In its launch year, Pune gave a grand start to IQ. Pune repeated this history for IQ where the line to enter the event extended to 100 meters outside the venue. For the first time the Armed Forces Medical College students participated in this event and also was one of the six teams to participate in the city finals. Symbiosis Societies Law College won this event.

Over 272 teams who participated in the preliminary round hailed IQ, at Nagpur. The hall capacity at the IQ venue in Nagpur was 600 and we had over 800 students pouring in to participate in the event. 70 teams (200 students) took the preliminaries (25 questions) squatted in the gangways, on stage and beyond the exit door. The preliminaries eliminated over 100 teams and took the event to its climax with the city finalists trying to tackle the questions IQ was throwing at them. The eliminated teams stayed back to cheer the intense competition between VNIT and SRKNEC. VNIT won the quiz on the second last buzzer question.

IMS Quotient at Kolkata did well too, with 85 teams participating in the finals in spite of a long vacation and repeated strikes. NUJS-National University of Judicial Sciences won the quiz. IQ, at Patna received a warm welcome from the student community. 240 teams registered for the event and awaited IQ to reach their city. The sharp-witted students put in their best effort to qualify for the city final. Finally, students of the Anugrah Narayan College proved themselves the best of the lot by winning the IQ in Patna.