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Organization : UCMAS India
Competition Name : 14th All India UCMAS Abacus & Mental Arithmetic Competition 2015
Applicable For : All UCMAS students of India
Event Dates : 5th and 6th of December, 2015

Website : https://ucmas.in/

Abacus & Mental Arithmetic Competition :

Date: 5th and 6th of December, 2015

Competition & Award Ceremony Venue:
Multipurpose Hall, University Stadium
University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India

UCMAS Competition?:
UCMAS Competition gives an opportunity and a platform for all our UCMAS students to showcase their proficiency in Abacus and mental arithmetic skills.

How does the competition work?:
Each UCMAS student participating in the competition gets a paper ranging between 150-300 arithmetic math problems depending on their UCMAS level and category. They get a time of 8 minutes to finish as many problems as they can.

Who is eligible to participate?:
All UCMAS students of India. Each student participates in only one category.

Benefits to our UCMAS Students:

** An opportunity for UCMAS students to participate and compete with all other UCMAS students.
** A different arena for our UCMAS students to showcase their talent
** Focused and targeted practice to further enhance students’ Abacus and Mental Arithmetic skills
** Competitive and challenging environment
** A Participation Certificate and Medal is awarded for each participant in appreciation of their efforts apart from the Awards awarded for the winners.
** Trophies and certificates will be awarded to Champion, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Runner-up for each category on the stage.
** Merit awards will be handed over to 25% students participating in each category.

Fees:
** Rs. 2,900 per student, which includes participation in both 14th India National and 20th International Competitions.

Judging :
** There will be a panel of judges from UCMAS Corporate Office and some of the franchisees volunteering for this responsibility and selected by the Corporate Office.
** The decision of the jury is final and no further correspondence shall be entertained.

National Competition Awards :
** The guest on the stage will award trophies to Champion, I Runner up, II Runner up, III Runner up, IV Runner up, V Runner up in each group. Each Champion will get Rs. 5,100 as gift besides the trophy.

** Group Champions (whoever gets the highest mark from the 3 categories in that group – Z, A, B, C, D, & E) will get an Apple iPad Mini as gift, besides the trophy. Group F onwards till K (Grand Level), Group Champions (whoever gets the highest mark from the 2 or 3 categories in that group) will be eligible to get a return Air ticket for the next International Competition. For Example, in Group Z, there will be 3 champions, one each from categories Z1, Z2 and Z3. Of these 3 champions, the child scoring the highest marks will be eligible to get an iPad Mini (or Return Air ticket sponsorship, depending on the level). Further, to become eligible to be a winning champion, the contending champion should have got at least 30% cut off marks to become champion in the levels.

** Merit certificates for each category will be determined after isolating Champion to V Runners up prizes. 25% of the total participating students in each group will get the merit prize.

** “Certificate” for Champion, I Runner up, II Runner up, III Runner up, IV Runner up, V Runner up may be issued on the stage itself. Merit certificates and “Certificates of participation” for the rest of participants will be given at a later date through franchise/ centers.

Champion of Champions:
One Champion of Champions will be selected from the Champions in the 14th All India UCMAS Abacus & Mental Arithmetic Competition 2015. The criteria for this selection will be as under:

Champions from 6th Level to Grand Level will be eligible and considered for selection of this position:
The formula for deciding the Champion of Champions would be:
6th Level: Marks scored by the Champion x (14/ Age of the child)
7th Level: Marks scored by the Champion x (14/ Age of the child) x 135%
8th Level: Marks scored by the Champion x (14/ Age of the child) x 170%
Grand Levels: Marks scored by the Champion x (14/ Age of the child) x 200%

The highest scorer among the above will be declared as the Champion of Champions for the year 2015, at the National Level.

Prize:
The selected Champion of Champions will be presented with a special trophy, certificate & a worthy prize, which will be announced later.

International Competition Awards:
Awards for International Competition will be separate and a child may get awards in both competition award ceremonies.

Trophies of certificates will be awarded to Grand Champion, Champion, 1st Placing, 2nd Placing and 3rd Placing for each category. Each participating student is guaranteed to receive at least a 3rd Placing trophy provid.ed he/she participated the competition and attained scores.

Parents, for complete details about this competition, please contact your respective centre director/ franchise owner.