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Sample Paper

This sample paper is taken directly from the 1996 British Informatics Olympiad and shows the type of questions which will be set in this year's competition. This paper has the same format as the 1997 BIO round one paper: 3 programming tasks in order of increasing difficulty, supplemented by written problems, with a time limit of 3 hours.

The paper and marks scheme are currently available in a variety of formats:

• Sample paper
  • Question 1: Amicable numbers (now with worked solution)
    
  • Question 2: The game of life (now with worked solution)
    
  • Question 3: Dominoes (solution in preparation)
    
• Example solutions [Question 1] [Question 2] [Question 3] (under development)
• Downloadable version of paper [PKZipped PostScript] [PKZipped MS Word 6.0]
  
• Downloadable version of marks scheme [PKZipped PostScript] [PKZipped MS Word 6.0]