General Guidelines and Scheme of Conduct

Qualifications | Registration | Coaches Forum | Elimination
Advancing to the Final Round | Awarding

Qualifications

Teams shall be composed of Three (3) students from the same high school, one entry in each category: Mathematics, Physics, General Information. The students must be currently enrolled as senior students of their respective schools prior to joining the 5th Q-WIZ.

Teams are allowed to have a coach. The coach must be a faculty member of the same school where the students of the team are enrolled in.

Schools with multiple autonomous campuses or branches are entitled to only one (1) team per campus or branch to join.

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Registration

Teams must submit their pre-registration forms thru any of the following: 1) email to admin@patts.edu.ph; 2) thru fax at 825-8824; and 3) online form at www.patts.edu.ph, on or before August 28, 2010. Registration ends on August 28, 2010 or upon the registration of the first 60 schools, whichever comes first. PATTS has the option to decline registration of teams on the day of the competition if they failed to pre-register.

Teams should confirm their registration at the venue of the 5th Q-WIZ before 9:00 am on September 17, 2010. Teams, who fail to pre-register, will no longer be allowed to register on the day of the competition. The three members of the team and their coach are required to show up, with their valid IDs and/or proofs of enrollment to show that they are currently enrolled/employed in their respective high schools. TEAMS THAT COME IN LATER THAN 9:00 am ARE DISQUALIFIED.

Coaches Forum

All relevant concerns shall be entertained only during the coaches forum scheduled on September 10, 2010, Friday, 1:00 – 2:00 pm at the PATTS Review Center. Non-appearance in the said forum will mean concurrence to all of the stipulated guidelines of the 5th Q-WIZ.

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Elimination

Each member of the team will take an individual exam during the eliminations. One member of the team will take the Mathematics exam (which includes algebra, geometry, trigonometry, statistics, calculus, and recreational math), another member will take the Physics exam, and the remaining member will take the General Information exam (which includes current issues and geography). The Elimination round will be from 9:15 to 10:15am at the College Library.

Calculators: Contestants are not allowed to use calculators.

Questions: Questions about the problems may be addressed to the proctors assigned to the room. These questions will be limited to clarifications regarding the given factors or the validity of the question. Questions about how to solve the problem or about the final answers will not be entertained. Persistent questioning may lead to disqualification.

Cellular Phones, Pagers and PDA's: All cellular phones should be turned off and properly endorsed to their coaches, for the duration of the exam. Violators will cause their or their team’s disqualification.

Going Out of the Exam Room: Examinees are not allowed to go out of the exam room once the exam starts. Once an examinee goes out, he/she will not be allowed to return to the exam room. For this reason, the contestants are encouraged to go to the comfort rooms before the exam starts.

Talking: Talking is not allowed between and among contestants. Contestants may report to the proctors any other participant who acts in a manner that disturbs them. Cheat sheets are not allowed and will be confiscated. This shall also be basis for a contestant’s disqualification.

Violations: If a student is found to break a rule that is stated above, that student’s team is disqualified and immediately eliminated from the contest.

End of Exam: After the exam time is over, the papers will be collected and checked by the proctors. The students will be allowed to go out and take lunch.

Advancing to the Final Round

The 8 teams who get the highest accumulated scores of their respective team members during the Elimination Round will advance to the Final Round. No scores will be announced, nor will the order of the top eight teams be announced. However, top 3 individual scorers will be given recognition.

Final Round

The final round will consist of 3 rounds: Easy, Average and Difficult.

Round	Points Per Question	Number of Questions	Number of Teams
Easy	2	12	8
Average	3	12	5
Difficult	5	12	3

The 8 teams will be positioned on the stage, one table per team with 3 members. No substitutions will be allowed. If an emergency occurs and a member/s must leave the team, the team will have to compete undermanned.

Calculators are not allowed.

Each round is composed of 12 questions, 4 each from the three categories: mathematics, physics, and general information.

Scores after the easy round will be carried over to the next round.

After the easy round, only 5 teams out of the 8 finalists will proceed to the average round. The 6th, 7th and/or 8th team may have the chance to participate in the average round if and only if they are tied with the 5th placer (e.g. CASE 1: Team A and Team B have the same score and occupy 5th and 6th places, Team C and Team D is one point short of Team A’s and B’s score and is in the 7-8th spot. Only Teams C and D will be eliminated. CASE 2: Teams A, B, C and D share slot nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8. No team will be eliminated.).

Scores after the average round will be carried over to the next round.

After the average round, only 3 teams out of the 5 finalists will proceed to the difficult round. The 4th or 5th team can only have the chance to participate in the difficult round if and only if they are tied with the 3rd placer. (The procedure in the preceding round will be followed in case of tie.)

The question number and category will be announced by the 5th Q-WIZ Master. The 5th Q-WIZ Master will then read the question twice. The teams may start solving for the answer as soon as the question is read. After the 2nd reading of the question, the time allotted for the question will begin. The teams will write their final answer on the given material. In case of multiple-choice questions, the letter of choice will suffice.

Once the time limit for the question has been exhausted, the teams must display their answer to the judges and the scorekeeper. The teams that get the correct answer will get the corresponding points for that question. No partial points will be given.

Any complaints or problems about the questions will be addressed to the judges right after the answer to the question in issue is given and right before the reading of the next question. The judges must make a decision regarding the problem posed by the team. The judges’ decision is final. Once the judges have decided, the game will proceed to the next question. If the question passes uncontested, or if no problems were found in the question, the game proceeds to the next question.

Cellular phones will be prohibited in the final round. Any student found with or even more, using his/her phone will get his/her team disqualified. It is preferred that any communication device be turned off and left in the custody of their companions in the audience.

The teams can only go to the comfort rooms in between rounds. Talking between two teams during the time a question is being answered is prohibited. If any rule is broken by the student, that student’s team is disqualified upon the judges’ decision.

The winner of the 5th Q-WIZ will be the team that has accumulated the most points at the end of the Final Round. The rankings of the other teams will also depend on the score they accumulated.

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Awarding

THE SCHOOL OF THE WINNING TEAM WILL RECEIVE 15,000.00Php.

All participants will be given certificates of participation after the Final Round.

 

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