SASMO ( Singapore And Asian Schools Mathematics Olympaid )
Overview
SASMO, which began in 2006, is one of Asia’s major math competitions. SASMO 2019 had almost 34 000 attendees from 21 nations. We already have over 38 countries and territories in 2021. The SASMO team spends numerous hours meticulously developing contest papers that span both classroom and Olympiad math, with the support of the SASMO Advisory Council. Compared to pure Olympiad papers, this combined effort allows competitors to do better because they are comfortable with some questions and can put on their thinking caps for others, bringing out their inner mathematician.
Objectives
SASMO is aimed at the top 40% of students and attempts to pique their interest in mathematical problem solving in order to promote mathematical intuition, reasoning, logical, creative, and critical thinking. SASMO contests aim to expand students’ latent thinking talents by setting realistic and high requirements; their participation in SASMO will aid them in improving their classroom math skills as well as their higher-order thinking skills (HOTS).
Sample Questions
You can login to our Learning Management System now to try on our past year paper with answer key for free.
If you need to know the solution, you can either buy our 3 years series book or 5 years series book while you register for our contest, or you can also purchase it from our SIMCC Online store.
The online version for the past year series with solution is also available on our Learning Management System.
Objective
SASMO caters to the top 40% of the student population and it aims to arouse students’ interest in mathematical problem solving to develop mathematical intuition, reasoning, logical, creative and critical thinking.
FORMAT OF THE TEST
SASMO is open to all Primary 1 to 6, Secondary 1 to 4 students and Junior College 1 to 2 (Grade 1 to 11/12 (JC) students from International schools). The duration of the test is 90 minutes for all grades. Each level has a differentiated paper and contains 25 questions within 2 sections:
Section A: 15 Multiple Choice Questions (2 points for each correct answer; 0 point for each unanswered question; deduct 1 point for each wrong answer)
Section B: 10 Non-routine Questions (4 points for each correct answer; no penalty for wrong answers)
Total: 85 points (to avoid negative scores, each student will begin with 15 points)
AWARDS
PERFECT SCORE AWARD
GOLD AWARD
SILVER AWARD
BRONZE AWARD
All the participants will receive a Certificate.
The top 40% of the participants will receive an award certificate and a medal (Gold for top 8%, Silver for next 12% and Bronze for next 20%).
Perfect scorers will receive a Perfect Score Award and $100 voucher, up to a maximum of $5000 for all the perfect scorers. In the rare event when there are more than 50 perfect scorers, the $5000 will be divided among all the perfect scorers.
SASMO Syllabus
SASMO reserves the rights to change the syllabus without any prior notice.
Grade 1-4 (Primary 1-4)
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)
Grade 5-6 (Primary 5-6)
Arithmetic and Statistics
Geometry and Mensuration
Solving word problems using model method (or any other methods including algebra)
Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualisation, logic problems and cryptarithms)
Grade 7 (Secondary 1)
Arithmetic and Algebra
Geometry, Graphs and Mensuration
Statistics
Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualisation, logic problems and cryptarithms)
Grade 8 (Secondary 2)
Arithmetic and Algebra
Geometry, Graphs and Mensuration
Pythagoras’ Theorem
Statistics
Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualisation, logic problems and cryptarithms)
Grade 9-12 (Secondary 3-4, JC 1/2)
Arithmetic and Algebra
Geometry, Graphs and Mensuration
Pythagoras’ Theorem and Trigonometry
Statistics and Probability
Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualisation, logic problems and cryptarithms)
