UW-Madison ICPC Individual Placement Test
Fall 2019

The test going to be held in CS 1350 on Saturday 9/28, 1pm - 6pm. Physical attendance is required in order to compete as part of an official team, and will an big factor in the team composition. Please fill out the on-line registration form by Wednesday 9/25 in order to take the placement test. The official teams will be formed the day after the test.

About the test

• 8 problems, 5 hours
  To mimic actual duration and load.
• From easy over intermediate to advanced difficulty
  To access your ability to solve not-so-easy problems.
• Problems listed in order of increasing level of difficulty
  You do not need to spend time figuring out which problems to tackle first.
• Wide topic coverage
  To identify your strong areas.
• On Kattis
  Will be the actual regional judge.
• Personal computers allowed
  To save hassle of unfamiliar IDE / coding enviroment for you this time.
• Programming languages: C/C++, Java and Python.
  Although Kattis supports more, please use officially supported languages for this test.
• No templates allowed.
  To create an even playing field.

Tip: You are not expected to solve all or many of the problems. Try to solve the ones in the areas you are good at, i.e., show your strength.

Tip: (Python users) Although Kattis supports Python, not all problems are tested with Python solutions. Be preapred to get Time Limit Exceeded (TLE) for problems with heavy I/O or complicated data structures.

Before the test

• Make sure you have a Kattis account and are registered in time for the test.
• Arrive a bit early on the day of the test to avoid wasting test time.
• Don’t come with an empty stomach. 5 hours of competitive programming can be pretty exhausting.

During the test

• You may look up programming language references.
• Looking up anything else online will be regarded as cheating and disqualify you immediately.

After the test

• There will be food.
• Talk to others to form tentative teams.
• Contact us or we will contact you to finalize official teams the next day.

Good luck!