Singapore Young Physicists' Tournament
SYPT 2023 Format
Since 2019, the Poster Presentation has been included in SYPT to encourage teams to continue working on the SYPT problems at different levels. In 2023, a new route has been offered for teams who wish to focus only on one main problem. These teams may proceed directly to the poster presentation without needing to prepare for the shortlisting.
Teams who are interested to join the Main Fights will undergo a shortlisting selection for the Main Fights. Any teams who attend the shortlisting but are not selected for the Main Fights are still welcome to join the Poster Presentation.
The number of teams participating in the various categories may vary from year to year up to the discretion of the jurors.
Requirements for citation of sources used
Jurors must be able to clearly distinguish the team's original work from the work of others.
Teams are responsible for making clear distinctions between their own work and work that has been re-used/ existing research, such as by clearly citing all sources used during the presentation on the respective slide. Not doing so may result not only in a lower score but potentially also a disciplinary procedure in cases that shall be considered as plagiarism.
Shortlisting
The shortlisting will be held on-site at NUS High School on 19 Nov (Cat B) and 26 Nov (Cat A) 2022. Please see the briefing slides at this link for more information.
For the shortlisting, teams will prepare a 12 minute presentation comprising:
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10 minutes oral presentation (83%) to a panel of jurors on one main problem, and
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2 minutes of discussion (17%) on the progress of any 2 other problems in the registered Category*.
After the presentation, registered teams will participate in a 10-15 min Q&A session with a panel of jurors regarding their presentation.
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The problems may be chosen from any of the SYPT problems in the registered Category (click here for the list of problems).
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For schools with more than one team, the main problem presented by each team MUST be different. This applies across Categories as well, i.e. Cat A and Cat B teams cannot both present on the same main problem.
*Category A - for participants in JC1 / IP5 / PU1 (or equivalent) and below, as of 2021;
Category B - for participants in Sec 3 / IP3 (or equivalent) and below, as of 2021.
An email will be sent to all registered teams with further instructions and schedule for the shortlisting.
Register here by 6 Nov 2022 (schools are advised to indicate interest by 10 Sep 2022 to receive reference materials).
Click here for important information about the requirements for citation of sources used.
Main Fight
SYPT 2023 will be held on-site at NUS High School. Details have been sent to registered teams.
If your school has no participating teams but you wish to attend this event as an audience member, please approach your school's teacher-in-charge, if applicable, or send an email to nicholas_WONG@moe.gov.sg.
As with previous years, teams will still present 2 problems and oppose 2 problems in the category list. This can include the problems used during Shortlisting. Problems will be based on IYPT challenge rules.
Details on the rules and guidelines for the online event can be found here.
The scoring rubric can be found here. This rubric is adapted from the IYPT rubric.
Click here for important information about the requirements for citation of sources used.
The format for each fight is as follows:
Order of Main Physics Fight (PF)
Reserved Time (min)
Opponent challenges the Reporter. Reporter team captain accepts or rejects the challenge (Only for Main Fights. Mini-fights problems are pre-determined, so step not required.)
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A team may reject the challenge of three different problems without penalty. From then on, every subsequent rejection will result in drop of coefficient of 0.2 (starting from 3.0).
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The problems that an opponent cannot challenge will be informed by the chief juror in the room. Problems cannot be challenged if :
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(a) presented by the opponent earlier; (b) opposed by the opponent earlier;
(c) presented by the reporter earlier; (d) rejected by the reporter earlier.
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There must be at least 2 problems left to challenge, otherwise the conditions are released in the order a, b, c, d.
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The Reporter prepares his/her presentation
2
The Reporter presents the proposed solution to the problem
10
The Opponent orally questions the Reporter
2
The Opponent prepares his/her presentation
4
The Opponent takes the floor and leads an oral discussion with the Reporter within 5 minute of taking the floor
12
The Opponent takes the floor to summarise the discussion
1
Final concluding remarks from the Reporter
1
Questions from jurors
10
All jurors write initial comments and scores for Reporter and Opponent
5
Open scoring (Chief juror requests all jurors to reveal their scores to everyone and request jurors with highest and lowest score to comment)
5
Poster Presentation
Teams will prepare a poster on one (1) of the problems from the Category list. This can be the same problem that was used for shortlisting.
On the day of the Finals, teams will present their work to jurors at the tournament. Teams are advised that they will be judged on a clear presentation that focuses on correct key physics theory that explains the phenomenon. This presentation should be about 10 minutes.
Teams should also be prepared to present their work to their peers attending as audience members, or other participants.
If you wish to attend this event as an audience member, please approach your school's teacher-in-charge, if applicable, or send an email to nicholas_WONG@moe.gov.sg.
Click here for important information about the requirements for citation of sources used.