competition-math

[swift imp]

No

[marble grove]

bro i spent 25 minutes on one freaking questin

[ornate coyote]

just discuss tomorrow

[swift imp]

That’s like

[marble grove]

and then I didn't get pass questio n13 bro

[swift imp]

Contest math prep right there

[plain moon]

Did you take 12 or 10

[swift imp]

I’ve spent like

[marble grove]

10

[plain moon]

Oh

[marble grove]

ik chat dont judge

[swift imp]

5 hours on amc problems before

[marble grove]

lol

[ornate coyote]

its kind of funny how much my aime practice scores range

[marble grove]

bro cuz i don't know the shortcuts n stuff so i literally solve everything

[ornate coyote]

one test i get a 5 and the other i got a 13

[marble grove]

where r practice tests

[swift imp]

Just

[ornate coyote]

just go to previous tests

[swift imp]

Amc trivial

Website

[marble grove]

oh alr

[swift imp]

Can make custom mocks

[marble grove]

you know the free book?

from omega learn

[soft vigil]

i was the opposite

my schools math team is big

[ornate coyote]

i had a lot of math kids in my old middle school

but like

[soft vigil]

maybe bc we're the top school in the state 😛

[ornate coyote]

they werent that good

[marble grove]

alr bro

[soft vigil]

we were at least last yer

[ornate coyote]

like they mostly did amc8

and there were a few other kids who did jmo

[marble grove]

wait

[ornate coyote]

and aime

[marble grove]

is amc8 18 good in 6th

[soft vigil]

a kid at my school got 7th grade jmo hm

[ornate coyote]

yeah

[soft vigil]

do you want the good or bad answer

[ornate coyote]

same

[marble grove]

idc its my brothr

[ornate coyote]

wait not my school on my team

[marble grove]

so bad answer

[ornate coyote]

HORRIBLE

ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC

[marble grove]

dang

lol

[ornate coyote]

not even 25

smh

[soft vigil]

yeah 18 on amc8 is 💩

[marble grove]

bro hes such a big back cuz he sits on his computer all day

[soft vigil]

not like i got better

i got 23's and 24's

[marble grove]

alr

[ornate coyote]

damn

[marble grove]

wait i should tell him that tho

[ornate coyote]

bubo what did you get jmo index

[soft vigil]

yes

[ornate coyote]

last year

[soft vigil]

repeat word for word

[marble grove]

lowkey if I understand math its fun

[ornate coyote]

bro is spitting straight facts

[marble grove]

yeah

but like no way I spent so long literally hand solving a factorial bruh

[soft vigil]

bad

ask me about the year before tho 😄

[ornate coyote]

what about the year before

[soft vigil]

218.5

jmo hm

118.5+10

[ornate coyote]

wtfffff

what grade u rn

[marble grove]

is that good

[soft vigil]

9 now

[marble grove]

its amc 10 + 12 right?

[ornate coyote]

yes that is amazing

[marble grove]

ok im gonna kms

[ornate coyote]

no thats amc10+aime

[marble grove]

AHIFAHOIFS

[ornate coyote]

i strive to be like you

im in 8th grade and trying to get jmo rn

that is actually crazy

[marble grove]

i feel so dumb rn bruh

[soft vigil]

i didnt get jmo last year

too hard

[marble grove]

but i trust the winter arc will bring me fron a 66 to 73

wait bubo do u use books

[soft vigil]

ye ofc

who doesnt

[marble grove]

some guy

[plain moon]

Wait any recommendations

[marble grove]

is there a page with just all the info I need for the amc 10?

[swift imp]

No

Its

Broad but concise

Both

[marble grove]

o

[ornate coyote]

books cringe

smh

[swift imp]

Just do problems

Books overrated

[marble grove]

Intro series/Volume 1 for the AMC10 and Intermediate Algebra

are these books good?

[ornate coyote]

i really dont want to read evan chen's olympiad book

[marble grove]

this was the persona i was talking abt lol

[ornate coyote]

geo

[swift imp]

Eh

Everaise math

Better

[marble grove]

idk if i can trust u...

[ornate coyote]

trust me aops forums

[marble grove]

forums 💀

[swift imp]

This is number 1 resource

Actually

[marble grove]

alr im gonna sleep and check it now tomorrow cya

[swift imp]

They have everything

[ornate coyote]

i remember doing precalc in 5th grade

and they saved me

[marble grove]

A smart mathametician is the one who sleeps the most -Tsun zu maybe

[pallid dragon]

tsun zu a hack

[jade widget]

Hea_js is the smartest mathematician
-Hea_js

[ornate coyote]

fr

[jade widget]

Goodnight chat

[sturdy viper]

wtf

[hearty tendon]

💀

whatd u drop

[soft vigil]

what

[hearty tendon]

on b

[soft vigil]

oh

i think better than A

[hearty tendon]

o nice

[main flare]

i learnt it from looking at a shrek pic

[trim bramble]

i did not cook

[latent bough]

I got a 72

[prisma dune]

2 options Basis, or some other

[latent bough]

Wait we can talk about the test now right?

