how they changed everyday life. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Important days and historical events: Recognise significant national and international observances and selected historical dates. Explain what an observance commemorates using simple examples. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • International organisations and agreements: Recognise the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank and their broad purposes. Introduce treaties as agreements between countries through suitable examples. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • Reading and revising general awareness: Use suitable news, reference books and NCERT material with adult support. Keep simple notes, try short quizzes and revisit changing current-affairs information regularly. Use explanations and practice suitable for Class 5.
  • The Solar System: Past-paper revision: Identify the Sun and its planets, compare basic planetary features and recognise Jupiter as the largest planet.

English

  • Interjections: Choose words such as wow, ouch, oh and hurrah to express a feeling. Punctuate them appropriately in a sentence. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Coordinating conjunctions: Join equal words, phrases or clauses using conjunctions such as and, but, or and so. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Subordinating conjunctions: Use because, although, if and when to connect a dependent clause with a main clause. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Common and proper nouns: Distinguish general names from particular names. Use capital letters for proper nouns. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Collective nouns: Recognise and use words that name groups of people, animals or things. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Abstract nouns: Identify nouns for ideas, qualities and feelings rather than physical objects. Use them meaningfully in sentences. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Countable and uncountable nouns: Distinguish nouns that can be counted individually from mass nouns. Choose appropriate forms in sentences. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Possessive nouns: Use an apostrophe to show ownership with singular and plural nouns. Distinguish possession from an ordinary plural. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Gender of nouns: Distinguish masculine, feminine, neuter and common-gender nouns using accurate, familiar examples. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Personal pronouns: Choose appropriate subject and object pronouns such as I/me, he/him and they/them in sentences. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Possessive words: Use possessive forms to show ownership. Distinguish words placed before nouns, such as my, from forms used alone, such as mine. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Demonstratives: Use this, that, these and those correctly according to number and distance in context. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Question words: Choose suitable question words in context. Distinguish pronoun uses of who or what from words asking about place, time or manner. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Action verbs: Identify action words and use an appropriate verb to describe what a person or thing does. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Forms of be: Use is, am, are, was and were correctly to describe a subject or its state. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Helping verbs: Recognise auxiliary verbs such as have, has, had, will and shall and use them with a main verb. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Simple present tense: Use the simple present to describe habits, regular events and general facts. Form suitable positive, negative and question sentences. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Simple past tense: Use the simple past to describe completed actions. Choose suitable regular or irregular past forms. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Simple future tense: Use appropriate future forms to describe actions that will happen later. Construct clear statements, negatives and questions. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Present continuous tense: Use am, is or are with the ing form to describe an action in progress now or around the present. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Past continuous tense: Use was or were with the ing form to describe an action in progress at a past time. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Subject–verb agreement: Choose a verb that agrees with its subject in number and person. Find and correct common agreement mistakes. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Irregular verb forms: Recognise and use familiar verbs whose past forms do not follow the regular ed pattern. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Adjectives of quality, quantity and number: Choose adjectives that describe a quality, an amount or a number. Identify what each adjective tells us about its noun. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Demonstrative adjectives: Use this, that, these and those before nouns to identify the intended person or thing. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Degrees of comparison: Use positive, comparative and superlative adjective forms appropriately. Compare two or more nouns without mixing the forms. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Order of adjectives: Arrange multiple adjectives in a natural sequence before a noun, using suitable size, colour, shape and material examples. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Definite and indefinite articles: Choose a, an or the according to sound, meaning and whether the reference is specific. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Omitting articles: Recognise contexts in which an article is not required and avoid adding an unnecessary article. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Adverbs of manner: Use adverbs such as quickly or slowly to describe how an action happens. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Adverbs of time: Use suitable adverbs to tell when an action happens and distinguish them from other time expressions. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Adverbs of place: Use suitable adverbs to tell where an action happens. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Adverbs of frequency: Use always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely and never to express how often an action happens. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Adverbs of degree: Use suitable adverbs to show the strength or extent of a quality or action. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Forming adverbs: Form suitable adverbs from adjectives, including common ly patterns, and recognise important exceptions. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Comparing adverbs: Use positive, comparative and superlative adverb forms to compare how actions happen. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Kinds of sentences: Recognise and form statements, questions, commands and exclamations. Match punctuation to the sentence's purpose. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Sentence structure: Build complete sentences with a clear subject, verb and appropriate object or complement. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Compound sentences: Join suitable independent clauses using an appropriate coordinating conjunction. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Prepositions of place: Use in, on, at, beside, between, over, under and other suitable forms to describe location. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Prepositions of time: Choose suitable prepositions such as before, after, during, until, in, on or at for time references. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Prepositions of direction: Use to, from, into, out of and related forms to describe a path or direction. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Prepositional phrases: Recognise a preposition and its complement and use the resulting phrase accurately in a sentence. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • End punctuation: Use full stops, question marks and exclamation marks according to a sentence's purpose. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Commas: Use commas accurately in suitable lists, dates, adjective sequences, introductory expressions and clause combinations for this class. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Quotation marks: Punctuate direct speech and short quotations with appropriate quotation marks. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Apostrophes: Use apostrophes in contractions and to show possession. Avoid confusing either use with ordinary plural endings. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Capital letters: Use capitals for sentence beginnings, proper nouns and the pronoun I, with other conventions appropriate to the class. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Synonyms and antonyms: Choose words with similar or opposite meanings while preserving the intended meaning in context. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Homophones: Distinguish words that sound alike but differ in spelling or meaning and select the correct word in context. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Prefixes and suffixes: Use familiar prefixes such as un, re and pre and suffixes such as ful, less and ly to form words and interpret their meanings. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Reading comprehension: Read a suitable story or passage and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions using evidence from the text. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Inference and context clues: Use details in a passage to infer an unstated idea and work out an unfamiliar word's meaning. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Writing complete sentences: Write clear and varied sentences from prompts while maintaining correct word order and meaning. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Paragraph writing: Organise a paragraph around one main idea with connected supporting details. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Story writing: Create or complete a simple story with a clear beginning, middle and end. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Descriptive writing: Describe a person, place, object, setting or event with relevant and precise details. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Diary entries: Write a suitable personal diary entry using an appropriate voice and format. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Friendly letters: Write a simple friendly letter with suitable greeting, message and closing. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Correlative conjunctions: Use paired conjunctions such as either/or, neither/nor and both/and with balanced sentence structures. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Relative pronouns: Use who, whom, whose, which and that to connect a relative clause to the noun it describes. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Position of adverbs: Place an adverb appropriately within a sentence without changing the intended meaning. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Complex sentences: Combine a main clause with an appropriate dependent clause to express relationships clearly. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Narrative writing: Describe a sequence of events coherently, using suitable time links and a consistent point of view. Practise using examples suitable for Class 5.
  • Parts of speech: Past-paper revision: Use the traditional eight word classes to describe how a word functions in a simple sentence.
  • Gerunds: Past-paper revision: Recognise an -ing form used as a noun and distinguish it from a simple finite verb or a present participle in context.

