New in the Student Developer Pack: Students, get GitHub Foundations certified!

[morganersery1]

Get your GitHub Foundations credential! - [Updated 11/11]

[Update 11/11] Hello all. Thanks for your patience. The offer has resumed. Be sure that you are logged into your account that has an active student coupon attached to it in order to redeem the offer.

[Update: 9/30] - Thanks so much for your patience as we work across multiple teams to get this offer back up and running for students. Estimates are that the offer will resume by the end of October. We will let you know as soon as it is up!**

[Update: 9/20] - We are working hard with the team to get this Foundations Certification offer up and running again! We will let you know as soon as it is up!

[Update: 9/18] - Oops! We ran into a little bug and had to disable the GitHub Foundations Certification Experience and offer temporarily. We’re working hard to smash that pesky bug and hope to enable this great opportunity for verified students asap! You can still prepare for the exam with the study guide and other helpful resources here!

Getting GitHub certified is a resounding endorsement that validates your skills, credibility, trust, and knowledge of the technologies and developer tools that are used by more than 100 million developers worldwide.

Starting today, GitHub Education is thrilled to be able to waive the exam fee for verified students for the GitHub Foundations certification!

The GitHub Foundations certification validates your ability to use GitHub for version control, collaboration, and workflow automation. The exam assesses' proficiency in understanding GitHub's core features and best practices.

Highlight your understanding of the foundational topics and concepts of collaborating, contributing, and working on GitHub including Git basics, GitHub products and working within repositories.

How Do You Get Started?

To qualify, get verified, then go straight to the offer in the student developer pack or explore our Foundations Certification Prep Experience which has links to study guides, practice courses, FAQs and more to get you prepared.

If you try the benefit but are seeing a 50% discount instead of a full discount, here are some ways to troubleshoot:

• Ensure that your student verification is active
• Ensure you're booking just the Foundations exam
• If you tried to log in and book an exam in September (pre-bug) it could be that you need to retry on a clean page. Try the following:
• Logging out, clearing your cache and logging back in.
• Login in Incognito Mode
• Go to a fresh Chrome browser page, log in to GitHub and go through the exam booking flow

[PhuyalGaurav]

Cool

[dirshaye]

any news?? it is dec 22

[nikhilkadam21]

[tanmayagrwl]

I am facing the same problem, I am getting 49$ as fees instead of 0.

[sahilkhanvilkar10]

its june 2025 then to its showing $49 plz fix this problem

[PranavvNambiar]

Yes, it is showing $49 dollars for the exam fee

[barishaxxer]

is it gonna be free again? or did we just miss the boat 😞

[khoasv89]

is it free, i see it cost 99.99$

[rewyekha]

is it free, i see it cost 99.99$

For me, it's showing 49.5$ only.

[Shahzal-Rehman]

where to find the coupon

[lishenjian1996]

Me too, I have the same question

[Shahzal-Rehman]

now i have certifed and got the coupon the supportteam said it will automatically apply just to go here in incingto window https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.pexamregistration.github.com/exam/GHF
it will give like this if you seee like this then you are all set

[elaineliu85]

Does Foundations credential mean academic benefits?
Normally we can get academic affiliation verified within 1 day, but now due to some reason, Github cannot verify it soon?

[tigran-sargsyan-w]

there's no sence for that. you won't get achievment for that. They deleted this achievement for this reason

[mateushenriquedasilva]

Fiz a solicitação para o Student Developer Pack e fui aprovado, mas os benefícios ainda não foram liberados 😬. Demora muito para serem liberados?

[mateushenriquedasilva]

Ahhh, blz! Vou ficar no aguardo então!

[GustavoVieiraa]

Sim, e também tem algumas promoções que não foram aplicadas devidamentes.

[C4rolanne]

E ai, vocês conseguiram o free plan?

[hugojunior]

Ninguém conseguiu @C4rolanne, basicamente eles liberaram bugado e até quem não era estudante estava conseguindo fazer gratuitamente. Desativaram para corrigir e a previsão é até o final de outubro.

[igorfiori]

demora um pouco, mas libera

[willymateo]

I'm waiting to take this certified. I think this can improve my career 🚀. Please set free again 🙏🏾

[abdullah-dev5]

let us know if any updates related to it .

