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GfG Weekly Coding Contest

Improve your DSA skills, earn Geekbits, boost your ratings, and climb the leaderboard - every Sunday at 7 PM!

24 November

GfG Weekly - 182 [Rated Contest]

90 Minutes
90 Minutes
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Overview

Preparing for placements? GeeksforGeeks is organising a weekly recurring contest series which is designed to simulate the coding interview rounds of tech giants such as Google, Amazon, Adobe, Paytm etc. Our team of experts have put together each contest keeping in mind the type of questions and topics covered in interviews.

Contests are scheduled Every Sunday, 7 to 8:30 PM IST
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    Instructions

    • Test Structure: You will be asked to solve 2-3 problems based on data structures and algorithms in 90 minutes.
    • Coding Languages supported for the contest are: C++, Java, Python, JS.
    • Time Penalty: There is 5 minutes time penalty for each wrong submission. For every wrong submission 5 minutes will be added to Last Correct Submission time.
    • Hints: Each question has hints that you may use when you're stuck on a problem. Marks are deducted on hints usage.
    • Plagiarism: Please refrain from discussing strategy during the contest. All submissions are run through a plagiarism detector. Any case of code plagiarism will reduce the score of the concerned participants to 0.
    • Discussion: This segment goes live after the contest ends. It can be used to interact with other participants and leave comments.  
    • Rated Contest: 
      • Starting from May 2024, all contests associated with GfG Weekly will be treated as Rated Contests.
      • Your rating is based on your performance in comparison with other competitors.
      • It is calculated using the Elo MMR Algorithm.
      • Rating is assigned post plagiarism check. 

    Rating System

    <= 1399
    		1 star
    1400 - 1599
    		2 star
    1600 - 1799
    		3 star
    1800 - 1999
    		4 star
    2000 - 2199
    		5 star
    2200 - 2499
    		6 star
    >= 2500
    		7 star

    Rewards

    • For each contest,
      • Rank 1: 700 Geekbits
      • Rank 2: 400 Geekbits
      • Rank 3: 200 Geekbits
      • Top 50 (Rank 4 to 50): 50 Geekbits
      • Participation (Score > 0): 2 Geekbits
    • Be among the top 8 rankers on our Monthly leaderboard; get 50 Geekbits as bonus.
    • These GeekBits can be redeemed on our Rewards Page.

    Solutions

    We are going live on Youtube immediately after each contest. GfG Mentors will be live streaming the video editorials and also solving your doubts.
    Head to GfG Practice Youtube Channel

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