[trim bramble]

yes

lol i disliked that test

[prisma dune]

Since 4 min ago

[trim bramble]

back to the grind

[trim bramble]

i’ll figure my score out later today prob

i’d be surprised if i did well tho

[latent bough]

I swear I’m tweaking

[trim bramble]

was bored and just guessed D for a bunch

[trim bramble]

rip

[latent bough]

I spent 25 minutes bashing the modular arithmetic one because I somehow got 19*2 = 34

And it was literally so easy

[trim bramble]

which one

[latent bough]

7^2024 one

[trim bramble]

the 7^2024 one

[latent bough]

I swear so easy

[trim bramble]

i just checked first 4 mods

[latent bough]

Ii

Ik

[trim bramble]

and hoped it was a pattern

[plain jacinth]

Which one?

[trim bramble]

and there was

[plain jacinth]

Bro the 7^2024 one

[trim bramble]

7^2024 + 7^2025 + 7^2026 mod 19

[latent bough]

I just did 72024 +77^2024 + 49*7^2024

[trim bramble]

that’s so smart oml

[latent bough]

And then you get 57^2024

But I couldn’t add so I got 57 mod 19 = 4

[plain jacinth]

You could add (1+7+49)7^2024 =57(7^2024)=3*19(7^2024)=0(mod19)

[latent bough]

😭😭😭

[plain jacinth]

the answer was 0

💀

[trim bramble]

i had 0

let’s go

[plain jacinth]

ok

You just needed to add 1+7+49

Which is 3*19

[trim bramble]

well i realize that not

[plain jacinth]

so 0 remainder

[trim bramble]

does anyone know why this is wrong on this parallelogram one i cannot see my problem

what was the sol for that parallelogram one

[plain jacinth]

I skipped the parallelogram one

[latent bough]

Yeah I saw that but I somehow mapped 19*2 to 34

[trim bramble]

i had this

whenever it sends

i got 9/4

😐

which was NOT. an answer

bru the photo won’t send

[latent bough]

Oh

Which one

[trim bramble]

parallelogram

find the area of a trapezoid and a triangle after doing some stuff

[latent bough]

Oh I didn’t even try that ngl

[trim bramble]

i had this

but idk why wrong

and was sad

[latent bough]

I think you could’ve cord bashed it

[trim bramble]

i’m too lazy for that

[latent bough]

I didn’t even try it tho I just spent all my time on the modular arithmetic bc I was getting answers that weren’t options

[trim bramble]

rip

[latent bough]

I’m crashing out

I literally just had to add 19 and 19 to get 38 and I would’ve gotten it in like a minute

And I could’ve gotten like 3-4 more questions

😭

[vague temple]

I sillied #4

I’m

[latent bough]

Which one was that

[vague temple]

The one of buckets

[latent bough]

Oh the bins one

I didn’t do that one I just skipped 🥲

I did 24 tho somehow

[prisma dune]

Cool

[latent bough]

Idk man these tests felt completely different from the past years

[vague temple]

Agreed

Where are solutions

[latent bough]

I don’t think they’re out yet

[vague temple]

Thebeautyofmath has some

I sillied #4 and it was such a sad mistake

I found n > 63

[trim bramble]

rip

[vague temple]

But then for some reason concluded n = 63

And put C

[trim bramble]

which one was that

[latent bough]

Bins one

[trim bramble]

oop

[latent bough]

A b c d e

[trim bramble]

i remember

[vague temple]

Silliest

[trim bramble]

i forgot triangle number formula thingy and had to bash it a lil

[vague temple]

I mean I think the fastest way is bash

Guess and check

[latent bough]

I sold ngl I just didn’t try

[trim bramble]

i may have messed it up

i forgot to check my work

welp

yeah i went 1 over oh well

🤷‍♂️

[latent bough]

I guess that’s why I didn’t try

[trim bramble]

it’s whatever

[latent bough]

Questions were hella out of place

[trim bramble]

i agree

[latent bough]

Maybe they shuffled some around

[trim bramble]

i had online so idk

[latent bough]

Same

My computer stopped working halfway tho

I had to use the teachers

Wasted like 5-10

[swift imp]

Was this d

[vague temple]

Yes

[hot lava]

Hey guys. I went to the national math olympiad today and I was stuck on a problem and didn't solve it. Maybe someone can help me answer it.

I am searching for all the number $n=a^3bc$, whith a, b and c being positive integers and $0 \textless a \textless b \textless c \textless 50$ that satify the following equation:
$\frac{1}{a^3} = \frac {1}{b+1} + \frac {1}{c+1}$

Apart from (1,1,1) i could find any other solutions. Btw 1<1<1 is false so it esen even a valid answer

[gilded halo]

Oogy Boogy

[hot lava]

I'm also gonna post it in a help channel

[fair vale]

what score do yall think you got on 10b

[latent bough]

i got 72

rip

[fair vale]

ok

i dont think im making aime

[latent bough]

i spent 25-30 minutes on the $7^{2024} + 7^{2025} + 7^{2026}$ one because i was tweaking and thought 19 + 19 = 34 and 19 * 3 = 54 so 🤷

[fair vale]

damn

[gilded halo]

reaver

[latent bough]

i factoried it right

[fair vale]

wait what was question 12

[latent bough]

idk i took digital so i dont really remember

[fair vale]

where 100 students from different coutnries

[latent bough]

same ngl

[fair vale]

was the answer 100?

