Opoku Ware School has qualified for the quarter-final stage of the 2018 NSMQ after winning the 10th contest of the one-eighth session on Thursday, June 21, 2018.
 After a tough and intriguing challenge, Opoku Ware School kicked out its competitors Ghana Secondary Technical School(G.S.T.S) and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Girls' SHS with a wide margin.
Opoku Ware School won with 61 points, while G.S.T.S scored 33 points and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Girls' SHS scored 30 points.
The one-eighth stage of the NSMQ 2018 spans from June 18 to June 27, 2018, with each contest having a seeded school from last year’s competition against two schools from the preliminaries.
The winners of the 27 contests will then progress to the quarter-finals where they gain automatic qualification to the 2019 edition of the competition.
At the quarterfinal stage, each point of the competing schools will be worth Five Ghana cedis (GHS 5) and this will be paid out to each of the three competitors and their teacher.
The Quarter Finals stage spans from June 28th- June 30, and Semi-Finals on July 2, 2018.
The Grand Finale of the NSMQ 2018 will be held on Thursday, July 5, 2018.