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The second round takes place at twelve different universities. It contains 5 questions where the answer is a certain number and 2 open questions. There are a few optional training days and then the third round takes place at the Eindhoven University of Technology. It contains 5 open questions. The best 30 are invited to the training program.
[5] North Korea is the only country whose entire team has been caught cheating, resulting in its disqualification at the 32nd IMO in 1991 and the 51st IMO in 2010. [6] (However, the 2010 case was controversial. [7] [8]) There have been other disqualifications of contestants due to cheating, but such cases are not officially made public. [9]
The Bangladesh team at the 2009 IMO Serbia's team for the 2010 IMO Zhuo Qun (Alex) Song (Canadian), the most highly decorated IMO contestant with 5 golds and 1 bronze medal Maryam Mirzakhani (Iran), the first woman to be honored with a Fields Medal, won 2 gold medals in 1994 and 1995, getting a perfect score in the second year.
From 1974 until 1999, the competition (then known as the American High School Math Examination, or AHSME) had 30 questions and was 90 minutes long, scoring 5 points for correct answers. Originally during this time, 1 point was awarded for leaving an answer blank, however, it was changed in the late 1980s to 2 points.
Zhuo Qun Song, the most highly decorated IMO contestant with 5 golds and 1 bronze medal. Ciprian Manolescu, the only person to achieve three perfect scores at the IMO (1995–1997). The following table lists all IMO Winners who have won at least three gold medals, with corresponding years and non-gold medals received noted (P denotes a perfect ...
An answer is marked on either a "0+" or a "10-" mark scheme, depending on whether the answer looks generally complete or not. [5] An answer judged incomplete or unfinished is usually capped at 3 or 4, whereas for an answer judged as complete, marks may be deducted for minor errors or poor reasoning but it is likely to get a score of 7 or more.
The competition is three hours long. There are five questions on the CMO, each worth seven marks, for a total of 35 points. Each problem is graded the same way as it is on the IMO. From 1969 to 1972, the CMO was ten questions long. In the 1970s, the exam length changed a number of times before finally stabilizing to five questions in 1979.
There are 4 questions in each Final Individual Event. The questions have to be solved by alternate contestants independently, and no discussions are allowed. For each event, the questions are interrelated, i.e. to solve the second question, the answer of the first question is needed, and to solve the third, the answer from the second is needed ...