Sage-Tips

How do you get a Gold Medal in IOI?

If you want to get a gold/silver medal in IOI, you should do virtual contests of at least 5 recent years of IOI. With virtual contests, you can gain not only speed-solving skills that you can solve many subtasks within a short time but also your strategy of IOI.

What is the percentage I have to score to become a gold medalist?

All students scoring 100\% marks will be awarded Gold Medal of Excellence.

Who gets gold medals university?

(a) A Gold Medal will be awarded to a student who has passed all the prescribed examination in first attempt forwarded that he/she has the highest marks but not less than 70\% of the aggregate marks.

Who gets gold medal graduation?

17.5 The candidate who secured highest CGPA among eligible candidates (as per criterion 1-4 above) shall be awarded Gold Medal. place of decimal of CGPA shall stand higher in rank. (b) The candidate with highest actual marks/scores obtained in final year shall stand higher in rank.

Is winning an IOI medal enough to get admission in MIT?

So in any case: winning an IOI (or IPhO or IChO or IMO or IBO) medal, even be it a gold medal, is insufficient. It’s not a silver bullet. It’s not a guarantee. On the flip side, there are many internationals who do not have such medals. MIT Admissions is looking for a lot more than medals.

Is winning an IOI medal enough to win the Olympics?

So in any case: winning an IOI (or IPhO or IChO or IMO or IBO) medal, even be it a gold medal, is insufficient. It’s not a silver bullet. It’s not a guarantee.

Do International Science Olympiad medalists get rejected by US universities?

However, the stakes turn significantly if one is an International Science Olympiad medalist and lives in USA. Yup. Last year, an applicant from Armenia, who won an IOI silver, got rejected by MIT and the other top US universities. I am an IPhO silver medalist and I got rejected by MIT twice.

Are there any Canadian IOI competitors who got into MIT?

And only one Canadian IOI competitor has been admitted to MIT since 2007—but he had also won a silver medal at the IMO by the time he applied. On the other hand, plenty of IOI competitors from other countries end up attending MIT as undergraduates.