Everything a maths department needs to decide whether to enter a cohort: the workload, the fees, the safeguarding position, and what lands on your desk.
Most schools already run one olympiad.
This is the one you enter the middle of the year group into, not just the top set.
The paper is built so that a student answers real questions and leaves with something. The difficulty lives in the last question or two, where the students who want it will find it. Nobody spends an hour staring at a page they cannot start.
A cohort report comes back within 20 days: the spread of scores across the year group, and where your students sat against the wider entry. Analysis per question might be available depending on the circumstances. Enough to take into a department meeting and actually point at.
A personalised certificate for all of them, including a certificate for participation. Merit goes to the top 60% and Distinction to the top 20%, measured across everyone sitting that paper rather than against your own cohort, so a strong set can take a large share of them.
One member of staff, for the whole sitting. It does not have to be a mathematician and it does not have to be the coordinating teacher.
The school has the full responsibility for the invigilation, and they must ensure that the test is carried out in an environment that ensures fairness to everyone. They may adopt additional measures alongside live invigilation, such as video monitoring.
Both dates are published at the start of the academic year, so they can go into the calendar before the term plan hardens.
Exact dates are chosen to avoid major exam periods. If a date clashes badly with your calendar, tell us and we'll do our best to accommodate.
Results go to the coordinating teacher first, so staff hear them before students do.
Score distribution across the year group, and where your cohort sat against the wider entry. Topic-level strengths and weaknesses may be available depending on circumstances.
A personalised PDF for every student: participation as standard, Merit for the top 60% and Distinction for the top 20%. Print-ready at A4.
Special awards are issued to the students who hold the highest scores, and they are invited to write a question for the next round.
One invoice, emailed the moment you submit the form.
Payment is by international bank transfer, and your entry is confirmed once it reaches us.
Billed in USD by international bank transfer (SWIFT).
The fee covers the paper, marking, practice papers, every certificate, the overall score report and the school-specific cohort report.
Fill in your details and your roster on the registration page.
It comes by email. Pass it to your finance office.
By bank transfer, quoting the invoice number.
A receipt, practice papers and a confirmation email with further guidance arrive.
One login per student, emailed to you to hand out on the day.
Registration closes 14 days before the paper, so leave room for your finance office to process the transfer.
You're billed for every student on the roster, whether or not they sit on the day, so it's worth confirming your numbers before you submit.
Names go on certificates exactly as you type them, and can't be changed once credentials are issued.
Cancelling more than 14 days before the paper gets you a full refund; inside 14 days, none is due. Refunds go back by international bank transfer, minus the bank charges on the return.
Plenty of the teachers who write to us are not the person who signs it off. If it would help, we will send you a one-page summary written for a head of department or a deputy head: the fee, the workload, the safeguarding position and the dates, on one side of A4.
One email with your grade bands and rough numbers is enough to start.
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