Mathematics

  • Representing solid objects: Draw a solid object on paper and relate pictures to its different views. Develop suitable ideas of perspective, plan, elevation and side view. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Recognising and drawing angles: Identify right, acute and obtuse angles in objects or drawings. Represent them by drawing, tracing or paper folding. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Rotations and symmetry of shapes: Explore rotations and reflections of plane shapes and symmetry in familiar solid objects. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Nets of solids: Match suitable nets with their solids and build models of cubes, cuboids, cylinders, cones or other specified solids. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Large numbers and place value: Read, write, compare and order numbers beyond one thousand. Use place value in arithmetic and practical number situations. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Arithmetic word problems: Choose and apply the four operations to suitable everyday situations. Frame a related word problem and explain the result. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Written and informal division: Divide using suitable grouping, repeated subtraction, multiplication facts and written algorithms. Explain how the chosen method works. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Brackets in arithmetic: Evaluate suitable expressions containing brackets and multiplication while keeping the intended order of operations. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Factors and multiples: Find factors and multiples of suitable whole numbers and explain the relationship between the two. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Estimating and checking calculations: Estimate sums, differences, products or quotients using suitable rounding or approximation and compare the estimate with an exact result. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Fractions of collections and comparison: Find a fractional part of a collection and compare fractions using appropriate common representations or benchmarks. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Equivalent fractions: Recognise different fractions that name the same amount and relate suitable whole-number forms such as 5/5 to one. Use equal-sized parts or suitable diagrams to check equivalence.
  • Fractions and decimal notation: Express suitable fractions as decimals and decimals as fractions. Use decimal fractions in money or measurement contexts. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Money, prices and unit cost: Use arithmetic with money to find totals, change, repeated costs or a unit cost. Estimate the cost before calculating. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Areas of squares and rectangles: Find the area and perimeter of squares and rectangles and connect the formulae with equal unit squares. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Converting measurement units: Relate commonly used larger and smaller units of length, weight and capacity. Convert quantities, including suitable fractional quantities, before calculating. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Understanding volume: Explain volume as the space occupied by a solid and estimate or measure it using suitable informal or unit-cube methods. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Time intervals: Use addition and subtraction to find simple elapsed-time intervals. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Square and triangular number patterns: Explore square and triangular numbers and the odd-number gaps between consecutive squares. Create associated tiling or border patterns. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Tables, pictographs and bar graphs: Collect two-dimensional quantitative data, organise it in a table and present or interpret it with a suitable pictograph or bar graph. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Adding and subtracting decimals: Align place values when adding or subtracting decimals and check the size of the result. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Multiplying decimals: Multiply decimal numbers using place value and explain where the decimal point belongs. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Dividing decimals: Divide decimal numbers using equivalent calculations and place-value reasoning. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Roman numerals: Read and write suitable Roman numerals using I, V, X, L, C, D and M and the additive and subtractive conventions. Use the number ranges and difficulty appropriate to Class 5.
  • Perimeters of squares: Past-paper revision: Calculate the boundary length of a square from its side length and distinguish perimeter from area.
  • Adding fractions: Past-paper revision: Add simple fractions by expressing them with a common denominator and simplify the result.
  • Multiplying fractions by whole numbers: Past-paper revision: Find a fractional part of a whole number and relate the calculation to repeated addition or equal groups.
  • Cube number patterns: Past-paper revision: Recognise a sequence of cubes and generate the next cube by multiplying a whole number by itself three times.
  • Letter and number patterns: Past-paper revision: Track a simple change in letters, numbers or letter pairs and use the rule to complete a sequence.
  • Lowest common multiple: Past-paper revision: List multiples of small whole numbers and find the first multiple they have in common.
  • Parts of a circle: Past-paper revision: Recognise a circle's centre, radius, diameter, chord and arc and distinguish their roles.

