International Olympiads 2022 {Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology} Applaud the Indian Medal Winners!

2022 World Athletics Championships are underway in Eugene, Oregon in USA. From an Indian perspective all eyes would be on Neeraj Chopra and Annu Rani in the next few days. 2022 Chess Olympiad and 2022 Commonwealth Games are also about to start next week. From the media (Print, Electronic and Social) we will hear a lot about all the athletes who will win medals and make India proud.

In the last couple of weeks, 2022 International Olympiads also happened in Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. I am not sure of which media reported on the Indian students participation at these Olympiads and what medals they have won.

Until last year, we would not even know who is going to represent India at these Olympiads. This year, Thanks to HBCSE, we atleast know who is representing India at these Olympiads.

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International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2022) – Indian Team

Arjun Gupta
Adhitya Venkata Ganesh Mangudy
Kaustav Mishra
Atul Shatavart Nadig
Vedant Saini
Pranjal Srivastava

The 63rd International Mathematical Olympiad was held in Oslo, Norway from 6th to 16th of July 2022. {IMO 2022 in Norway}

The results are out and the same can be accessed from International Mathematical Olympiad Results. Not only for 2022, results can be seen for all the previous years as well on this results page.

India stood at a commendable 24th Position out of 104 Countries.

Performance of Indian Students: 1 Gold Medal and 5 Bronze Medals. Indian Team Results {Huge round of applause to all the 6 Students}.

Special applause to Pranjal Srivastava who is the Gold Medal winner in 2022. Not only that, he also won Gold in 2021, 2019 and a Silver in 2018!! Technically he is representing India since his 8th Grade! {No less achievement than Neeraj Chopra at Tokyo Olympics!}

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International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2022) – Indian Team

Rohit Panda
Amritansh Nigam
Prachi Jindal 
Mayank Pandhari

The 33rd International Biology Olympiad was held in Yerevan, Armenia from 10th to 18th of July 2022. {IBO 2022 in Armenia }. 63 Countries participated in the Olympiad. 

Results have been released and the same can be accessed from International Biology Olympiad 2022 Results 

Performance of Indian Students: 1 Gold Medal (Mayank) and 3 Silver Medals. {Huge round of Applause to all the 4 students} Special Applause to the 3 Silver Medal winners who are 11th grade students going to 12th grade now. Best Wishes to them for the next Olympiads as well!

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International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2022) – Indian Team

Harsh Jakhar
Anilesh Bansal
Deevyanshu Malu
Abhijeet Anand
Dheeraj Kurukunda

The 52nd International Physics Olympiad was conducted in Online mode by Physics Olympiad Association, Switzerland! (Second Virtual Olympiad) from 10th to 17th of July 2022. {IPhO 2022 in Virtual Mode} 

Results have been released and the same can be accessed from International Physics Olympiad 2022 Results. 

India stood at a commendable 9th Position out of 67 Countries. {Best Indian Result was in 2018 – Joint First Rank with China! China is holding the First Rank since 2004 onwards!!}

Performance of Indian Students: 1 Gold Medal (Deevyanshu) and 4 Silver Medals. {Huge round of Applause to all the 5 students. No Wonder, Some of these students figure in the Toppers List of JEE Main 2022 Session 1 too! JEE Main 2022 – Session 1 NTA Scores}

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International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO 2022) – Indian Team

Nivesh Aggarwal
Tanishka Rameshchandra Kabra
Chinmay Khokar
Mahit Rajesh Gadhiwala

The 54th International Chemistry Olympiad was held in Tianjin, China from 10th to 18th of July 2022. {IChO 2022 in China} 

Results have been released and the same can be accessed from International Chemistry Olympiad 2022 Results. The past year results can also be accessed from International Chemistry Olympiad – Past Results (India)

Performance of Indian Students:  4 Silver Medals. For Mahit this is the second Silver Medal! {Huge round of Applause to all the 4 students. No Wonder, Some of these students figure in the Toppers List of JEE Main 2022 Session 1 too! JEE Main 2022 – Session 1 NTA Scores}

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Please Join me in Applauding all these Academic Olympiads Medal Winners just as we do for all the Sports Olympics Medal Winners. All of them make India really Proud on the International Stage.

