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10 Days in the IOI Training Camp What it is ...  The IOITC or the IOI Training Camp in India is the final level of selection for the Indian team of the IOI. Only the top 4 in the final rank list are selected. The difficulty level of the IOITC is considerably harder than INOI. Although most people presumably study more than the prescribed by the official webpage , but still... one can qualify in the national round with just basic knowledge of graph theory like BFS and DFS , a little DP and a spoonful of logic. However, in this blog, I will mostly relate my experience in this year's IOITC17. Here Goes ....  So this year I was selected for the IOITC. Being in class 9, I was the youngest this year. Even after giving INOI, I knew I would probably would... I had been able to solve both the problems, so it was not much of a surprise when the mail came with the official result. However, this year, a lot of class 10 students were allowed :  the cutoff for below class 11 w

International Informatics Olympiad Training Camp Preparing for the IOI Training Camp was not any different for me as the usual practice. Though saying that would be a bit inadequate as I practiced very little competitive programming in the months from November to March, mainly due to school exams. Still, I would like to give a few pointers that might help. Firstly, try solving all the problems from the IARCS problem archive. Although this should be a pre-requisite for preparing for INOI, it is not necessary. However, solving all the problems of the problem archive should help you. For my own part, I rarely submitted actual solutions to get AC, mainly due to lack of time, (and a little bit of laziness :), ehh not really ) but I tried finding the solutions for all the problems in pen and paper. Next, the main thing to know is that solving problems o CF and Codechef won't help much in the Team Selection Test. They usually are trivial, or have very little in common with t

Indian National Mathematics Olympiad

Indian National Informatics Olympiad Disclaimer : This post is mainly intended for an Indian audience.

Regional Mathematics Olympiad The Regional Mathematics Olympiad (RMO) is the second stage in the selection for the selection of the Indian team to the IMO, the first being the pre-RMO. It is one of the tougher olympiads conducted across India, wherein only about 300 students are selected to sit for the Indian National Mathematics Olympiad(INMO). The main thing that makes RMO tough, at least for the common students, is twofolds -- firstly, the syllebus is quite a bit different than the normal class X or XI curriculum that is followed in schools, especially in areas like combinatorics and number theory, the latter being a topic that is scarcely touched upon. Secondly, in topics that are known to us, like geometry, the level of questions, even if they don't require advanced theorems and results, they need a level of creativity that cannot be mastered overnight. From hereon I will say what I did to clear it last year.. when I was studying in class IX. Firstly, I focused heavil