The British Informatics Olympiad is the computing competition for schools and colleges. We are proud to present BIO 2001.

The 2001 British Informatics Olympiad Sample Paper

The 2001 British Informatics Olympiad Sample paper is taken from the BIO 2000 round one exam.

The paper consists of three questions, to be solved in three hours. Browse the following links to see the paper:

• Entire 2001 BIO sample paper
• Instructions to candidates (rubric)
• Question 1: Passwords
• Question 2: Ants
• Question 3: Dice game

No worked solutions are currently available for this paper.

The paper and marks scheme are available in several downloadable formats:

Paper

• Adobe Acrobat viewer: bio2kex.pdf (39,501 bytes)
• Microsoft Word 97: bio2kex.doc in bio2kex.doc.zip (Zipped, 27,054 bytes)
• Compressed Postscript: bio2kex.ps in bio2kex.ps.zip (Zipped, 52,254 bytes)

Marks scheme

• Adobe Acrobat viewer: bio2kmks.pdf (40,432 bytes)
• Microsoft Word 97: bio2kmks.doc in bio2kmks.doc.zip (Zipped, 33,091 bytes)
• Compressed Postscript: bio2kmks.ps in bio2kmks.ps.zip (Zipped, 103,998 bytes)