This information only concerns teams in the SPhL (Junior) category. If your team is in the SPhL (Senior) category, none of this applies to you.

With effect from 2022, participation in SPhL (Junior) is bundled with participation in the Singapore Junior Physics Olympiad (SJPO). To join one, you must also join the other. This is a single registration process for both SJPO and SPhL (Junior) at the same time.

Nonetheless, awards for SJPO and SPhL (Junior) are independently judged. Your team award for SPhL (Junior) will not affect your individual award for SJPO, and vice versa.

Such an arrangement is perfectly fine by us!

We will require all students of the team to register through their respective schools.

To be crystal clear about this, let's say for instance that your team comprises 2 members from school X, 2 members from school Y, and 1 member from school Z. Students from school X register with the teacher at school X, students from school Y register with the teacher at school Y, and the student from school Z registers with the teacher at school Z.

When registering, all teachers at schools X, Y, Z need to be informed of your team name, as well as the names and respective schools of all other students in the team. They will have to indicate in the registration form that your team comes from different schools. We can then verify that everything is in order once we receive the registration details from all other schools.

This is permitted, as long as your team members' categories do not mix. In other words:

done Secondary school students from different levels are permitted to join SPhL (Junior) as a single team.
done Junior college students from different levels are permitted to join SPhL (Senior) as a single team.
close However, a team cannot comprise both secondary school and junior college students.

As long as these conditions are met, having members from different levels is permitted.

No special procedure is needed for registration here, as your teacher will always send us the level of every participating student.

First of all, thank you for your support in facilitating the registration process for SPhL! Our efforts would not reach as many students without your invaluable assistance, and we are immensely grateful for it.

Your HOD (Science) should have received an email from MOE in early Feb 2023, with detailed instructions for registration.

You will need to gather the name, level, and email address of each participating student from your school. In the spreadsheet template provided in the MOE email, you would also need to indicate their team names (as well as team members from other schools if applicable). Please submit the completed spreadsheet by 31 March 2023.

If you did not receive the MOE email, please drop us an email via [email protected], and we'll forward all the information you need. Should you have any technical queries regarding the registration procedure, or any other aspect of SPhL, feel free to ask too.

Yes! SPhL is strongly supported by the Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) - the same organisation that also runs national physics competitions like SJPO, SPhO, SYPT. We are also supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) and sponsored by Micron.

We require all participating students to register through their schools. All participants will also receive certificates, and some teams will win awards based on their performance.

You need to give us your team name - a moniker that uniquely identifies your team. Go for something fun, casual, or quirky! Some examples from past contests include “Sherlock Ohms”, “Newton's Apples”, “Complicated Harmonic Motion”.

We'll also need a little information about each of your team members: Name, level, school, and most importantly… email address! Please provide us a working email address that you check regularly. We will send out some really important information to whichever email address you give us here. We want this delivered to you - and not into a black hole.

We definitely encourage teams of 5. There is tremendous strategic benefit to having more members! With more hands and minds at work, more problems can be conquered, and consequently, more points scored, increasing your chances of an award.

Besides, how often do you get such a great excuse to talk all-things-physics and “jam” with fellow physics enthusiasts? As the adage goes: the more the merrier!

You can form a team if you just get one or two more students to join!

If you are still unable to find teammates within your school or amongst people you know, we run a Discord server for you to band together with other like-minded students looking for a team. Click here to join - don't be shy!

The joy of SPhL largely comes from teamwork, team spirit, team bonding. We want you to have the best experience - this is a key element of what sets SPhL apart from other competitions!

For verification purposes, we require all registrations to come officially through schools rather than directly from students. Hence, you should consult your physics teachers to help with registration.

If your physics teacher isn't aware of this competition, please direct them to our website - particularly our little note for teachers linked here: sgphysicsleague.org/#for-teachers

Do drop us an email should you require additional help on this!

Yes, that is allowed! For additional instructions on registration for multi-school teams, please read the note above titled “If your dream team comprises students from different schools…”

This is only allowed if the categories of the different students do not conflict. For more information about this, please read the note above titled “If your dream team comprises students from different levels…”

Unfortunately, this is currently not possible, do drop us an email if you require any further clarifications!

Nevertheless, we will publish all problems and solutions on our website once the competition ends. You may then attempt our problems informally with your friends or by yourself if you like!