Singapore Junior Physics Olympiad

eagle SG

A heads up on this

http://www.physics.nus.edu.sg/~phyips/sjpo_awards.html

Quite surprised, and happy, that there's a junior version... So much so that I have volunteered to train a number of students without any charge for 4 lessons for this competition... "D

For A level students, do take a look at the sample questions. It's nice and challenging Very Happy

yiha093 SG

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eagle SG

completed first session ytd... my first try in a school classroom environment... very different from tuition centres...

it's like wah lau... Mostly foreigners selected (or rather, they self volunteered I heard)... and best of all, they do show great genuine interest... but the few locals that were selected appeared rather disinterested and dishearted...

Guess local students really cannot complain that foreign scholars come to 'steal' their grades... The attitude of the scholars were really good... And some of them took the initiative to read up beforehand... on A level physics... I was surprised at how much they had read up...

wee_ws SG

Hi,

Bravo!

Share with us here some pointers and contents in case some students aspire to become an Olympian in the near future :)

In the university too, there are many foreigners doing postgrad research and few locals.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Wen Shih

dkcx SG

Just a personal opinion.

Foreigners are genernally more hard working than locals cos they have a much harder time securing their place in a sg sch or uni so they will mostly work extra hard to not make the money spent etc wasted. Local students mostly take such things for granted so are less likely to work hard and appreciate such opportunities which sometimes is seen as additional work to them.

eagle SG

The syllabus is first year university physics without use of calculus, for junior olympiad

Basically about the same as A level physics + topics like Rotational Kinematics and Relativity