<p>OK the results are up:
2013 USA Biology Olympiad
General USA Biology Olympiad Information
Number of registered schools: 10, 437
Number of states represented: 44, 2 International Schools
2013 Open Exam Results
Number of students registered for the Open Exam: 7,356
Score needed to become a Semifinalist: 25
Average score (out of a possible 47): 17.1
Highest score: 42</p>
<p>2013 USA Biology Olympiad Open Exam Registration
Alabama 48 students, 5 schools
Arizona 100 students, 3 schools
California 1098 students, 62 schools
Colorado 2 students, 1 school
Connecticut 106 students, 12 schools
Delaware 55 students, 3 schools
Florida 209 students, 14 schools
Georgia 271 students, 11 schools
Hawaii 34 students, 2 schools
Idaho 1 students, 1 school
Illinois 442 students, 17 schools
Indiana 247 students, 24 schools
Iowa 21 students, 3 schools
Kansas 6 students, 1 school
Kentucky 58 students, 4 schools
Louisiana 82 students, 3 schools
Maine 16 students, 1 school
Maryland 295 students, 13 schools
Massachusetts 187 students, 13 schools
Michigan 268 students, 10 schools
Minnesota 61 students, 5 schools
Missouri 63 students, 3 schools
Montana 17 students, 1 school
Total Schools: 2013 (377), 2012 (365)
Returning Schools: 2013 (305), 2012 (237)
North Carolina 120 students, 6 schools
Nebraska 29 students, 3 schools
Nevada 5 students, 3 schools
New Hampshire 1 student, 1 school
New Jersey 406 students, 30 schools
New Mexico 43 students, 2 schools
New York 449 students, 33 schools
Nevada 33 students, 5 schools
North Dakota 1 student, 1 school
Ohio 55 students, 6 schools
Oklahoma 27 students, 2 schools
Oregon 44 students, 3 schools
Pennsylvania 185 students, 13 schools
South Carolina23 students, 4 schools
Tennessee 226 students, 6 schools
Texas 405 students, 23 schools
Utah 76 students, 4 schools
Virginia 266 students, 13 schools
Washington 36 students, 5 schools
West Virginia 12 students, 2 schools
Wisconsin 12 students, 1 school
International 77 students, 2 schools
(China and Hong Kong)
Total Students: 2013 (10,437) 2012 (10,423)
Total States: 2013 (44), 2 U.S. Schools in China
2012 (42), 2 U.S. Schools in China</p>
<p>2013 Semifinalists by State
Alabama- 5 Semifinalists, 3 schools
Arizona- 7 Semifinalists, 3 schools
California- 163 Semifinalists, 44 schools
Colorado- 1 Semifinalist, 1 school
Connecticut – 5 Semifinalists, 4 schools
Delaware – 10 Semifinalists, 2 schools
Florida – 18 Semifinalists, 6 schools
Georgia – 14 Semifinalists, 7 schools
Iowa- 2 Semifinalists, 1 school
Illinois- 17 Semifinalists, 8 schools
Indiana- 6 Semifinalists, 4 schools
Kansas- 1 Semifinalists, 1 school
Kentucky- 5 Semifinalists, 3 schools
Louisiana- 2 Semifinalists, 1 school
Massachusetts- 22 Semifinalists, 7 schools
Maryland- 21 Semifinalists, 7 schools
Minnesota- 5 Semifinalists, 3 schools
Mississippi- 10 Semifinalists, 5 schools
Missouri- 7 Semifinalists, 2 schools
Nebraska- 3 Semifinalists, 2 schools
Nevada- 2 Semifinalists, 2 schools
New Jersey- 91 Semifinalists, 22 schools
New Mexico- 2 Semifinalists, 1 school
New York- 71 Semifinalists, 19 schools
North Carolina- 22 Semifinalists, 4 schools
Ohio- 6 Semifinalists, 4 schools
Oklahoma- 1 Semifinalist, 1 school
Oregon- 3 Semifinalists, 1 school
Pennsylvania- 15 Semifinalists, 6 schools
South Carolina- 3 Semifinalists, 3 schools
Tennessee- 4 Semifinalists, 2 schools
Texas- 63- Semifinalists, 13 schools
Virginia- 30 Semifinalists, 5 schools
Washington- 3 Semifinalists, 1 school
West Virginia- 6 Semifinalists, 1 school
Wisconsin- 1 Semifinalist, 1 school
Hong Kong- 2 Semifinalists, 1 International
School
Semifinalists: 648 States: 36 and 1 International School
Schools represented: 200</p>
<p>Last one (histogram):
[url=<a href=“http://www.mediafire.com/view/?xjualzc4l0s58f4]2013-oe-histogram.pdf[/url”>http://www.mediafire.com/view/?xjualzc4l0s58f4]2013-oe-histogram.pdf[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Told you guys it would take then some time to get their **** together.</p>
<p>The histogram is a bit hard to understand. There are 648 semifinalists but the number of people who made 25 is a little less than 400, but the number of people who made a 26 is 450?</p>
<p>I think the y-axis should be counting by tens, not hundreds</p>
<p>Thanks rupnok! Do you know the individual distribution?
