UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad Success

In the summer term of the last academic year, seven of our students competed in the UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad (JMO). As the follow-on to the Junior Mathematical Challenge, the JMO tests students’ mathematical and problem-solving skills with a higher level of difficulty. The structure of the 2025 paper was slightly different from previous years, with the removal of the shorter questions and focus being on the longer ones, resulting in what the UKMT feel was a slightly more challenging paper. Our students responded brilliantly to the updates, with Aarush Maniyar (8P2) achieving Merit and Arnav Gupta (8P2) achieving Distinction.

The UKMT also award medals to the highest performing students in the competition. Abdul Cheema (7B2) and Sienna Xu (7H1), pictured left and right, have been awarded Bronze medals for their performance. Both of them were very close to receiving a Silver medal, which is especially impressive considering they were in Year 7 at the time of the JMO. Paarth Vashishta (8P1) (pictured middle left) has also been awarded a Bronze medal for his performance and Yusuf Shah (8C1) (pictured middle right) is one of around 40 students nationally that has achieved the highest award – the Gold medal.

These students have shown incredible commitment to their studies and their rewards are well deserved. On behalf of the Maths Department, congratulations to you all!