Who can appear for this test?TheRMOismeantprimarilyforstudentsofClassIX--XI. Asspecial cases,exceptionally talented students from Class VIII may be alloed to appear atthe discretion of the Re!ional Coordinator."lease note that the RMO is the #rst step in selectin! the Indian team for theIMO$ This re%uires special talent in problem-sol&in! and interest inMathematics. It is not meant for the a&era!e or e&en !ood student ho doesnot ha&e this. Where and when does the test take place?The Re!ional Mathematical Olympiad for 'est (en!al is usually heldon the #rst )unday of *ecember at the &arious test centres. In +,-., itill be held on *ecember ,/, +,-..Current centres0Balurghat, Bankura, Berhampore, Burdwan,Contai, Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Kharagpur, Kolkata,Krishnanagar, Mohanpur, Narendrapur, Purulia, Raigan,!antiniketan and !iliguri" A student ill ha&e to choose to di#erent centres con&enient to him1her. The coordinators may cancel a centre under unforeseen circumstances or if the number of candidates optin! for a particular center is small. Also, in order to a&oid problem2s3 arisin! out of accommodatin! too may candidates in a centre, they may allot the centre of his1her second choice to an applicant. What is the structure of the test?The RMO ill consist of to tests, the #rst of duration + hours and thesecondof 4hours. The#rst test ill bebasedonmultiple-choice%uestions2MC53, andinthesecondabout 6to/problemsill beas7ed hich the applicants ill ha&e to sol&e. 'e shall !rade all theanser-scripts of the #rst MC5-based test and based on theperformance of the participants in it 2i.e., the #rst test3, e shall selectanappropriatenumber of participants hoseanser-scripts of thesecond test ill be !raded. How many are selected?Till +,-4, each re!ion selected 4,-48 students for the I9MO.