Dispatches from the SIC academic desk — rubric explainers, S15 season bulletins, Omaha Dialogue recaps, and alumni notes. The desk publishes during active seasons and goes quiet between them.
SIC permits AI for polishing, translation and stress-testing, bans it for authoring, and requires a disclosure paragraph. Where the line sits, and why the rubric enforces it.
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The mid-Regional draft review is the only SIC round early enough to change your thesis. How to submit an unfinished report, ask useful questions, and triage what comes…
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SIC asks 3-5 hours a week from Junior entrants and 5-8 from each Senior member, straight through IB, AP and A-Level exam season. How to budget the collision.
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A SIC Senior report defends one company, one sector, or one macro position. Most teams default without deciding. Here is how that choice changes your risk section.
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Margins, P/E and DCF assume a company that sells a product at a markup. Banks, REITs, biotech and deep cyclicals break that assumption. What to use instead in…
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SIC publishes a 15-30 page range for Senior team reports but no required structure. Here is a page budget mapped to the four 25-point rubric axes, and where…
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Every participant completing the SIC Global Stage gets a personalised rubric report. How to read it honestly, what each recognition tier encodes, and how to plan the off-season.
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Who can enter the SIC, what grades 6-9 must supply that grades 10-12 need not, when the application window runs, and the paperwork China-based families should prepare early.
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SIC Senior teams close the Global Stage with a 20-minute video defense or a written addendum. How to choose between them, structure the 20 minutes, and record it…
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Thesis clarity is a quarter of the SIC rubric, and it is decided sentence by sentence. A two-sentence test, six writing traps, calibrated hedging and a 20-minute self-edit…
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Risk articulation is one of four equally weighted SIC judging axes. How to turn a boilerplate risk list into five-field entries with markers, magnitudes and pre-set responses.
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The Junior Division is judged on weekly thesis logs, not portfolio value. Here is a five-block entry template, how to log a week when nothing happened, and how…
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