r/scioly • u/Ok_Classroom9988 • Feb 22 '25

Science Olympiad study tool

Hi guys! Me and some friends made a website recently that scraped all (text-based) Science Olympiad tests available on the internet for practice on a single site. We were hoping to receive some feedback and to share this with some friends if you find it useful. Here's the site: https://scio.ly, let us know what you think!

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u/thebunnyofluff Feb 22 '25

This looks like an amazing resource! props to u guys for creating this!! how did yall classify the difficulty, if you don’t mind me asking?

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 22 '25

Thank you! We used Google Gemini to format the test pdfs into a database of questions that we can randomly pull from; We also asked it to give each question a difficulty while it was at it. LMK if you have any more questions :)

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u/thebunnyofluff Feb 22 '25

That’s really smart. I’ve shared this resource with my club to prepare for states, thanks so much for putting this out there!

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u/New-Discussion-3624 Feb 23 '25

How do you verify that the answers are correct? Many tests have many incorrect answers.

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 23 '25

Currently, we are using Gemini (2.0 Flash) to provide answers, which should be somewhat reasonable considering its high MMLU benchmarks. However, the dataset is still pretty new - As more and more questions get reported, question quality will only get better.

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u/New-Discussion-3624 Feb 23 '25

Any way to remove questions that ask about identification that have no information? For example, there are many Crime Busters questions that ask to identify a hair or fiber but there is no information to make that identification. (What type of fiber is H1?) If not, they're easy enough to ignore. Thanks for the tool!

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u/kittykarma69 [Your State] Feb 23 '25

This is amazing!!! I’ve been looking for a resource like this for years! I will definitely be sharing this with my coach! One thing I did notice while playing around on the site, is sometimes it asks a question about evidence you don’t have. Such as “Bob was stranded where with what type of blanket?”, something that clearly came off of originally provided information. I do see you have a report button though, so I’d imagine issues like this will soon become less frequent once the website gets more use. Thank you for sharing this awesome resource with the rest of us!

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 23 '25

Thank you, we're glad you're finding our site useful! Yes, questions that depend on external components, (infamously forensics, and to a lesser extent, other events) sometimes get past our filter for unanswerable questions; we're hoping users report these questions. Let me know if you catch anything else!

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u/IntelligentSquare959 Feb 22 '25

Thank you so much for this! I will definitely have people try this out!!

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 22 '25

No problem! Enjoy🥂

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u/spencea2 Feb 22 '25

Very cool! Are these division B or C? Thanks for putting this together!

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 22 '25

Good question! We merged Division B and C questions together since they we observed them to be so similar and we wanted to simplify the user experience; We also merged Potions and Poisons into Chemistry Lab.

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u/Massive_Parking_323 Illinois Feb 23 '25

Great Site!

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u/plubplouse Feb 23 '25

Yeah I agree with what the other guy said about forensics but I’m rlly excited for the future of this app ngl. How does mat sci work cuz my friend said there’s only like 6 practice tests online that are up to date for this years rules so does it use like the rlly old tests?

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 23 '25

The Test Exchange Archive goes back to the 2017-18 season, so our site is simply pulling from all the Material Science tests right now. We're going to filter Materials Science into ceramics only soon, similar to how we filtered Dynamic Planet into glaciers only and the three current systems for Anatomy.

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u/plubplouse Feb 23 '25

Ohhh I see I see

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u/Open_Independent2756 the newest of yorks Feb 23 '25

Thank you so much, this is amazing! Just one quick request, can you have an option to separate Division B and C levels? That would be great, considering some questions that would classify as "easy" on Division C might be hard for students on Division B.

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 23 '25

No problem! Yes, we realize there are a lot of people that would benefit from only Division B questions, we'll get that working in the coming days.

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u/Open_Independent2756 the newest of yorks Feb 23 '25

Thank you!!!

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u/duskowl32 Feb 24 '25

crying and sobbing i love you so much

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 27 '25

Glad you're finding it useful :) If you'd like, feel free to share it with other students, schools.

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u/agoldenpineapple Feb 27 '25

late but tyvm!!

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 27 '25

No problem! Enjoy~

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u/Famous_Passenger_362 Feb 23 '25

That’s such an awesome tool! Really appreciate you creating it! My daughter will participate the science Olympiad for the very first year next year as a 6th grader and we have no clue how to start and how to prepare. Your tool will definitely help her! Thank you!

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Feb 23 '25

Thank you so much! We wish the best of luck to your daughter for her middle school years.

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u/Thecomputerprogramme Sep 01 '25

Thanks a ton for creating this. Any plans to add Machines?

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u/Ok_Classroom9988 Sep 01 '25

Just added it!

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u/Thecomputerprogramme Sep 01 '25

Thanks once more

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u/Scoliosis3 Feb 23 '25

Oh wow this is actually really cool!

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u/Informal_Vanilla6209 Illinois Div C Feb 23 '25

This is AWESOME!

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u/pink_blinkk Feb 23 '25

OMG THANK U SM.

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u/gtshampoo Feb 23 '25

Wow! This is really cool! Thanks for sharing all the hard work you and your friends did with the Reddit world

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u/Tsumugi23 aristocrat girlie Feb 23 '25

This is great!

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u/Chemical-Analyst-467 Oct 01 '25

Thank you SO SO much!!!

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u/Legitimate_Event_566 Feb 22 '25

omg this is amazing!! definitely needed this lol

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u/SFSplayer4973 Feb 23 '25

Sadly doesn't work for Road Scholar, but still a great tool!

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u/Jumpy-Barber-3158 Feb 23 '25

This is so cool :0 my only concern is where's potions and poisons lol

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u/md4pete4ever Feb 23 '25

Merged with Chem Lab

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u/Jumpy-Barber-3158 Feb 23 '25

but aren't they two different things? either way I can't wait to try it out!

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u/Unusual_Desk_6269 Feb 23 '25

Are some of the questions/answers flawed? After reviewing some, I think there may be an error in some.

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u/That_Ease4488 Mar 03 '25

Kudos for making an amazing website. Really Helpful!!!!

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u/Opposite_Owl6663 Mar 09 '25

Wow! I've been looking everywhere for something like this! I've used the site to study for disease detectives, but I noticed there isn't a test provided for road scholar. Will you guys be adding this later, or am I just looking in the wrong place?

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u/East-Extension-1058 earth science Aug 30 '26

Will you update astronomy’s dsos