Code Jam to I/O for Women 2018

Lim Li took part in Google Code Jam for Women 2018 on 17 Feb 2018, Singapore time 11 pm to 1.30 am.

She came in 1st out of over 800 contestants worldwide.

Full Results

Prizes: Those ranked in the top 150 scores of the Contest are eligible to receive a free non-transferable registration to Google I/O 2018 and a reimbursement for travel costs to Google I/O 2018 up to US$500.

Admission to NUS in Academic Year 2018

Lim Li has accepted the admission offer, as well as offer of NUS Merit Scholarship. Though she has been offered a double degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, most likely she will be pursuing just a single degree in Computer Science.

Internship at Jane Street

Jane Street, a Quantitative Trading firm with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong, is known to pay attractively to their Interns. Each year, many undergraduates majoring in Math and/or Computing apply for Jane Street's summer internship.

Types of Internship (from Jane Street's Internship website):

Trading Interns
Work with experienced traders to find and analyze arbitrage strategies, hedge risk, and search for new opportunities. Trading interns usually split their summer between two different trading desks, and spend a week in one of our overseas offices.

Developer Interns
Work with experienced dev mentors on projects that are wide-ranging and have real impact. Learn about trading through classes and build bots that compete on a simulated exchange. Past interns have built protocol compilers, hacked on the internals of our concurrency library, and built real-time visualization tools. Many intern projects are subsequently released as open-source.

Business Development Interns
Work with our business development, compliance, and operations teams to understand the regulatory and operational frameworks of various financial markets, and how they impact the implementation of the firm’s systems, processes, and trading strategies.  Business development interns rotate through projects and mentors over the summer, and spend a week in our London office.

Research Interns
Construct mathematical models, learn about relevant academic research, explore new ideas, and execute studies using Jane Street’s massive research infrastructure.


Past interns have reported that the best part of the internship is the rich educational experience. Every week brings a mix of finance theory and technology classes, mock trading sessions, and guest speakers, on top of careful one-on-one mentoring with experienced traders and technologists.

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According to Glassdoor, the average monthly pay in US$ for a Software Engineer Intern is as follows:

Jane Street: $10,416
Facebook: $8,000
Amazon: $7,632
Twitter: $7,054
Microsoft: $6,816
Apple: $6,700
Google: $5,878

Singapore Biology Olympiad 2017 Results

18TH SINGAPORE BIOLOGY OLYMPIAD (SBO 2017) – RESULTS

Note: Names within each award category are not arranged in order of merit.

NUSH Mums Gathering

21 January 2018, Lingzhi Vegetarian Restaurant, Velocity @ Novena Square

Singapore Chemistry Olympiad 2017 Results

SChO 2017 Full Results

Singapore Physics Olympiad 2017 Results

SPhO 2017 Results

Invitation to Participate in the Singapore Physics Olympiad Training for 2018

Singapore will be sending teams of students to compete in the 19 th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) and the 49 th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) in 2018. 

On the basis of outstanding performance in the 30th Singapore Physics Olympiad (SPhO), the following students are invited to participate in the national training programme for 2018. 

The training programme has three phases: 

1. Initial training before selection of travelling teams (Jan to Mar) 

2. Intensive training for APhO and IPhO travelling teams (Mar to May) 

3. Intensive training for IPhO travelling team (May to July) 

Students who take up this invitation to participate in the training should be committed to undergo as many phases of the training as necessary. 

NUSH Families and Friends Gathering on 25 Dec 2017

Informatics Olympiad Training, IOI 2018, Internship, NUS SoC

Lim Li has been quite busy after she has finished her NUS High final exams in the second week of Oct. She has done/will be doing the following:

Oct - Nov:  Taught a group of Primary 4-6 students Intro to Informatics Olympiad (IO); they were taught in groups of two, 3 sessions per group
Nov: Provided IO training to RI and RGS students, in RI
Nov: Provided 4 sessions of Basic IO training to 30+ students (from various schools in Singapore), in NUS School of Computing (SoC)
Dec: Providing 12 sessions of Advanced IO training, in NUS SoC
Jun - Sep 2018: Main trainer for IOI 2018 Singapore Team
Sep 2018: Accompanying Singapore Team to IOI 2018 in Japan

She has also secured an internship with a game design company, from Jan to Apr 2018.

Aug 2018: Starting Computer Science undergraduate course at NUS SoC

Singapore Schools' Oxbridge Applications, Offers & Acceptances in 2014-2016 Admission Cycles

Below are statistics of Singapore schools with considerable applications to and offers from Oxbridge. For complete lists, please refer to the respective Cambridge and Oxford application statistics websites' links after the tables below.

