Regional Mathematical Olympiad
Eligibility
Only students of class IX, X, XI and XII are eligible to participate in Regional Mathematical Olympiad. However, Regional Coordinators have the discretionary power to allow any Class VIII student with exceptional mathematical talent to sit for the RMO.
Stage 1, Pre- Regional Mathematical Olympiad (PRMO):
The preRegional Mathematical Olympiad (PRMO) is a three hour examination with 30 questions. The answer to each question is either a single digit number or a two digit number and will need to be marked on a machine readable OMR response sheet. The PRMO question paper will be available in English and Hindi versions. Students who require the Hindi version will need to indicate their choice at the time of registration for PRMO. On the basis of performance in PRMO, up to 300 students from Classes 8, 9, 10, 11 and up to 60 students from class 12 will be selected to participate in RMO from each of the regions other than KV and JNV.
For KV and JNV, up to 5 per cent top performers from Classes 8, 9, 10, 11 and up to 1 per cent from Class 12 will be selected to participate in RMO.
In the case of all regions other than KV and JNV, the region to which a student belongs will be determined by the postal address of the school in which the student is studying. Any false information provided at the time of registration in this regard will be treated extremely seriously and will lead to immediate disqualification of the student from all subsequent stages. Students studying in non-KV and non-JNV schools affiliated to CBSE will belong to their respective geographical regions. The PRMO will be held on Sunday, August 11, 2019 between 10.00 am and 1.00 pm. Candidates born on or after August 1, 2000 and studying in Class 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12, are eligible to write PRMO 2019. Further candidates mustbe Indian citizens. Provisionally, students with OCI cards are eligible to write the PRMO subject to conditions as explained in the para appearing under “Stage 4”. It is the student’s responsibility to determine if she/he satisfies the eligibility norms for each stage of the mathematical olympiad. If, at any stage, it is found that the student does not meet the eligibility norms, she/he may face disqualification from the programme. The PRMO exam will be conducted by the Mathematics Teachers Association (MTA: http://www.mtai.org.in)
Stage 2, Regional Mathematical Olympiad (RMO):
The RMO is a three hour written test with six problems. On the basis of the performance in RMO, up to 30 students from Classes 8, 9, 10, 11 and up to 6 students from Class 12 from each region are selected for Stage 3 (INMO). To break ties
for the closing ranks, the PRMO score shall be applied by the regional coordinator. In case ties cannot be broken by PRMO scores also, the final list will include all candidates in the tied position. As a special case, up to 5 students studying in KV schools outside India may be selected to appear directly for the INMO examination. The selection of these students will be done by KVS. Further, up to five girls may be additionally selected ONLY FROM AMONG STUDENTS STUDYING IN CLASSES 8, 9, 10 and 11, apart from the general quota of 30 students for each region. This provision is independent of the number of girls who may be part of the list of 30 students from the region. Girl students studying in Class 12 will not be eligible for the additional girls' quota. The RMO will be held in all the regions on Sunday, 6 th October 2019 between 1.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m. If the PRMO cannot be held due to unavoidable extraneous circumstances, an alternative date may be announced for specific regions/centres as an exception." The results of RMO for all the regions are to be declared centrally by HBCSE on or before 6th December, 2019. Therefore the regional coordinators should send the final results to HBCSE by 30th November, 2019. The regional coordinators shall not declare the results in their respective regions prior to that date. Stage 3, Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO) : The INMO will be held on the third Sunday of January (January 19, 2020) from 12.00 noon to 4.00 p.m. Only those students who are selected in RMO 2019 and those who have received an INMO certificate of merit in 2019 are eligible to appear for the INMO 2020. This contest is a four hour written test. On the basis of the INMO, the top 30 students from Classes 8, 9, 10, 11 and the top 6 students from Class 12 in merit from all over the country will be chosen as INMO awardees. In addition to INMO awardees, the next 45 students who have performed well in INMO, but have not qualified as INMO awardees, are awarded INMO certificates of merit. These students will be eligible to appear for INMO 2021 directly without qualifying through PRMO 2020 or, subject to their satisfying other eligibility conditions. Apart from the INMO awardees from Classes 8 to 11 as specified above, up to 5 girl students from the INMO merit list will be selected as INMO awardees under girls‟ quota. They are considered on par with the other INMO awardees for all purposes of eligibility. There will be no separate girls‟ quota for Class 12 students. The practice of sending postal problem sets for INMO awardees will be discontinued from 2020 onwards. All the INMO awardees from Classes 8 9, 10 and 11 selected for IMOTC 2020, will have to appear for INMO 2021 to be eligible for participation in IMOTC 2021. However, they may directly appear for INMO without going through PRMO and RMO. A separate “senior” merit list of these students based on their INMO performance will be prepared. The cut-off mark for these students will be the same as the cutoff for the INMO awardees from among the fresh (junior) INMO candidates in the general quota. Those who are over and above this cut-off from the “senior” list will be admitted to IMOTC 2021 as senior batch students. All INMO awardees, the selected girl students as above and all the students designated as senior students of IMOTC 2020 will be eligible to writAPMO. The APMO tests will be held in the respective regions. The INMO results will be declared in the last week of February.
Stage 4, International Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp
(IMOTC): The INMO awardees (including 5 awardees in the girls‟ quoata) are invited to a month long training camp in April-May each year at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Mumbai. Besides these students, the INMO awardees from the previous years and the selected girl students of the previous year‟s who are eligible for IMO2019/EGMO-2020 and have gone through postal tuition throughout the year satisfactorily are invited to the IMOTC 2020 as senior students. The junior students will receive the INMO certificate and a prize in the form of books. The senior students will receive a prize in the form of books and cash. On the basis of a number of selection tests during the Camp, a team of the best six students is selected from the combined pool of junior and senior batch participants as the IMO 2020 Team. A team of up to four girl students will be selected for participation in EGMO 2020, based on the performance of girl students from the combined pool at IMOTC 2019. As per the orders of the Madras High Court, students with OCI status will not be eligible for selection to the Indian team in the International Mathematical Olympiad. However, such students are provisionally eligible for selection at ALL prior stages, up to and including the IMOTC provided they fulfill all other criteria. They are also provisionally eligible to write the selection tests at the IMOTC. This policy is subject to revision without prior notice depending on any further orders issued by the courts, or by a competent Government authority.
Stage 5, Pre-Departure Training Camps:
The selected team of six students goes through another final round of training and orientation for about ten days prior to departure for IMO. A Pre-departure camp will also be arranged for girl students selected for participation in EGMO 2020, at a suitable time.
