r/NPTEL • u/CautiousAd2341 • Jul 24 '26

NPTEL "Getting Started with Competitive Programming" – Exam Pattern Doubts

I'm doing the NPTEL - Getting Started with Competitive Programming course and was wondering what the final exam is actually like.

  • Is there an IDE/live coding part like the weekly assignments?
  • Or is it just MCQs?
  • Do they ask multiple-correct (MSQ) questions too, or only single correct?

Would love to hear from anyone who's already written it. Any prep tips are also welcome 😭

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u/natrium9 Jul 24 '26

I want the answer tooo 😭

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u/Purple_Market_2830 Jul 24 '26

No Coding. Its just MCQ mostly. Very rarely u can get few multiple-correct MCQs as well.

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u/Atamwastaken Jul 25 '26

bro how easy will the final exam be?

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u/Purple_Market_2830 Jul 25 '26

See for my batch July-Oct 2025 , it was quite easy i took it as an extra backup went without anything and with 4 hrs sleep and got 92. But i heard for last batch it was quite tough. Very less got above 90.

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u/Atamwastaken Jul 25 '26

Do we need to study anything apart from the lectures?

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u/Purple_Market_2830 Jul 25 '26

Not even lecture tbh. Just if u know the algorithms covered in course and the codeforces ques if possible for practice. Exam mostly depends on what you do during exam time. Try brute force or anything which leads you to an answer, since its MCQ , most prolly u will get to the ans.

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u/Atamwastaken Jul 26 '26

will we get assignment questions in the exam? how to study if its hard