Hindi

  • स्वर और व्यंजन: Recognise, pronounce and write Hindi vowels and consonants and classify familiar letters correctly. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • उच्चारण और वर्ण वर्गीकरण: Classify Hindi sounds and letters and practise accurate pronunciation. Recognise the role of semi-vowel sounds and conjunct letters where included for the class. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • वर्तमान काल: Recognise and use appropriate Hindi verb forms for present actions or states in meaningful sentences. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • भूतकाल: Recognise and use appropriate Hindi verb forms to describe actions or states in the past. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • भविष्यत काल: Recognise and use appropriate Hindi verb forms to describe future actions or states. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • काल के रूप और प्रयोग: Compare suitable tense forms and keep time references consistent across a Hindi sentence or passage. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • व्यक्तिवाचक और जातिवाचक संज्ञा: Distinguish a particular person's, place's or thing's name from the general name of a class. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • भाववाचक संज्ञा: Identify Hindi nouns that name a feeling, quality or state and use them in meaningful sentences. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • पुरुषवाचक सर्वनाम: Use suitable personal pronouns such as मैं, हम, तुम, आप and वह in place of nouns. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • निश्चयवाचक सर्वनाम: Use suitable definite pronouns to point to an identified person or thing in context. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • अनिश्चयवाचक सर्वनाम: Choose suitable indefinite pronouns when the person or thing is not specifically identified. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • प्रश्नवाचक सर्वनाम: Use appropriate Hindi interrogative pronouns to ask about an unknown person or thing. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • संबंधवाचक सर्वनाम: Use words such as जो and जिसका to connect a pronoun with the related person or thing in a sentence. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • गुणवाचक विशेषण: Identify adjectives that describe a quality and choose one that fits the noun and intended meaning. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • संख्यावाचक विशेषण: Use Hindi adjectives that express a definite or indefinite number in an appropriate noun phrase. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • परिमाणवाचक विशेषण: Choose adjectives such as थोड़ा, अधिक or पूरा to describe an amount appropriately. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • विशेषण का सही प्रयोग: Use the appropriate form and position of a Hindi adjective and explain its relationship with the word it describes. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • सकर्मक और अकर्मक क्रिया: Distinguish a Hindi verb used with an object from one that does not need an object in the given context. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • पुल्लिंग और स्त्रीलिंग: Identify masculine and feminine Hindi nouns and use or change familiar forms accurately in sentences. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • एकवचन और बहुवचन: Recognise singular and plural Hindi nouns and change suitable forms while keeping the sentence consistent. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • विलोम शब्द: Choose a suitable Hindi word with the opposite meaning and use the pair accurately in context. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • पर्यायवाची शब्द: Recognise Hindi words with similar meanings and select a synonym that fits the intended context. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • अनेकार्थी शब्द: Use context to distinguish multiple meanings of a Hindi word such as आम and explain the intended meaning. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • सरल वाक्य रचना: Arrange Hindi words into a meaningful simple sentence with suitable subject, object and verb order. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • संयुक्त वाक्य: Join suitable independent Hindi clauses to form a meaningful compound sentence. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • मिश्र वाक्य: Form a Hindi sentence containing a main clause and a suitable subordinate clause. