International Math Olympiad 2014 results are in! (India fails again)

[BDforever]

#1 People's Republic of China
#2 United States of America
#3 Taiwan
#4 Russian Federation
#5 Japan
#6 Ukraine
#7 Republic of Korea
#8 Singapore
#9 Canada
#10 Vietnam
#11 Australia / Romania
#13 Netherlands
#14 Democratic People's Republic of Korea
#15 Hungary
#16 Germany
#17 Turkey
#18 Hong Kong / Israel
#20 United Kingdom
#21 Islamic Republic of Iran / Thailand
#23 Kazakhstan / Malaysia / Serbia
#26 Italy / Mexico / Poland
#29 Croatia / Indonesia / Peru
#32 Czech Republic
#33 Portugal
#34 Belarus / Brazil / Slovakia
#37 Bulgaria
#38 Switzerland
#39 Armenia / India
#41 Greece
#42 Lithuania
#43 Saudi Arabia
#44 Mongolia
#45 France / Philippines
#47 Georgia
#48 Republic of Moldova / Spain
#50 Tajikistan
#51 Austria / Bosnia and Herzegovina
#53 Bangladesh
#54 Colombia / Sri Lanka
#56 Argentina
#57 Sweden
#58 Slovenia
#59 Belgium
#60 New Zealand
#61 Azerbaijan
#62 Macau
#63 Costa Rica
#64 Ireland / South Africa
#66 Latvia
#67 Denmark / The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
#69 Norway
#70 Finland
#71 Paraguay
#72 Cyprus / Syria
#74 Estonia
#75 Pakistan
#76 Iceland
#77 Albania
#78 Morocco
#79 Luxembourg
#80 Tunisia
#81 Chile
#82 Nigeria / Trinidad and Tobago
#84 Uruguay
#85 Kyrgyzstan
#86 Venezuela
#87 Liechtenstein
#88 Montenegro
#89 Burkina Faso / Ecuador
#91 Puerto Rico
#92 Cuba
#93 Panama
#94 Bolivia / Uganda / Zimbabwe
#97 Ivory Coast
#98 Benin
#99 Tanzania
#100 Gambia
#101 Ghana

You would think that with a population of 1 billion+ people, India would be able to assemble a formidable math team that could place higher than 39. Yes, 39. Right next to Armenia.

Instead not only does India get slaughtered by China, the Koreas, Japan, Vietnam, even tiny Singapore and Hong Kong, but it's also consistently outperformed by much smaller European countries like Hungary, Romania, and Serbia. Even a modest-sized Third World country like Peru has a better IMO track record in recent years than India.

Where are all these Indian mathematical geniuses we hear so much about?

with our shi**y education system still we ranked 53 ? wish we had nice education system which would lead us on top

@Armstrong #75

 

[terranMarine]

with our shi**y education system still we ranked 53 ? wish we had nice education system which would lead us on top

Not bad at all, the ranking is even higher than some of the modern EU countries.

 

[proka89]

lol no kid in India even cares about Olympids. Here kids are busy preparing for their entrance exams.

Success at the IMO is a great credential for the top world colleges. Almost all Serbian team members, end up at Harvard, Oxford, MIT...

HK a country?

You live in Serbia?

 

[BDforever]

Not bad at all, the ranking is even higher than some of the modern EU countries.

not enough, must rank within #30

Success at the IMO is a great credential for the top world colleges. Almost all Serbian team members, end up at Harvard, Oxford, MIT...


You live in Serbia?

any news ? you know what i mean

 

[Devdas]

But tiny countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, Romania, and Hungary can?

You might as well ask why the US, China, Singapore, etc are bad at cricket.

 

[BDforever]

You might as well ask why the US, China, Singapore, etc are bad at cricket.

which might lead to why S.A. sucks in football

 

[Wagner]

Success at the IMO is a great credential for the top world colleges. Almost all Serbian team members, end up at Harvard, Oxford, MIT...

Exactly. For admission to prestigious American universities, an IMO medal is even more valued than perfect SAT scores.

 

[proka89]

any news ? you know what i mean

Nothing new

 

[Devdas]

Exactly. For admission to prestigious American universities, an IMO medal is even more valued than perfect SAT scores.

Both the youngest students ever to get perfect SAT scores are Indian.
Rediff On The NeT: 12-Year-Old Who Scored Perfect SAT Score
Wants To Remain A 'Regular' Kid
California boy, 14, gets perfect score on SAT  - NY Daily News

 

[terranMarine]

You live in Serbia?

 

[Wagner]

Both the youngest students ever to get perfect SAT scores are Indian.

As I said, winning an IMO medal is much more difficult than attaining perfect SAT scores.

 

[Edison Chen]

#14 Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Even North Korea ranks 14th. LOL

 

[Devdas]

Success at the IMO is a great credential for the top world colleges. Almost all Serbian team members, end up at Harvard, Oxford, MIT...

It's also a huge waste. So many Chinese students prepare for this, take classes for it, only to likely miss even getting a spot on the olympiad team. There are much better ways to end up at top universities.

 

[anyrandom]

A lot of countries have special programmes which identify and train students for IMO. Many ex-Soviet countries and China have such programs.
As far as I know India has no such programs. This type of competition needs specialized training and no one, no matter how bright can just go there and win medal.
But most of math students in India prepare for JEE exam which is an engineering entrance exam. It is said to be one of the toughest undergraduate exam in the world.

But I think Indian govt should also focus of Olympiads. We had no support mechanism for this in schools.

 

[angeldude13]

I don't know what op want to prove by opening this thread but nobody in India knows about this International math olympiad.

Here in India people only care about getting good marks and cracking Competitive exams like JEE,AIEEE,PMT and AIIMS etc...

And I bet a person who can solve Joint entrance exam problem can easily solve this math olympiad thing.
It's just nobody in India is interested.
I've been using internet for almost 8 years and I've myself heard about this international olympiad thing from a fake a$$ chinese pretending to be an American.