Mathematical Olympiad

The Mathematical Olympiad is a mathematics competition in which young people from all over Switzerland who are enthusiastic about mathematics can exchange ideas and compete against each other. The competition consists of several rounds as well as numerous preparatory meetings and a week-long camp for the finalists. Our goal is to share our enthusiasm for mathematics with young people, to support them intellectually and for them to gain valuable professional and social experience together with their peers. You can read more about the Olympiad here.

First Round 2026 results!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first round of the Swiss Mathematical Olympiad 2026! Over  1800 participants from across the country took part and we hope you enjoyed thinking about the questions. 264 participants qualified directly, with a handful of additional wildcards being issued. The cutoffs were 189 points for the Senior Category and 260 points for the Junior Category. You should receive an email soon with your result. The second round will take place in December, but prior to that, there are three preparation meetings to learn new theory and exercises on the 25.10, 8.11 and 6.12. You will receive further emails about these if you qualified for the second round. Last but not least, a special mention to the two best participants: Carlos Sarkis, with 435 points, in the Senior Category and Benjamin Lipinski, with 412 points, in the Junior Category. A hearty congratulations to them both!

Please note that the scoring of the True/False questions was slightly erratic: leaving an answer blank would erroneously give you negative points if you'd attempted any of the other options. We were aware of this when picking cutoffs, and rather than go through the process of exporting all the answer data to rescore everyone (relatively few people only did part of a True/False question and were affected by this bug) we decided to instead take a more generous lower cutoff, which is why so many more people directly qualified than last year. Also, we'd like to remind you that if you're very motivated to continue to Second Round but did not qualify then it suffices to follow the process outlined in the result email you received.

First Round 2025/26!

The First Round of the Swiss Mathematical Olympiad will take place in September 2025 online! Prepare for an exam full of interesting questions and puzzles and don't forget to bring your brains along!  The exam (https://portal.olympiad.ch/en/core/) opened on the 1st of September and will be open until the end of September. If you would like to take the exam with your class at school, please let your teacher know they can also register. You can find a guide on how to use the portal here: https://science.olympiad.ch/en/olyportal.  

Second Round Results 2024/25

On Saturday morning, the Second Round exam took place in Zurich, Lausanne and Lugano and the corrections are now complete. This year, the cutoff to be in the top 19 and directly qualified for the Final Round was 22 points. Bravo to Evelyn Ebneter for their perfect score of 42 points! The following people are qualified.

The EGMO team will provisionally consist of Evelyn Ebneter, Myriam Faltin, Svenja Felber and Hongjia Meng.

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