[vague temple]

Yeah in that case where you are stuck because of silly then skip and move on, maybe come back later

[fair vale]

the languages question

[vague temple]

Can’t let it drag down other parts of the test

[latent bough]

i was confused by the 100 students one

[fair vale]

what was the answer to the "100 students each speak different languages" questoin

yeah me too

[latent bough]

i just skipped cuz it made no sense to me

[vague temple]

Random math has solutions

[fair vale]

i thought it was 100

[vague temple]

If you search on Google

[fair vale]

where send link

[vague temple]

https://www.randommath.com/tournaments/amc-10-12

[latent bough]

maybe ill do the rest of the questions later

and try to do as many as i can before looking at solutions

i swear 24 was easy

the one with the P(m)

[karmic marten]

I got 9 for that one

[latent bough]

explain to me that one pls

i dont understand it

[karmic marten]

Because if everyone speaks 4 languages, then 9c4 > 100

[latent bough]

i dont even understand the question

[karmic marten]

It’s basically everyone has to speak a language that someone else doesn’t speak, and since everyone speaks the same number of languages, that can happen if two people don’t speak the exact same languages

[karmic marten]

It’s kinda hard to understand

[latent bough]

yeah

f i shouldve remember triangular numbers for that one question

[karmic marten]

P4?

[latent bough]

yeah

i just skipped

[karmic marten]

Oh rip

[fair vale]

it wasnt that bad

i got d

@karmic marten what score did you get

[karmic marten]

Idk

[latent bough]

im gonna go back through all the problems w/o looking at solutions

[karmic marten]

Answered the first 24

[fair vale]

WHATT

[karmic marten]

But not sure how many I messed up

[fair vale]

dang

you might get DHR

[latent bough]

teach me your ways

[karmic marten]

Hopfully

[fair vale]

what did you get on the a

[karmic marten]

124.5 😭

[fair vale]

wow

thats great

[karmic marten]

Thanks

[latent bough]

i took paper first and then digital

[fair vale]

what grade u in?

[karmic marten]

10th

[fair vale]

nice

[latent bough]

i got digital before paper even though i took B

[karmic marten]

How about you

[fair vale]

8

i got 94.5 on my last amc

[karmic marten]

You still have more year to take the amc 10

[latent bough]

wtf

8

im in 9th

[karmic marten]

That’s good for 8th grade

[latent bough]

i just started comp math so i have a ton of sillies

[fair vale]

ig

[latent bough]

72 on this one 😦

[karmic marten]

Are solutions out?

[fair vale]

im doing advanced math for my school tho

i finished precalc this summer

[latent bough]

nice

[karmic marten]

Wow

[fair vale]

math king what grade u in

math grade

[karmic marten]

10

[latent bough]

im in Calc AB rn

[karmic marten]

Calc 3

Multi variable

[fair vale]

cool

[latent bough]

tryna skip BC and go to multi-linear

[karmic marten]

Cool

[latent bough]

gonna see if i can do math research maybe cuz i like math

[fair vale]

i needa do better at comp math cuz im slow

[latent bough]

and im gonna grind leetcode too trust

[latent bough]

same 😭

[karmic marten]

How do y’all train for comp math?

[fair vale]

mocks

u?

[karmic marten]

Same

And I also use a website called mathdash

[latent bough]

i did a CTY class but then it wasn't too helpful so i just stopped 1/4 of the way and studied using online resources

• tons of past

[karmic marten]

https://mathdash.com

[fair vale]

cool

[latent bough]

oh bet

[karmic marten]

Oh ok

[latent bough]

this looks cool

[fair vale]

wait is that chess

do you do chess

[karmic marten]

It’s basically chess.com but with math

[fair vale]

cool

[karmic marten]

Just recreationally

[fair vale]

whats ur guys rating

[latent bough]

nice il try it

USCF?

[fair vale]

yeah ig or online

[karmic marten]

Around 1000 on chess, 2000 on mathdash

[fair vale]

cool

[karmic marten]

Hbu

[latent bough]

im like 700 uscf 💀

i dont play chess that much

[fair vale]

my uscf: 1500 lichess: 2100

peak

[karmic marten]

Nice

[latent bough]

my brother is like crazy hes closing in on 2000 uscf

u guys use lichess?

[fair vale]

yeah recently i had a 3 day chess tournament and I am going to invitationals only for my state :)

yes

[latent bough]

niceeee

[fair vale]

woah

[latent bough]

any of u play piano too? just curious

[fair vale]

whats his uscf id

no

[latent bough]

idk

[fair vale]

whats his lichess rating

ur brother

or online

rating

(and whats his username im curious lol)

2000 uscf is insan

[latent bough]

blitz?

