ICAS school competitions - new schools

The ICAS 2024 academic competition is now open for registrations. Don’t miss out.

Celebrate your students with the gold standard in academic competitions

ICAS is an internationally recognised academic competition that has inspired, celebrated and challenged students for over 40 years.

Put your students’ higher-order thinking skills to the test and empower them to reach greater heights. The results include data-rich insights into their strengths and weaknesses, to complement your current assessment programs.

Why participate in ICAS?

Motivate your academically curious students and unleash their creativity.

Get objective, norm-referenced rankings against students across the country.

Celebrate and reward your students’ great achievements.

Give students globally-recognised certificates to support scholarship and tertiary applications.

Subject details for ICAS 2024

ICAS is available for Years 2 – 12 in Australia and Years 3 – 13 in New Zealand.

Subject	Sitting window	Australia pricing (AU$ inc. GST)	New Zealand pricing (NZ$ inc. GST)
Digital Technologies	5 – 9 August 2024	$19.95	$21.50
Writing	5 – 9 August 2024	$23.95	$27.75
English	12 – 16 August 2024	$19.95	$21.50
Science	19 – 23 August 2024	$19.95	$21.50
Spelling Bee	19 – 23 August 2024	$19.95	$21.50
Mathematics	26 – 30 August 2024	$19.95	$21.50

ICAS prices shown per test per student by location

Payment options

We’ve created two flexible payment options to suit your school:

Option 1: Parents pay

With the Parent Payment System (PPS), parents register and pay for their children’s ICAS enrolments by themselves.

No data imports, and no money collection!

How it works:

Select the ICAS subjects you want to make available to parents
Give parents a unique code for your school
Parents log in using the code, enter their children’s details, select the ICAS subjects they want, and pay us directly

Option 2: Pay with your school's funds

Purchase ICAS tests directly using your school’s funds.

You’ll need to manually import participating student details into the ICAS assessments portal and allocate licenses to each student.

How it works:

Select the ICAS subjects you want
Pay by credit card or EFT (tax invoice) with your school’s funds
Collect money from parents (if parents are paying)

We love ICAS because it is internationally benchmarked. It is normed against a reference group that is wider than what we normally have, and the students get to challenge themselves against some of the best in the country and in the world.”

ICAS prepares our students for the future because it gives them an opportunity to challenge themselves beyond what they just cover in class and to tackle questions that have a competitive level of rigour and an international standard.

ICAS has been really helpful in helping me achieve my goals as it’s been good on resumes and university applications. The most important thing ICAS taught me about myself is that I’m good at working under pressure and I can come up with different answers by applying the knowledge I’ve already got. I definitely recommend ICAS to other students as you have nothing to lose by doing it and the assessments are quite a lot of fun.

Register your school's interest in ICAS 2024.

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