Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Mathematics
Before you start
The real IOQM paper opens with a page of instructions, and students lose marks every year by not reading it. This practice follows the same rules, so the format stops being a surprise on the day.
How the paper is marked
- Questions 1–10
- 2 marks each.
- Questions 11–20
- 3 marks each.
- Questions 21–30
- 5 marks each.
- Negative marking
- None. A wrong answer costs nothing, so never leave a question blank.
- All compulsory
- Every question counts; there is no choice of section.
- Calculators
- Not allowed in the real exam. Work it out on paper beside you.
- Duration
- 3 hours for 30 questions — six minutes each, on average.
Every answer is a number from 00 to 99
Nothing else is accepted — no fractions, no surds, no negative numbers. When a question's natural answer is not a small whole number, the question itself tells you what to report: the last two digits, the remainder on division by 100, or m + n where the answer is m/n in lowest terms. Read that final sentence carefully; it is where marks go.
What is different here
- The real exam is sat on paper with an OMR sheet you darken in pen. Here you type the number. Everything else — the answer format, the weighting, the absence of negative marking — is the same.
- You choose the length and the level range. The real paper is fixed at 30 questions in 3 hours.
- These are practice questions written to the published format. They are not past IOQM papers, and Learnijoy is not affiliated with MTA or HBCSE.
Set up your paper
Six minutes per question, the same rate as the real paper (30 questions in 180 minutes). The clock is held by our server, so closing the tab does not stop it — but your answers are saved as you go, and you can come back and carry on.