Natplus Contest Online

This is the "Plus." Only the top 10% from Day Two advance. They enter a sealed room. No phones. No watches. Each student is given a single problem, but it is incomplete. Halfway through the three-hour session, a proctor reads aloud a "Variable Update"—new data that fundamentally changes the problem. In 2019, the Variable was: "Ignore the first two pages. Assume pi = 3.2." In 2021, it was a live video feed of a stock market ticker that students had to incorporate into a calculus proof.

Welcome to the most relentless, beautiful, and brutal academic contest you have never heard of. The NatPlus Contest was founded in 2008 by Dr. Helena Voss, a cognitive psychologist and former International Math Olympiad gold medalist. Her frustration was simple: existing contests, she argued, measured retrieval speed and narrow expertise. They rewarded the student who had memorized the most, not the one who could think the deepest. natplus contest

This is not a standardized test. This is not a drill. This is the —known to its survivors simply as NatPlus . This is the "Plus