Singapore Mathematical Olympiad 2014

Today was the day of the SMO 2014 Junior and Senior Category Round 1. (Tomorrow's Open Category!) Round 2 will be held on 28 June and 5 July for the Round 2 competition. Junior and Senior are for 14 and below and 15-16 year olds respectively. Open is for all who are 18 and below.

(I will try to keep this note brief.) The SMO consists of 2 rounds, a short answer round (Round 1: 35 questions, each worth a mark) and a long answer round (Round 2; working's also graded in this 5 question, 50 mark paper).

The full mark is 85 (I trust everyone can do their addition ;D) and to get into the top 30 in Singapore you normally only need about 40-50 marks.

The point of this note, however, is just to wish everyone in Singapore all the best (@Victor Loh @Charlton Teo @Cedric Tan @Wang Jianzhi @Happy Melodies @Yuxuan Seah @Joshua Ong and others, of course) and hope you do your best! :D Good luck!

P.S. Sorry that this note was 1 day late XD

P.P.S. YAY! This is the first note I've ever written!

#SMO2014

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:) I didn't do well for Junior (so many careless mistakes; only got 20) but ok for Open though...:P

Victor Loh - 7 years ago

Yay! :)

Jianzhi Wang - 7 years ago

How was SMO @Yuxuan Seah ?? Did you take part in Open??? I managed to solve 23 questions (no time because I reserved some time for checking) for Senior (with 1 careless now) and 15 questions for Open...

Happy Melodies - 7 years ago

I did 29 questions for Junior but I got 7 wrong! So I just got 22/35 for Junior. Gj for senior though! For open I did around 15 but I'm not too sure of 4 of them. That makes 11. But 15 questions is good :D Great job overall! :) (I'm only Sec 1)

Yuxuan Seah - 7 years ago

Answers are out on Lim Jeck's blog! Go check! I got 13 for open and 21 for senior :)

Happy Melodies - 7 years ago

@Happy Melodies – Yup I checked. Hence the 22/35 for Junior. But for Open I'm too afraid to look... XD

Yuxuan Seah - 7 years ago

@Yuxuan Seah – 31 and 18 :)

Jianzhi Wang - 7 years ago

@Jianzhi Wang – Give chance, give chance... XD

Yuxuan Seah - 7 years ago

@Happy Melodies – Follow me! :D

Yuxuan Seah - 7 years ago

Y U NO INCLUDE MEEE

Joshua Ong - 7 years ago

K fine sorry XD

Yuxuan Seah - 7 years ago

Happy now? Haha :)

Yuxuan Seah - 7 years ago

@Yuxuan Seah – I failed so badly XD but I know Cedric got like 3 marks.

Joshua Ong - 7 years ago

@Joshua Ong – I probably can get at least a silver cos I suck... What's the 2nd round criteria?

Joshua Ong - 7 years ago

@Joshua Ong – For what Junior? Cut-off score should be around 15-20, I don't think it will be more than 20 seriously.

Happy Melodies - 7 years ago

@Happy Melodies – Dayum I got 14 only I suck pretty bad... Lost 4 marks due to carelessness... Gonna hope for second round. But I can't believe I got question 28 correct!!!!!!!!!

Joshua Ong - 7 years ago

@Joshua Ong – haha I'm not too sure about cut-off score too ... around there lah :p

Happy Melodies - 7 years ago

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