# Making a submission

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You must be a participant of the challenge before you can make a submission.
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Once the challenge has started, you can start making submissions. Follow the steps to make your first submission:

1. Goto to the challenge page.
2. Click on "**My Submission**" and you will be redirected to the submission page.
3. On this page, click on "**+ New Submission**" and follow the on-screen steps.
4. After successful submission, you will be able to see your score (if the challenge has enabled auto-grading).

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If a challenge has **disabled auto-grading** the submission will be graded by the organizer manually.
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Some important points regarding your submission:

1. Make sure you read the submission guidelines of the challenge carefully.
2. The submissions are usually auto-graded. If the submissions are not auto-graded, it may take up to a day to see your score.
3. You must abide by the rules of the challenge.
4. You can make up to 20 submissions every day.


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