Waterloo's final-year contest — where presentation earns marks and a correct answer alone does not.
Students in their final year of secondary school or CÉGEP students. source
Each question is worth 10 marks, out of 100. Questions mix SHORT ANSWER parts worth 2 or 3 marks with FULL SOLUTION parts worth the remainder. On the full-solution parts marks are awarded for completeness, clarity and style of presentation — CEMC states plainly that a correct solution poorly presented will not earn full marks. That makes Euclid a writing exercise as much as a mathematics one, and it is the single biggest adjustment for students arriving from multiple-choice contests. source
CEMC awards marks for completeness, clarity and style of presentation, and states that a correct solution poorly presented will not earn full marks. Students who have only ever sat multiple-choice contests routinely lose marks here for work that reaches the right answer.
Waterloo uses Euclid in admissions and scholarship decisions for its mathematics programmes. That makes it one of the few contests on this list whose incentive is a university place rather than a certificate — worth knowing if your child is weighing where to spend limited preparation time.
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No. It is 10 questions in 2.5 hours, mixing short-answer parts worth 2 or 3 marks with full-solution parts worth the rest of each question's 10 marks. Full solutions are marked for completeness, clarity and presentation.
Students in their final year of secondary school, or CÉGEP students. Younger students often write it early for practice.
Waterloo uses Euclid results in admissions and scholarship decisions for its mathematics programmes, which is why it draws a stronger field than its certificate structure alone would suggest.