Mimamsa-IISER

MIMAMSA is a national level inter-collegiate science competition for UG (1st, 2nd and 3rd Year) students, organized by IISER PUNE.

Over the years the means of implementing this philosophy have been honed to give rise to one of India’s toughest science quizzes.

The team wanted to break the mould of trivia-based quizzes and encourage participants to question their understanding along with their knowledge.

The centres were Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Kolkata and Hyderabad, in addition to the host city, Pune.

The team comprising students of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, emerged as the winners of Mimamsa 2012.

Mimamsa 2013[7] covered seven cities across the country, Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai.

Mimamsa 2015 prelims saw a participation of 250 teams in 9 centres across India – Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Thiruvananthapuram.

The top 4 qualifying teams participated in the challenging finals which was held in the month of April'23 at the IISER Pune campus.

The prelims generally take place during the second week of January and cover all the four subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.

The mains are generally held during the second week of March and spread over two consecutive days, comprising questions in all the four subjects.

The idea was to come up with a science competition based on these principles rather than the usual quizzing philosophy which does not require participants to think.