Media Release

Mangaluru, Jan 8: With a view to spot statistical talent at an early stage, C R Rao AIMSCS, takes pleasure in conducting 'The eleventh Statistics Olympiad 2019', a talent search competition in Statistics with an aptitude for numbers and data handling for students of high schools and colleges in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Maharashtra and Sri Lanka.

The competition will be in the form of a written examination of three hour duration. It will be held on Sunday January 27 between 10 am to 1.00 pm in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Tirupathi, Guntur, Kurnool, Kakinada, Warangal, Khammam, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Delhi, Pune, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mangaluru and Sri Lanka centres.

Eligibility: Applicant must have secured grade A or = 70% marks in Mathematics in the previous academic year (2016-17) in any board examination. The competition is conducted at two levels:

a) Junior level: Students who are presently studying in class IX and X (2017-18)

b) Senior level: Students who are presently studying in class XI, XII and degree 1st year (2017-18)

Registration fee: Rs 100 (one hundred rupees only)

Last date: January 10

For more details, please visit, http://www.crraoaimscs.org/

At each level, three top students will be given Prof C R Rao and C Bharga Rs 7000 and Rs 5000 on June 29 during thirteenth Statistics day celebrations at C R Rao AIMSCS, Hyderabad.

Also, top performers upto a maximum of 15 students in each level will be awarded merit certificates during the same function.

Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management Mangaluru takes immense pleasure in announcing that Statistics Olympiad - 2019 has been scheduled on January 27 and Sahyadri College is selected as the regional centre for this examination. The participants will be from all over the country. Registration will be done both online and offline for a fee of Rs 100. The competition will be conducted for two levels namely junior level for high school students and senior level for PU students.

The department of Mathematics of Sahyadri College will conduct two days of training classes for Olympiad junior and senior levels on January 11 and 12. Interested students can register their names.

For more information on Olympiad training, call Deepthi N T, assistant professor department of Mathematics: +91 93426 58729.