This year,4,390 high school Students participated the F=ma Preliminary Exam.全美国一共388 semifinalists, 加州 147. 湾区100. SpringLight Education got great results for the USAPhO 2014 and 2015. 

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USAPhO F=ma Boot Camp 1: For the students who knew mechanics.Students will do two past exams in the first 3 hours. The instructor will give lecture for 2 hours. He will focus on the harder questions and try to help students improve their score from around 8, 9 or 10 or over to over score 17. He will give skills and strategy training. Before the students take his class, please review all of the mechanics concepts and the hard questions.

USAPhO F=ma Boot Camp 2: 1st hour is for the student to do one past F=ma exams. The instructor will explain each of the questions’ solution and the concept behind them, then give several similar questions with the same concept. The purpose is help the students to understand different type of questions related with the same concepts.

USAPhO Semifinal Class: For the first of the few sessions, there will be 30 min to review mechanics concept and hard questions. Focus on the questions for E & M.

USAPhO Boot Camp 1	12/26/15 to 12/30/15	1:30-6:30pm	$700	Sat. to Wed. 5 days
USAPhO F=ma Boot Camp 2	12/19/15 to 1/3/16	1:30-6:30pm	$1,200	12 days
USAPhO Semi Final Camp	12/19/15 to 1/3/16	9:00am-12:00pm	$1,080	12 days
USAPhO Semifinal Class	1/3/16 to 3/7/16	6:30-9:30pm	$950/10 sessions	Sundays

Location: 1340 S De Anza Blvd. Suite 204, San Jose, CA 95129

Contact: (408) 366-2204, (408) 480-7547, spring.light.edu@gmail.com

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USAPhO introduction from Wikipedia:

The current procedure to select the U.S. Physics Team consists of two exams and then a study camp, the preliminary “F=ma” Exam and the Semifinals. In previous years, there have been free response questions on the preliminary round as well as a quarterfinal round in between the preliminary and semifinal. As of 2013, there are only two rounds of testing.

Preliminary Exam

This exam is known as the F = ma contest. There are 25 multiple choice questions in 75 minutes focusing only on mechanics. One point is awarded for each correct answer and a quarter point penalty deducted for each incorrect answer. The cut-off was 15.5 in 2012, 12.25 in 2013, 12.5 in 2014, 18 in 2015

USAPhO F=ma Boot Camp 2,USAPhO Semi Final Camp and USAPhO Semifinal Class Instructor:

Eduard F. has M.S. degree in Mathematical Physics from Physics department of the St. Petersburg State University  in Russia. When he was in high school, he participated in a number of Soviet Math and Physics Olympiads at the regional and national levels. He was a member of the Soviet and Russian National Teams in the 1980-90s at many international competitions. Most of his USAPhO students qualified as semifinalists.

US Physics Olympiad National Team, Top 20 (2014)
US Physics Olympiad Semifinalist Gold Medal (2014), Silver Medal (2015)
US Physics Olympiad National Semifinalist (2011-12, 2014-15)