International Mathematical Olympiad

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual contest for high school students. It is the oldest of the international science olympiads.

Awards

The participants are ranked based on their individual scores.

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• Gold medals will be awarded to the top 1/12 of the contestants.
• Silver medals will be awarded to the next 2/12.
• Bronze medals will be awarded to the next 3/12.
• Participants who don't win a medal but who score 7 points on at least one problem will get an honorable mention.

Special prizes may be awarded for solutions of outstanding elegance or involving good generalisations of a problem. This last happened in 2005, 1995 and 1988, but was more frequent up to the early 1980s.

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