Register, pay & get your fee back

Before your first payment you accept the consent notice — a plain-words summary of what data the quiz collects and why, shown when you sign in and always before checkout. Nothing is charged until you have accepted it. The optional choices inside it (winner publicity, marketing emails) are yours to tick or leave, and you can change them any time at quiz.skollar.club/consent.

Three details decide which contests you can enter and the fee you pay: what you do (school student, college or university student, working professional, or other), your date of birth, and your country. When you set up your quiz profile we show them back to you and ask you to confirm — after you confirm, they are locked, and the forms show them as read-only from then on. That is deliberate: the same details set your eligibility and your formats’ pricing, so they should not quietly change between registering and exam day.

Made a mistake? Use Request a change (Contact Team Skollar). It opens from your account page, and from the registration page whenever your details show as locked there. Your current details are already filled in — edit what needs to change, tell us briefly why, and send it.

If you have not yet paid for a registration, straightforward corrections are applied immediately and you will see the update right away. Once you have a paid registration, the team reviews the request first and applies it for you — you get an email when it is done, and you can only have one request in review at a time.

One thing a simple edit cannot do: move a paid registration into a different contest or fee. If your correction would do that — for example a date of birth that changes your tier — the way to fix it is to cancel that registration from your dashboard and register again with the corrected details (your fee is credited to your Kashflow account when you cancel, so you are not out of pocket). The team will point you to this if it applies.

If the participant is under 18, the parent or guardian is the one entering into the agreement with us. That covers every Junior format, and it also covers a Senior entry where the date of birth given shows the participant is under 18.

The registration form asks for this on the details step: the parent or guardian's full name and email address — it has to be a different address from the participant's own — and a tick-box confirming they have read and accept the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy on the participant's behalf, and agree to the registration, the fee and the use of the participant's information to run the competition.

The payment cannot go ahead until that is filled in, and we keep a record of it with the date and time. We do not send anything to the parent or guardian's address to check it. If a registration was made for someone under 18 without their parent or guardian knowing, send us a request from quiz.skollar.club/contact and we will cancel it.

Register in the Early Bird window — by 2 September 2026, 11:59 PM IST, and among the first 1,000 successful registrations in that format — and your full fee is refunded: it comes straight back to you as Koins in your Kashflow account, shown as Sikka if you are in India, and after the competition concludes it can be redeemed to your bank once withdrawals open (see the withdrawal section below for the date). That is what makes Early Bird participation 100% free. It is credited at the same value you paid, as soon as your payment is confirmed. There is no form to fill in and nothing to claim: you will see it on your Kashflow account page at quiz.skollar.club/koins/kashflow. A place counts once your payment succeeds, and each format has its own 1,000 — so entering three formats uses one place in each of those three.

Early Bird has run in two phases: the original discounted phase, which closed 15 August 2026, and the extended phase from 16 August to 2 September 2026 at the standard fee. In the extended phase the price you pay is the same as Standard — the difference is that the full 100% fee-back applies, so the seat still ends up free. Both phases draw from the same first-1,000 count in each format.

You can spend that balance across Skollar, Kariant and the other products and platforms Kariant operates straight away.

The fee-back does not depend on anything else. You get it whether or not you go on to compete, and whether or not you win a prize. If you cancel your registration, you keep it.

Registrations made after Early Bird closes for your format — either from 3 September 2026, or earlier if that format has already filled its 1,000 Early Bird places — do not include the fee-back. Standard registration runs to 10 October 2026. That fee pays for your seat: it is not credited back while you hold the seat, the way an Early Bird fee is. If you later cancel a Standard registration, the fee is credited to your Kashflow account as Koins at that point — so the difference between the two windows is when you get the value, not whether.

Every paid registration — any format, either registration window — includes lifetime Skollar Premium: complete membership to every Skollar platform, from skollar.club (purpose-built for India and China aspirants) to the global Skollar products. It is recorded on your account the moment your payment is confirmed, and it never expires.

Skollar Premium itself is launching soon on skollar.club, and your lifetime membership is honoured from the day it launches — there is nothing to claim and nothing more to pay, ever.

One thing to know: the membership is funded by your paid registration. If you cancel your only paid registration, the lifetime Premium that came with it ends too — the fee-back Koins you already hold are unaffected. If you are registered for more than one format, your membership stands as long as at least one paid registration does.

