Stanford Math Tournament (SMT)
Descriptions:
The Stanford Math Tournament is one of the largest university-run math competitions, with over 2,000 participants worldwide. The Stanford Math Department supports it. This competition provides a high-quality and challenging experience for students globally interested in mathematics.
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Students will choose to take 2 subject tests, each on a specific topic, or a general test that is longer and covers more topics.
The subject tests are 50 minutes each, consisting of 10 short answer questions. The topics offered include Algebra, Calculus, Discrete, and Geometry.
The General test is 100 minutes with 15 short answer questions.
Each question is worth the same.
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Team Round is a 50 minute exam with 15 short answer questions.
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Power Round is an 80-minute exam that is centered around a proof-writing question. The weights/points values will be specified on the exam paper itself.
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Guts Round is an 80-minute team exam that consists of 8 rounds, 4 questions each. Students will receive 4 questions at once and must submit the answers to the previous round before they move on.
Each round gets more and more difficult, with the questions worth more and more points.
There will be a live scoring board, and students cannot go back to questions they have submitted already.
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Competition Details:
Team Requirement:
Each team is strongly recommended to have at least 5 people, with the maximum being 6 for both in-person and online competition. For specific reasoning, please refer to the scoring section.
More Informations:
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SMT is the most well-known math competition organized by Stanford students and held on the Stanford campus on April 17-18th. Around 800 students compete in it each year.
SMT Online is the online version of this competition, held to improve the accessibility of education. This will occur soon after SMT and is open to all middle and high school students.
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The average will be taken for subject/general test score calculations. But if there are fewer than 5 people in the team, “0”s will be added as a placeholder for the missing members until there are at least 5 scores; then the averages will be calculated with the “0”s included.
Scores will go through a normalization process.
Tiebreakers are the 11th estimation question for each test; contestants who guessed closer to the answer will be placed before students who guessed further. This will help to determine the top 10 contestants.