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Year 13 Biology success in the 2018 British Biology Olympiad

All Year 13 Biologists took part in the 2018 British Biology Olympiad, run by the Royal Society of Biology, where approximately 7500 pupils competed with schools around the country.

Reading School Biologists achieved 13 Gold, 7 Silver and 15 bronze medals, an outstanding achievement.

Chris Youssef

Gold

 

Adithya Sreenivas

 Silver

 

Sepehr Amini

 Bronze

Thomas YiFan Jia

Gold

 

Mark Cobb

 Silver

 

Jonny Pickering

 Bronze

Joshua Blake

Gold

 

Shaishab Sharma

 Silver

 

Vlad Maerescu

 Bronze

Cameron Hillman

Gold

 

Oliver Pizura

 Silver

 

Haseeb Tahir

 Bronze

Sohaib Ansari

Gold

 

Humza Khan

 Silver

 

Ian Scott

 Bronze

Roy Wang

Gold

 

Harry Dean

 Silver

 

Nikhil Anand

 Bronze

Sebastian Blackwell

Gold

 

Dominic Cooke

 Silver

 

Ronit Hardasani

 Bronze

Tim Chen

Gold

 

 

 

 

Alan Manjali

 Bronze

Junkai Zhu

Gold

 

 

 

 

Andrew Prowse

 Bronze

Michael Makarchuk

Gold

 

 

 

 

Adhav Radhakrishnan

 Bronze

Hariharan Subbiah Ponniah

Gold

 

 

 

 

Simon Brennan-Ruiz

 Bronze

Tuhin Varshneya

Gold

 

 

 

 

Thomas Faint

 Bronze

Ryan Wong

Gold

 

 

 

 

Rohan Vyas

 Bronze

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Stevens

 Bronze

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ritvik Mittal

 Bronze

We are also delighted to announce that Chris Youssef, Thomas Jia, Joshua Blake and Cameron Hillman are all through to the second round of the Olympiad and we congratulate them on this success, being in the top seven percent of candidates who gained a Gold Award.  The competition is highly regarded and all our pupils have excelled yet again achieving, Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards.

The British Biology Olympiad challenges and stimulates students with an interest in biology to expand and extend their talents. It enables students to demonstrate their knowledge and to be suitably rewarded with publicly recognised certificates and medals.  The competition consists of two, 45-minute online multiple choice papers.  Top scoring students will be offered the opportunity to attend an award ceremony in London.  In addition to encouraging and rewarding pupils in their studies, the British Biology Olympiad is the first stage in selecting a team to represent the UK at the International Biology Olympiad (IBO) this year being held in Tehran, with over sixty countries taking part. The IBO seeks to challenge by both theory and practical tests some of the top pre-university biology students in the world, with over sixty countries taking part. The UK teams have had considerable success at IBO and we are very grateful to BBSRC for its continued support of the UK team's participation.

Last year, our very own, William Chadwick (OR 2010-2017), was chosen as one of the four finalists to represent the UK at the International Biology Olympiad alongside pupils from St Paul's Girls' School, The Perse School and Wellington College.

The UK team competed against students from over 60 other countries, taking part in theoretical and practical tasks and challenges designed to test their biosciences acumen and stretch their understanding of the subject to the limit when it took place for the first time in the UK at the University of Warwick.  

We hope that we follow a similar outcome this year.