Kathmandu . Winners of the British Council’s IELTS Gift season 3.0 were honoured with prizes at an event on 17 December 2025. Building on the success of IELTS उपहार in 2024, the British Council launched the third edition of IELTS Gift Season 3.0, offering much bigger and better rewards to IELTS test takers.
This year’s offer was open to British Council IELTS test takers who registered and completed payment between 15 August and 30 November for any IELTS on paper or IELTS on computer test. A total of 97 test takers have won Gift, who were selected through a weekly lucky draw and announced on the British Council Facebook channel.
This year, we have three monthly prize winners and four bumper prize winners. Three lucky monthly winners received an Apple MacBook Air. Three lucky winners won a one-way Turkish Airlines-sponsored ticket to the UK, Europe and the USA, while one lucky winner won a way ticket to Australia sponsored by the British Council.
- Apple MacBook winners – Prantika Adhikari, Shraddha Shrestha and Kritagya Shrestha
- Turkish Airlines ticket winners to the UK, Europe and the USA – Sushobhan Chimoriya, Atithi Thapa, and Sandeep Jamkatel, respectively.
- British Council sponsored a one-way ticket to Australia for the winner, Shikshya Tripathi.
During the event, we also selected three lucky IELTS Registration partners from the top 10 highest contributors during the campaign period. Each partner was presented with an iPad as a token of appreciation for their support and commitment to promoting IELTS.
- RTC English
- Sumedha Education Network
- The Next Education Consultancy
The British Council’s platinum partner, OME, was the highest contributor to B2B volume, followed by KIEC Learning Centre.
Pratistha Thapa Rayamajhi, Exams Director, British Council Nepal, shared at the function ‘Congratulations to all the winners of the IELTS उपहार Campaign. As we continue to strengthen access to IELTS across Nepal, our focus remains on expanding choice, convenience, and quality for test takers by increasing capacity and expanding availability. We are encouraged by the strong collaboration with our IELTS partners, whose continued support enables us to deliver secure, high-quality assessments that help candidates move confidently towards their higher education pursuits.’
About IELTS
The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is the world’s most popular English language proficiency test for higher education and global migration. Over 13,000 organisations globally trust IELTS. These organisations include educational institutions, employers, governments and professional bodies. IELTS is jointly owned by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge Assessment English. Find out more about IELTS here: www.ielts.org
About the British Council
The British Council is the UK’s international culture and education organisation. We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide. We do this through our work in arts and culture, education and the English language. We work with people in over 200 countries and territories. In 2024–25, we reached 600 million people.www.britishcouncil.org.np