[fair vale]

yeah

[latent bough]

2163 i think

[fair vale]

username

?

tell me quick i gtg

[karmic marten]

139.5

[latent bough]

teach me your ways 🙏

[karmic marten]

Practice

[covert lake]

Hello Mathematicians all over the round earth,
Myself AK here. I am preparing for the second toughest exam in the world JEE, I have maths going really tough. I love calculus, but allergic to the complex language of LIMITS, Continuity and Differentiability, I am somewhere able to do differentiationa n integration easily, but okok it is. I have my first attempt on 22.01.2025
I also have problems in algebra, geometry, specially trigo, coordinate geometry, conics and other topics. PNC is the most easier, but its quite dicy for me, as my thoughts are always flopping on me.
I need help seriously. Please advice, give me some medicines professors.

[surreal willow]

For the a or the b?

[karmic marten]

b

[surreal willow]

U got ur score back already???

[jade widget]

My fide rapid is 1600 and standard is 1300😭😭😭

[surreal willow]

???

[jade widget]

b already finished?

[surreal willow]

Yea

B wus yesterday

[jade widget]

Oh oki

[karmic marten]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/797918064360161322/1306262921797701722/2024_AMC_Problems_and_Answers__OMMC_.pdf?ex=673607a5&is=6734b625&hm=41304dd879aea7d9923863b18b72cc1b81489e253be2e7ed53ecfeaa8e32041a&

[surreal willow]

Dang I got a terrible score

I think

😓

[jade widget]

Any predictions for cutoff

[plain jacinth]

I made some mistakes on my test😢

I think I still qual for aime but probaly not dhr

😔

[surreal willow]

I messed up on some stuff

Idk what I’ll get

[surreal willow]

Said to be around 96-105

This years was a little hard

[jade widget]

Which one

[surreal willow]

B

[raven crown]

any 12b cutoff predictions?

[ornate coyote]

30000

[jade widget]

Reliable

[graceful eagle]

I got 87

AIME cutoff for 12b in 2023 is 88.5, in 2022 is 81

Somewhat I will not qualify maybe

寄

bless that cutoff will be lower

[ruby egret]

I didn’t qualify for aime

If I qualify aime next 3 years will that be good for top coleleges

[graceful eagle]

I qualified last year

this year idk

[graceful eagle]

You still have a lot of time

[ruby egret]

I’m only a 9th grader

So is it ok if I don’t qual

[graceful eagle]

Really math king

[graceful eagle]

I only get 80ish in amc10 when I'm 9th grade

I mean that you are the really king of math

[ruby egret]

I’m also going to get in the 80s

How did u prepare

Please teach me ur ways

[graceful eagle]

Potion of bless of god of math

Only people with magic can get that much score

My brain already degenerated

Now I'm dumb on math

[surreal willow]

Yea I sorta messed up the test

I remembered some questions I had doubts on and got different answers

:/

[plain moon]

guys what other math comp can i do as a junior other than amcs

[surreal willow]

It just depends on where u live

There isn’t really many other national comps

[plain moon]

US

[surreal willow]

U can try searching ur local universities and see if they have math meets

[plain moon]

do you have any recommendation

[plain moon]

ok

[surreal willow]

What state r u in?

[plain moon]

california

[surreal willow]

There’s a lot of opirtunities there

Try searching if cal tech or Berkeley have math meets

They are stem schools so chances are they might have them

[plain moon]

ok thx

[surreal willow]

Np

[sleek ivy]

yk they dont look at it unless you show it

you arent negatively impacted if you dont

its just a bonus if you do

[karmic marten]

I did a bunch of mocks during summer and fall

Also prepared by grinding a website called mathdash

[latent bough]

I’m gonna try mashdssg

Mathdash

[median mantle]

when does 12b answer key come out

[latent bough]

idk

there may be one already somewhere

[karmic marten]

https://randommath.app.box.com/s/vco5i652x11sxw13axseahra5w1iqhta

[latent bough]

https://randommath.app.box.com/s/vco5i652x11sxw13axseahra5w1iqhta

oh lmao

[karmic marten]

Lol

[latent bough]

does mathdash have non-amc problems in it

[median mantle]

is that the actual answer key or is it made by somebody else

[median mantle]

.

[karmic marten]

It was sent in a different server

[median mantle]

can you send me the server

[karmic marten]

https://discord.gg/ommc-community-796756256022200350

[surreal willow]

Is math dash free?

[radiant jasper]

i missed the AMC by oversleeping 💀

[karmic marten]

Yes it is

You can pay extra to get more features and private coaching, but it’s free to use the website

[surreal willow]

Ahh ok

Is it good for like competition math?