Note that 'admissions cycle' refers to the UCAS Apply cycle in which applications are considered, eg '2016 cycle' refers to applications made from September 2015 onwards for admission to courses starting in October 2016 or by deferred entry for courses starting in 2017.

	2016 Admission Cycle		Cambridge 剑桥			Oxford 牛津
	UCAS Sch ID		Applns	Offers	Acceptances	Applns	Offers	Acceptances
	45199	HCI 华中	81	18 (22%)	12 (15%)	61	17 (28%)	16 (26%)
	45681	ACSI 英华自主	63	15 (24%)	13 (21%)	39	5 (13%)	4 (10%)
	45765	SJII 圣约瑟国际	9	3 (33%)	3 (33%)	8	2 (25%)	2 (25%)
	45769	NUSH 国大附中	20	7 (35%)	4 (20%)	13	3 (23%)	3 (23%)
	45777	DHS 德明	12	<3	<3	13	3 (23%)	3 (23%)
	46015	RVHS 立化	6	<3	<3	5	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
	48056	RI 莱初	109	35 (32%)	26 (24%)	134	35 (26%)	27 (20%)
	48057	ACJC 英初	16	<3	<3	11	3 (27%)	3 (27%)
	48058	NJC 国初	21	6 (29%)	<3	15	2 (13%)	1 (7%)
	48091	VJC 维初	35	9 (26%)	7 (20%)	25	5 (20%)	5 (20%)
	2015 Admission Cycle		Cambridge 剑桥			Oxford 牛津
	UCAS Sch ID		Applns	Offers	Acceptances	Applns	Offers	Acceptances
	45199	HCI 华中	83	26 (31%)	20 (24%)	71	19 (27%)	15 (21%)
	45539	OFS	6	3 (50%)	<3	2	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
	45681	ACSI 英华自主	53	15 (28%)	15 (28%)	46	7 (15%)	5 (11%)
	45765	SJII 圣约瑟国际	7	3 (43%)	<3	12	4 (33%)	2 (17%)
	45769	NUSH 国大附中	21	4 (19%)	4 (19%)	12	4 (33%)	3 (25%)
	45777	DHS 德明	15	3 (20%)	3 (20%)	44	8 (18%)	6 (14%)
	46015	RVHS 立化	11	<3	<3	20	5 (25%)	4 (20%)
	48056	RI 莱初	136	39 (29%)	26 (19%)	161	39 (24%)	19 (12%)
	48057	ACJC 英初	24	7 (29%)	7 (29%)	10	1 (10%)	1 (10%)
	48058	NJC 国初	18	<3	<3	18	2 (11%)	1 (6%)
	48091	VJC 维初	22	<3	<3	26	6 (23%)	5 (19%)
	2014 Admission Cycle		Cambridge 剑桥			Oxford 牛津
	UCAS Sch ID		Applns	Offers	Acceptances	Applns	Offers	Acceptances
	45126	Tanglin Trust Sch	7	4 (57%)	4 (57%)	11	2 (18%)	2 (18%)
	45199	HCI 华中	84	24(29%)	16 (19%)	68	20 (29%)	16 (24%)
	45681	ACSI 英华自主	62	16 (26%)	12 (19%)	55	7 (13%)	6 (11%)
	45765	SJII 圣约瑟国际	7	3 (43%)	3 (43%)	5	2 (40%)	2 (40%)
	45769	NUSH 国大附中	19	8 (42%)	8 (42%)	12	3 (25%)	1 (8%)
	45777	DHS 德明	15	<3	<3	20	2 (10%)	2 (10%)
	46015	RVHS 立化	9	<3	<3	17	2 (12%)	2 (12%)
	48056	RI 莱初	123	37 (30%)	27 (22%)	132	40 (30%)	31 (23%)
	48057	ACJC 英初	24	6 (25%)	4 (17%)	9	1 (11%)	1 (11%)
	48058	NJC 国初	13	3 (23%)	<3	14	2 (14%)	2 (14%)
	48091	VJC 维初	30	5 (17%)	5 (17%)	28	6 (21%)	5 (18%)

Cambridge Application Statistics
(refer to Applications, Offers & Acceptances by UCAS Apply Centre on the right of webpage)

Oxford Applications and Acceptances by UCAS Apply Centre (update on 25 Nov 2018: it appears that this link is no longer accessible, check this new link instead)

Activities and Handicraft with SilverACE @ Redhill

Volunteering in Enriching Lives of Seniors Programme (ELSP), RSVP Singapore

Some activities and handicraft work with the elderly at SilverACE @ Redhill
Every Wednesday, 2-4 pm

NUS High School Convocation, Class of 2017

Lim Li is at the front row, 4th from the left

165 graduands. 87 High Distinctions, 47 Distinctions and 31 Merit/Pass.