The International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) is an annual natural science competition for students under sixteen years old as of December 31st in the year of the competition. The IJSO welcomes participation from over 50 countries each year, with each country sending a team of six participants.
The IJSO 2024 exam was held in Romania from 2nd to 11th December 2024, and Russia will be the organising country for the session 2025.
The competition aims to ignite students’ interest in the natural sciences, encourage them to pursue scientific careers, foster international relations in the scientific community, and promote future scientific collaborations. The IJSO exam includes several stages, such as multiple-choice questions, theoretical exams, and laboratory tests. This article will provide you with all the details regarding these stages and why attending the exam is crucial.
The International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) is a yearly science competition for students under 16 years old by December 31 of that year. It aims to celebrate excellent science skills, help talented students improve in natural sciences, and help students from different countries make friends and connect.
Several nations have organized the IJSO in the past few years, including Germany, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Botswana, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The IJSO provides both individual and team events. Natural science students participate in several theoretical and practical events.
Here are the key highlights of the IJSO 2025 Junior Science Olympiad.
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Russia
Basic general concepts in science.
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International
The host country for each year is different
International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO)
Eligibility is the fundamental requirement that you must meet to sit for any exam. Similarly, the IJSO has specific basic requirements that aspirants need to fulfil.
Below, we have provided the details of the International Junior Science Olympiad eligibility requirements:
International Junior Science Olympiad Age Requirement:
Country Representation:
Compliance:
One of the key aims of the Olympiads is to expose the youth to cultures and help the students from different parts of the world interact. Thus, the Olympiads have tremendous scope to promote peace and harmony throughout the globe. The countries which have attended past IJSOs can register by using the login ID and password sent by IJSO.
New countries wishing to participate for the first time or those still needing their login credentials should contact the IJSO official website to obtain their login ID and password.
Once you have completed the registration process for the exam, you must know the exam pattern to get an idea of the exam mode, duration, types of questions, and marking schemes.
For now, the exam pattern is the same as last year, but if there are any changes in the future, we will update it in the same blog. So please find the IJSO exam pattern below:
After the completion of the International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) exams, the much-awaited IJSO 2025 results will be out. Contestants can download their results only on the official IJSO website (ijsoweb.org). Only those candidates who have written the final round of the IJSO will be privileged to download and view their results.
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