What is SASMO?

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Contest date and time: 7pm, 30 March 2025 (NZ time)

Closing date of registering: 4 March 2025

PGA reserves the right to interpret all competition and course arrangements.

Please note: If you registered after the deadline (4 March), the fees will be doubled.

BANK: ANZ

Name of Account: Pinnacle Education Group

Account: 06-0241-0684634-00

Please make payment with the students 'full name + SASMO ' as reference.

⚠️ Please note that any fees and payments made are non-refundable.

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Fees for SASMO classes: please see bel0w

Fees for the competition is $68/student.

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SASMO is open to Year 2-13 students. The time given for the contest is 90 minutes. Each level has a differentiated paper and contains 25 questions within 2 sections:

Competition format

Created in 2006, SASMO is one of the largest math olympiad competitions in Asia.

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.

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SASMO Syllabus

Year 2-5 (Grade 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)

Year 8 (Grade 7)

• Arithmetic and Algebra
• Geometry, Graphs and Mensuration
• Statistics
• Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualisation, logic problems and cryptarithms)

Year 6-7 (Grade 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)

Year 9 (Grade 8)

• 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)

Year 10-13 (Grade 9-12)

• 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)

Awards

Students who have scored FULL MARKS will be awarded:

Perfect Score certificate;
Personalized medallion
Qualify for SIMOC 2025 and IJMO 2025.
SGD 100 gift voucher each (up to a maximum of $5000) for Perfect Scorers.
In the rare event when there are more than 50 perfect scorers, the SGD5000 will be divided among all the Perfect Scorers.