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North Korea was caught cheating twice, and is the only country to have been caught cheating at the IMOs so far, so I would take their ranking with a grain of sa

by desdiv 11y ago

North Korea was caught cheating twice, and is the only country to have been caught cheating at the IMOs so far, so I would take their ranking with a grain of salt. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Mathematical_Olympiads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Mathemat...

_asummers 11y ago
How does one cheat at a test of this sort?
- DanBC 11y ago
  Team leaders know the question in advance. They are seperated from the team, but if they want to communicate they can. http://www.quora.com/How-did-North-Korea-cheat-in-the-IMO-in-1991-and-2010 http://www.quora.com/How-did-North-Korea-cheat-in-the-IMO-in... Edit: have a read of this page. It shows that marking is not just a case of comparing the answer papers with a pre-prepared answer script. There is discussion and debate involved. http://www.imo-register.org.uk/2010-report.html http://www.imo-register.org.uk/2010-report.html > Problem 4 was the second geometry problem, and so I led. We agreed four 7s straight away. The disputes were that I wanted a 7 for Luke Betts, and the co-ordinators were only offering 3 because they thought that there was a hole in his argument. On the other hand, they wanted to give Andrew Carlotti a 7 but I was only prepared to take 3. I explained to them the weakness in Carlotti’s argument, and they looked a little surprised. I asked them about the alleged weakness in Betts’s script, and I couldn’t understand what they were worried about. I suggested an overnight adjournment so that we could both make detailed preparations, and we met again the next day.
  - _asummers 11y ago
    Interesting. Thanks for the response!
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- lacker 11y ago
  Just being able to communicate among the 6 participants would be enough to make a huge difference. It's like if 6 people took an SAT test together, they'd likely do better than any one could do individually.

by desdiv 11y ago

_asummers 11y ago

How does one cheat at a test of this sort?

DanBC 11y ago
Team leaders know the question in advance. They are seperated from the team, but if they want to communicate they can. http://www.quora.com/How-did-North-Korea-cheat-in-the-IMO-in-1991-and-2010 http://www.quora.com/How-did-North-Korea-cheat-in-the-IMO-in... Edit: have a read of this page. It shows that marking is not just a case of comparing the answer papers with a pre-prepared answer script. There is discussion and debate involved. http://www.imo-register.org.uk/2010-report.html http://www.imo-register.org.uk/2010-report.html > Problem 4 was the second geometry problem, and so I led. We agreed four 7s straight away. The disputes were that I wanted a 7 for Luke Betts, and the co-ordinators were only offering 3 because they thought that there was a hole in his argument. On the other hand, they wanted to give Andrew Carlotti a 7 but I was only prepared to take 3. I explained to them the weakness in Carlotti’s argument, and they looked a little surprised. I asked them about the alleged weakness in Betts’s script, and I couldn’t understand what they were worried about. I suggested an overnight adjournment so that we could both make detailed preparations, and we met again the next day.
- _asummers 11y ago
  Interesting. Thanks for the response!
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lacker 11y ago
Just being able to communicate among the 6 participants would be enough to make a huge difference. It's like if 6 people took an SAT test together, they'd likely do better than any one could do individually.