As a person who is mostly into computers and mathematics, I tended to stay away from biology, linguistics, earth science and some of the other olympiads. I was quite surprised to see the amount of problem solving skills needed to solve IOL problems when I got exposed to some of them.

For example, take this problem,

Given below are English sentences typed in braille (each black circle stands for a raised dot).

This fox is too quick!

What are the task which have to solve in IOL.

Hello everyone, I have created communities for all the International Science Olympiads. Here are the links:-

• International Olympiad in Informatics
• International Mathematics Olympiad
• International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics
• International Physics Olympiad
• International Linguistics Olympiad
• International Biology Olympiad
• International Chemistry Olympiad
• International Junior Science Olympiad
• International Earth Science Olympiad

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