[davidsonfe]

alguém conseguiu 100% free?

[feed0]

Somebody shout me out when it’s fixed please!

[anadevti]

Do we have any updates on this?

[LuizCampedelli]

i received an email:

"Regarding the student discount, it has been temporarily paused due to a technical bug that we are currently working to resolve. However, if you're still interested, the GitHub Foundations exam is currently available at a 50% discount."

So i think we have to wait, so the bug can be fixed.

Thats all

[avni]

Hi all, We are working hard with the team to get this Foundations Certification offer up and running again! We will let you know as soon as it is back up! Thank you!

[rachelkx]

Great! Thank you!

[ChenYilong]

Sweat as! Thank you for your hard work! Somebody shout me out when it’s fixed, please!

[Jacksx20]

Looking forward to the prompt repair

[khoasv89]

how can i take it free?

[anay-208]

Hi, I had a question.

Is there any Minimum age required to give this exam?

[AbdullahWins]

Nope, but to avail github education, you must be atleast 13. so you can take that as a minimum age requirement if you're planning to apply through github education.

To learn more visit official github education site:
https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.peducation.github.com/discount_requests/application

[Injamul2k24]

How to get 50% discount in github foundation certificated examination

[Ritiktiwari626]

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[geanfernandess]

I can't take the GitHub Foundations test

[ymadhumohanreddy]

try in incognito it works for me

[BeTiker]

try in incognito it works for me

Incognito mode worked for me too. Thanks for the suggestion!

[maulikma]

After more than 4 days still not got access of student developer pack

[codepressed]

Incognite seems to work.

[carlosferreyra]

i did not purchase the exam yet, but I've got until the checkout part and everything worked fine as well... maybe the browser cache has something to do with it.

[Saadsaleem17]

It isn't working for me even in the incognitco

[Volubal]

Hello, the offer apparently no longer works?

[santhoshkumar48321]

I'm a verified student. I took GitHub Foundation and failed on my first attempt, so now I'm well prepared and ready for my second attempt, but it shows fees for the exam .
so please help to use my benefit and help me to take the exam without any fees

[c6p]

No free voucher for me too.

It says that I'm eligible, but no voucher has been applied. I will be taking the exam for the first time.

[zoeparis]

The exam is free but there is a mandatory retake fee

[c6p]

I'll be taking the exam for the first time. Though as others has stated in the thread, voucher seems to work in incognito mode.

[zoeparis]

I'll be taking the exam for the first time. Though as others has stated in the thread, voucher seems to work in incognito mode.

safari incognito mode? because not working in chrome incognito

[c6p]

I have used firefox.

[laurds]

Any news?? Still happen the same thing 😣

[teli-go]

Hi!! I've got some problem but when I use incognito mode it worked. Probably when you delete cookie files it will also work.

[SammanGIT]

Can I retake the exam if I fail once? I have the discount applied and booked the test already for Ghf.

[hakeem-afk]

Try downloading a new browser and go to incognito mode and it worked finally

[Sheikh-Anas-Tauseef]

Hi,
I received free access to the GitHub Foundations Certification. However, when I clicked to start the exam, the system showed I had failed the test without even beginning it. I did not attempt any questions. I believe this is a system error. Could you please reset my attempt or allow a retake?
I need this certification and would really appreciate your help.

Thank you.

[Krushna-Nanda]

Hi GitHub Support Team,

I was trying to schedule the GitHub Foundations Certification exam but got a message saying the scheduling window has closed and I’m not eligible to take the exam.

I read on your website that the voucher system is migrating and will resume in the fall. However, my GitHub Student Pack is set to expire in August. I'm worried that by the time the vouchers become available again, I might not be eligible anymore due to the expiration.

Can you please advise what I should do in this case? Is there any way I can still get access to the certification before my student pack expires?

Thanks a lot for your support!

Best regards,
Krushna

[Suraj-kumar00]

Hi github team,
I'm trying to take this GitHub Foundation Certification Exam but I'm stuck here,

[mmintah247]

I am having similar issue, they have migrated to Personvue but I am still not able to redeem my voucher