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How to define “school” or “university” correctly?

Defining expected knowledge levels: Think of textbooks and their content for school pupils and

- If user in the high school is able to solve university/college students:

the task, it refers to “school” group”; - If a topic and certain level of task is a chapter of a textbook in

- If the task requires knowledge of schools, then a task refers to “school” group;

university/college program, then a task - Same logic with textbooks for universities/colleges

should be defined as “university” ones.


EXAMPLES
Statistics
High school textbooks will include studies on topics such
as statistics and also statistics is a course of study at
universities. To avoid ambiguity, we ask you to mark all
tasks in statistics as University task
All tasks in
STATISTICS
should be defined
as “UNIVERSITY”
task
Finance math
Math tasks related to Mathematics of Investment and Credit
should be marked as university-level tasks

All tasks related to


Mathematics
Compound Interest
should be defined as
“UNIVERSITY” task
Finance math

All tasks related to


Mathematics
Simple Interest
should be defined
as “SCHOOL” task
Probability
Middle school curricula include the study of topics such as Basic Probability and Combinatorics.
Therefore, if you see that the task implies knowledge of only the base probability, this is a school task.
Calculus
Tasks related to the basic concept of integral calculus: antiderivative, integration using table of
integrals, definite integrals using Newton-Leibnitz formula should be defined as “school” task.
Calculus

If the solution does not require knowledge of certain theorems or properties (like L’Hospital’s Rule etc.) - this is
a school task.
Calculus

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