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • अनुच्छेद लेखन: Write a short Hindi paragraph with a clear main idea, relevant details and connected sentences. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • कर्ता कारक: Identify the doer of an action and use suitable forms or markers in context. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • कर्म कारक: Identify the object affected by an action and choose a suitable Hindi construction. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • करण कारक: Recognise a tool or means used for an action and explain the relevant use of से or द्वारा. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • सम्प्रदान कारक: Identify the recipient or beneficiary and use suitable forms such as को or के लिए. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • अपादान कारक: Recognise separation, origin or a point of departure and distinguish this meaning of से from an instrument. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • संबंध कारक: Use का, के or की appropriately to express a relationship or possession in a noun phrase. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • अधिकरण कारक: Recognise the location or setting of an action and use suitable forms such as में or पर. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • स्वर संधि: Recognise an appropriate change at a vowel boundary and join or separate suitable Hindi or Sanskrit-derived examples accurately. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • व्यंजन संधि: Identify suitable consonant changes when words or sounds meet and carry out an accurate sandhi split. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • अनुस्वार और अनुनासिक: Distinguish the sound and written use of anusvara and nasalisation in familiar Hindi words. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • द्वंद्व समास: Recognise a compound whose members are coordinated and explain it through an appropriate vigraha. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • तत्पुरुष समास: Identify a suitable tatpurush compound and explain the relationship between its members through vigraha. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • द्विगु समास: Recognise a compound beginning with a number and explain its appropriate collective or descriptive meaning. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • अव्ययीभाव समास: Identify an indeclinable compound and explain its meaning and formation through suitable examples. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • उपसर्ग: Identify suitable Hindi and Sanskrit-derived prefixes and explain how adding a prefix changes a word's meaning. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • प्रत्यय: Identify suitable Hindi and Sanskrit-derived suffixes and use them to form meaningful derived words. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • मुहावरों का अर्थ और प्रयोग: Explain the contextual meaning of a familiar Hindi idiom and use it naturally in a suitable sentence. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • शब्द विचार: Identify a word's form, meaning and suitable grammatical use in a Hindi sentence. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • वाक्य विचार: Identify a sentence's main parts and check whether its word order and grammatical relationships express the intended meaning. Practise with Hindi examples suitable for Class 5.
  • द्रव्यवाचक संज्ञा: पूर्व प्रश्नपत्र का पुनरावर्तन: चावल, पानी और सोना जैसे पदार्थों के नाम पहचानें। इन्हें अन्य संज्ञा भेदों से अलग करते हुए वाक्य में प्रयोग करें।
  • समूहवाचक संज्ञा: पूर्व प्रश्नपत्र का पुनरावर्तन: झुंड और समूह जैसे शब्द पहचानें जो कई व्यक्तियों या वस्तुओं के एक समुदाय को बताते हैं।
  • प्रविशेषण: पूर्व प्रश्नपत्र का पुनरावर्तन: बहुत जैसे शब्दों का प्रयोग पहचानें जो किसी विशेषण की मात्रा या तीव्रता बताते हैं। विशेषण और प्रविशेषण में अंतर करें।
  • विशेषण की अवस्थाएँ: पूर्व प्रश्नपत्र का पुनरावर्तन: गुणों की तुलना करने वाले सामान्य, तुलनात्मक और सर्वोच्च रूप पहचानें। सुंदर, सुंदरतर और सुंदरतम जैसे सरल उदाहरणों का अभ्यास करें।
  • क्रिया-विशेषण: पूर्व प्रश्नपत्र का पुनरावर्तन: क्रिया के समय, रीति या आवृत्ति को बताने वाले शब्द पहचानें। रोज और बहुधा जैसे शब्दों का वाक्यों में प्रयोग समझें।
  • तत्सम और तद्भव शब्द: पूर्व प्रश्नपत्र का पुनरावर्तन: संस्कृत से यथावत आए शब्दों और बदले हुए रूपों में अंतर पहचानें। गृह और घर जैसे परिचित युग्मों का अभ्यास करें।

