British Astrophysics Olympiad (BAAO) Round 1 2025

I also got a silver, kinda surprised I was hoping for a gold but oh well I'm hoping for a silver in BAAO now. Have you got any stats or how many people get each certificate? My teacher's a little odd he doesn't tell me much
You're welcome Shush's

I also got a silver, kinda surprised I was hoping for a gold but oh well I'm hoping for a silver in BAAO now. Have you got any stats or how many people get each certificate? My teacher's a little odd he doesn't tell me much
You're welcome Shush's

I also got a silver, kinda surprised I was hoping for a gold but oh well I'm hoping for a silver in BAAO now. Have you got any stats or how many people get each certificate? My teacher's a little odd he doesn't tell me much
You're welcome Shush's

Yup, here you go

Yup, I got a silver in BAAO 2 as well. Slightly disappointing

Ye I’m kinda sad. Tho Gold was pretty much guaranteed camp placement

Ye I’m kinda sad. Tho Gold was pretty much guaranteed camp placement

Wait really, how many people got gold? Apparently I did somehow

Congratulations! Only 17/88 ppl that took it got a gold and since there’s pretty much guarantee there’s overlap between the ppl who got gold in BPHO R2 and BAAO R2, I think pretty much everyone who gets gold will get camp. But damn, well done on the gold! The main exception on the email is if someone from your school also got a gold and scored higher but other than that, you should’ve been invited to camp?

Thank you! Long story short one of the IMO team from last year is in the year below me and beat me in astro lol
But the imo camp clashes with astro so he can't go and I actually can go to the camp🎉

Congrats! Wow, almost being beaten out by an ex-IMO in the year below is unbelievable - good luck at BAAO Camp!

Does anyone know the cutoff for BAAO Round 2?

To get in to it? A top gold in R1 which is about top 50 people. And then top 17 in R2 this year got you into a camp

Thanks! Actually, I wanna ask about the score needed to get the gold in R2

It was 40% for Gold. Yes it’s very low but Q2 was difficult and not too many ppl answered Q3 where probably ~40% of the marks were since it seems later qs are worth more marks from past papers

It was 40% for Gold. Yes it’s very low but Q2 was difficult and not too many ppl answered Q3 where probably ~40% of the marks were since it seems later qs are worth more marks from past papers