[karmic marten]

Yeah

[surreal willow]

Ok Ty

[plain jacinth]

How long have u been studying comp math

[karmic marten]

A little over a year

[latent bough]

I just started like at the end of summer

I kinda didn’t really prep until like a couple weeks ago tho

[plain jacinth]

How did u get a 130+ 😭

[surreal willow]

Skill issue

[ornate coyote]

i studied like for a year and was able to get a 124.5 in 2023

does anyone have the 10b answer key

[jaunty orchid]

what is ommc not leak right

[karmic marten]

It’s like a math olympiad server

And no it’s not a leak

This was released this morning

[karmic marten]

@ornate coyote

[ornate coyote]

bruh

how did i mess up on 19

am i stupid

i sillied 19

meh 139.5 still decent

[jaunty orchid]

lol i cheesed parallelogram one i assumed it was square

lol

[ornate coyote]

SAME

it was the fastest way

[jaunty orchid]

Casework on the shoes was was so stupid

[ornate coyote]

meh

it was alright

[jaunty orchid]

i skipped 15-18 due to trauma from “how many”

[ornate coyote]

lol

[jaunty orchid]

and i forgot to look at 23 24 25

[ornate coyote]

the entier test was basically just elementary math

[jaunty orchid]

which were just bash, mod, algebra

…

[ornate coyote]

24 should be like problem 12

[jaunty orchid]

What is cutoff prediction

[ornate coyote]

130

OR

100-110

[jaunty orchid]

i got 109.5

shoukd be fine right…

[ornate coyote]

mm

[jaunty orchid]

someone in my ms got 120

[ornate coyote]

yeah pretty much

[jaunty orchid]

110 not possible tho so its fine

[ornate coyote]

a kid in my math group got 150

[karmic marten]

Same lol

[karmic marten]

Yeah that definitely aime qual

[ornate coyote]

i think aime is like top 8% for amc10

[karmic marten]

Used to be 2.5% years ago

But yeah it’s been more like 8% in recent years

[ornate coyote]

what are you getting on amc8

[jaunty orchid]

um…

about that

[ornate coyote]

im bouta get a 13

[jaunty orchid]

18/25 lmao i cheese

[jaunty orchid]

u in 8th grd too?

[ornate coyote]

ye

[jaunty orchid]

139.5 is crzy

Lol

[karmic marten]

Fr

[ornate coyote]

i think ill only need 9 on the aime for jmo

[jaunty orchid]

how is index calculated

[ornate coyote]

amc score

plus aime score *10

my brother prob made aime

hes in 6th

108

[jaunty orchid]

what state u in

[ornate coyote]

washington

[swift imp]

i sillied question 1

w

[sturdy viper]

Is 96 aime qual

or 103.5 or 99

those are my rpedictions

i hopeeee

[latent bough]

😭

[ornate coyote]

i dont think 96 would qualift

[plain jacinth]

It might

that test was difficult

[ornate coyote]

?

[plain jacinth]

I skipped the parallelogram and students languages ones

[ornate coyote]

it was pretty easy for an amc tho

its mostly just time

[plain jacinth]

…

[ornate coyote]

cause like

[plain jacinth]

What did u muss

[ornate coyote]

19

and 22

its like all of them can be solved with simple concepts just that it takes a lot of time

[plain jacinth]

Cap

I thought some were hard concepts but takes little time

For me atleast

U could be dif

[ornate coyote]

like which ones

[plain jacinth]

for the remainder of 125 when n^100, I used eulers thorem which is kinda a hard concepts

And the pipe on was weird I knew there was a formula for it but I forgot it

[ornate coyote]

i think that kind of problem appears a lot withoout a lot of variation

[plain jacinth]

huh?

[ornate coyote]

the eulers totient

ive seen a really similar one

well pretty much the last few questions are really easy

for an amc

[plain jacinth]

Also how do you do the parallelogram and 100students w diff languages ones

[plain jacinth]

thats true

[ornate coyote]

so basically you can just assume the parallelogram was a square

from that point its simple

and for the 100 students diff language i just made as many combinations of the x languages there are and assign one to each student

so 9 choose 4 =126

[plain jacinth]

Ohhh

[ornate coyote]

well ig this test more depends on experience and speed because there are a lot of these little tricks in the test'

and a lot of easy questions that take time

[plain jacinth]

Ohhhh

Bro I just realized I misread the problem

I thought it asked how many languages each student spoke

😭

[ornate coyote]

oh damn

[plain jacinth]

i attempted 20 and only got 2 wrong tho so im really happy

[ornate coyote]

nice

what grade?

[plain jacinth]

10th

Idk how tf yall so smart at such a young age

[ornate coyote]

a lot of time

and basically starting at a young age

predicting cutoff at like 99 or 100.5

[plain jacinth]

When did u start

[jaunty orchid]

did anyone actually get 25 done

[plain jacinth]

I did

I skipped some and did it

it wasn’t that bad it was just sytems of equations

[ornate coyote]

me

i think a lot of people did cause it was just a system of equations

[ornate coyote]

6th grade

[radiant jasper]

orz

[radiant jasper]

um

💀

sus

[latent bough]

yeah bc if it applies to parallelogram it must apply to square by defiition since square is parallelogram

[ornate coyote]

it reminds me of that one aime question where you can assume the parallelogram is a line

[surreal willow]

Isnt rhombus a square ish?

