While we don’t expect you to have any experience in OR before participating, we encourage you to look at some introductory material and past TORCH questions.
Past TORCH questions
- TORCH 2012 question sheet
- TORCH 2013 question sheet
- TORCH 2014 question sheet
- TORCH 2015 question sheet
- TORCH 2016 question sheet
- TORCH 2017 question sheet(English | French)
- TORCH 2018 question sheet (English | French)
- TORCH 2019 question sheet (English | French)
Other practice problems
- Bridges to Somewhere (from Analytics magazine)
- Home Improvement (from ORMS Today magazine)
- The Beer Distribution Game (originally developed at MIT, this Java Simulation from ETH Zürich)
Helpful websites and readings
- OR by the beach — a blog on practical OR problems
- High School OR — a collection of OR teaching materials
- An introduction to graph theory — from the MIT BLOSSOMS collection
- Prof. Michael Trick’s OR Blog — from Carnegie Mellon University