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Location: India | swaroop2011 - 2014-05-25 1:31 PM
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Location: India | ok
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Location: India | All the best :)
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Location: Canada | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
I really should not do the test when tired. Wasted a huge amount of time on the easy questions.
By the way, only my score is showing on the scoreboard, while everyone else gets 0 points. Is that normal?
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Location: India | achan1058 - 2014-05-25 4:53 PM
I really should not do the test when tired. Wasted a huge amount of time on the easy questions.
By the way, only my score is showing on the scoreboard, while everyone else gets 0 points. Is that normal?
For now, yes. We're working on the incorrect submissions to release the proper official results. |
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Location: India | | Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in IPC? | Yes, mostly. | | | Did you understand the puzzle rules, examples and answer keys from the IB? | I understood all of them. | | | Did you find enough easy puzzles to solve during the championship? | Yes, there were many of them. | | | After your experience in IPC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI? | Most likely | |
The rules of the every puzzle should be listed in bullet form.
Each bullet point should have one and only one restriction of the puzzle mentioned in it.
Currently, one instruction statement of the puzzle has multiple restrictions mentioned in it (or all the rules are described in a paragraph format) - increasing the probability of a new-comer to miss one of the multiple restrictions.
(Anyway, some of the statements in the instructions are complicated/convoluted for new comers.
So breaking the instruction statement down into individual bullet points, with one rule per bullet point will make it clearer to new-comers)
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While the participants are supposed to read the rules very carefully, but it does help if the same are listed in bullet-wise fashion so that the solvers (especially new-comers and non-regular-puzzle-solvers) don't miss any facet of the puzzle.
It also makes it easier for non-regular solvers to validate the answers upon submission - by checking against each bullet point.
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Location: India | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | |
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Location: India | rajibrborah - 2014-05-25 5:13 PM
The rules of the every puzzle should be listed in bullet form.
Each bullet point should have one and only one restriction of the puzzle mentioned in it.
Currently, one instruction statement of the puzzle has multiple restrictions mentioned in it - increasing the probability of a new-comer to miss one of the multiple restrictions.
(Anyway, some of the statements in the instructions are complicated/convoluted for new comers.
So breaking the instruction statement down into individual bullet points, with one rule per bullet point will make it clearer to new-comers)
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While the participants are supposed to read the rules very carefully, but it does help if the same are listed in bullet-wise fashion so that the solvers (especially new-comers and non-regular-puzzle-solvers) don't miss any facet of the puzzle.
It also makes it easier for non-regular solvers to validate the answers upon submission - by checking against each bullet point.
Thanks for this feedback. These are very good points. We'll consider them in the future. |
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Location: India | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Fairly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: India | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: India | Official Results
Congrats to the top 3 -
1. Amit Sowani
2. Rohan Rao
3. Swaroop Guggilam
The Official results can be seen here - http://logicmastersindia.com/2014/IPC/score.asp
As mentioned earlier, the top 10 are eligible for prizes. Please mail me at prasannaseshadri@logicmastersindia.com for claiming prizes/certificate hard copies.
Thanks.
On a personal note, I'm quite happy with the 3 solvers making it to the Indian team.
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Location: India | Congrats Amit for winning the title. Congrats Rohan too.
Finally feeling happy, break through after missing from past 3 years.
Will give detailed comment about test later.
Thanks for awesome puzzles to all authors. Thanks to Deb and Prasanna for organizing so well.
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Location: India | Firstly thanks to the organizers and authors for a wonderful test.
Congrats to Amit, Rohan and Swaroop.
Swaroop finally made it no more close miss this time :D
Thanks and Regards,
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Location: India | I have a query in A2 Match the following puzzle. I have submitted the answer as ZYWX and I haven't got any points for that.
I arrived at the result as follows:
2 + 3 x 6 / 9 = 4
4 x 5 / 2 - 7 = 3
5 x 3 - 9 / 6 = 1
6 / 2 + 7 - 8 = 2
What is the right answer?
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Location: India | Megu3 - 2014-05-25 6:17 PM
I have a query in A2 Match the following puzzle. I have submitted the answer as ZYWX and I haven't got any points for that.
I arrived at the result as follows:
2 + 3 x 6 / 9 = 4
4 x 5 / 2 - 7 = 3
5 x 3 - 9 / 6 = 1
6 / 2 + 7 - 8 = 2
What is the right answer?
Without releasing right answer yet, I'll give you a chance to solve it yourself. You've missed the rule that operator precedence is followed, i.e., Multiplication and division are done before addition and subtraction. So your equation for 1 will actually become 15 - 1.5, not 6/6. |
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5 x 3 - 9 / 6 is (5 x 3) - (9/6) = 15-(3/2) = 13.5
Regards,
Ravi
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Location: Canada | Equation 3 is wrong, since you need to respect the order of operations, which gets you 13.5.
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Location: Slovakia | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Too many pages / too large grids | |
Some grids were too large. Everything else was great. Thanks for the puzzles :) |
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Location: India | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | Just right | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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Location: India | Oh! I get it now! How silly of me!
I applied the operator precedence rule in other 3 parts and failed at one part.
I solved it now, I hope I have got it right this time:
2 + 3 x 6 / 9 = 4
4 - 5 x 2 + 7 = 1
5 - 3 / 9 x 6 = 3
6 / 2 + 7 - 8 = 2
I will have to keep in mind to re-check everything before submission for future contests, however few puzzles I am able to finish.
Thank you for the reply. Also thanks to the other two people who replied.
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Location: Poland | | How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were? | Perfectly balanced | | | What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles? | A bit hard | | | What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test? | Very nice | | | What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing? | Just right | |
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