2025 PhysicsBowl Contest
Registration for the 2025 contest is now open!
Enter your students in PhysicsBowl 2025 and receive international recognition for your school, your students, and your teaching excellence.
How the Contest Works
The PhysicsBowl Contest is an international high school competition. School teams compete regionally with other school teams. Your students will take a 40-question, 45-minute timed, multiple-choice test under their school’s supervision. See a list of FAQ's at this LINK.
The 2025 exam will be given between March 19 and April 4, 2025. Exam questions are based on topics and concepts covered in a typical high school physics course.
To enhance the distribution of awards, Division I is for first-year physics students and Division II is for second-year physics students. Each Division has 15 regions that have been established across the country to allow schools in each region to compete against one another. Specialized math and science schools compete in their own region. PLEASE NOTE: Test Prep Centers and Educational Services will compete in their own region, and will be eligible for the student award categories only.
We have established seven regions specifically for countries in Asia and the Middle East, which includes China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, these are regions 15 through 21. Schools in these countries will register via ASEEDER. For more information regarding registration in these areas, please contact physics@seedasdan.org, website: schools in China please go to http://www.seedasdan.asia/en/aapt-en/, while schools in Asia (other than China) and Middle East, please go to https://www.seedcomp.asia/physicsbowl/.
Note: School Team scores are determined by the sum of the scores of the top five students competing.
Proctoring Requirements for the PhysicsBowl Contest
The PhysicsBowl exam MUST be proctored. Parents, relatives, or close friends and acquaintances of students are not acceptable proctors. It is expected and preferred that competitors will take the exam at their local school, though they may take the exam elsewhere if needed.
Homeschooled students should contact community colleges, universities, or libraries to ask if they have proctoring services. PARENTS OR RELATIVES OF HOMESCHOOLED STUDENTS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE PROCTORS. Parents of homeschooled students may register their children for the exam, but they must provide information for an alternative proctor.
In order to verify the identity of exam proctors, we ask that email addresses be official school email addresses, ideally associated with a school district or an accredited private school.
If you are unable to provide an official school email, then you will need to provide additional contact information for your organization in order to verify your identity and the identity of the organization
Proctors cannot be relatives of the student(s) taking the exam. Proctors should have at least a 2-year degree, though this degree does not need to be related to physics. Libraries may proctor the test at a public library, provided they can observe the test to ensure the integrity of the process.
Testing centers must acknowledge their status as a testing center and provide a web address for verification purposes.
It's crucial to note that the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) does not have any affiliation with, does not endorse, and does not recommend any test centers, schools, or other locations that offer proctoring services.
Furthermore, please be aware that AAPT does not facilitate or arrange test centers, teachers, or proctors for the PhysicsBowl exam. We do not maintain a shareable listing of centers or teachers that have participated or will participate in the exam.
For more details and information about the PhysicsBowl, please contact AAPT's Programs department at 301-209-3340 or programs@aapt.org
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