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The Physics ladder, level by level — what each round looks like, when it happens, and what to study.
Nepal has no official district-level physics olympiad. MoEST's 2082 procedure allows 'district or province'; NPS chose province. This slot is the NEB Grade 11–12 syllabus itself — about 90% of NePhO Round-1 marks come from it.
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Curated resources for Physics.
Foundation for the mandatory "Experimental uncertainty & Data analysis" syllabus section. 4 pp.
Explicitly built for NePhO. Opens with a NePhO Pre-selection 2017 graph question. Graphing is a named scoring skill in the official NePhO syllabus. 5 pp.
NePhO papers state: "Marks will not be deducted for incorrect answers but deducted for improper significant figures." This is free marks most Nepali students lose. 2 pp.
Entry point for all NEB textbooks & curricula.
Same geo-slowness. Accessible from within Nepal.
Fast concept cross-referencing; excellent for filling holes before you touch olympiad problems.
Full first-year mechanics with problem sets + exams. The standard bridge from board physics to olympiad mechanics.
Written by Laxman Bist, Nabin Kalauni, Sandesh Parajuli — top-3 of NePhO 2018, Nepal's team at IPhO 2018 Lisbon. Explicitly "organized as per the syllabus of NePhO." Every chapter = Key Concepts & Formulae → Bridging Problem → Level 1 problems → Level 2 problems → IPhO problems → Supplementary problems, all with solutions. Sources cited inside: Morin, Irodov, Gnädig, Sears & Zemansky. Released Oct 2023, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Foundation for the mandatory "Experimental uncertainty & Data analysis" syllabus section. 4 pp.
Explicitly built for NePhO. Opens with a NePhO Pre-selection 2017 graph question. Graphing is a named scoring skill in the official NePhO syllabus. 5 pp.
"Preparation Materials FOR IPhO — NePhO, Nepal Physical Society." Contains an actual NePhO 2011 selection-test problem (falling-raindrop model) worked up to competition standard. The deepest Nepal-authored mechanics treatment available.
NePhO papers state: "Marks will not be deducted for incorrect answers but deducted for improper significant figures." This is free marks most Nepali students lose. 2 pp.
Kafle: "if you want in-depth knowledge from the very beginning (which will be required eventually in IPhO), the best material should be John R. Taylor's." The definitive text.
Unreachable from some networks (India-hosted mirror; times out abroad). Search title to find it; or buy.
Bangladesh's olympiad has an identical ladder shape to what you want: Selection Round → Regional Round (multiple question sets) → National Round, with Category C = higher secondary = Nepal's Grade 11–12. Difficulty sits right between NePhO Round 1 and Round 2. The single best volume-drill source for South Asian students.
LIVE but JavaScript-only SPA — needs a browser; not scrapeable. Category A/B/C correspond to school tiers.
India's national olympiad papers with official model solutions. INPhO is ~1 notch above NePhO Final Round; NSEP is ~NePhO Round 1. Hindi versions help Nepali students more comfortable in Devanagari.
Index ✅ LIVE, but individual PDFs 404 from non-Indian IPs (geo-restricted). Use from within Nepal/India or via archive.org.
Written by Laxman Bist, Nabin Kalauni, Sandesh Parajuli — top-3 of NePhO 2018, Nepal's team at IPhO 2018 Lisbon. Explicitly "organized as per the syllabus of NePhO." Every chapter = Key Concepts & Formulae → Bridging Problem → Level 1 problems → Level 2 problems → IPhO problems → Supplementary problems, all with solutions. Sources cited inside: Morin, Irodov, Gnädig, Sears & Zemansky. Released Oct 2023, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
The National Round of BdPhO ≈ NePhO Final Round in difficulty and is freely downloadable (unlike INPhO).
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India's national olympiad papers with official model solutions. INPhO is ~1 notch above NePhO Final Round; NSEP is ~NePhO Round 1. Hindi versions help Nepali students more comfortable in Devanagari.
Index ✅ LIVE, but individual PDFs 404 from non-Indian IPs (geo-restricted). Use from within Nepal/India or via archive.org.
Interference, diffraction, polarization. The only free olympiad-grade optics handout identified; there is no Nepali equivalent at any level.
DC/AC circuit theory at olympiad depth — covers the Kirchhoff / thermoelectric / AC circuits syllabus items the Nepal guide omits.
Rotation, rigid bodies, gravitation, oscillations — the Round-1 mechanics blocks missing from the Nepal guide.
IPhO-level thermodynamics with hints. Bridges NePhO Round 1 thermo → Round 2 → IPhO.
Covers magnetic field, magnetic properties of materials, electromagnetic induction, alternating currents — the entire §2 of the official Final-Selection syllabus, which no Nepali resource covers.
Covers mechanical waves, acoustic phenomena, interference, diffraction, polarization — the entire §1 of the official Final-Selection syllabus, also uncovered by Nepali material.
The most respected curated olympiad problem list in the world, hand-picked by an IPhO organiser and sorted by topic: Mechanics (incl. celestial), Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics, Optics, Relativity, Quantum. Each entry annotated with why it teaches something (e.g. "IPhO-1991-Pr1 — this will teach you the basics of the collision of bodies"). Start here before touching raw archives.
