Benelux

Conditions

Terms and Conditions of Participating

The Levels

The contest is open to primary and secondary school students who are learning English at school.

Terms and Conditions

Registration is made through the school by the coordinating teacher. Individual entries are not accepted. Each school nominates a coordinating teacher to organise the contest at the school.

Schools must register at least 35 participants or pay the equivalent fee (350€). This minimum number of participants is required to cover the incompressible costs of organising the event.

Participation fees

The participation fee is €10 per student.

These fees are used to finance the organisation of the contest, the development of the training app including the events such as the CLASS Challenge and the purchase of the prizes. The Big Challenge does not benefit from any subsidies and is entirely financed by participation fees, from which 20% VAT must be deducted.

These fees cover :

Creation, printing and dispatch of registration pack and posters
Questions prepared by qualified English teachers
Management of the database of all participants for the calculation of the score and the elaboration of the three rankings.
Printing of 60,000 pages of results listings
Purchase, manufacture and storage of prizes (112 pallets this year)
Preparation of the 3,000 parcels by a service provider
Delivery of these 3,000 parcels within 24/48 hours to the sites
Current business expenses (offices, wages, etc.)
Development of the contest’s functionalities to ensure that all students can take the exam at the same time.
Development of teacher account functionalities to manage results in near real time
The cost of servers based in Europe for secure data storage

Plus the costs for the App included in the participation:

Development and Maintenance of the App
Creating and adding more questions to the app every week so it stays interesting
Developing and running the events such as the CLASS Challenge
Server costs so thousands of students can play simultaneously without delays in the game

We are experiencing very significant cost increases for all of the above. The cost of sending parcels has also risen sharply, notably as a result of the increase in fuel prices.

Frequently asked questions

What levels are available?

The questionnaires are drawn up according to the level corresponding to the student's class. This level takes into account the CEFR requirements for school level. For more information on the correspondence between level and class, please consult the correspondence table below.

These levels correspond with the levels A0-B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

In order to help you choose the right contest level for your students, we suggest you follow the table below:

Who pays the registration fees?

Up to you! Often the registration fees are paid by students’ parents or by the school, or sometimes both. You can also get in touch with your town or municipality if they can help cover the costs.

Please note that the bank transfer cannot be made by parents, only by a teacher, the school or another institution.

How much are the registration fees?

The registration fee is €10 per student.

How do I make a payment?

Registration fees can be paid by bank transfer.

All the information you need to pay will be sent to you once you have completed the registration form available on this page.

I need an invoice

You can request an invoice for all or part of your participation in the Big Challenge. Please contact us.

Some of my students were absent on the day of the contest. Can they be refunded?

The registration fee covers the experience over the entire year, including the Class Activities on The Big Challenge PLAY app and the CLASS Challenge, so it's not exclusively linked to the contest.

For the contest itself, we place pre-orders for the purchase of prizes well in advance and confirm on the closing date for registrations. It is therefore absolutely impossible for us to make any refunds.

The contest is open for several weeks, so hopefully everyone has the time to pass before the end of the contest period even if they're absent for a few adys.

In any case, the school will still receive prizes for all the students registered, regardless of the number of students that actually took the test. So even those who really couldn't take part can still get a prize.