Your Kashflow account is your unified billing account — one account you use across Skollar, Kariant and the other products and platforms Kariant operates. It is created for you automatically when you sign up, so you never have to open one.

It is one balance, simply labelled in your own currency, and you can see it any time at quiz.skollar.club/koins/kashflow.

From 15 November 2026, 00:00 IST, your available Koins or Sikka are shown inside Kash as available — that is the point from which you can place a withdrawal request. This covers both the Early Bird fee-back and any cash prize you win. One honest wrinkle: credits issued before the schedule moved to October keep the 15 October 2026 date they were originally promised — a credit never unlocks later than the date you were told when it landed.

You withdraw whatever is still left at the time you ask, based on how much you have used. If you have already spent part of the balance across Skollar or Kariant, you withdraw the remainder, not the original amount. Spend none of it and you can withdraw all of it.

Withdrawal also depends on bank withdrawals being open on Kariant, and your Kashflow account page shows clearly whether they are. Requests are reviewed and approved by our team before payment is sent, and how long it then takes to reach you depends on your bank and the payment route.

Before your first withdrawal you save your payout details on the Kashflow page — where the money should be sent. In India that is a UPI ID or a bank account with its IFSC code; everywhere else it is a PayPal email. They are saved once and every payout goes to what is saved, and for your safety the full account number is never shown back on the page — only its last digits.

When your saved payout details are set up or changed, we email you. If they are changed many times in a short period we send one clear security warning and then fewer follow-up emails, so do not read silence as safety — open your payout details and check what is on file. Every change is recorded either way. If you get any of those emails and it was not you, change your password immediately and contact us: nothing is paid out without a person reviewing it first.

If a withdrawal request is turned down, the request shows a short note telling you exactly what to fix — for example incomplete bank details, or payout details saved for the wrong region. Money set aside for a request that is turned down returns to your balance automatically.

One special case: if a payment on your account is under review with the payment provider — for example your bank has queried a card charge — withdrawals and Kash conversion are paused until that review is resolved. Your balance is safe and stays spendable across Skollar and Kariant the whole time. If you believe the review is a mistake, email quiz@skollar.club and we will look at it with you.

You can cancel from your dashboard. Cancelling gives up your seat for that format, and no money goes back to your card — because your fee is held in your Kashflow account as Koins instead (shown as Sikka in India). If you registered in the Early Bird window, it is already there and cancelling does not take it away. If you registered in the Standard window, we credit the fee you paid to your Kashflow account at the moment you cancel. Either way you can spend that balance across Skollar and Kariant straight away, and once the competition concludes you can ask us to send it to your bank, from 15 November 2026, when withdrawals are open on Kariant. Cancelling also ends the lifetime Skollar Premium membership that came with that registration (see the section above) — unless another confirmed paid registration of yours still stands.

There is one cut-off: you can cancel any time up to 10 October 2026, 11:59 PM IST, when registrations close. After that your seat is confirmed and can no longer be cancelled. Not turning up on your quiz day is not a cancellation — it returns nothing, in either registration window.

If you change your mind again, you can register for that format once more while seats are still open, at whatever fee applies at that time. If a payment was interrupted part-way, pick it up again from the "Complete payment" link on your dashboard.

If we cancel the competition, or a format, the fee comes back to you the same way everything else does — credited to your Kashflow account as Koins (shown as Sikka in India), at the value you paid, not back to your card. This applies whichever window you registered in, Early Bird or Standard. If you already had the fee-back for that registration, you are not credited twice for the same fee.

If we have to decline a registration because the format's eligibility rules were not met and you registered in good faith, the fee comes back to you the same way — as Koins (shown as Sikka in India) at the value you paid, whichever window you registered in — so you are never left out of pocket for a seat you could not use. Early Bird registrants already have the fee back as the fee-back and keep it; nobody is credited twice for the same fee. A registration made by knowingly misstating eligibility is handled under the fair-play rules at quiz.skollar.club/fair-play instead.

Actual money going back to your card or bank is rare, and only happens when a charge was a mistake — for example if you were charged twice for the same seat. Send a request from quiz.skollar.club/contact with the topic "Payment, fee-back or prize" and your payment reference, and we will sort it out. The full policy is at quiz.skollar.club/refund-policy.