The numbers behind the journey to the National Championship. Here is #NSMQPrelims at a glance. #NSMQ2026 #Primetime
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood

Channel
@nationalscienceandmathsquiz
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6,758subscribers
+106 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001342502672 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @nationalscienceandmathsquiz |
| Created | 20 August 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 14 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/nationalscienceandmathsquiz |
Education — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 84% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
These are measurements, not verdicts. Each one below states something we counted, alongside the evidence it was counted from, so you can check it rather than take it. None of them is graded: every observation this register holds is recorded at severity 0, because the precision of the detectors behind them has not been measured yet, and a rating we cannot support is worse than none. Read each as a fact about the data, not as a judgement about the channel. How we measure.
Posts published here appear word for word on 1 other registered channel. The matching is on the text itself, not on Telegram’s forward marker, so it finds a copy whether or not it was labelled as one.
| Posted first | Then | Overlap | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| @nationalscienceandmathsquiz/18405 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 14:45 UTC | @talksphereupdates/5566 Aug 2026, 14:46 UTC | 1.00 | 72 seconds |
| @nationalscienceandmathsquiz/18408 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 14:52 UTC | @talksphereupdates/5596 Aug 2026, 14:53 UTC | 1.00 | under a minute |
| @nationalscienceandmathsquiz/18412 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 15:34 UTC | @talksphereupdates/5636 Aug 2026, 15:43 UTC | 1.00 | 8 minutes |
| @nationalscienceandmathsquiz/18413 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 15:42 UTC | @talksphereupdates/5646 Aug 2026, 15:43 UTC | 1.00 | 72 seconds |
| @nationalscienceandmathsquiz/18415 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 15:52 UTC | @talksphereupdates/5666 Aug 2026, 22:28 UTC | 1.00 | 6.6 hours |
| @nationalscienceandmathsquiz/18418 · this entry6 Aug 2026, 16:43 UTC | @talksphereupdates/5696 Aug 2026, 22:28 UTC | 1.00 | 5.8 hours |
| Channel | Matching posts | Text overlap | Typical gap | Published first |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| @talksphereupdates | 8 (8/8 hand-verifiable sample passed) | 1.00 | 2.3 hours | this entry (8–0) |
Text overlap is the Jaccard coefficient over the set of distinct three-word phrases in the two bodies: 1.00 is identical wording, and the threshold for counting a pair at all is 0.70. Candidates are generated by simhash LSH (4 x 16-bit bands, exact Hamming <= 3) verified against the bodies with Jaccard over the SET of distinct 3-word shingles. Published first counts which side of each matching pair carries the earlier timestamp — in this corpus, which is the limitation directly below.
What this cannot establish
MEASURED, DOMINANT ERROR SOURCE: a post ingested before 2026-08-06 may have carried a forward header that was not recorded. A 45-pair hand-check against live t.me pages found 14 (31%) where the live page shows a forward header naming the other channel and the database has none, plus 4 more (9%) naming a third party. The text match itself was wrong 0 times out of 45. Read attribution_capture.items_in_trusted_window before treating the unattributed count as a claim.
Telegram lets a channel forward a post with a header naming the source, and we only began reliably recording that header on 2026-08-06. None of the 0 matches recorded here fall after that date, so for this entry we cannot say whether any of them carried a credit. The duplication is measured; the absence of attribution is not.
“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 21 comparable posts for this entry, running 6 August 2026 to 7 August 2026. A channel we have read one page deep will look younger than a neighbour we have read in full, and the order would flip with no change in the underlying facts.
The detector’s own notes on this observation, as it recorded them. Names in this_style are fields of the underlying evidence record, which the plain-English paragraphs above read out for this entry.
Across the whole group of 2, the earliest publisher we hold is @nationalscienceandmathsquiz — which is this entry. That is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.
Recorded under the key clone_source, last confirmed 7 August 2026. An observation that a later pass no longer finds is cleared, and a cleared observation is removed from this page rather than being shown struck through — we do not keep publishing a claim we have withdrawn. Dispute an observation.
This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 1 other registered channel, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.
Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sept 2026, 22:42 | 6,758 | -38 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 22:18 | 6,796 | -28 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 11:20 | 6,824 | -12 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 07:16 | 6,836 | +2 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 02:25 | 6,834 | +21 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 20:13 | 6,813 | +55 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 04:16 | 6,758 | +63 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 10:47 | 6,695 | +46 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 09:34 | 6,649 | +5 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 14:34 | 6,644 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 02:15 | 6,643 | +3 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 23:43 | 6,640 | -7 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 21:17 | 6,647 | -5 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 00:15 | 6,652 | first reading |
40 posts held, back to 6 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 10 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 40 posts for this entry, the most recent from 19 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 1 video with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
18 reactions across 11 posts, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 18 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 11 of the 40 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 18 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 40 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 19 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
The numbers behind the journey to the National Championship. Here is #NSMQPrelims at a glance. #NSMQ2026 #Primetime
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
143 schools have arrived for the #NSMQPrelims. Catch all the action tomorrow with nine contests on the opening day. #NSMQ2026 #Primetime
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
KUMASI HIGH ARE HERE! 🔥💙💛 With two national semi-final appearances (2016 & 2017) and quarter-final runs in 2023 and 2025, the Landlords return for #NSMQ2026 aiming for another deep run! 🏆🔥 They face Jachie Pramso SHS and Nalerigu SHS in Contest 8 of the Preliminary Stage on 20th August 2026.
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
KNUST SHS ARE HERE! 💙💛🔥 After reaching the One-eighth Stage in 2024 and 2025, they return for #NSMQ2026, securing their spot with 49 points at the regional qualifiers. Can they go deeper this year? 🦉 They face St. Joseph Seminary SHS and SDA SHS, Agona in Contest on Friday, 21st August 2026.
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
KSTS ARE HERE! 💚🤍 Kumasi Senior High Technical School has steadily built its NSMQ reputation since making its national debut in 2022. After reaching the One-eighth Stage in 2024 and 2025, the Animuonyamfo return for #NSMQ2026, hoping to go even further this time. Can KSTS make a deeper run? They battle St. Mary’s SHS and Agona SHTS in Contest 30 of the Preliminary Stage on Saturday, 22nd August 2026.
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
ARRIVAL OF SCHOOLS; BOLGATANGA GIRLS’ SHS ARE HERE! 🩷🩷 After finishing third in their 2024 National Championship preliminary contest with 29 points, behind Navrongo SHS (39) and St. Mary’s Seminary SHS, Lolobi (36), BOGISS is back with another shot at glory. Can the Virtuous Ladies make a deeper run at #NSMQ2026? They face Boa Amponsem SHS and Berekum SHS in Contest 32 of the Preliminary Stage on Sunday, August 23,…
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
*FINAL: Six Slots Remain as Four Schools Battle for Final NSMQ Places.* Four schools are currently tied on 37 points and share positions from 35th on the ranking. With only two places available, the schools will face one another in a decisive tiebreaker contest in Accra on Wednesday, August 12, 2026. The top two schools in the tiebreaker will secure the final places at the National Championship. The current ranki…
❤4
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
UPPER WEST End of Contest St. Francis Xavier Junior Seminary: 50pts Wa SHS: 22pts Kanton SHS: 17pts Tumu SHTS: 12pts St. Francis Xavier Jnr. Sem. becomes the final winner of the Upper West Qualifiers, progressing to the National Championship. #NSMQ2026 #NSMQRegionals #Primetime
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
UPPER WEST End of Round 2 St. Francis Xavier Junior Seminary: 31pts Wa SHS: 20pts Kanton SHS: 12pts Tumu SHTS: 02pts #NSMQ2026 #NSMQRegionals #Primetime
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
UPPER WEST End of Contest Nandom SHS: 53pts T. I. Ahmadiyya SHS, Wa: 30pts Lassia Tuolu SHS: 08pts Nandom SHS win the contest with overwhelming dominance to qualify to the Nationals, but T. I. AMASS, Wa get the @GOIL_Official Riddle Bonanza! #NSMQ2026 #NSMQRegionals #Primetime
❤1
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
UPPER EAST At the end of an eventful day, here are the scores for today. See you on Monday, August 10, 2026 for the final four #NSMQRegionals contests, featuring schools from the Upper West region. #NSMQ2026 #Primetime
❤2
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
*CURRENT STANDINGS* : The ranking of Top Runners-up ahead of the last day of #NSMQRegionals (Monday, August 10, 2026). 1. Afua Kobi Ampem Girls' SHS – 50pts 2. Asanteman SHS – 50pts 3. KNUST SHS – 49pts 4. Akwamuman SHS – 48pts 5. Labone SHS – 48pts 6. St. Mary’s Boys’ SHS – 48pts 7. Wesley High School, Bekwai – 48pts 8. Presbyterian SHS, Bompata – 47pts 9. Presby SHTS, Aburi – 47pts 10. Adu Gyamfi SHS – 46pts 11. S…
❤1
Signed Sikaba Claude Elwood
Showing the 12 most recent of 40 posts we hold for @nationalscienceandmathsquiz. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“National science and maths quiz updates 🏆✅🔥🔥” (@nationalscienceandmathsquiz), 6,758 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/nationalscienceandmathsquiz.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.