Objectives
- Stimulate the study of biological sciences among young people.
- To reward effort and academic excellence.
- To disseminate biology and serve as a meeting point between secondary education and the university.
Participants
The Biology Olympiad 2027 is open to all students from schools enrolled during the 2026-2027 academic year in the subject of Biology in the 2nd year of secondary school. The test will be held simultaneously in the three provinces of the Valencian Community. Participation is individual.
Contents
- Syllabus of Biology and Geology for 4thESO and 1st year of secondary school, referring to the Biology contents (excluding the geology contents).
- Program of the subject of Biology for the 2nd year of secondary school contained in Decree 108/2022 of August 5, 2022 (Excluding "Microbiology and Immunology").
Calendar of exams
The exam will be on February 12, 2027.
- 4:00 p.m. presentation of the Olympiad in the Charles Darwin Room (Interfaculty Classroom of the Burjassot Campus - 2nd floor).
Registered students will be summoned to the exams without the need for subsequent personal notification. Exceptionally, the date and time may be changed if circumstances so require; in this case, the centres will be informed in due course.
Exam type
The exam is anonymous and lasts two hours.
It will consist of 100 multiple-choice questions based on the syllabus outlined in the previous section. Each question has four options, only one of which is correct. To determine the final score, correct answers to questions 1 through 60 are awarded one point each (with a 0.25-point penalty for incorrect answers), while correct answers to questions 61 through 100 are awarded two points each (with a 0.5-point penalty for incorrect answers). Unanswered questions are not taken into account.
