Sample Stages

One complete stage from every Academic Marathon subject — the material, the questions, and the same side-by-side layout you will meet on the day.

What a Sample Stage Shows You

The real stage layout, open for practice

Material on the Left

The preparatory material for the topic, presented exactly as it is during a marathon.

Questions on the Right

One question at a time, in the same layout and at the same level of demand as the live stage.

Feedback on Selection

Choose an option and see at once whether it is right, with the reasoning behind the correct answer.

Samples Are Practice, Not the Event

Each sample is a full stage: every question of the topic, two marks each, the same total as a live stage. The topic of a sample is not the topic of the live event, and no sample result is recorded.

Choose a Subject

Fourteen marathon subjects, one sample stage each

Mathethon Academic Marathon in Mathematics

The Countable, the Uncountable, and the Architecture of the Infinite

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Physithon Academic Marathon in Physics

Phase Transitions: When Systems Change Everything at Once

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Chemithon Academic Marathon in Chemistry

Catalysis at Scale

8 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Biothon Academic Marathon in Biology

Gene Regulation

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Inforthon Academic Marathon in Informatics

Machine Learning: From Linear Boundaries to Learned Representations

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Envirothon Asia Only Academic Marathon in Environmental Science

The Carbon Cycle: How Carbon Became Civilization's Problem

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Econthon Academic Marathon in Economics

Information Asymmetry

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Psychothon Academic Marathon in Psychology

Judgment and Biases

8 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Geothon Academic Marathon in Geography

Rivers: How Flowing Water Shapes the Continents

7 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Historithon Academic Marathon in History

The Printing Press: How Movable Type Remade the World

8 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Philosothon Academic Marathon in Philosophy

Knowledge: How Do We Know What We Know?

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Lingothon Academic Marathon in Linguistics

Language Change: Why No Language Stays the Same

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Artithon Academic Marathon in Arts

Abstraction: When Art Stopped Depicting the World

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage → Literathon Academic Marathon in Literature

Metaphor: How Language Shapes Thought

6 sections · 100 questions · 200 marks Open sample stage →

Stage timing does not apply here. Open a sample as often as you like, and take as long as you like.