Computer

  • Computer functions and uses: Explain a computer's input, processing, output and storage functions and recognise useful applications in everyday fields. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Personal computers and smart devices: Compare suitable examples of desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones and other smart or embedded devices. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Classification of computers: Compare personal computers, workstations, servers, mainframes and supercomputers by purpose or scale, including other categories specified for the class. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • CPU and motherboard: Explain the roles of the processor and motherboard and how they connect with other components in a computer system. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Computer memory: Explain the purpose of working memory and distinguish suitable RAM and ROM concepts at the depth required for the class. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Main computer parts: Identify the monitor, keyboard, mouse, processor unit, speakers and suitable peripherals and explain their basic functions. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Hardware and software: Distinguish physical equipment from software and compare system software with application software using suitable examples. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Desktop, icons and taskbar: Open, close and switch between suitable applications using the desktop, taskbar or start menu. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Customising a desktop: Change suitable desktop appearance settings such as wallpaper or screensaver while keeping files and applications organised. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Creating and organising files: Create, save, open, rename and organise suitable files and folders and understand basic file extensions or formats. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Lists and indentation: Use bullets, numbering and indentation to organise information in a document. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Images and tables in documents: Insert and format suitable pictures, tables, charts or hyperlinks in a word-processing document. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Page layout and document structure: Use suitable margins, orientation, page size, headers, footers, columns, sections or page breaks to organise a document. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Reviewing and collaborating on documents: Use suitable spelling or grammar checks, comments, tracked changes or sharing tools to review a document responsibly. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Saving, exporting and printing documents: Save with a clear filename, choose a suitable format such as DOCX or PDF and review or print an appropriate document. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Drawing and editing pictures: Use suitable drawing tools, shapes, brushes, colours and text to create or edit a simple digital picture. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Creating presentation slides: Create an organised presentation with suitable layouts, text, images and consistent design. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Internet and web browsers: Explain the basic purpose of the internet and use a browser or URL to visit an appropriate website. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Computer networks: Compare suitable LAN, WAN, MAN or PAN examples and explain how connected devices share information or resources. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Searching and evaluating web sources: Choose useful search keywords or appropriate advanced techniques and evaluate the credibility of the information found. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Using email: Recognise an email address and compose, read, reply to and organise appropriate sample messages with suitable etiquette. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Attachments, CC and BCC: Attach a suitable file, distinguish CC from BCC and organise messages or folders appropriately. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Elements of multimedia: Identify text, graphics, audio, video and animation and explain how they can work together in an educational or entertainment product. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Creating a multimedia project: Combine appropriate text, pictures, audio, video or animation in a coherent presentation, short film or digital story. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Spreadsheet cells and data: Identify cells, rows, columns and worksheets and enter or format suitable data. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Spreadsheet formulae and basic functions: Create appropriate arithmetic formulae and use suitable functions such as SUM, AVERAGE or COUNT to calculate from cell data. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Spreadsheet charts: Choose, create and customise a suitable chart to present worksheet data accurately. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Coding as a sequence of instructions: Explain how ordered instructions produce a result and create a simple sequence or animation with suitable visual blocks. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Block-based programming: Use suitable control, motion and event blocks in Scratch, Blockly or a similar environment to build an interactive animation or game. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Protecting personal information: Recognise private information and avoid sharing it with inappropriate people or services. Ask a trusted adult when an online situation is unclear. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Recognising online threats: Recognise suitable malware, phishing, scams or other online threats and choose sensible defensive actions. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Digital citizenship and intellectual property: Respect other people's work, copyright and licences and avoid plagiarism. Use and share digital resources responsibly. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Integrated computer projects: Combine appropriate skills in a practical project such as a newsletter, presentation, website, game or database application and share tasks responsibly with a group. Use activities and depth appropriate to Class 5.
  • Evolution of computers: Past-paper revision: Recognise broad computer generations and relate the microprocessor to the fourth generation.
  • Utility software: Past-paper revision: Explain how utility programs support system maintenance through tasks such as managing storage or checking files.
  • Programming variables and data types: Past-paper revision: Use a variable to store a value and distinguish simple text, number and true-or-false data types.
  • Selection in programs: Past-paper revision: Use a condition to choose between two paths in a simple program and distinguish selection from repetition.
  • Finding logical errors: Past-paper revision: Trace a short sequence of instructions and find a mistake that produces an incorrect result.
  • Transitions and animations: Past-paper revision: Distinguish a change between slides from an effect on an individual object and set simple timing.
  • Presentation themes: Past-paper revision: Apply a prepared design to a slide deck and distinguish a theme or template from an individual slide layout.
  • Virtual meetings: Past-paper revision: Identify the basic purpose and equipment of an online audio or video call and practise appropriate participation.

