The British Informatics Olympiad is the computing competition for schools and colleges. We are proud to present BIO 2000.

The 2000 British Informatics Olympiad Round One

The 2000 British Informatics Olympiad paper was set in schools across mainland Britain. It is also the BIO 2001 sample paper.

The paper consists of three questions, to be solved in three hours. Browse the following links to see the paper:

• Instructions to candidates (rubric)
• Question 1: Passwords
• Question 2: Ants
• Question 3: Dice game
• Entire 2000 BIO paper
• BIO 2001 sample paper

No worked solutions are currently available for this paper.

The paper and marks scheme are available in several downloadable formats:

Paper

• Adobe Acrobat viewer: bio2kex.pdf (39,501 bytes)
• Microsoft Word 97: bio2kex.doc in bio2kex.doc.zip (Zipped, 27,054 bytes)
• Compressed Postscript: bio2kex.ps in bio2kex.ps.zip (Zipped, 52,254 bytes)

Marks scheme

• Adobe Acrobat viewer: bio2kmks.pdf (40,432 bytes)
• Microsoft Word 97: bio2kmks.doc in bio2kmks.doc.zip (Zipped, 33,091 bytes)
• Compressed Postscript: bio2kmks.ps in bio2kmks.ps.zip (Zipped, 103,998 bytes)