Physics Olympiad Exams

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The Physics Olympiad Screening Exam is used each year to help select members for the United State Physics Team. The Preliminary Screening Exam consists of thirty multiple choice questions and four creative response questions. The Multiple Choice Exam has a time limit of forty minutes and the Open Response Exam has a time limit of 60 minutes. The two hundred students with the highest score on the Preliminary Screening Exam are invited to take the Semi-Final Exam. The Semi-Final Exam consists of six problems and has a time limit of 180 minutes.

A CD with the Physics Olympiad Screening exams with solutions from the years 1997-2006 is available from American Association of Physics Teachers and the AAPT Store.

An example copy of the Multiple Choice (with answers), Preliminary Screening, and Semi-Final Exam for 1997 is provided here by the AAPT in the form of Adobe Acrobat .PDF files.

http://www.aapt.org/Store/description.cfm?ID=CD-PTER&Type=&Category=&Level=&Keyw...

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Foundations - Assessment of Students = Instruments General Physics - Collections	- High School - Lower Undergraduate	- Quiz/Test - Drill and Practice

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Access Rights:	Available for purchase - The 1997 Exam provided here by the AAPT is free. The CD with all of the exams has an associated cost.
Restriction:	Copyright 2006: Copyright, AAPT
Record Creator:	Metadata Instance Creation Date Oct 16, 2003 by Bruce Mason
Last Record Update:	Nov 29, 2006 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:	November 29, 2006
Other Collections:	The Physics Front

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Physics Olympiad Exams (American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, 2006), WWW Document, (http://www.aapt.org/Store/description.cfm?ID=CD-PTER&Type=&Category=&Level=&Keywords=).

APA Format

Physics Olympiad Exams. (2006, November 29). Retrieved September 8, 2008, from American Association of Physics Teachers: http://www.aapt.org/Store/description.cfm?ID=CD-PTER&Type=&Category=&Level=&Keywords=

Chicago Format

American Association of Physics Teachers. Physics Olympiad Exams. College Park: American Association of Physics Teachers, November 29, 2006. http://www.aapt.org/Store/description.cfm?ID=CD-PTER&Type=&Category=&Level=&Keywords= (accessed 8 September 2008).

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Physics Olympiad Exams. College Park: American Association of Physics Teachers, 2006. 29 Nov. 2006. 8 Sep. 2008 <http://www.aapt.org/Store/description.cfm?ID=CD-PTER&Type=&Category=&Level=&Keywords=>.

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