BEST IN ENGLISH 

2026

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Online English language competition

Mobile phone friendly

For all high schools of any type

For students aged 14-20

Already a 14th season

2025 STATISTICS

31 456 students

793 schools

32 countries

NEXT COMPETITION

26 November, 2026

9:00-14:00

60 minutes

What is a Best in English contest?

A unique online English language competition within the EU and beyond. It is opened to all high schools and their students aged 14-20. It is a great language benchmarking tool.

The best students win a 2-week trip to Canada.

“No competition, no progress.” - Bela Karolyi

Watch a short video to learn more about BIE.

news

2026 BIE registration is now open

03.02.2026 | 295 days until contest

The registration for the 2026 Best In English is now open.registrations are open What’s new?...

2025 Best In English Test Results

19.12.2025 | 341 days until contest

Best In English 2025 – Results & Highlights We are happy to publish the official...

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Best In English media coverage

In previous years the Best In English had great publicity including news on Czech TV and the competition was mentioned in dozens of articles, newspapers and online magazines.

for partners

BIE partnership program

We have developed long term partnerships with Czech and international companies, ministries of education, language schools and of course, hundreds of cooperating high schools around the world. Thanks a lot for all your support!

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Loreta Vainauskienė

Kruonis Gymnasium

Kruonis, Lithuania

Dear Andrea, everything went smoothly during the test. Thank you and the team of BIE. Pagarbiai

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Martina Kir Jambrek

Ekonomska škola

Požega, Croatia

Dear BIE team, I would just like to say thank you for all the effort and energy you have all put into the competition and organized everything smoothly. My students definitely want to participate again. It is great to see your enthusiasm and I just want to say: keep up the good work. It is really challenging to organize something like that on a big scale.

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Levente Klőr

Secondary Vocational School

Dunajská Streda, Slovakia

Greetings from the Secondary Vocational School from Dunajská Streda, Slovakia! Thank you for organizing this great competition!

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