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SASMO – Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad

SASMO is one of Asia’s largest mathematics olympiads, engaging over 700,000 students from 50+ countries. Designed to strengthen both school mathematics and higher-order thinking skills, SASMO challenges students to think deeper, smarter, and beyond the classroom.

SASMO – Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad

SASMO Overview

Created in 2006, SASMO is one of largest math olympiad competitions in Asia. More than 700,000 participants from over 10,000 schools participated in SASMO to date. In 2025, we now have more than 50 countries and territories.

The SASMO Team with the support of Advisory Council spend countless hours carefully developing contest papers which touch on both school and Olympiad maths. This combined effort allows participants to do better compared to pure-Olympiad papers, since they are familiar with some questions and can put on their thinking caps for others, bringing out the inner mathematician in them.

With realistic and high standards, SASMO contests aim to stretch the untapped thinking potential of the student population, their participation in SASMO will help them improve in school mathematics as well as higher order thinking skills (HOTS).

Competition Format

SASMO is open to all Kindergarten 2, Pri 1 to 6, Secondary 1 to 4 and JC1/2 students (K2 to grade 12 students).

A. Time given for Grade 1 to 12 contest is 90 minutes. Each level has a differentiated paper and contains 25 questions within 2 sections:

B. Introducing SASMO for K2 students. Time given for contest is 60 minutes and contains 15 questions within 2 sections

Syllabus

• Grade 1 – 4: Primary 1-4
• Grade 5 – 6: Primary 5-6
• Grade 7: Secondary 1
• Grade 8: Secondary 2
• Grade 9 – 12: Secondary 3 – 4, JC 1/2

• Arithmetic and Statistics
• Geometry and Mensuration
• Solving word problems using model method (or any other non-algebraic methods)
• Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualisation, logic problems and simple cryptarithms)

Awards

Country Enrolment:

• Each country enrolling 500 or more students will have the award ratios applied independently.
• If a country has fewer than 500 contestants, its students will be combined with another country’s cohort. In such cases, SIMCC cannot guarantee that awards will follow the exact ratios stated above.

Perfect Score Award:

• Students who achieve a Perfect Score will receive:
  – A personalized Perfect Score Medallion.
  – An SGD100 voucher each, up to a maximum of SGD5000 for all perfect scorers combined
• In the rare event that there are more than 50 perfect scorers, the SGD5000 will be divided equally among all of them.

Award Criteria:

Participants will receive the following:

1. SGD100 voucher each (up to a maximum of $5000) for Perfect Scorers.
2. Certificates for Perfect Scorers, Gold, Silver and Bronze winners.
3. Personalized medallion for Perfect Scorers.
4. Medals for Gold, Silver and Bronze winners.
5. E-certificates are given to participants who qualify for Honourable Mention and Certificate of Participation.