✅ Step 1: Visit your country’s JISMO official website (search “JISMO [Your Country] official”).
✅ Step 2: Ask for “Grade 2 Science sample questions 2025 edition” via contact form.
✅ Step 3: Inquire if your child’s school is a JISMO test center – schools receive secure past papers.
✅ Step 4: Use general Grade 2 Science Olympiad papers (e.g., ICAS Science, NSO) for similar difficulty.
The Grade 2 syllabus generally aligns with the Cambridge Primary and Singapore Primary (Primary 2) science curricula. Past papers consistently focus on the following themes:
Jismo was seven and a half, with a mop of hair that always seemed to have static electricity. He liked two things most: asking questions and drawing diagrams of how things worked. One rainy Saturday, while flipping through a stack of papers his big sister left on the kitchen table, Jismo found a sheet labeled "Science — Grade 2 — Updated Past Papers."
He held it up like a treasure map.
"Do past papers tell you secrets?" he asked his sister. She laughed and said only the brave could decode them.
Jismo set up his detective headquarters at the dining table. He arranged pencils, a magnifying glass (for atmosphere), and a cup of juice. The top of the first page had a cheerful sun and three simple questions: what plants need, why the sky is blue, and how magnets work. Jismo read them slowly, then did something unexpected — he answered as if the paper were a conversation.
For Question 1 — What do plants need? — Jismo drew a plant with a tiny umbrella over it. "Plants need light, water, and soil, but also a good story," he wrote. He imagined the plant listening to bedtime tales and growing taller when it heard the heroine be brave. He added a small worm with a glasses reading the story aloud.
Question 2 asked why the sky is blue. Jismo drew the sky as if it were a big blue jelly. "Because it's shy," he wrote. "When the sun tickles it with white light, the little blue bits giggle and scatter everywhere." He used arrows to show the sunlight breaking into colors and a tiny cartoon blue bit leaping out to play.
By the third question, about magnets, Jismo had invented a character: Magneto the Helpful Spoon. Magneto wasn't just attracted to metal; he liked organizing lost things. In Jismo's drawing, Magneto pulled a paperclip out of a puddle and helped it join a party of other forgotten objects — a coin, a button, a single earring. "Magnets like to bring friends together," Jismo wrote.
Halfway through the papers, a note in the margin caught his eye: "Think like a scientist." Jismo frowned. He'd been doing a lot of imagining. Was that thinking like a scientist? He decided to try a real experiment.
He taped a little seed to a cotton ball, placed it in a jar, and labeled it "Sun Story Seed." Another seed went into soil and got regular water. Each day, Jismo drew what happened. The Sun Story Seed sprouted thin and shy, stretching toward the window. The soil seed was sturdier and dirt-smudged. He wrote observations like a detective: "Seed #1 leans when music plays; Seed #2 sleeps when not watered." He couldn't be sure about music, but that made the experiments more fun.
When his sister returned, she found Jismo with his papers turned into a colorful scrapbook of questions, comics, and tiny experiments. She read his answers and smiled. "You mixed imagination with observation," she said. "That's actually a good kind of science."
At dinner, their parents asked about the day. Jismo proudly explained the jelly-sky, the storytelling plant, and Magneto the Helpful Spoon. His father pretended to be skeptical about the sky being shy, and his mother applauded his seed journal.
That night, Jismo placed the updated past papers under his pillow, not for luck but for ideas. New questions would be like new doors. He dreamed of future papers with puzzles about clouds that could sing and rocks that told the history of mountains. In the morning, he woke with one certainty: whether you answer with facts, drawings, or stories, asking "why" is the start of every discovery.
And so Jismo kept collecting questions, turning past papers into a playground where science and imagination met — because the best learning, he decided, was the kind that made you both think and smile. jismo science past papers grade 2 updated
For Grade 2 students preparing for the Japan International Science & Math Olympiads (JISMO), the most recent papers focus on applying basic scientific principles to practical, everyday scenarios. The 2024 and 2025 assessments emphasize observation skills and simple experiments rather than just rote memorization. Core Topics for Grade 2 JISMO Science
Updated course outlines and papers typically cover these key themes:
Nature & Environment: Understanding day and night, weather patterns (sunny, rainy, cloudy), and the characteristics of habitats like deserts.
Physical Science: Investigating how sound comes from vibrations, how light creates shadows, and the effects of push and pull forces.
Human Biology: Identifying the five senses and their functions, as well as basic bone and muscle systems.
Energy & Heat: Understanding heat sources and how heat can change the characteristics of objects, such as changing an egg's color when fried.
