Tag: Greater China
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IEO Preparation for STEM Students: Starting Without School Economics
STEM students can transfer quantitative strengths into IEO preparation by diagnosing economic reasoning gaps, connecting concepts to real scenarios, and choosing targeted support rather than restarting from scratch.
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IEO OpenTrack Decoded: What the 2026 Rules Say About the Free Online Category, and Who Should Enter
The IEO OpenTrack is free, online and open to any age. What its 2026 regulations say about teams, grading, certificates and the students who gain most from entering.
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Starting an IEO Team From Zero: A School Set-Up Guide for the Next Cycle
The delegation is capped at five students plus one or two leaders, so the seat is the gate. A 90-day set-up sequence for a school entering the IEO for the first time.
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Your Real Odds at Each IEO Stage: The Hard Gate Is the Team Seat, Not the Medal
At the 2025 final, 133 medals were shared among 258 competitors. But those seats were split across 52 countries at up to five each. The real filter sits upstream.
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How a Team Actually Reaches the IEO: Sending Organizations, Deadlines and What It Costs
You cannot enter the IEO's national-team MainTrack as an individual. A Sending Organization applies, selects and funds the team. Here are the 2026 deadlines, costs and rules.
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IEO Eligibility, Decoded: The Two Tests You Must Pass and How Many Cycles You Get
IEO 2026 set two eligibility tests for its national-team MainTrack: born after 30 June 2006, and working toward a high school diploma as of 1 December 2025.
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Two Economics Olympiads, One Acronym: Which “IEO” Are You Actually Entering?
Two separate, legitimate international economics competitions are both commonly called the IEO. They have different founders, different Nobel laureates behind them, different finals venues and different China entry routes. Here is how to tell in about thirty seconds which one you are looking at.
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The IEO Reading List: What to Actually Study to Reach Economics-Olympiad Depth
What should you actually read for the IEO? A four-shelf self-study roadmap of textbooks, courses, current affairs, and problem practice, and how to turn reading into recall.
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The IEO Multiple-Choice Round: How to Sit the 40-Question Finance & Economics Paper
The IEO opens with a 40-question Finance & Economics multiple-choice paper. Here is how to pace it, handle calculation questions, and avoid the traps that cost fast students marks.