Physics Olympiad: Award Percentages & Question 1

[Dave 007]

Hi,
I did the Olympiad this week and I found it very hard. Does anyone know what the percentages needed for the awards are.
Also can anyone remember any of the parts of Question 1 as I found it very hard and i wanted to ask my neighbour who is a physics lecturer about it

 

[Dave 007]

By the way this is the "British Physics Olympiad" paper I am talking about

 

[rho]

Was this paper one or two?

 

[Dave 007]

The Physics Olympiad paper that I did was Paper 2

 

[rho]

Well it's hard to tell what the grade boundaries will be because they move depending on how difficult candidates found the exam. I didn't do the physics one last year only maths but i think a good guess would be, bronze about >40%, silver >55%, gold>70%, considering how hard these things are supposed to be.

 

[dfx]

Out of curiosity, is the BPhO OVER for 2005-06? My teacher claims I'm going to sit it this week and I thought it had finished ages ago. :S

 

[berkeman]

Props to you for competing! Do you have a web pointer to the questions?