welcome
Thank you for the overwhelming response to the 2023 Bebras India challenge. It saw the participation of over 210,000 students from 22 states and 2 UTs.
Bebras (www.bebras.org) is an international student Computational Thinking Challenge organised in over 60 countries and designed to get students all over the world excited about computing. The challenge is a great way to learn about computational thinking and problem-solving skills. And the best part? It’s free!
The Bebras challenges are made of short problems called Bebras tasks. The tasks are fun, engaging and based on problems that Computer Scientists enjoy solving. The tasks require logical thinking and can be solved without prior knowledge of computational thinking. The aim is to solve as many as you can in the allotted time.
Bebras India has been organizing the Bebras International Computational Challenge since 2018. Over 700,000 students have taken part in the challenge. The 2024 Bebras India Challenge will be held from 15th November – 30th November for age groups 8-18 in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Odia, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu.
Comments from teachers on Bebras challenge:
Santosh Hande, Zilla Parishad school, Khed, Maharashtra (Rural government school, Marathi language)
"आम्ही फक्त 10 हुशार मुलेच बसविली होती ,ऑनलाइन exam खूप छान आहे ,आत्ता वाटते सर्व मुलांना बसवायला पाहिजे होते , Thanks cspathshala. International ऑनलाइन exam दिल्यानंतर मुलांच्या चेहऱ्यावरचा आनंद पाहण्यासारखा होता"
Rough translation: We had selected 10 bright students for the challenge. The challenge was very nice, wish we have administered the challenge to all the students. Thanks CSpathshala The joy experienced by students after giving an international challenge was something to be seen!
Mrudula Athale, Vikhe Patil school, Pune, Maharashtra: English
Our all students are taking challenge but very surprising and happy realisation is that some students who never complete any subject work or are very very casual about studies were also giving test with full concentration and gave the feed back that the test was very interesting.
Rajesh Dalvi, Om Shanti English medium school, Morbi, Gujarat (English and Gujarati): Today we received our Bebras India exams results. Thank you so much for allowing us to participate in same. Our children were very happy with the results. Please let me know next exam or any other online exams for school children
Srividya Subramanium, Cochin Refineries school, Kochi, Kerala: English
Kids are super excited sir! Even the hyper active and distracted ones are meticulously sitting with concentration. Now they are asking... When is the next test! Even though it is really hectic to have 250+ students doing the test in school within a week, the happiness and satisfaction on their faces drives our spirit and encourages us to do more.
Ahlada Sudersan, Ekya Schools, Bangalore, Karnataka: English
Complex, tricky logical reasoning questions
Great problem solving exercise
Challenging and hard
Fun experience
Questions put mind to work and strengthens thinking capacity
Required out of box thinking
Time limit made the test even more challenging
Interesting and cool experience
Made one recollect all previously learnt concepts
Unique title for each question makes it interesting
Unique experience
Each question had to be analyzed thoroughly.
Madhurima, DPS Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal: English
Congratulations for reaching out to so many schools and changing the mindset and methodology of teaching computer science in schools.. Bebras Challenge was an excellent initiative to test aptitude, logical thinking and reasoning. My students have enjoyed it thoroughly. Each one of them have shown a lot of interest to solve the puzzles and I really saw them trying... Well Bebras was the talk of school last week.
Queries? Contact: bebrasindia@acmindia.org
We are grateful to Eljakim IT for providing the challenge platform.
