Damascus-Sana
With the participation of 367 male and female students from different governorates, the first round of the exams for the final qualifying rounds of the Syrian Scientific Olympiad was launched this morning to select members of the national teams that will participate in the international and world Olympiad competitions during the coming period in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and informatics.
The final qualifiers held by the Excellence and Creativity Authority include two rounds of exams over two days, each round lasting four hours for mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology at the Ebla Hotel in Damascus, and five continuous hours for the Informatics major at the Faculty of Informatics Engineering at the University of Damascus.
The tests are subjected to first-grade secondary students who qualified from the current season and old students who are members of the national teams of the Olympiad during previous years, as the question models were developed by the central scientific committees of the Syrian Scientific Olympiad.
It is scheduled to announce the results and crown the winning students during a ceremony at the Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts Opera in Damascus on Wednesday 20-1-2021.
The Syrian Scientific Olympiad for the year 2020-2021 began on the 31st of last October, with the participation of 6235 students from the first year of secondary school from various governorates.