Barring any dramatic turn of events, the 2017 NSMQ race is shaping up as highly competitive.

The 2017 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz is scheduled to end today 29th June 2017 after a keen contest amongst 135-second cycle schools competing for the coveted title.

Using social media to predict outcomes of competitions have become increasingly reflective over the period.

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Pulse Twitter NSMQ conversation is shaping up an incredibly interesting polls.

As today marks the end of the competition, early polls conducted by Pulse Ghana has seen Prempeh College placing ahead of its competitors in the National science and maths quiz competition.

The polls saw 499 netizens participating. Currently Pulse social media polls put Prempeh College ahead by a strong margin of 47%, followed by St Thomas Aquinas with a percentage of 31 and Adisadel College securing the last place with a percentage of 22

Most people have described the finals as an “all-boys affairs” because competing schools  are all single sex boys’ schools.

In 2015, Prempeh College became the first school to score the highest points in the new NSMQ format when they trashed Pope John SHS in the one eight stage of the competition scoring 80 points.

Just two years down the line the kings of Ashanti region put on a show when they met GSTS and Aduman SHS at the quarter finals scoring 82 points to break the record which they previously held.