SENIOR MATHS CHALLENGE 2002

The UK Senior Mathematical Challenge is an annual Maths Contest run by the UK Mathematics Trust. This year there were 60400 entries from over 1573 schools from all parts of the UK. The contest was held on Tuesday 12th November with 70 of our students participating. Awards are set nationally. This year the top 6% gained Gold, a further 13% gained Silver and 22% gained Bronze. Our results this year were a creditable 3 Gold, 10 Silver and 13 Bronze awards. These results continue the long tradition of excellent awards gained by Madras College contestants in this competition. Our award winners are to be congratulated on their effort and enthusiasm.

Details of the results for Madras College along with some historical information and results for Scotland as a whole are:

The Awards List (Madras College)

Madras College Awards UKSMC 1990-2002

Top Scottish Results UKSMC 2002

Among the top 82 candidates in the UK there were six from Scotland:

Johannes Noller from Merchiston Castle School with a score of 110
Mark Thompson from Douglas Academy with a score of 110
Wei Zhang from Merchiston Castle School with a score of 106
Norihito Nishimura from Merchiston Castle School with a score of 105
Andrew Stewart from Stewart's Melville College with a score of 103
Yuan Shen from George Watson's College with a score of 101

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