Life Cycles: Observing the growth of seeds and the life stages of animals like butterflies. Where to Find Updated Past Papers
You can access and download recent practice materials and exam papers from several educational platforms:
Scribd - JISMO Science P2 Autumn 2024: Features the Autumn 2024 test paper covering sound, senses, and materials.
Scribd - JISMO Science P2 Spring 2025: Contains the Spring 2025 assessment with questions on shadows, forces, and weather.
College Sidekick - JISMO P2 Spring 2023: Provides a comprehensive practice paper and course outline for the 2023 competition.
Course Hero - JISMO Year 2-3 Outline: Includes older competition papers (2020-2021) and clear theme objectives for revision.
JISMO Official Website: The primary source for official registration and current competition information.
Based on the latest Japan International Science and Mathematics Olympiad (JISMO) course outlines and 2024–2025 assessment papers, Grade 2 science emphasizes "Being Friend with Nature" through practical experiments and everyday observations. Exam Structure & Scoring ✅ Step 1: Visit your country’s JISMO official
Format: 20 Multiple Choice Questions (80 marks) and 3 Short Answer Questions (20 marks). Total Marks: 100. Duration: 60 minutes. Penalty: No marks are deducted for unanswered questions. Core Syllabus Themes Key Learning Objectives Daily Phenomena
Differentiating between day and night; identifying sunny, rainy, and cloudy weather. Senses & Biology
Identifying the 5 human senses and their functions; understanding the life cycle of a butterfly. Physics Basics
Understanding that sound comes from vibration; identifying push and pull forces; basic electrical circuits. Matter & Heat
Observing how heat changes objects (color, shape, size); understanding the relationship between shape, volume, and weight. Light & Shadows
Understanding that light creates shadows and how shadows move in the opposite direction to the sun. Sample Practice Questions
Light & Shadows: "Shadow moves in the opposite direction to the Sun. If a tree shadow is observed at lunch, where will it be four hours later?".
Human Senses: "Kevin recognizes his mom is frying chicken from the front door. Which sense did he use: A) Hearing, B) Sight, or C) Smell?".
Biology/Food Chains: Identifying primary and secondary consumers in a simple ocean food chain diagram.
Heat Effects: Choosing an activity where heat causes a change similar to baking cookie dough or frying an egg. Preparation Resources
Official Downloads: You can access current course outlines and practice papers via the JISMO Indonesia Official Site.
Updated Papers: Full digital copies of recent tests, such as the Jismo Science p2 - March Spring - 2025 and Autumn 2024, are available on platforms like Scribd.
Title: The Robot Who Loved the Old Questions
In a bright, busy city lived a curious second-grader named Leo. Leo loved two things more than anything else: his toy robot, Beep-82, and solving JISMO Science past papers. Title: The Robot Who Loved the Old Questions
Every evening, Leo and Beep would sit at their little blue desk. Leo would open his thick folder of Grade 2 questions. "Why do seeds grow up?" Leo would read aloud. "Because they reach for the sun!" Beep would whir and blink his green light.
But one morning, Beep-82 started acting strange. He mixed up the sun with the moon. He thought a caterpillar turned into a fish. He kept using old facts from last year's papers.
"Oh no," whispered Leo. "You need an update."
That weekend, Leo’s mother helped him download the brand-new "JISMO Science Past Papers Grade 2 — Updated Version." The cover had a shiny rocket and a question mark made of lightning.
Leo opened the first page. The old papers had asked: "What color are leaves?"
The updated paper asked: "Why do some leaves change color in fall, but others stay green all year?"
Leo’s eyes grew wide. He had never thought about why before!
He and Beep worked through the new questions together:
The new papers didn’t just ask for facts. They asked Leo to think like a real scientist. Beep-82’s lights flashed faster and faster. Click! Whir! His old circuits began to understand.
On the day of the big JISMO practice challenge, Leo finished early. His teacher, Ms. Chen, looked at his answers. "Leo," she said softly, "you explained why a shadow gets longer in the evening. Most second graders just say 'the sun moves.' You wrote about the angle of light!"
Leo smiled and held up Beep-82. "We had to update our thinking," he said. "The updated past papers didn't just give us answers. They taught us new questions to ask."
And from that day on, Leo knew: Science isn't about knowing old answers. It's about being brave enough to ask updated questions — just like a real scientist.
The End.
Note for parents/teachers: The real JISMO (Japan International Science and Mathematics Olympiad) past papers for Grade 2 focus on observation, reasoning, and basic scientific thinking. The "updated" version in this story reflects a shift toward inquiry-based learning and application, not just memorization.