[ornate coyote]

mr president

[fallen magnet]

its a tilted square

[fallen magnet]

oh yea this one https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2009_AIME_I_Problems/Problem_4

[ornate coyote]

math is so boring

how do i make it un boring

how do i enjoy studying math

[haughty umbra]

I was learning how to add fractions in that grade:)

[ornate coyote]

i was learning how to food at that grade

[radiant jasper]

i love those types of questions

[haughty umbra]

idk how to do math competitions

how do u even apply

It’s weird to me

[radiant jasper]

you can sign up at a school or organization, i think

[haughty umbra]

oh

[ornate coyote]

idk my mom just does it

[haughty umbra]

how did you start in 6th grade

What is some problems in math competitions

[radiant jasper]

by being in 6th grade and starting

[radiant jasper]

aops has past AMC and AIME questions

check some of those out

[ornate coyote]

?

wdym

i just signed up for amc8

did practicee

[haughty umbra]

I don’t even know what that is am I just dumb 😢

[radiant jasper]

those are two american math competitions

or did you mean aops?

it’s a website

if you google “2023 AMC 10A questions” it should be among the top search results

[haughty umbra]

No I meant amc and aime

I know what aops is

[radiant jasper]

.

[haughty umbra]

ah alright thanks

[ornate coyote]

american mathematics competition i think

[haughty umbra]

I saw, thank you:3

[ornate coyote]

aime is american invitatoin

somehting

[haughty umbra]

o alright

[radiant jasper]

i thought it was intermediate

what’s the e, exam?

hardly matters as almost nobody calls it by its full name

[soft vigil]

erm

[radiant jasper]

am i wrong

[soft vigil]

there are more

[radiant jasper]

i never said there weren’t

are you suggesting i send this user to mock the USAMO when they’re asking how to do math competitions?

[ornate coyote]

what did you get on 10b?

[soft vigil]

no

make them mock amc8

[radiant jasper]

that’s still the AMC

[latent bough]

omg its the bay harbour butcher

[haughty umbra]

Jesus Christ Morgan

[sturdy viper]

whats prediction qual aime 10b

[tame burrow]

I hope its <100

[sturdy viper]

same

[radiant jasper]

MAN I WANTED TO TAKE THE MF AMC

WHY I OVERSLEEP

[plain moon]

what grade are u in

[willow anvil]

how di find a closed form to hte number of ways to fill a 10x10 grid with an integer from 0-9 such that each row is nonincreasing from left to right and each column is nonincreasing from top to bottom

[radiant jasper]

Senior 💀

[plain jacinth]

If I get a 120 on the amc 10 but have never solved an aime problem in my life, should I attempt to qualify for the jmo

[jaunty orchid]

did u take the a?

[radiant jasper]

Bro I ain’t take it…

I overslept

[jaunty orchid]

aops books fun

[ornate coyote]

just prep for aime

doubt you could qual for jmo with 120

most of my math friends got a very high score on this amc

[jaunty orchid]

you need a 10 oh heck nah

i dont think youcan call it "easy:

[ornate coyote]

most of my friends who trying to make jmo got 138-144

[radiant jasper]

How do you meet these kids

[plain jacinth]

How hard is it to get 1-8 questions right on the aime

[radiant jasper]

The kids in my school ain't the brightest

[ornate coyote]

they arent in my school i was trying to find a team to do some math competitions with

[radiant jasper]

Makes sene

[ornate coyote]

the only other "math" kid at my school

studies like 30 min a day

[severe eagle]

i am traumatized by amc 10 A

[severe eagle]

meh

[ornate coyote]

you need to get at least a 10 to make jmo if you got 120

[severe eagle]

that makes sense

[ornate coyote]

aime questions arent that hard up to 10

[severe eagle]

at least 12B was ez

[ornate coyote]

they arent THAT hard

[severe eagle]

@ornate coyote did you take amc

[ornate coyote]

a lot of the time they have easier solutions but you need a lot of training to actually know how to do them

[ornate coyote]

yeah

[severe eagle]

which ones

[ornate coyote]

10a and 10b

[severe eagle]

ah

was 10b hard

[ornate coyote]

hm?

i got a better score on 10b

[severe eagle]

yeah 10a was insane

[ornate coyote]

i got 133.5 and 139.5

[severe eagle]

high af

im so bad 😭

so careless 😭

[ornate coyote]

what grade r u in

[severe eagle]

<10

[ornate coyote]

ok...

