Most parents start maths olympiad for one reason — DSA.
For Singapore parents with a child in P1–P6. Whether olympiad actually moves a DSA application is more complicated than any enrichment centre will tell you — one top school takes only the top 50 APMOPS scorers in the country, another never mentions competitions at all, and a third dropped the maths pathway entirely. This site publishes the schools' own words, the real award odds, and when the answer is to skip it and spend the money somewhere better. Start with five minutes to see where your child actually stands.
Free quick diagnostic. Pick your child's level, try 3 problems, and the full result appears on screen — no email address asked for.
Roughly 6 in 10 SASMO entrants leave without a medal.
Award bands are fixed shares of the field, not fixed scores. Gold goes to the top 8% of entrants, silver the next 12%, bronze the next 20% — so 40% of children take home a medal and the remaining 60% do not, however well they actually did. The cut-off moves every year with the strength of the field.
We think you should know that before the registration fee, not after the results. Every business in this market makes money when you worry more; the numbers are published here either way.
Five wall charts for the fridge door
One-page A4 charts covering the five things parents ask about most: which olympiad fits which level, when each contest falls across the year, what the award odds really are, how the contests rank against each other for difficulty, and what MOE has actually taught your child by each level.
Print-ready and free. No email, no watermark beyond our name — put them on the fridge, or forward them to another parent.
The questions parents actually ask, answered with the numbers
11 long-form guides, each taking one question a parent actually asks and answering it with the numbers attached — which contest, whether it is worth it, what a bronze really means, whether olympiad results move a DSA application. Where the honest answer is “this one isn't for your child”, that is what they say.
See what a contest question actually looks like
Parents often ask how much harder an olympiad question is than schoolwork. Rather than describe it, we show it: sample problems at real contest difficulty, each with a full worked solution and a note explaining what the question was testing and where children typically go wrong.
Who's telling you this
Christopher Chua — BSc in Applied Mathematics, National University of Singapore. Educator who has taught learners from preschool to university; father of two.
This matters because almost every other source you will find has something to sell you first. The odds on this site are published whether or not they help business, each number carries the date it was last checked, and errors get corrected on the page rather than quietly removed.