Updates on IOI Workshop 2012

Yesterday was the IOI Workshop 2012 Day 08 and mini-contest 06. Thanks to problem c, which is essentially a mathematical problem, Lim Jeck scored the highest (0.83%) in yesterday's contest. In fact, he was the only one out of 40 students who managed to solve problem c (constitutes 0.5%). He also solved problem b (0.33%) but had no time to solve problem a (0.17%).


Click here for more details about the workshop, and the complete current ranking.

This is the first time that NUS High has taken 3 positions in the top 4! But note that the current ranking is only based on 6% of the overall score to qualify for IOI 2012. Personally, I hope that at the end, at least one each from RI, HCI and NUSH makes it into the top 4 to represent Singapore for the International Olympiad in Informatics 2012, in Italy. The 4th representative can be from any of these 3 schools. I also hope Gan Wei Liang from HCI makes it to the IOI 2012 team as last year he missed the 4th position by a mere 0.7%.

Dr Steven Halim (IOI workshop instructor) said that he wanted to see if this year he managed to have a female student (Lim Min?) surviving until Week 13 as no female student had managed to do so in the past 3 years - usually they drop/disappear by mid semester. Ha ha, I think he might be disappointed again. Lim Min told me that she might drop out anytime soon, as the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI 2012) is already over (held last Saturday) and she does not see any point in continuing, since she thinks that she is unlikely to make it into top 4. As this is Lim Min's JC2 year, she feels that she should be concentrating on her GCE 'A' levels instead of spending much time on Math Olympiad or Informatics Olympiad.