ISMTF COMPETITION RULES

Eligibility

• Students must be currently enrolled at the school they are representing.

• No student will be allowed to participate in two competitions during the same year.

• Age requirements:

• • MS Competition:
    14 years or younger by Aug. 1, 2024 – born on Aug. 1, 2010 or later

  • Junior Competition:
    16 years or younger by Aug. 1, 2024 – born on Aug. 1, 2008 or later

  • Senior Competition:
    Any school age.

Equipment

• No mathematical equipment, mobile phones, calculators of any type may be brought into competitions.

• Students are allowed the use of a translating dictionary either in book form or electronic.

• In the Sunday Chase GDC’s and smart phones to get maps are allowed.

Teams

• Teams will consist of 3 persons.

• Schools will normally bring 1 or 2 teams.

• Reserves will be combined with reserves from other schools.

Questions

• Questions will require critical thinking skills, creative insight, lateral thinking, problem solving and logic from topics traditionally taught to students in any course in school.  

Individual Competition

• The individual contest will consist of 40 or 50 multiple choice questions each with 4 possible answers (May slightly change). For MS, three sets of questions with 20 each. (Also may slightly change)

• The questions will be distributed in 8 or 10 sets of 5 questions

• Students will be allowed 10 minutes for each set of questions with a warning after 8 minutes.

• Scoring will be as follows:

  • Correct answer = 4 marks

  • No answer = 1 mark

  • Incorrect answer = 0 marks

Team Competition

• The team competition will consist of 18 questions.

• Questions will be distributed in 6 sets.

• Students will be allowed 15 minutes for each set of questions with a warning after 13 minutes.