The participants are ranked based on their individual scores.
* Gold medals will be awarded to the top 1/12 of the contestants.
* Silver medals will be awarded to the next 2/12.
* Bronze medals will be awarded to the next 3/12.
* Participants who don't win a medal but who score seven points on at least one problem get an honorable mention.
Not more than half of the participants will receive medals.
Special prizes may be awarded for solutions of outstanding elegance or involving good generalizations of a problem. This last happened in 2005, 1995 and 1988, but was more frequent up to the early 1980s.