I.e. how many people scored 42 - 35? I scored a 35 and want to know how I placed nationally</p>
<p>The histogram does seem to be inaccurate. </p>
<p>It’s not just the scale on the y-axis for the frequency that is off. It appears from the histogram that the median is around the cutoff, but nowhere near half of the students taking the open exam advanced to semifinalist status. Also, we are told that the mean score was 17.1, but that does not correlate with the histogram either.</p>
<p>@MasterYster wysiwyg</p>
<p>I agree what you see is what you get, though that also means I don’t trust the histogram this year. Last year’s histogram ( [ImageShack®</a> - Online Photo and Video Hosting](<a href=“http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/337/2012usabooehistogram.png/]ImageShack®”>ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs) ) seems much more in line with the distribution they gave last year. This year’s histogram also has dubious extra bars around scores 7 and 8…</p>
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<p>I’m more inclined to believe that they plotted the data backwards, so that a score of 42 corresponds to the bar above score 1, a score of 41 corresponds to the bar above score 2, and 40 with 3, etc. That way it would look much more similar to last year’s histogram and match this year’s distribution data better. The cutoff score of 25 would correspond to the bar above 18, and the bars for scores in the range [1,18] would correspond to scores [25,42], meaning the bars in the range [1,18] correspond to semifinalist scores. The mean score of 17.1 (17) would correspond to the bar above 26, which also happens to be the mode of the set.</p>
<p>Just a thought…</p>
<p>Come on people. Please don’t assume I am a total idiot. This guy is trying to scam the semifinal test. The problem is that I don’t have an IQ of 50 and I am not a teacher, I just have access to the TRC. A very easy search reveals that this cretin is still in high school.</p>
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<p>OR, by email:
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<p>This is the message:</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am assuming you are a teacher that administers the USA Biology Olympiad Exam in your school. As a fellow teacher, I had a question regarding the USABO semifinalist process. Have you received an email with the semifinalist test password? I can not seem to locate mine.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Wow, did this really happen?</p>
<p>Here is another one:</p>
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<p>OR, by email:
mailto:xxrapidfirexx@**********</p>
<p>This is the message:</p>
<p>Could you kindly remove your post because of its intimate nature, and so that I may explain myself to you first off before you make any accusations?</p>
<p>I will not remove that post nor this one.</p>
<p>First off rupnok, my teacher told me that she hasn’t received anything and can’t open the file for our date next Tuesday. I asked you if you simply received the email and posed as a teacher to avoid idiotic questions like yours, not if I could in any way have the contents of that email. There’s a HUGE difference. Stop making BS accusations without having cold hard facts.</p>
<p>Second, might I ask how YOU have access to the TRC when none of us students have it? You seem to be the one that knew about the Open cutoff before everyone else (even when another parent “called” and they were denied info, unlike you).</p>
<p>Res ipsa loquitur, you email speaks for itself. Why don’t you forward your email to your teacher and see if she approves. How about:
“Rupnok, I am a high school student and my teacher says that she has not received the password for the semifinal test file. If you are a teacher, have you received you password? If you have, I can tell my teacher to contact CEE to follow up on this. Thank you.” Fellow teacher my ass.
Nice red herring fallacy. My conduct is not at issue. I have never put myself forward as someone else. My teacher has given all the students taking the USABO the password so that we can use the old open exams. So take your false self-righteous indignation to some other thread.</p>
<p>Oh and I want to apologize to all the people with congenital hypothyroidism. Calling meetingadjourned a cretin is truly an insult to cretins.</p>
<p>^^^^^^</p>
<p>Funniest conversation in a USABO thread for years</p>
<p>Does anyone know where I might be able to find past semifinal exams?
I just barely made it to semifinals and I’d really want to see what they’re like. Apparently, the teacher portal should have a bunch but my teacher couldn’t find any :C</p>
<p>Here you go:
[2010</a> Usabo Semifinal Examination](<a href=“2010 Usabo Semifinal Examination | PDF | Electron Transport Chain | Adenosine Triphosphate”>2010 Usabo Semifinal Examination | PDF | Electron Transport Chain | Adenosine Triphosphate)</p>
<p>Is the answer key to 2010 semis online anywhere? o.O</p>