Competition Rules and Regulations

The Rules apply to every entrant in a Smart Edu Hub competition, whether you registered yourself, were registered by your school, or were entered through an ambassador or partner.

They also bind anyone acting for an entrant — a parent, guardian, teacher or school administrator. Where an entrant is a minor, the adult who registered them is responsible for ensuring these Rules are followed.

• You must meet the eligibility criteria published on the competition's page — typically class level, age band and category.
• Where a competition requires supporting documents, your entry is provisional until those documents are approved. You cannot sit the exam while a required document is unapproved.
• Registration closes at the published time, and always closes when the exam begins. Late entries cannot be accepted.
• One entry per person per competition. Duplicate entries by the same person may all be voided.
• Entry fees, where they apply, are stated on the competition page and are non-refundable once the exam window has opened.

Your Participant ID and PIN are personal to you. You must not share them, and you are responsible for anything done with your account.

• The details you give us — your name, school, class level and contact details — must be true and complete. Prizes and certificates are issued against them.
• Nobody may sit a paper on your behalf, and you may not sit one on anybody else's behalf.
• An exam session is bound to the device that started it. Starting on another device ends the first session.

Each round has a published window and a fixed duration. The two work together as follows:

• The window controls when you may start. You may begin at any point between the opening and closing time, unless the organiser has assigned you a personal start slot.
• The duration is your own clock. It begins when you start, not when the window opens.
• You keep your full duration. If you start shortly before the window closes, your time is not cut short — you may finish and submit after the closing time.
• You cannot start after the window closes. Once it has passed, no new sitting can begin for any reason.

Where a competition assigns individual start slots, you must begin inside your own slot. Missing it means contacting the organiser to be rescheduled, which is at their discretion.

• One sitting per round. Once your paper is submitted — by you, or automatically when your time runs out — it cannot be reopened, retaken or replaced.
• Your answers are saved as you work. If you are disconnected you may return and continue on the same device, and your remaining time continues to run while you are away.
• When your time expires the paper is submitted automatically, with whatever answers you have recorded.
• Every entrant receives their own paper drawn from the question bank. Two entrants sitting the same round will not necessarily see identical questions.
• You must remain alone while sitting the exam. Where camera proctoring is enabled, the camera may be used to verify that the registered entrant is the person sitting the paper — see Monitoring and proctoring.
• You are responsible for your examination environment. Choose a suitable place to sit the paper and make sure no other person enters the camera's view while the exam is in progress.

While a paper is open you must not:

• Receive help from any other person, in the room or remotely.
• Allow another person to sit with you or appear within the camera's view during the examination.
• Use books, notes, another device, a search engine, an AI assistant or any other reference material, unless the competition expressly allows it.
• Copy, photograph, screenshot, transcribe, record or share any question, in whole or in part, during or after the exam.
• Attempt to interfere with the exam software, the marking, the leaderboard, or another entrant's sitting.
• Open other applications, tabs or windows, or leave full-screen mode, where the competition requires a locked-down sitting.
• Attempt to bypass, disable or interfere with any camera, monitoring or examination security feature used by the competition.

Competitions may be proctored. Where they are, this is disclosed before you start, on the screen where you confirm you are ready.

What may be recorded

• Signals from your own browser during the sitting — leaving full-screen, switching away from the exam tab, attempts to copy or paste, and similar events.
• Where camera proctoring is enabled and you consent, still photographs taken at intervals during the paper.
• Timing information, including when you started, how long you spent, and when you submitted.

How it is used

These signals produce an integrity score and may flag a paper for review. Nothing is penalised automatically during the exam — a flag is reviewed by a person afterwards, and a single flag is not by itself proof of misconduct. A poor connection or an accidental tab switch will not, on its own, cost you your entry.

Camera monitoring and multiple faces

Where camera monitoring is required for a competition, it protects the fairness of every entrant's sitting. During a monitored paper:

• Your face must be clearly visible to the camera throughout the examination.
• Only the registered entrant should be visible in the camera view. Sit in a private, well-lit location and make sure other people do not enter the camera's view while the paper is open.
• If the camera captures more than one person's face during the examination, the sitting may be flagged for review.
• A confirmed instance of more than one person appearing in the camera view may constitute grounds for disqualification — even where the additional person is not shown to have provided any assistance.
• Where a camera or monitoring alert is triggered, the organiser reviews the relevant examination record and decides whether the entrant should be disqualified, following the review and appeals process in these Rules.

Camera proctoring requires your permission. If you decline where it is mandatory for that competition, you will not be able to sit the paper. See our Privacy Policy for how any images are stored and how long they are kept.

You are responsible for your own device, power and internet connection. We recommend testing all three before your window opens.

• A disconnection does not stop your clock. Reconnect and continue as quickly as you can.
• If a fault on our side prevents you from sitting or submitting, tell the organiser as soon as possible and keep any evidence you have.
• Extensions, restarts and rescheduling are entirely at the organiser's discretion, and will not be granted for problems with your own equipment or connection.

Papers are marked automatically against the approved answer key. Where a question is later found to be defective, the organiser may void it for every entrant and remark the round.

How ties are broken

Entrants are ranked in this order:

• Score — the highest mark ranks first.
• Time taken — where scores are equal, the entrant who completed the paper in less time ranks first, measured to the millisecond.
• Submission time — where score and time taken are both equal, the earlier submission ranks first.