[tame burrow]

lwk I screwed it up

[severe eagle]

fr

[jade widget]

Stop cooking 🍳

[ornate coyote]

im not saying they arent hard or difficult to solve in the real test

im just saying

the concepts are not that hard to understand

[ornate coyote]

i mean most of the time

its like

about applying them in weird ways

so basically you need to do every single aime test that has ever existed

[tame burrow]

That's literally all of competition math bro

None of the concepts are harder than high school

But the applications are absurd

[ornate coyote]

yeah ^

reason why i end up redoing all my aime prep classes

[tame burrow]

AIME prep is wild: Just do every AIME and lower oly test in the universe and you'll be fine

[ornate coyote]

im gonna end up doing all aimes from 2001 and a bunch of MPFG tests

before the aime

[tame burrow]

Bro its not that deep

These contests are lowkey fun

[ornate coyote]

true

i just tend to get up and walk around to think

i just hate doing work that i have to do

[tame burrow]

Lowkey just chill

Not that bad

If you're worried about an AIME score that exceeds like 8, you probably are capable of making JMO/AMO anyways

[ornate blade]

Evan Chen mentioned that you shouldn't try to perfect AIME

just practice AMO/JMO if you're already getting 10 or more and you'll be making much more use of your learning

https://blog.evanchen.cc/2016/04/17/against-perfect-scores/

[ornate coyote]

i cant consistently get a good score on aime soo like i wanna solidify my brick of knowledge called a brain

[tame burrow]

My aime scores are all over the place over the last few years, so I can relate

[ornate coyote]

do i need calc for jmo

or should i learn it for aime/jmo

[soft vigil]

hell no

learn it, it might help

[soft vigil]

yeah this is true

[jade widget]

What grade ru bean

[radiant jasper]

thats good

[ornate coyote]

8

[plain jacinth]

Dang

Have you not qualed for jmo yet?

[radiant jasper]

dmn

damn

[plain jacinth]

How did u even prep for it

8th grade is crazy

[ornate coyote]

lots of practice tests

idk

just experience with amc10 type problems

ive done lots of mathcounts trainer to speed up and know the concepts

[green wedge]

@radiant jasper

[radiant jasper]

what

colin what do u want

[plain jacinth]

Idk ask them

[radiant jasper]

btw hes on a call with me rn

he likes this girl name emma

[ornate coyote]

uh huh

noted

[green wedge]

uh huh

this lying piece of shit

[ornate coyote]

you seem like the type of guy

[radiant jasper]

gotchu

[green wedge]

@radiant jasper imagine not aime

[ornate coyote]

shut

[radiant jasper]

how do you even know

i answered 17

[green wedge]

uh huh

[radiant jasper]

and got 2 wrong

[green wedge]

uh huh

[radiant jasper]

thats like borderline

[ornate coyote]

that is prob aime

102

[green wedge]

10b was pisseasy

i could've perfd it

[radiant jasper]

"you didnt take it

[green wedge]

yeah because i basically perfd 10a

did you see the last 5 questions

[radiant jasper]

act yes

[ornate coyote]

score reveal

omigod

[green wedge]

wha

[ornate coyote]

score reveal

[green wedge]

145.5 on a

[ornate coyote]

DAYUM

[green wedge]

should've guessed 25

bc 146 was obviously the sus answer choice

but eh

[ornate coyote]

mid score

[green wedge]

ikr

[ornate coyote]

that the hell is a math

[nocturne agate]

Hello, how does this work 😭

[ornate coyote]

you solve problem and win

[nocturne agate]

Ohhh

[ornate coyote]

my teacher is actually pissing me off i have to do geo homework

like basic introductory geo homework

[nocturne agate]

I have to do geo next year and im not excited im alr procrastinating my alg 1 honors AND for geo im gonna have my alg teachers husband 💔

[green wedge]

rip

are you like a mopper or smth

[ornate coyote]

no

im stupid

im like

mid amc scores

mid intelligence

illiterate

etc

[nocturne agate]

I love ELA ❤️

And math but im really bad at math

[green wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/ban-button-keyboard-press-the-ban-button-gif-16387934

ela baddd

[nocturne agate]

NOOO

[ornate coyote]

EW

ban

133.5A 139.5 B

reading is smelly

for the weak

[nocturne agate]

😔

[green wedge]

yeah burn the books or something idk

[nocturne agate]

I NEED TO BRINF MY GRADE UP 💔💔

I hate IXL with a passion

[ornate coyote]

i got a 90% in english

GOOD

enough

[nocturne agate]

I have a 91% 😼

But i have a 61% in alg…

[ornate coyote]

bruh

nah das crazy

lock the fuck in

[nocturne agate]

Im trying to but i forgot to turn in the module for my VR project and thats a test grade so i gotta turn it tomorrow

We got to do VR but the bad kids in our class are getting in taken away

[sturdy viper]

Bro I sold

🤣

Whats predicted AIME qual 10b

[radiant jasper]

are they out yet?

[sturdy viper]

Lol what a coincidence

I go to that math center

I Didnt think u guys would find the solutions

[ornate coyote]

No one is making aime

Math is a myth

[sturdy viper]

I pray i gt 102

[jade widget]

I’m not American, wt award i can get by participating aime

[severe eagle]

usajmo usamo if good enough

i also not american

but you get certificate even though you didnt participate

[jade widget]

Isn’t that only for American?

