Congrats if u’ve been selected as a representative of our country this year. And BEst of lucky efforts.

So, U may be knowing most of the following things-
U can buy some Qbanks of following mtG or Arihant pubblishers. Check out the INBO[ Indian National Biology Olympiad ] and IBO sites where some sample qs and the pattern of the exam is explained [ =weightage given to diff. topics, expected qualities , qs in practical exam etc.] .
U can get earlier INBO test papers and their soln from ur college or from ur seniors. Understand what type of student they want to select… try to add or improve the expected qualities of yours. Try to make some qs yourself. Use internet.
Make ur self used to typical type of INBO qs and the -ve marking scheme.
To get ur bio concepts clear read – Campbell, Raven Jonson or internet is the best info source… but be proffessional while using all these.

Consult Seniors like MrMystery [ Andrew] in this forum.

hrushikesh

Seniors… Lol…
I didn’t go to IBO last year.. Still upset about that… But anyway, the best advice i can give is an old christian saying: "until you reach god, the angels will kill you". It basically means don’t aim to high, don’t start studying for IBO until you are qualified. if you are not yet qualified, study the books you will nead for your local, county national etc olimpiad.
As for the bibliography of IBO, well, buy Campbell and Reece 7th edition. If you can not find the book in your country you can buy it off the internet-60 pounds or something.

haha…not in a long time, the next IBO will be held…keep studying friends, I’ll help finding the IBO questions for IBO participants….:lol:

actually the next one is being held this summer in Argentina

hmm…so, if anyone wanna more questions for trials, just PM me..I’ll help you to find it…

Best of luck Andrew and Vic. 🙂
Actually what i’ve advised him is what i’ve never done, as you two are doing it, you will be able to give a better advice.But as i love to advise people i could not keep my hand [ from typing] 🙂

Shrei

doing what? you mean joining IBO? actually, I can’t enter IBO anymore because I’m already in the university…

IBO? You’re smart guys, you know what you should do 😉

yes , joining IBO, ain’t you???
I think most of repliers ain’t IBOers here like me… 😀

Shrei

I am TOO old to join as a participant, I think I would like to be a jury or just a supporter or a cheerleader if it would be available there 😆

As a jury member!!! You can help IBOers better then afteral u r a Dr.

Shrei

Nah, not yet a Doctor, so far Doctor is just my name, I wish soon it could be my degree 😆

Oh! r u preparing for IBo? excellent 😀
I know some books 8)
1) IBO by MTG publication
2)The Cell by Alberts
3)Biochmistry by Lehninger
4) Molecular biology by Lodish & some authers (i m not remembering them now!)
5) Gene VIII by Lewin
Don’t be tense! these r some of the books!! 😆
Don’t go buying these books or u will loose ur shirt! 😛
These r ref. books!
u can use AIIMS papers also. 🙄
All the best for ur studies! 😆

Forget IBO, if you read and understand+memorise all those books you can get a PhD 🙂

😀 Oh just reading names of somany subjects and books makes me feel that thismuch study is enough… isn’t it??? 😆

Dr.Stein-
Nah, not yet a Doctor, so far Doctor is just my name, I wish soon it could be my degree

Hey , don’t worry u’ll get it soon , afteral you have some thing in common with einSTEIN!!!

Shrei

After all, we can discuss the BO questions here in this topic…I think I’ve spreaded the questions,:lol: How about discussing it with some oldies here?:mrgreen:
Hey, I’ve gotten a good news..finally after searching here and there, I’ve found the B part of British BO questions..:lol:

Thanks for your support. Einstein? Aww that’s too hard 😕 🙄 Btw, don’t you know that my complete name is Dr.Franken Stein? mwahahahaaaaa 😈 😆 😆

Now (January 16th ’06) I’ve already have…um…3 sets of questions…USAbio, British BO 2002, and British BO 2003…Anyone who wanna those qw, just send your email to my email…hahaha.. (damn, I always do "lol" everytime…am I gonna crazy??)
aseek_apr@yahoo.com

I think you should change your scientific name into Victorius crazynensis, L.F. 8) 😆

it’s not proper with my style…besides, Eathybus anythingus is more propper isn’t it?

Yeah but recently you do not consume meals and fishes, could we still say that your epitheton specificum as "anythingus" 😕 😆 😛

Actually I also eat them even though only a bit…

Yeah, only a bit and rarely do 😀

okay…enough for off-topic-ing here….anyone wanna help me in searching BO questions in order to help those who wanna join IBO? I’ll really appreciate it… 😆

Yeah,yeah, everybody help victor. By the way, victor, i have a chemistry olympiad tomorrow, don’t you want come and say you are me and solve my questions?

for you chem olympiad…I only can help you finding the questions from previous IChO…and if I can, I’ll help you to solve it…:lol:

Man i am going to so come in last at the olympiad. I don’t know anything!! I am going just because my teacher asked me to.

Ow…it’s good then..at least it’s better than me. When I was in school, I really wanna join IChO selection test but my school ask me to participate in IBO selection test…and you can join both of them, I really jealous then..:lol:
so, do you want questions from previous IChOs?? I’ll help you find them..PM me if anyone want them..

I did extremely bad on the olympiad today. My teacher is probably gonna kill me. No, i don’t want the questions, i probably couldn’t make heads or tails of any of them. 🙂

I think every related subject teachers should train their participants before letting them to olympiads..

It is not a "should", it is a "must" 🙂

I’m sure you do that, Dr.Stein…sometimes i wish to be one of your students, but i am one since you teach me in here. 😀

Well, our chemistry did teach us everything we nedeed to know except one minor thing. But i just didn’t have time to study for the chem olympiad. If i knew everything she gave us, i would have got something like a 98. Instead, i’m going to get a 48 🙂

Bah…is it that bad??? at least if it’s not 98, you can try to reach 78 or 80 but this is….err….48???

i exagerated a little. I might get more than 48. But not much more 🙁

I relly hope that you got more than that..

Hi victor,
Saw your name on the website.
Am a student from the uk.
will be glad if you could help me out or get me in touch with anyone who can. I am looking for the PDF versions of the following ebooks.
1) Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts.
2) Immunology by Janis Kuby
and if you have Lehninger by nelson and cox.
If you are in need of any help please let me know and i will be more than happy to help out.
Sincerely
Hakimudin Harianawala 😉

No PDFs, and if links were posted, since it would be a breach of copyright I would delete the posts. But you can read the Alberts for free at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=mboc4.TOC&depth=2

my name’s on the website? hmmm…I must’ve been popular then….:lol: