All About Math Olympiad Training & Questions
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Merlion:
I know and this is not a problem. Just curious where did Kiasiparent get the questions from? :?
To my understanding, some schools returned the preliminary exam paper back to the students.
Anyway, today was NMOS round 2. All students can take their question papers home too i think. -
The NMOS exam round 1 was relatively easy. Any students who have decent calculation skills and good logical mind should be able to do well. Round 2 was rather difficult.
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kiasiparent:
The NMOS exam round 1 was relatively easy. Any students who have decent calculation skills and good logical mind should be able to do well. Round 2 was rather difficult.
anyone has any idea how many correct answers qualifies to second round ? And roughly what are the cut-off marks for gold, silver and bronze ? -
joconde:
If i am not wrong, round 1 has 30 questions and first 10 questions are worth 1 mark each, then next 10 are worth 2 marks each, and finally, last 10 are worth 3 marks each. giving a total of 60 marks.kiasiparent:
The NMOS exam round 1 was relatively easy. Any students who have decent calculation skills and good logical mind should be able to do well. Round 2 was rather difficult.
anyone has any idea how many correct answers qualifies to second round ? And roughly what are the cut-off marks for gold, silver and bronze ?
A candidate should get into round 2 if he scores more than 25/60. (I believe top 10% of the students are invited into round 2 so the the entry score changes every year depending on the difficulty of the competition paper)
By getting into round 2, one is assured of a silver or gold i think.
As for round 2, each question is worth 4 to 5 marks and they add up both the round 1 and round 2 scores just like the SMO Junior, Senior, Open. Only the top 3% of the students will get gold i think and the next 7% will get silver.
Just what i think. -
> By getting into round 2, one is assured of a silver or gold i think.
This is not truth for previous years but maybe for this year. The number of students who got selected to Special Round this year is lesser (by a lot) than previous year due to H1N1.
May I know why the ANSWER sheet for Round 1 that you posted on 16/7 is removed? Also, your posting on 17/7 has been edited? Is there a reason behind this? :? Thanks. -
kiasiparent:
The NMOS exam round 1 was relatively easy. Any students who have decent calculation skills and good logical mind should be able to do well. Round 2 was rather difficult.
I have only one question for Kiasiparent.
Have any of your offsprings won a gold or silver medal for any Maths Olympiad WITHOUT any training? -
Good question from PowerPuff Mum ! :celebrate:
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Merlion:
Different maths competitions have different age requirement. For example NMOS is for P4 and P5. I think P1 or P2 is a bit too young to think about maths competition. you might want to think about GEP selection test first because if your son is really gifted in maths, there is a very good chance that he will be selected for GEP. Please take note that school text book's maths is quite different from competition's maths. A kid can score 100% in school test but that does not mean that the kid can do well in maths competition. You need to be truely gifted in maths in order to do well in maths competition.
Personally, I think skills in competition Maths can be trained. I also know of people who (not trained in competition Maths) did better in their School Maths than those who won Platinum Awards in Competition Maths.
Someone who received rigorous training in Competition Maths (who must be good in Maths in the first place) will be able to answer more of the questions compared to those who are (a) good in Maths, but no/little training &/or (b) Not good in Maths, but with training. Awards are given out on a relative basis. ie. Able to perform better than the majority in your cohort.
Unless MO training becomes part & parcel of the school syllabus and everyone gets similar level of training. The awardees will always be those who bother to get proper training and are dead serious about drilling themselves for the competition and getting an award. Hardwork, besides brain power, does pay. There are many who sign up for the competition after attending only some crash course. -
> I also know of people who (not trained in competition Maths) did better in their School Maths than those who won Platinum Awards in Competition Maths.
I agree and this is very common. It is easy to prepare for school maths test because more or less the questions are kind of "expected". But MO is a bit different, there are too many types of questions and it is not easy to prepare the kid. The kid must be smart enough to apply what he has learnt in school / home to the questions in the competition in a very limited time. A kid can be trained to get into Special Round but I think the kid must be gifted in maths in order to win a Gold / Platinum award. -
Just to share with you something that I learnt from a talk last month. The speaker of the talk told us that most of the Maths competition winners were not TOP students in their school maths test. The reason is that they found the school maths material too boring and refused to be "drilled" with these kind of questions. They still do well in the school tests but not TOP.
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