• Applicant team shall download the Registration form from BIT website (link) and email the completed form to ocpm2010@bit.edu.in on or before 05th April 2010. Any one of the team members can be point of contact.


• BIT will confirm the receipt of their participation by email to the team point of contact latest by 10th April 2010. In case any team could not get the confirmation email, please contact the OCMP 2010 coordinator by 14th April 2010.


• If the team has got the intimation letter with OCPM ID provided by the organizer then the team is registered.

• Registered teams will be provided with detailed procedure and guidelines to participate in the marathon.


• For any further communication always mention Team name, College Name, OCPM ID.


• Once you are registered you can collect model questions available in www.bit.edu.in\ocpm for pre-marathon screening test.

• Duration: 1 hour.
• Question pattern: Objective type.
• Reporting Time will be informed to you through the intimation letter.
• After qualifying Pre-marathon Screening test (best 10 teams as per the pre-marathon highest scorers) the team will be entitled to participate in marathon–final.

• Duration: 8 hours (9 A. M. to 5 P.M.)
• Question type: A small and medium programming tasks in team environment.
• Reporting time: 8:30 A.M. on 25th April 2010. Breakfast, lunch, snack and tea will be available to participating teams in the marathon contest area.

Result will be published in the official website www.bit.edu.in on or before 1st May, 2010. Winning teams will be notified by phone/email.

After Pre-marathon Screening Test, the suitable number of highest scoring competitors who are registered for the OCPM will advance to the final round. To advance, a Competitor must submit the answers of Pre-marathon Screening Test and achieve a score greater than zero. The structure of each Round is as follows:

Number of Rounds: There will be two rounds in OCPM 2010.
1. Pre-marathon Screening Test:In this round there will be multiple choice questions and write the output types of questions.
One sample question is given below:

int   whatItDoes(int a, int b)  {       while(b  >  0)  {       a  =  a  %  b;       a  ^=  b;  b  ^=  a;  a  ^=  b;  }      return a; } Write the output of the following function. Input : 23, 10 Output : -----------

2. Marathon Final: The result of Pre-marathon Screening Test will be declared on 24th April 2010 in BIT. Selected teams will be required to report at BIT campus on 25th April 2010 by 8 AM. In Marathon final breakfast, lunch, dinners and refreshments will be provided to the competitors and their guide escort (one per team). The competitors will have to arrange their own accommodation. Competitors from outside Bhubaneswar and Cuttack will be paid night halt allowance of Rs.300/- per person.
The final round will be a marathon programming contest of 8 hours starting from 9 AM.

Project work:
The marathon assignment will comprise of a small project in programming. Evaluation will be carried out based on the following criteria.

• 1. Correctness of the tasks.
• Time for completion.
• Code clarity.
• Program should work for all data sets provided.
• Code optimization.

• 1) All team members must be registered in OCPM-2010.
• 2) Team should come with the following documents: Intimation letter and College ID card/University registration card/Authentication from respective principal or HOD
• 3) Maximum one team escorts with any team will be allowed in BIT campus.

Rules of the competition are as follows:

• In Marathon final no competitors are allowed to participate after 9:30 A.M.
• In Marathon final discussion among the team members is allowed but the discussion should not affect other team members.
• In Marathon final discussion among members of different teams are strongly discouraged and we may disqualify any team based on this criteria.
• Competitors are responsible to arrive at the venue at right time.
• Competitors must not begin the task or attempt to read the tasks until instructed to do so.
• One computer workstation will be available for every two team members.
• Electronic aids and media are not permitted: Please do not bring any disks, USB memory keys, laptop computers, palmtop computers, calculators, or cell phones to inside the marathon hall. You can leave such personal belongings with security at the Institute.
• You may use the calculator program on your workstation.
• You may bring printed documentation, such as texts, manuals, and printouts.
• Contestants may not leave the contest area during the contest period. In no case may a candidate leave the room temporarily, for any reason, until 30 minutes after the start of the competition.
• Advisors are not permitted in the contest area during the contest period.
• Winner will be determined first by the number of correct solutions, and secondly by the submission time of the last correct solution.
• Advisors are invited to the show-up and practice session, but must leave the contest area upon start of the contest.
• If you attempt to compromise the integrity or the legitimate operation of this Competition by hacking or by cheating then we may debar you from participating in the competition and also in any of our future Competition.
• A candidate who leaves the marathon contest must hand over all completed and attempted work, notes made during the exam, and a copy of the examination paper with their name and Team ID number on it.
• Any participant needing to speak to the proctor (e.g. to ask for additional supplies or to request permission to leave the examination room for any reason) should do so without making noise that will affect fellow teams.
• Questions concerning possible errors, ambiguities or omissions in the examination paper must be directed to the proctor who will investigate them through the proper channels. The proctor is not permitted to answer questions other than those concerning the examination paper.
• If there will be any addition to the above guidelines, it will be both posted in the website and intimated to the participating teams.