the 2004 International Biology Olympiad-Nigeria (national finals) will be hosted by Adesoye College, Offa , Kwarw State from April 5-6. more
National biology Olympiads or NBOs, as we call them are being activated now a days. A promising International Biology Olympiads which is going to be organized in a different part of the world is inviting gifted students from all over the world. 2 local schools have excelled in the British Biology Olympiad, securing a bundle of medals in the national competition. ... | |
| Skills Checklist for IBO2004 Practical Examinations | |
In accordance with the official IBO Guide Book (Edition 12, November 2003),a wide range of skills will be tested in the IBO2004 Practical Examinations.The four IBO2004 Practical Examinations will each have a theme:• Molecular • Cellular • Organismal • Environmental | |
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| Look! what AB of IBO has decided upon our proposal: A. Number of questions Iran advocated in a written proposal that 50 good quality and good discriminating questions are appropriate for the IBO (25% should be A type (multiple choice) and 75% B type). This triggers a discussion, what number of questions is the optimum. The IBO covers a broad range of fields and topics and this requires many questions in order to offer a balanced task. As the IBO is a competition, there is a need to have a good discriminating power of the tasks and this also requires that the number of questions should not be too small. Assessment experts will be consulted about the relationship between number of questions, type of questions, number of students and discriminating power. But the majority of the AB meeting supports the idea of trying to reduce the number of questions in the theoretical part of the IBO. | |