The de-facto standard IPhO formula sheet. Also in Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Indonesian, Estonian — no Nepali version exists (Gap I-3).
Section-by-section: 2.2 Mechanics (kinematics / statics / dynamics / celestial mechanics), 2.3 Electromagnetic fields (basic concepts / integral forms of Maxwell's equations / interaction of matter with fields / circuits), 2.4 Oscillations & waves (single oscillator / waves / interference & diffraction / EM waves in matter), plus thermodynamics, modern physics, and experimental skills incl. error analysis.
F=ma is a 25-question/75-min MCQ round — perfect timed-drill material for NePhO Section A; USAPhO is free-response at NePhO-Final/IPhO difficulty.
ABEGS-organised; 3 editions with problems.
Halliday–Resnick–Krane is the rigorous edition; this makes it self-study-able.
Kevin Zhou's /handouts/ index returns 404; the direct PDF and the Google Doc are the live routes
Interference, diffraction, polarization. The only free olympiad-grade optics handout identified; there is no Nepali equivalent at any level.
DC/AC circuit theory at olympiad depth — covers the Kirchhoff / thermoelectric / AC circuits syllabus items the Nepal guide omits.
Rotation, rigid bodies, gravitation, oscillations — the Round-1 mechanics blocks missing from the Nepal guide.
IPhO-level thermodynamics with hints. Bridges NePhO Round 1 thermo → Round 2 → IPhO.
Stretch material for IPhO-bound students.
Master page for S31–S40.
Directly serves the "basics of special relativity" in the NePhO Final Round syllabus.
Kalda's own regional olympiad; the Est-Fin problems on his recommended list come from here.
Real competition papers, grouped by round and year. Print one and sit it like the real exam.
Scribd paywall/login — preview only; no clean public PDF exists (see Gap P-2)
LIVE — Edusanjal's CDN returns 403 to scripts but loads normally in a browser
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What is examined in the Physics Olympiad, round by round. Tick items as you revise, or print this page as a checklist (ticks are not saved).
Draft taxonomy — official transcription in progress
Once you've grabbed the materials, explore how the topics connect and chart your preparation.
Every official Physics topic, placed on the round that examines it first.
Pick a topic to filter the study materials and past papers down to just that area.
Kinematics, dynamics, energy, rotation, gravitation and periodic motion — the heaviest block of NePhO Round 1.
Calorimetry, expansion of materials, kinetic theory of gases and the laws of thermodynamics.
⚠ No Nepali material — self-study required
Mirrors, refraction, prisms and dispersion in Round 1; interference, diffraction and polarization in the Final Round.
Electrostatics and DC circuits in Round 1; magnetic fields, induction and alternating currents in the Final Round.
Electrons, photons and nuclear physics in Round 1; semiconductors, quantum physics and statistical physics in the Final Round.
⚠ No Nepali material — self-study required
Error sources, uncertainty estimation, straight-line fits with error bars — examined in both rounds; ~12.5% of Round 1 and 100% of the Round 2 practical.
Mechanical waves and acoustic phenomena — Final Round only.
A representative problem from Physics.
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We verify every statement against an official source before it appears here. No fabricated problems ship to production.
Draft stages — real dates and actions are being transcribed from the official notices.
Build core concepts from your school syllabus before touching Olympiad-level problems. Focus on accuracy over speed.
Outcome — Confident with fundamentals
Work through Olympiad problems by topic. Start recognising the patterns that sit behind the problems.
Outcome — Topic-level fluency
Tackle multi-concept and proof-based problems. Develop rigorous, competition-grade arguments.
Outcome — Solves hard problems
Attempt full-length past papers under real timing. Build stamina and exam temperament.
Outcome — Exam-ready speed
Final refinement. Light practice, weak-area review, and peak taper before the national round.
Outcome — Compete at nationals
Official contacts for the Physics Olympiad, and the content gaps we are working to fill.
Runs NePhO; selects & trains the IPhO team
NEB Grade 11–12 Physics curriculum & textbooks
MoU with NPS; diaspora mentoring
Nepali olympiad book — open to contributors (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
3 × District Diagnostic Tests (25 MCQ + 10 short, 45 min, NEB Gr-11, answer key + rationale + topic tags)
NEB Gr 11–12 → Olympiad bridge mapping (chapter → NePhO clause → extensions → 3 problems)
NePhO Round-1 papers 2019/21/23/24/25/26 — retrieval first (M-13), else mocks matching the 2022 template
Model solutions + marking rubric for the 5 existing NePhO papers (incl. significant-figure checks)
Optics for NePhO (formula sheet + graded L1/L2 problems)
Rotation, Gravitation & Oscillations for NePhO
DC circuits / Kirchhoff / thermoelectric & chemical effects of current
Elasticity & hydrostatics
नेपाली/English glossary + formula booklet (~350 terms)
NePhO Final 2019–2026 — retrieval first; else 5 mock sets
Experimental Physics Training Manual for Nepal (highest priority: 20 of 50 IPhO marks)
10-day Top-25 camp simulation pack
APhO readiness pack
20 experimental problems with worked uncertainty budgets
Nepali translation of Kalda's 'Formulas for IPhO' (credit per his terms)
Pick a topic, follow the constellation, and start building toward the Physics national round.