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General Information 2017 Competition Date Thursday, April 27 Registration Deadline Opens Monday, January 23 Closes Friday, March 3 Cost $7 per student Teachers write for free (extra exam is provided). There is a minimum registration of 3 students within Canada & USA, and 10 students internationally. Time The exam is 75 minutes in length and must begin between the hours of 1:00 …
The Biology Committee has organized the Hong Kong Biology Olympiad for Secondary Schools2016/2017 for the FIRST ROUND (Written Test) on 19th Nov-2016. It’s encouraging that there were2583 students from 176 secondary schools took the test. Several testing centers were administered toaccommodate 2583 students on the same day. For individual awards, there are four levels of honour categorized according to their …
In its eighteenth iteration, 2016 was a record-breaking year for the Brain Bee World Championship Neuroscience Competition, held from June 30 – July 4, 2016 in Copenhagen, hosted by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) 10th Forum of Neuroscience. It was the largest program to date, engaging twenty-five student National Champion participants from all corners of the globe. For …
Khan Academy has amazing videos for biology. Check them out here. Supplement your reading my watching these short videos. Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. Our math missions …
On his second read-through of Campbell and Reece’s Biology, 18-year-old Jason Wu wrote the words he didn’t know into his spiral-bound notebook. By the fifth read-through, he had narrowed his focus to key charts and figures, and by the time he packed the 1,312-page tome into his Argentina-bound suitcase in July, the recent St. Louis, Mo., high school graduate pretty …
Rebecca Shi is a freshman at MIT, where she hopes to major in biology or biological engineering. She fences foil on the fencing team, and enjoys birdwatching and playing board games in her spare time. When I started high school, I found not just a new maze of hallways and a range of new classes, but also an exciting array …
An interview with Jorge Tarancón who won a bronze medal in the IBO 2016. Who are you? Where are you from? I‘m Jorge Tarancón from Spain, concretelly a small village (Pamplona) near France. I‘ve just finished high school and i passed in june the university exam in order to enter at university, so in september i will start studying Biotechnology in …
Lei Sun went to IBO 2006 in Argentina from Sweden and won a silver. Below she shares her story. I went to Argentina in 2006. The overall arrangement was so bad that it was still brought up many years later. Then again one can say it set a good example of cautionary tale so it’s unlikely to be as bad …
Kay Aull was a participant in the IBO 2003 and 2004. He shares his experience below. I was in the IBO twice representing the USA, in 2003 (Belarus) and 2004 (Australia). I won silver the first time and gold the second. Belarus was…surreal. I was half-convinced I’d fallen asleep on my Campbell and was dreaming the whole thing. Australia was …
Jelle Zijlstra, won bronze in 2008 and silver in 2009 IBO. He shares his experience in the IBO below. I was in the IBO twice representing the Netherlands, in 2008 (Mumbai, India) and 2009 (Tsukuba, Japan). I won bronze the first time and silver the second. I had a great time at both Olympiads, but the experience was very different. …
The official website of the International Biology Olympiad (IBO) released an updated guide to the IBO. You can access it here. The IBO practical examination should concentrate on the evaluation of competitors for their ability to solve given biological problems using the following skills. In the IBO tasks the names of organisms will be the national names (no description) together …
Are you looking a good review of biology concepts to prepare for the USA Biology Olympiad (USABO), International Biology Olympiad (IBO), Science Bowl or any other biology competition or exam, download a very useful and clear biology book which outlines the general principles and describes key concepts. Read the book here. Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11448/latest/.
Zatobowl “Science Bowl Simulator” provides thousands of questions for National Science Bowl (NSB), National Ocean Science Bowl (NOSB) and other national and international science quiz competitions. Zatobowl features include: Online Multi-Player System: Compete online with friends and others around the world in real time. Buzzer Practice: with audio questions, a one click buzzer and sub-second response timing. Peruse Questions : …
Here is a useful list of books that will help you prepare for all sections of the Science Bowl. BIOLOGY 1. The Living Science, Miller-Levine 2. Human Biology, Chiras 3. Biology-The Web of Life, Strauss Lisowski 4. Biology, Campbell and Reece 5. How to Prepare for The Biology Olympiad and Science Competitions, Martyna Petrulyte PHYSICS 1. Contemporary College Physics, …
The Science Bowl competition is a high school and middle school science knowledge competition using a quiz bowl format held in the United States. A buzzer system similar to those seen on popular television game shows is used to signal an answer. Teachers and coaches frequently ask how to best prepare their students for the Science Bowl competition. There are …
January and February are the most important months for olympiad participants as in many countries first rounds take place during these months. If you did not finish to read Campbell and it is only several weeks before biology olympiad, try to calm down and do not overdo too much because you need fresh mind and good eyes for the day …
Life table and survivorship curves are important part of olympiads. Please find this useful handout below. https://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/vtcfwru/spreadsheets/ecologyevolution/EE_Exercises/Exercise12/12 Donovan pages 311 EE.pdf Global warming vector created by vectorjuice – www.freepik.com
Here you will find another great set of notes for quick revision before olympiad. http://datbootcamp.com/FeralisBiologyNotes.pdf
An ecological niche is the role and position a species has in its environment; how it meets its needs for food and shelter, how it survives, and how it reproduces. A species’ niche includes all of its interactions with the biotic and abiotic factors of its environment. http://www.montana.edu/screel/Webpages/Bio%20303/Biol%20303%20niches.pdf
The structure of the DNA double helix was unraveled over sixty years ago! DNA Day, April 25, is now commemorated internationally as a celebration of Genetics and its promises. For the eighth year, the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG), will be sponsoring a DNA Day Essay contest in European high schools. Once again we will partner with the American …