Science

  • Plant parts and functions: Identify roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds and explain suitable functions such as absorbing water or making food. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Photosynthesis: Explain how green plants make food using light and recognise the process's importance and suitable factors affecting it. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Types of plants: Identify trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers and creepers by suitable features and classify familiar plants. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Seeds and reproduction in plants: Explain suitable seed formation, dispersal, germination and growth stages and compare sexual or asexual plant reproduction when specified. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Animal habitats and adaptations: Relate terrestrial, aquatic, aerial or arboreal habitats to suitable animal features and behaviour, including camouflage or migration when specified. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Animal life cycles: Describe suitable growth stages such as those of a butterfly or frog and relate a life cycle to reproduction. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • States and properties of matter: Compare solids, liquids and gases using suitable properties and recognise familiar natural or manufactured materials. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Changes of state: Explain suitable melting, freezing, evaporation or condensation examples and recognise conditions affecting a change. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Properties and uses of materials: Compare suitable strength, flexibility, transparency or conductivity properties and choose an appropriate material for a use. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Forces and their effects: Use pushes and pulls to explain changes in movement or shape and recognise suitable gravitational, frictional or magnetic effects. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Work and mechanical energy: Explain work in suitable situations and compare kinetic and potential energy or other appropriate energy forms. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Forms of energy: Compare suitable light, heat, sound, electrical, kinetic and potential energy examples and recognise simple conversions. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Simple machines: Explain how suitable levers, pulleys, wheels and axles, inclined planes, wedges or screws make a task easier. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Human digestion: Identify suitable digestive organs and describe how food is broken down and nutrients are absorbed. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Breathing and respiration: Identify suitable respiratory organs and distinguish moving air in and out from releasing energy in cells at the class's level. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Human circulation: Explain suitable functions of the heart, blood and blood vessels and trace a simple circulation pathway. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • The nervous system: Explain how the brain, spinal cord and nerves help the body receive information and coordinate responses at the class's level. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Hygiene and healthy routines: Explain why washing hands, brushing teeth, exercising and sleeping well support health and practise suitable routines. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Common diseases and prevention: Distinguish suitable causes of common diseases and explain the broad preventive roles of hygiene and vaccination without replacing medical care. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Food sources and ingredients: Identify plant and animal sources of familiar foods and connect food items with their ingredients or edible plant parts. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Nutrients in food: Recognise carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water and explain their suitable roles. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Balanced diet and healthy habits: Describe a varied balanced diet and connect suitable food, exercise, hygiene and sleep habits with good health. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Food preservation: Explain suitable drying, cooling, freezing, canning or other preservation methods and how they reduce spoilage. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Layers of the Earth: Identify the crust, mantle and core and compare their basic positions or characteristics. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Rocks and minerals: Compare igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and explain suitable mineral uses. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Renewable and non-renewable resources: Classify suitable air, water, soil, mineral and fossil-fuel resources and explain why responsible use is still needed. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Conserving resources: Apply reduce, reuse and recycle ideas and explain how individual or community choices affect resources and the environment. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • The water cycle: Describe evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection and explain how the cycle supports life. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Weather and seasons: Recognise weather conditions and seasonal changes and explain their effects on activities, clothes, foods or living things. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Weather, climate and adaptation: Distinguish daily weather from longer-term climate and relate animal adaptations to climatic conditions. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • The Solar System: Identify suitable planets, moons, asteroids, comets and the Sun and compare their basic characteristics. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Moon phases: Explain the observed sequence of Moon phases, including new moon, full moon, waxing and waning. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Stars and constellations: Recognise suitable star or constellation patterns and distinguish them from Solar System objects. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Earth's movements, day and night: Relate Earth's rotation to day and night and introduce suitable time-zone or revolution-and-season ideas when specified. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Composition and uses of air: Identify major components of air and explain suitable roles in respiration, combustion or plant life. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Air and its properties: Use suitable observations to show that air occupies space, can move and exerts pressure. Explain why living things need air. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • States and changes of water: Recognise ice, liquid water and water vapour and explain suitable melting, freezing, evaporation, boiling or condensation examples. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Clean water and pollution: Explain why drinking water should be safe and identify causes, effects or prevention of water pollution at the class's level. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Water purification: Compare suitable sedimentation, filtration or boiling examples and distinguish removing visible dirt from making water safe to drink. Use explanations, experiments and depth suitable for Class 5.
  • Plant and animal cells: Past-paper revision: Recognise the basic structures shared by plant and animal cells and explain the role of the plant cell wall.
  • Galaxies: Past-paper revision: Describe a galaxy as a large collection of stars and other matter and locate the Solar System within the Milky Way.
  • Earthquakes: Past-paper revision: Explain that a sudden release of energy can shake Earth's crust and distinguish an earthquake from other natural events.
  • Heterotrophic nutrition: Past-paper revision: Distinguish organisms that obtain food from other organisms from those that make their own food.
  • Physical and chemical changes: Past-paper revision: Compare changes of shape or state with changes that produce a new substance, using simple examples.
  • Glaciers: Past-paper revision: Recognise a glacier as a mass of ice that moves over land and distinguish it from floating ice or other landforms.

