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Stage 5 or Pre Departure camp for IMO:The selected team of 6 students goes through another round of training and orientation for about 10 days prior to departure for IMO. Stage 6 or IMO: The Olympiad program culminates with the participation of the students in the IMO. 4 teachers or mentors accompany the students.
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. [1] It is widely regarded as the most prestigious mathematical competition in the world. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except in 1980.
[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]
Canadian Mathematical Olympiad — competition whose top performers represent Canada at the International Mathematical Olympiad The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) based out of the University of Waterloo hosts long-standing national competitions for grade levels 7–12 [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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 ...
The 2007 competitions were the first with only 1.5 points awarded for a blank, to discourage students from leaving a large number of questions blank in order to assure qualification for the AIME. For example, prior to this change, on the AMC 12, a student could advance with only 11 correct answers, presuming the remaining questions were left blank.
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Currently, about 60 highest-scoring contestants amongst the first class award winners are invited to the national training squad, who will go through a training camp to select the IMO team. Until 2016, the training camp consisted of a single phase with several regular tests and a team selection test, which was in the format of the IMO.