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    Exclusive in Canada by CKSTEM

  • ENROLL NOW FOR 2022-2023 CONTEST PACKAGE

  • Registration is open for Grades 1-12

    For Canadian Residents Only

    SASMO Information Brochure

    OVERVIEW

    Created in 2006, SASMO is one of the largest math contests in Asia. The SASMO Team, with the support of the Advisory Council, spends countless hours carefully developing contest papers that will touch on school and Olympiad maths. This combined effort allows participants to do better than pure-Olympiad papers since they are familiar with some questions and can put on their thinking caps for others, bringing out the inner mathematician in them.


    With realistic and high standards, SASMO contests aim to stretch the untapped thinking potential of the student population. Their participation in SASMO will help them improve in school mathematics and higher-order thinking skills (HOTS).

     

    You can review the 2023 information package here.

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    MISSION

    SASMO is a math olympiad contest that stretches not only the brightest students but also instills confidence in all students. This is a perfect opportunity for Canadian students to compete with their counterparts.

     

    The contest is designed to make every student love Math again. The SASMO contest fits nicely into the school curriculum with a high focus on non-routine problem sums – preparing for the SASMO contest helps students prepare for the higher level exams such as SSAT.

     

    SASMO aims to arouse students’ interest in mathematical problem-solving to develop mathematical intuition, reasoning, logic, creativity, and critical thinking.

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    AWARDS

    • Perfect Score Award (Full marks) – qualifies as a significant award for IJHS*

    • Gold Award (Top 8%) – qualifies as a significant award for IJHS*

    • Silver Award (Next 12%)

    • Bronze Award (Next 20%)

    • Honorable Mention Award (Next 10%)

    • Certificate of Participation (Next 50%)

    Perfect scorers will receive a Perfect Score Award and $100 cash each, up to a maximum of $5000 for all the perfect scorers. In the rare event of more than 50 perfect scorers, the $5000 will be divided among all the perfect scorers.

    * IJHS is the International Junior Honors Society

    SASMO 2022 Results

    2022 Canadian WINNERS

    We had 31 award winners from Canada in 2022.

    • 9 Gold Medals

    • 9 Silver Medals

    • 10 Bronze Medals

    • 3 Honorable Mentions 

    You can review detailed results here. We encourage you to participate in the 2023  version of this contest.

  • MOTIVATION

    CKSTEM is motivated to prepare Canadian students to help Canada become a world leader in science and technology. To achieve this goal, we have partnered with Singapore International Mastery Challenge Center (SIMCC) in Canada. SIMCC is one of Asia's most prominent academic contest organizers to groom and identify talent. We are committed to offering more opportunities for all students to gain international recognition through academic competitions. As a result of this new partnership, we will offer several English, Informatics, Mathematics, and Science contests for grades 2 to 12 students. In the coming months, we will be able to provide exciting opportunities to the kids to not only shine locally but to exhibit talent internationally with scholarships and specialized training in science and math as well.

    To continue with this exciting journey, we are offering all our students an opportunity to participate in the SASMO Contest. The top 40% of the participants will receive an award certificate and a medal.  All winners are invited to compete at STEAM AHEAD 2022 – Global Finals.

  • CONTEST DETAILS

  • Contest Training Using Brilliant

    FREE FOR ALL CANADIAN PARTICIPANTS

  • Contest Format & Syllabus

  • Contest Format & Syllabus

    CONTEST FORMAT

    SASMO is open to all Primary 2 to 6 and Secondary 1 to 4 students (Grade 2 to 10 students from International schools). The duration of the test is 90 minutes for all grades. Each level has a differentiated paper and contains 25 questions within 2 sections:

    • Section A:  15 Multiple Choice Questions (2 points for each correct answer; 0 point for each unanswered question; deduct 1 point for each wrong answer)
    • Section B:  10 Non-routine Questions (4 points for each correct answer; no penalty for wrong answers)

    Total: 85 points (to avoid negative scores, each student will begin with 15 points)

    Grade 2-4 (Primary 2-4)

    • 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 visualization, logic problems and simple cryptarithms)

    Grade 5-6 (Primary 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 visualization, logic problems, and cryptarithms)

    Grade 7 (Secondary 1)

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

    Grade 8 (Secondary 2)

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

    Grade 9-10 (Secondary 3-4)

    • Arithmetic and Algebra
    • Geometry, Graphs, and Mensuration
    • Pythagoras’ Theorem and Trigonometry
    • Statistics and Probability
    • Non-routine problem solving (including number patterns, divisibility tests, spatial visualization, logic problems, and cryptarithms)

  • Practice Questions

    You can find practice tests by clicking the links below. If you like it then don't wait and register.

  • Contest Instructions

    Instruction document for parents

    Please download the instruction document. This document contains instructions so that your child may sit for SIMCC competitions from the safety of your home. This is due to the rapidly changing situation regarding Covid-19.  Many teachers and parents have expressed their concern whether contests can be run FAIRLY in a home environment and we have done extensive testing and benchmarking to ENSURE that we run a SECURE and FAIR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for all contestants.
    Hence we seek your cooperation and support to implement the measures we have put in place to make the contest a FAIR competition for all contestants.  Please advice your child NOT to share the questions with their friends or post them in ANY MEDIA, as this will disadvantage them and will NOT BE FAIR for other contestants. 
    Parents are recommended to test the necessary equipment the day before the contest as students will not be allowed to take part if any of the required equipment is not working.  Thank you for your understanding and support. 

    Recommended minimum SYSTEM requirements for contest participants

    This document contains recommended minimum requirements for the system used for contest participants. Please review this before the contest.

  • Contest Instructions

  • Online Contest System Guide

  • REFUND POLICY

    The contest fees paid by students to Competitive Kids STEM for hosting competitions are non-refundable. To be allowed to host these contests, our organization pays a fee to the various external organizations that own these competitions. It is a significant amount of time and resource investment, not to mention the multiple charges paid for processing these payments to external organizations, various third parties and financial institutions.


    As a nonprofit organization, CKSTEM operates in a very lean manner with limited resources to keep our operating costs low and make our offerings available at a much lower price to the students. Hence, we will not be able to offer any refund for contest fees to students for withdrawals or cancellations beyond our control.
     
    Suppose CKSTEM has wrongly charged any student, or we cancel an event due to reasons under our control and there are refunds provided to us from external organizations. In that case, we will happily refund the fees paid by the students (deducting the processing charges).

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