Arrangements for 2016

Please check the general arrangements page for information that doesn’t change from year to year. The information below is just for 2016.

Round 1 (February 1-5 2016)
Round 2 (March 18-20 2016)
International Linguistics Olympiad (July 24-30 2016)
Archive of messages from UKLO to teachers

Round 1

Dates for 2016

Jan 25: deadline for notifying Advanced numbers
Jan 28: test material released on the portal for all levels at round 1
Feb 1-5: test week for round 1
Feb 5 (end): deadline for scanning and uploading Advanced scripts and for posting them to your marker.
Feb 6: solutions for non-Advanced problems released via the portal.
Feb 22: results announced for the Advanced test.
March 11: deadline for entering non-Advanced results in the portal.
March 18-20: Round 2
April 1: All-clear for publishing all the test material, solutions and marking schemes via the website and within schools.

Test material and certificate blanks: all the material you need for the test (apart from coloured pens – highly recommended!), including certificate templates, will be available for download at 5.00 pm on Thursday 28 January.

Date: February 1-5, 2016. You can arrange your competition at any time during this week, but you must make sure you have time:

to scan the Advanced scripts in time to send them to us on the evening of Friday Feb 5.
to print the test papers (at all levels) which will be available from the evening of Thursday Jan 28.
Sending us your results for the Foundation and Intermediate tests that you marked: by 18 March.

You’re welcome to make whatever arrangements you like for the competition, including:

allowing pupils to work in small teams.
splitting a paper into separate problems to be tackled at different times, e.g. in timetabled classes.
making up your own ad hoc paper by combining problems to taste, or even by just selecting one or two problems. (Our results-reporting system will allow you to enter results for individual problems, so it won’t worry if they don’t fit a standard paper.)

Advanced entries: If you’re expecting to enter candidates for the Advanced competition,

please notify us of your numbers (not names) as instructed, so that we can assign you a marker. This form will remain open till 22 January, but no longer. Late entries will not be accepted.
please arrange for your candidates to take the test under the conditions that you would provide for any public exam such as GCSE – i.e. a quiet room with an invigilator and no communication between candidates (or access to mobile phones!).
please allow 2.5 hours for the test.

Further details. For further information about the arrangements for Round 1, see archived email messages.

Results of the Advanced competition:

These were announced on February 22nd.
National statistics for Round 1
Maximum points and marks for Round 1 problems, plus the formula for converting actual points to marks:

problem	max points	max marks	formula
#1	29	5	m=(p/29)x5
#2	22	5	m=(p/22)x5
#3	14	10	m=(p/14)x5
#4	18	10	m=(p/22)x10
#5	26	15	m=(p/26)x15
#6	10	15	m=(p/10)x15
#7	20	20	m=p
#8	15	20	m=(p/15)x5
#9	23	25	m=(p/23)x25
#10	35	25	m=(p/35)x25

National thresholds for Gold, Silver and Bronze certificates at all levels (e.g. at Advanced level any score of 74.7 or higher, but below 83.3, earns a Bronze); these thresholds are based on the total marks for each candidate calculated as a percentage of the maximum marks for the level concerned, so that the top 5% get Gold, the next 10% Silver and the next 20% Bronze.

	total entries	gold	silver	bronze
Breakthrough	244	76.8	62.3	50.1
Foundation	506	86.2	79.6	72
Intermediate	774	87.1	79	71.5
Advanced	1345	89.2	83.3	74.7