Teams and Registration

• All teams must have exactly four students and one faculty/staff team advisor. All students on a team must attend the same school.
• No student can be a member of two or more teams. It is not possible to substitute or exchange team members at any stage of the competition.
• A school may register only one team for the competition.
• All applications must be submitted in English.
• The faculty/staff advisor will be responsible for registering the team and for all prior and subsequent communication with organizers.
• To register a team, please fill out the application form.
• The registration deadline is early February. Please see ‘Important dates’ for more information.
• The application decisions will be sent out via e-mail on Sunday, February 11, 2024.

Format of the Competition

• The competition will consist of two rounds: a Preliminary round in February 2024 and a Final round in March 2024.
• Both rounds of the competition will be conducted in English yet Arabic translations will also be available.

• The mathematical content of the competition will be consistent with the topics listed in the Curriculum Standards for grades 9-11 as set by the Supreme Education Council.

Preliminary Round

• The Preliminary round will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at the Carnegie Mellon University Qatar campus in Education City.
• Contestants are requested to arrive by 9:00 a.m. on the day of the competition.

• The preliminary round will be a written test. Teams will be given 90 minutes to complete a set of 40 questions of varying difficulty.
• A question booklet (in English and Arabic) and an answer sheet will be provided to each team. Team members may work on different problems; however, each team may submit only one answer sheet.
• There will be penalty for incorrect answers: ¼ of the respective points will be deducted from the overall total points.
• Calculators are not allowed during the competition.
• Formula sheets are not permitted during the competition.
• The top 4 teams from the preliminary round will advance to the final round. In case of a tie, decisions will be made by a random draw.

• The finalists will be contacted by email by February 22, 2024.
• Decisions of the judges are final.

Final Round

• The Final round will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at the Carnegie Mellon University Qatar campus in Education City.
• Contestants are required to arrive by 12:30 p.m. on the day of the competition.

• The Final round will be held in a “Quiz Bowl” format.
• In case of a tie, tiebreaker questions will be used and the first team to answer correctly will win.
• Decisions of the judges are final.

 Prizes

• Certificates of Participation will be awarded to all participants of the  Preliminary round immediately after the completion of the round.
• More prestigious prizes will be awarded to finalists at an award ceremony to be held immediately after the completion of the Final round.