National Science League

Date

• Any date from April 21 through May 2, 2025.

Questions

• The Contest for grade 2 consists of 25 questions, for grade 3 and 4, 35 questions.
• The Contest for grades 5 and 6 consists of 40 questions.
• The Life Science Contest, the Physical Science Contest, and the two General Science contests each consist of 50 questions.
• The Earth Science contest, Biology Contest, Chemistry Contest, and Physics Contest each consist of 40 questions.
• The multiple choice questions which comprise each contest are based on factual knowledge as well as students’ understanding of scientific processes.
• The time limit for each of the contests is 35 minutes and may be administered comfortably within one class period.

Contest Operation

• You will download a PDF file of the questions for each Contest you enter.
• Please duplicate as many copies as you need.
• Answer keys will be provided.
• There is no limit to the number of students who may participate.
• While the Contest contains a few difficult questions requiring creative thought, most of the questions are suitable for the majority of your students.
• The students are to work independently on the questions.
• Each test is to be proctored and graded by the school.
• The top ten individual’s names and their scores are to be entered on our website.
• The sum of these top ten scores is the school’s team score.
• All schools can view the results on our website.

Awards

• Each team will receive 11 awards- 1 medal and 10 certificates.
• Each additional team that your school registers entitles you to receive 1 additional set of awards.
• There are also individual and team awards on the national level.

Results Cut-off Date

• This is the date you must enter your scores by to have your school listed on the results report.
• May 20, 2024

Pricing

• The first two teams are $110 and each additional team is $60
• Discounts will be reflected in the shopping cart

Samples

• Click on the large NSL logo above the grade level you want.
• A page will open where you can download a sample test.

We are currently accepting registration for the 2024-2025 Contest year.