A huge shout out to the HBCSE Olympiads team for their tremendous service to the nation.

International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA 2022) and International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO 2022) are yet to take place.

Best Wishes to the Indian Teams for these two Olympiads as well.

KVPY Exam Discontinued from 2022 Onwards

The aptitude test for the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana  (KVYP) is going to be discontinued from 2022 onwards and will be merged with the fellowship scheme of Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE).

However, there is no discontinuation of the fellowship. Only the exam has been stopped. The fellowships will still be offered, under INSPIRE. The fellowships may also increase as compared to the earlier numbers. For more details refer the following links.

KVPY Will not be conducted from 2022 onwards

INSPIRE Scheme

INSPIRE Homepage

 

NEET 2022 Exam – Biology Section – Mapping to NCERT Textbooks

Dear Aspirants of NEET 2023, NEET 2024

NEET 2022 Examination was completed on 17th July 2022, almost 2 months ahead than 2021 exam. Unlike the 2021 batch who started their first year MBBS classes almost 1 year behind schedule, hopefully the 2022 batch will start their classes soon.

The official question papers and answer keys are yet to be released. However, most of the coaching institutes have already released the question papers and their version of the answer keys.

Kudos to all these students of 2020 – 22 batch, who actually started their preparations when the lockdown and the pandemic also started. When the results will come out we will come to see how the next generations in this country are slowly transforming themselves. Adapting to all forms of learning, being resilient, coping with so much of ambiguity and coming out with flying colors!!

One may feel that the paper is tougher than previous 2 years paper. If one keeps the choice offered in section B also in perspective, then the paper looks manageable. The surprise this year was the easier Physics section as compared to all the previous years. Chemistry section is going to decide the ranks this year.

Yet Again for third year in a row, we may have the 720/720 marks scored. Too early to comment on cutoffs.

When students start preparing for the NEET Examination after their Class X , Year after Year, there is a major perception that gets created by the coaching institutes that NCERT books would not be important! {I started noticing that the leading coaching institutes are slowly changing their stance towards the NCERT books. Better late than never!}

Year after Year (Sixth consecutive year now), I come out with my blog posts to showcase how important the NCERT textbooks are, by mapping the NEET Question papers Biology Section questions to NCERT textbooks. For all those who are preparing for the NEET 2023, 2024 examination and beyond, I have come back with the Biology question paper mapping to the NCERT textbooks.

Before going to the 2022 question paper mapping, let me point out to all of you about the mapping exercise that I had done for the 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 Biology Section of the Question Paper, which can be accessed from the following post.

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NEET 2021 Exam – Biology Section – Mapping to NCERT Textbooks

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Now coming back to the 2022 Question paper mapping.  I have taken the Code T2 question paper to do the mapping exercise. {Credit and Thanks to Allen Career Institute for this question paper} The Question Paper can be accessed from the following link:

NEET-UG-2022-Biology-Paper-with-Answers

96 of the 100 questions of the Biology section are traced and found in the NCERT textbooks. For 4 questions, one need some advanced reference books. However, with 10 choice questions available, any student would have easily answered the 90 of the 100 questions which are from NCERT.

I am a little bit puzzled/surprised at the question paper this year also, just like the previous years. While there are some 700 odd pages in the Class XI and XII Biology text books, multiple times in this years paper too there are atleast 2 questions coming from the same page, same para. There could have been a much better spread of questions across the chapters and the content in the textbooks.

The mapping of the questions to the NCERT textbooks is shown in the tables below. (Not being a Biology student, E & OE) {Question Numbers 143, 144, 189, 191 not directly traceable to NCERT textbooks, though some basic concepts can be traced}

So Dear Aspirants please ensure that the NCERT Biology text books of classes XI and XII and Exemplar books are your true companion in your pursuit of NEET Examination Success!

If all 90 questions can be answered by just reading the NCERT books, one should start thinking as to why Lakhs of Rupees need to be spent on Coaching Classes, Extra Tuitions, Ed-Tech Platforms, Apps, etc. etc.!!

Best Wishes to all of you

VRN Rao