For the school
Cohort performance in one view
Results by class, section and subject, with the school's own median set against the national one — the comparison a management committee asks for.
For schools · Season 2026 · Registration closes 18 August
Run a national olympiad without running an exam hall.
Your school enrols once and receives a school code. Families sign up against it, students sit at home, and the coordinator watches the whole cohort from one dashboard. No invigilation rota, no printing, no papers to collect.
Why schools take part
A national benchmark, not another internal test
NextZenOlympiad is a national-level competition that identifies and nurtures talent across the country. It gives students somewhere to measure themselves against their peers nationally — and gives the school an externally-set benchmark it did not have to write, mark or defend.
For the school
Curriculum gaps, named
Where a whole class underperforms on one kind of question, it shows up as a named skill rather than a score — something a department can act on.
For the school
No exam-day logistics
Nothing to secure, print, distribute or collect. Students sit within a twelve-hour window and the platform handles timing and marking.
For the student
A record that follows them
Percentile, weak-area report, a season-long progress trend, and a certificate carrying a code anyone can verify later.
For the student
Practice built from their own answers
After each mock, practice sets target the skills that student is weakest at — not a generic worksheet issued to the whole class.
For the parent
An explanation, not just a rank
Every question reviewable with the correct answer and the working, so a parent can see what to help with instead of only how it went.
How to participate
Five steps, and only the first needs you
From the first form to students sitting the paper. Most schools clear steps 1 to 3 inside a week.
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Fill the registration form
Open the school registration form and complete it for your school. Accurate contact details keep verification to a single call.
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School verification
Our team verifies the school's details and contacts you if anything further is needed. A wrong pin code or WhatsApp number is what costs schools a few days here, which is why the form asks for both.
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Getting your school code
Once verified, the school receives a unique code. Every student signs up against it, and that is how results are grouped for the school report and the school leaderboard.
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Accessing and broadcasting the program kit
The kit holds ready-to-send SMS, WhatsApp messages, emails, a parent circular and classroom material — so promoting the olympiad does not turn into a writing job for the coordinator.
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Students complete signup online
Families sign up with the school code and the instructions in the parent circular, and pay the fee directly. The school handles no collection unless it chooses to enrol students centrally.
On the day
What the coordinator actually does
One person, one dashboard, one browser tab. Everything below is visible without contacting us.
- Before the window
- Confirm the rosterWho is enrolled, in which subjects, and who has not yet completed signup
- During the window
- Watch sessions liveWho has started, who is mid-paper, who has submitted — updated as it happens
- If a connection drops
- Nothing to doThe paper resumes at the same question with the remaining time intact
- If a student cannot sit
- Use the reserve day — no separate application needed
- After submission
- Scores the same dayFull school report and per-student certificates by
- Support
- Families have their own channelParents use the student support form, so the coordinator is not the help desk
What you need
Requirements, in full
Deliberately short. If your school can send an email and your students can open a browser, you can run this.
- From the school
- One named coordinatorUsually the academic head or a class teacher
- Minimum cohort
- NoneA single student may enter; the school code still applies
- From the student
- A laptop and an internet connectionAny modern browser. No app to install and nothing to whitelist.
- School infrastructure
- OptionalPapers are home-based by default; a school lab may be used if you would rather run it on site
- Cost to the school
- NilFees are per student, per season, paid by the family unless the school enrols centrally
Next step
Registration closes
Verification and the program kit take a few days, so register with enough time to promote it internally before the paper on 1 September.