Last verified: 12 November 2026. Exam dates, timings, marks and the no-negative-marking rule below are ✅ CONFIRMED from the NTA AISSEE 2027 Information Bulletin (public notice dated 3 November 2026). The mock-test calendar itself is editorial guidance, not an official schedule — adapt it to your child’s school hours and energy.
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With 80 days left to the AISSEE 2027 exam on Sunday, 31 January 2027, mock tests are the highest-value revision tool you have. They are also the easiest to misuse. The most common pattern we see is a child taking a mock every other day, scoring roughly the same number each time, and learning nothing new from any of them — because nobody sat down to ask why the same questions keep going wrong.
A mock test is not a score. It is a diagnosis. The paper itself takes two and a half hours; the review that makes it useful takes another hour. If your family does not have that review hour, do not take the mock that week. One reviewed paper teaches more than five unreviewed ones.
The exam is on 31 January. Counting back from today, 11 November, there are 80 days — just under twelve weeks. Here is the shape of the calendar. The exact dates shift with your child’s school timetable; the rhythm matters more than the dates.
| Phase | Dates | Full mocks | What the week is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 12 Nov – 2 Dec | 1 per week (3 total) | Section tests daily; first full papers to find the baseline |
| Building | 3 Dec – 23 Dec | 2 per week (6 total) | Fix the two weakest topics each week from the error log |
| Peak | 24 Dec – 13 Jan | 3 per week (6 total) | Full exam-slot practice; speed and OMR bubbling under time pressure |
| Taper | 14 Jan – 31 Jan | 1 only, around 26 Jan | Revise mistakes only; no mock in the final 3 days |
That is 16 full mocks at most — and 14 is fine if a week gets eaten by school exams or illness. The point is the upward slope: few mocks while concepts are still being learned, many mocks once the syllabus is covered and speed is the bottleneck, then a deliberate stop so the child arrives on 31 January rested rather than exhausted.
Between full mocks, use section tests — a 30-minute Maths set, a 25-question GK set — three or four times a week. They keep revision moving without the fatigue of a full paper, and they are where weak topics get fixed.
Take it at exam time. The AISSEE paper starts at 2:00 PM — Class 6 runs to 4:30 PM (150 minutes, 125 questions, 300 marks) and Class 9 to 5:00 PM (180 minutes, 150 questions, 400 marks). A child who always practises at 10 in the morning is training the wrong body clock. Sit the mock at 2 PM, in one sitting, with no phone in the room and no breaks beyond what the real exam allows.
Bubble on an OMR sheet. Reading a question and knowing the answer is not the same as bubbling it correctly under time pressure. Use a real OMR sheet — or a printed copy — and a pen, exactly as on exam day. Our OMR answer-sheet guide explains the bubbling and rough-work routine in detail, and it is worth reading once before the first mock, not the night before the exam.
Score it the real way. There is no negative marking in AISSEE 2027, so score mocks the same way: a wrong answer and a blank both score zero. That means the child should attempt every question in a mock — guessing on the last five unknown questions is free marks, and it is a habit worth building now.
The evening after a mock, sit with the answer key and the child’s paper for one hour. Sort every lost mark into one of four buckets:
Write the bucket next to each wrong answer. After three mocks, the pattern is usually obvious: most children lose their marks in one bucket, not all four. Fixing the biggest bucket is worth more than any number of extra papers — and if scores seem stuck, our guide to breaking a mock-score plateau and the error-log method for analysing mocks walk through exactly that.
Keep one notebook — the error notebook — and nothing else in the final fortnight. Every concept the child got wrong, in their own words, one line each. In the last week, that notebook is the revision plan.
Take the final mock around 26 January — five days before the exam — and then stop. The last three days are for the error notebook, the admit card, the exam centre route, and sleep. A child who takes a mock on 30 January and scores badly spends exam eve anxious; a child who takes one and scores well spends it overconfident. Neither helps on the 31st.
One more thing worth saying plainly: if your child is dreading the mocks, the calendar is too heavy. Drop back to one mock a week and add section tests instead. The goal of these 80 days is a child who walks into the exam hall on 31 January calm, practised and rested — not one who has been ground down by papers. If you want the bigger picture of how these weeks fit together, our 2 PM exam-aligned daily timetable lays out the full study schedule this mock calendar sits inside.
How many mock tests should my child take before AISSEE 2027?
Around 14 to 16 full-length mocks across the final 80 days is enough for most children — roughly one a week at first, rising to three a week in January, then tapering off in the last week. More than that usually means mocks are replacing revision instead of guiding it.
What time should mock tests be taken?
At the real exam time: 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM for Class 6 and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM for Class 9. Sitting mocks in the actual slot trains the child’s concentration for the afternoon paper.
Should my child take a mock test in the last week before the exam?
Yes, but only one, about five days before the exam — and none in the final three days. The last week is for revising the error notebook, not for new papers.
My child’s mock scores are stuck around the same number. What do we do?
Stop adding mocks and start analysing them. A score stuck around 200 usually means the same few topics keep costing marks — an error log that groups mistakes by topic shows exactly which ones, and fixing two weak topics is worth more than five more papers.
Should Class 6 and Class 9 children follow the same mock schedule?
The calendar is the same, but the paper is different: Class 6 sits a 150-minute paper of 125 questions for 300 marks, while Class 9 sits a 180-minute paper of 150 questions for 400 marks. Always practise with the right paper for the child’s class.
Is there negative marking in AISSEE 2027 mocks?
No — the real exam has no negative marking, so mocks should be scored the same way: wrong answers and blanks both score zero. That also means the child should attempt every question in a mock, exactly as on exam day.
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