It's been a month since USABO and BBO were held on April 6th. With the waiting of my classmates, USABO and BBO have finally released their rankings!
What's changing this year's cut-off scores? What other events can students participate in next?
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The score line of the gold medal of the three major events fell tacitly
USABO, the American Biology Olympiad, is a biological science competition for high school students worldwide that aims to encourage students' interest in biological sciences.
BBO, British Biology Olympiad, is an international biology competition for secondary school students organized by the Royal Society of Biology to assess participants' knowledge and abilities in the field of biology.
At present, students can check their USABO/BBO results on the relevant program.
RESULT
How to check the results:
(1) Open the "ASDAN International Science Assessment" applet.
(2) Log in to your account.
(3) On the homepage of the Mini Program, find and click the "My Registration" button.
(4) On the My Registration page, find the corresponding USABO/BBO Biology Contest.
(5) On the relevant project page, find the "Score Query/Certificate Download" option.
(6) Click "Score Inquiry/Certificate Download" and the system will display the USABO/BBO scores.
The total score of USABO is 50 points, and the score line of this year's USABO China Gold Award is 25 points, 20 points for Silver Award, and 18 points for Bronze Award, which is lower than last year.
The source of the data is officially announced
This year, there are still 10 questions on cell biology, 7 on plant biology, 13 on animal biology, 3 on animal behavior, 9 on genetics, 5 on ecology and 3 on biodiversity. The problem discrimination is high, which is a great test of the breadth of students' biological knowledge.
On the other hand, the BBO UK division released the score line this time, and the gold award score line is 58%, far lower than last year's 65.8%.
The data source is official, and the score line of the China division will be based on the British division for a certain reference
The 2024 BBO total score is the highest in the history of the year, reaching 192 points, and the number of reading has further increased, with the number of questions reaching 169.
In 2024, the proportion of the BBO survey range score has increased the examination of two modules: genetics and evolution and animal behavior:
Animal Anatomy and Physiology: 43 points
Cell Biology: 23 points
Genetics and Evolution: 46 points
Plant Anatomy and Physiology: 23 points
Ecology: 21 points
Animal Behavior: 27 points
Biosystematics: 9 points
This year, both the USABO and BBO Gold Award scores have decreased, which can prove that the difficulty of BBO is increasing to a certain extent; The median score of the USABO is significantly higher than the average, which shows that the competition for high-level players is extremely fierce and the difficulty is also not small.
In terms of chemistry competitions, the CCC held on April 24 has also released the results and announced the score line.
Global Awards:
Global Excellence Award Merit:
Grades 11-12: 18 points and above
Grade 10: 14 points and above
National Awards:
Gold: 21 points and above
Silver: 16 points and above
Bronze: 14 points and above
Excellence Award: 12 points and above
CCC awardees can participate in the CCO in September.
In 2024, the overall difficulty and knowledge distribution of CCC will not change much compared with the past two years.
Organic chemistry has always been an important test point of CCC, and this year, there are 4 questions related to organic chemistry, accounting for 20%; With the background of organic chemistry, the molecular structure and equilibrium movement of other chapters are investigated. The test knowledge is simple, but it is a mistake-prone question type.
The proportion of thermodynamics modules is increasing, and students need to pay attention to this part. In addition, acid-base investigation is also a key area, and the number of direct investigation topics has increased to two.
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Treasure events that can be participated in next
If you summarize the resumes of students who have been admitted to Oxbridge biochemistry majors over the years, you can see that many people have participated in biochemistry competitions:
牛津生物医学科学专业offer holder：
UKCHO, USABO Gold Medal and scientific activity experience
剑桥自然科学专业offer holder：
BBO、Usabo金奖,Wukcho、CCC、CCO相关奖项
剑桥自然科学专业offer holder：
UKCHO、BPHO参赛经历
Students who missed this year's BBO, USABO and CCC can prepare in advance for 2025!
BBO is suitable for students with good analytical judgment skills and strong analogical reasoning skills.
Entry time: April 2025
USABO is suitable for students of 11th grade, who have passed the comprehension and memory induction skills, and have strong associative analysis skills.
Entry time: April 2025
In the second half of the year, or at the beginning of the next year, you can also participate in the more difficult event of UKCHO.
UKCHO, the British Chemistry Olympiad, is hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and listed as a recommended competition for physics majors in natural sciences by the Cambridge University Extracurricular Academic Activities List.
Suitable for students: Senior students with excellent chemistry skills (G11-12)
Competition setup: UKChO is a 2-hour written test, no experiments. The exam generally contains 5-6 large questions, with a total score of 80-85 points; Among them, usually 2 are organic, accounting for about 2/5, which varies from year to year.
The test questions are closely related to real life, scientific research and hot topics, and most of them are based on original papers in top chemistry journals.
In 2024, the UKChO overall award score has dropped significantly, especially the Gold Award, which has dropped by 8 points compared to 2023.
In 2024, the number of UKChO participants will increase, resulting in an increase in the overall number of winners, although the proportion of winners will be lower than in 2023. This means that the competition for UKChO is becoming more and more fierce, and there are more and more excellent entrants. If you want to win the gold award, the ability requirements of the students are very high.
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