Computer Applications began during the 1994-95 scholastic year, replacing the Keyboarding contest previously held by UIL.
The first part is a five-minute tie-breaker question, which as its name suggests is only used in the event of a tie on the main test.
No intermediate time signal is given during the tie-breaker; at the end of the five minutes the students must immediately stop typing, at which point they are instructed to print out their answer.
Any commercially-available laptop or notebook computer can be used during the contest, along with printer, external keyboard/keypad, and mouse.
For district meet academic championship and district meet sweepstakes awards, points are awarded to the school as follows: NOTE: For privacy reasons, only the winning school is shown.