About the ITSE exam

Eligibility and subjects

ITSE is open to Classes 1–10 from recognised government and private schools, including CBSE, ICSE and state boards. Choose one or more subjects: MTSE Mathematics, STSE Science, ETSE English, CTSE Computer/Cyber, HTSE Hindi and GTSE General Awareness. SkillStar is independent of ITSE.

Exam format and marking

The organiser specifies an OMR-based paper of 45 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes, with +4 for a correct answer and −1 for a wrong answer (180 maximum marks). Exams are held at common centres within districts; the allotted centre and time appear on the admit card. Preparation follows the official class-specific syllabus PDFs below, which retain their original printed session. Reviewed playable papers may omit defective questions: the maximum is 4 times the retained count, with 60 minutes and +4/−1 marking. Full original PDFs remain in Downloads.

Important dates for 2026–27

The official schedule is tentative. Applications opened on 21 April 2026; the extended deadline is 15 November 2026. Examination dates are 20, 25 and 27 December 2026. Admit cards are scheduled for 15 and 23 December, depending on the examination date. The allotted centre, date and time must be checked on the admit card. Result: 24 March 2027; scholarship distribution: April–May 2027 at schools. Verified on 3 November 2026.

Registration and application fees

Apply through the school or directly on the official website. The published fee is ₹300 for one subject, ₹550 for two, ₹800 for three, ₹1,050 for four, ₹1,300 for five and ₹1,550 for all six. Online registration asks for an active email/mobile number, recent photograph and Aadhaar number. These are ITSE registration fees, separate from SkillStar access. For offline applications, collect the form from school and return the completed form and fee to the principal's office.

Awards and organiser contact

The organiser lists participation certificates, school medals and school cash prizes of ₹1,000–₹10,000, with at least three school-level cash-prize recipients per school as stated in the FAQ. Advertised national awards include a laptop + ₹50,000, note pad + ₹25,000, smart tablet + ₹10,000, digital watch + ₹5,000 and scientific calculators. ITSE advertises 9,000 award recipients and a ₹25-crore overall scholarship pool; terms and eligibility are the organiser's responsibility. India office: 146-0, 2nd Floor, Hastsal, Vikaspuri, New Delhi 110018. Helplines: +91 9472696867 and +91 9599890121.

Official forms and general downloads

Official brochure, sample application form and sample OMR sheet. These are organiser documents and may retain older printed dates; use the live Important Dates page for the current schedule.

Official practice-paper availability

All six class/subject Practice Paper pages were checked on 3 November 2026 and showed no practice papers. Official sample papers are provided separately below.

MTSE — Mathematics: syllabus and past papers

Class 5 official syllabus and original papers remain linked. Published 2025–26 reviewed test: 45/45 questions, 180 maximum marks, 60 minutes, +4/−1. Original questions omitted: None; reasons and numbering map are in the test's source note. Full original paper; 7 past-paper revision lessons added. No 2025–26 key was linked on the official Class 5 page on 5 November 2026; retained answers were checked independently. Older linked papers/2024–25 keys remain unreviewed.