• Results are released by the organiser, not automatically on submission. Until then you may see only that your paper was received.
• Where a competition publishes a leaderboard, your name, school, state and position may appear on it and may be shared publicly by the organiser and sponsors.
• Advancement between rounds is decided by the published advancement rule for that competition.
• Marks are final once released, subject only to the appeals process below.

• Prizes are those published on the competition page. They are not transferable and, unless expressly stated, cannot be exchanged for cash.
• Winners must be able to verify their identity and eligibility before a prize is issued. A prize may be withheld or reclaimed where they cannot.
• Any tax or charge arising on a prize is the winner's responsibility unless stated otherwise.
• Where a prize becomes unavailable for reasons outside our control, it may be substituted for one of equal or greater value.
• A prize that remains unclaimed, or a winner who cannot be reached using the contact details they registered with, thirty days after first notification, may be treated as forfeited.
• Where a winner is disqualified, fails verification or forfeits, the prize passes to the next highest-ranked eligible entrant after that entrant is verified in turn.

Rankings decide who is shortlisted; verification decides who is awarded. Every result and every prize is provisional until the verification steps for that competition are complete.

What we may ask for

• Academic eligibility — a certificate or official result from your most recently completed school term, showing you are in the class band the competition is open to.
• School confirmation — your school's contact details, so the verification team can confirm your enrolment directly with the school. This step is mandatory for top prize winners.
• A virtual interview — top prize winners will attend a short video interview to confirm they personally sat the paper. You may be asked basic questions about yourself and asked to discuss selected questions from your own paper to demonstrate your understanding. Interviews may be recorded for verification purposes. This process exists to detect impersonation, AI use and external assistance.
• Identity — proof of identity, and for a minor, the presence or written consent of a parent or guardian at any interview.

Deadlines and cooperation

• Verification requests carry a deadline — fourteen days from the request unless the competition publishes a different one.
• Failing to respond by the deadline, declining an interview, submitting documents that cannot be authenticated, or a school failing to confirm enrolment, forfeits the prize. The prize then passes to the next highest-ranked eligible entrant.
• Submitting false or altered documentation is misconduct: it voids the entry, and may exclude you from future competitions on the platform.
• The organiser's good-faith assessment of verification evidence is final.

• By entering, you agree that if you win or place, we and the competition's organiser and sponsors may announce your name, school, state, category, position and score — on the platform, on leaderboards, in press releases and on social media.
• Award ceremonies and related events may be photographed and recorded. By attending, you (and for a minor, your parent or guardian) consent to those images and recordings being used to report and promote the competition and future editions, without further payment.
• Winners may be asked to take part in reasonable publicity — a short written profile, a photograph, or an interview about the competition. Participation in publicity beyond the announcement of results is voluntary and will always be arranged through a parent or guardian for minors.
• Where the law gives you the right to object to a specific use of your image or information, you may exercise it through the contact channels below; announcing verified results itself is a condition of accepting a prize.

An entry may be voided, and a prize withheld or reclaimed, where:

• These Rules have been breached.
• Registration details were false, or eligibility cannot be verified.
• A review of proctoring evidence establishes misconduct to the organiser's reasonable satisfaction.

Appeals

If your entry is voided you will be told the reason. You may appeal in writing within seven days of being notified, setting out why the decision should be reconsidered. The organiser's decision on an appeal is final.

Running a fair national competition sometimes requires changing it. The organiser may, acting reasonably:

• Postpone, suspend or reschedule a round — for example for a widespread technical fault, a security incident, or events outside anyone's control — with as much notice to entrants as the situation allows.
• Void a round or a question and remark or rerun it, where its integrity has been compromised for entrants generally.
• Cancel a competition before its first paper is sat, refunding any entry fee paid for it.
• Adjust formats, schedules and prize structures before a round begins, publishing the change on the competition's page.
• Make the final decision on any matter these Rules do not expressly cover, applying them in the spirit of fairness to all entrants.

• You take part at your own initiative and, to the fullest extent the law permits, at your own risk. Nothing in these Rules excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
• To the fullest extent the law permits, we and the organiser are not liable for losses that do not flow directly from a breach of these Rules — including lost opportunity, travel or preparation costs, or problems caused by your own device, power or connection.
• Where we or an organiser are liable to an entrant in connection with a competition, that liability is limited, to the fullest extent the law permits, to the value of the prize for the position that entrant achieved — or, where no prize was achieved, to any entry fee paid.
• Prizes are provided by the organiser and its sponsors. A sponsor's role is limited to what that sponsor has publicly committed to.
• These Rules are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Nigerian courts have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

Entering a competition means giving us your details, your school's details, your answers and your results. How all of it is handled — what we keep, for how long, and who it is shared with — is set out in our Privacy Policy, which you also accept when you enter.

School details collected at exam entry are used to credit your school, to contact it about results and opportunities, and for aggregate reporting to organisers and sponsors.

We may update these Rules. The date at the top of this page shows when they last changed. Material changes affecting a competition already under way will be communicated to entrants, and will not be applied retrospectively to a paper already sat.

Questions about these Rules, or about a specific competition, should go to the organiser through the contact details on that competition's page. For anything concerning the platform itself, reach us through Support.