MTSE — Mathematics: official sample papers

Available official sample sets for Class 5, preserving the organiser's set numbers. These are original source files, including diagrams; questions and answers have not been checked individually or converted into playable tests.

STSE — Science: syllabus and past papers

Class 5 official syllabus and original papers remain linked. Published 2025–26 reviewed test: 43/45 questions, 172 maximum marks, 60 minutes, +4/−1. Original questions omitted: 5, 33; reasons and numbering map are in the test's source note. 6 past-paper revision lessons added. No 2025–26 key was linked on the official Class 5 page on 5 November 2026; retained answers were checked independently. Older linked papers/2024–25 keys remain unreviewed.

STSE — Science: official sample papers

Available official sample sets for Class 5, preserving the organiser's set numbers. These are original source files, including diagrams; questions and answers have not been checked individually or converted into playable tests.

ETSE — English: syllabus and past papers

Class 5 official syllabus and original papers remain linked. Published 2025–26 reviewed test: 34/45 questions, 136 maximum marks, 60 minutes, +4/−1. Original questions omitted: 1, 5, 10, 20, 31, 32, 37, 40, 41, 42, 44; reasons and numbering map are in the test's source note. Original reading passage retained; 2 past-paper revision lessons added. No 2025–26 key was linked on the official Class 5 page on 5 November 2026; retained answers were checked independently. Older linked papers/2024–25 keys remain unreviewed.

ETSE — English: official sample papers

Available official sample sets for Class 5, preserving the organiser's set numbers. These are original source files, including diagrams; questions and answers have not been checked individually or converted into playable tests.

CTSE — Computer / Cyber: syllabus and past papers

Class 5 official syllabus and original papers remain linked. Published 2025–26 reviewed test: 40/45 questions, 160 maximum marks, 60 minutes, +4/−1. Original questions omitted: 3, 8, 14, 16, 37; reasons and numbering map are in the test's source note. 8 past-paper revision lessons added. No 2025–26 key was linked on the official Class 5 page on 5 November 2026; retained answers were checked independently. Older linked papers/2024–25 keys remain unreviewed.

CTSE — Computer / Cyber: official sample papers

Available official sample sets for Class 5, preserving the organiser's set numbers. These are original source files, including diagrams; questions and answers have not been checked individually or converted into playable tests.

HTSE — Hindi: syllabus and past papers

Class 5 official syllabus and original papers remain linked. Published 2025–26 reviewed test: 40/45 questions, 160 maximum marks, 60 minutes, +4/−1. Original questions omitted: 2, 7, 20, 37, 41; reasons and numbering map are in the test's source note. 6 past-paper revision lessons added. No 2025–26 key was linked on the official Class 5 page on 5 November 2026; retained answers were checked independently. Older linked papers/2024–25 keys remain unreviewed.

HTSE — Hindi: official sample papers

Available official sample sets for Class 5, preserving the organiser's set numbers. These are original source files, including diagrams; questions and answers have not been checked individually or converted into playable tests.

GTSE — General Awareness: syllabus and past papers

Class 5 official syllabus and original papers remain linked. Published 2025–26 reviewed test: 43/45 questions, 172 maximum marks, 60 minutes, +4/−1. Original questions omitted: 13, 41; reasons and numbering map are in the test's source note. 1 past-paper revision lesson added. ITSE publishes a common General Awareness syllabus for all classes. No 2025–26 key was linked on the official Class 5 page on 5 November 2026; retained answers were checked independently. Older linked papers/2024–25 keys remain unreviewed.

GTSE — General Awareness: official sample papers

Available official sample sets for Class 5, preserving the organiser's set numbers. These are original source files, including diagrams; questions and answers have not been checked individually or converted into playable tests.

ITSE syllabus for other classes

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ITSE Class 5: questions parents ask

What is in the ITSE Class 5 syllabus for 2026-27?
274 topics in General Awareness, English, Mathematics, Hindi, Computer and Science, laid out subject by subject on this page. On SkillStar your child can tick off each topic as they learn it.
Are there ITSE Class 5 mock tests on SkillStar?
Yes, 6 mock tests. Each one is marked the moment your child finishes, with a question-by-question review, and can be taken again as often as they like.
Can I download ITSE Class 5 papers?
Yes. The ITSE Downloads tab on SkillStar has 188 files for this class.
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