[severe eagle]

yeah but you cant participate

if not american

[jade widget]

Amooebass

[severe eagle]

wat

[ornate blade]

and they've further tightened the eligibility

for the American IMO team

previously you could be a resident or a citizen of Canada and you could go on to represent the US

which is a smart move

if someone in Canada is really that good then let them compete for the US

[severe eagle]

W thinking

[surreal willow]

There was this dude from Canada who like won three or four gold medals in the imo

It was in the 1990s

[cinder harbor]

crawzy

ixl trash

[vague temple]

Wait you can’t anymore??

[ornate blade]

nope, according to Wikipedia

[vague temple]

Bruh

Wait since 2022

Bruhhh

How to acquire US citizenship in 3 months

[ornate blade]

https://maa.org/student-programs/amc/maa-american-mathematics-competitions-policies/

student eligibility

[ornate blade]

why not represent your home country

instead of the US

[vague temple]

Ok I can still take USAMO

I can barely qualify AIME I think lol

I got 87 in 12B

[ornate blade]

yeah I never said you couldn't

[vague temple]

I learnt too late about CSMC

Missed the sign-up window

[shadow spruce]

I got qualified to AIME in 2021 but since then I never took any MAA Mathematics competitions

These years a bit crazy, online tests

[shadow spruce]

Very challenging

[versed jungle]

@latent bough I remember a few days ago I told you that the difficulty of CAMA contest was harder than AIME, I have been revising the problems and I can now tell you that the problems from the basic level of our contest are of about the same difficulty of the AIME.

So difficulty should not be an issue.

[latent bough]

Great

[high goblet]

funny story

do you know arran fernandez?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arran_Fernandez

youngest senior wrangler (topped cambridge exams) aged 18

well he really wanted to do the IMO

but he wasn't good enough for the UK team

so he went on the look

anyway he eventually managed to represent (i believe) the bolivian team because of some like really obscure connection he has to bolivia

(like it's not like "one of his parents is born there" or smth like that, it's like a very obscure connection lol)

so yeah lol

if you really wanted to do the IMO, i guess try to find a connection to like a country that doesn't perform so well lmao

anyway yeah that's what i heard from like the older uk olympiad ppl, u can find arran fernandez on the IMO website lol

[safe flint]

hi what's the difference for qualifing for the BMO or the andrew jobbings kangaroo? cause i feel like its just made for schools that dont want to participate in BMO

[high goblet]

wdym by difference?

BMO1 is harder, kangaroo is easier

[versed jungle]

Spain XD

We are so bad

[sleek yew]

math

[safe flint]

yeah ofc but i was told by my school that even though i got gold in senior math challange they are not going to qualify me for bmo

i was just wondering if im being brushed off by the teachers

[versed jungle]

From which contest?

[ornate coyote]

its on the aops website

there is binomial one and a weird one

[jade widget]

math

[languid bridge]

Ten points in the plane are given, with no three collinear. Four distinct segments joining pairs of these points are chosen at random, all such segments being equally likely. The probability that some three of the segments form a triangle whose vertices are among the ten given points is $m/n,$ where $m_{}$ and $n_{}$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n.$

check this out

[gilded halo]

fpoisonn

[languid bridge]

its so dumb

spent an hour on it to realize i overthought

[plain moon]

how long do you guys spend on a challenging problem before giving up?

[vague temple]

Depends on the type of problem

As in contest or research

I’ve spent 1 year working on a physics problem

Or more but it was on/off

[plain moon]

wait at that point it's more like a project tho right

[vague temple]

Yeah

I never ended up implementing the full solution since it was more complicated than anticipated

[plain moon]

dang

what about normal math problems

ones that should take around 3 minutes but you get stuck on forever

[vague temple]

About 1h max

Depending on difficulty

If you are trying to study a new topic I would say 30mins

Unless you know it is supposed to be extremely long and hard

[plain moon]

i see

[radiant jasper]

@vague temple can you dm me??

[vague temple]

Why

[radiant jasper]

I need to ask you something

[vague temple]

About?

[radiant jasper]

You’re chinese right??

[vague temple]

Yes

[radiant jasper]

Yeah wanted to ask you smth

[vague temple]

Ok

[marble grove]

i need only the finest ppl to respond to this question

(anyone who got like a 130 or sum lol)

on 10b

or 10a

you guys recommend books?

my friend just told me to do a bunch of the practice tests

[ornate coyote]

personally reading is cringe

i just do practice tests

[ornate coyote]

brawl stars is better than math

[radiant jasper]

Aops textbooks

[high goblet]

it goes gold < kangaroo < olympiad

so even if u get gold, you'll need to score even higher to qualify for kangaroo/olympiad

if you qualify for olympiad but ur school don't let u do it that's a bit unfortunate

[surreal willow]

Can you join independently?

[ornate blade]

nah

[surreal willow]

Oh damn

U should sue ur school frfr

[swift imp]

I just use handouts that I find online

Textbooks mid

[safe flint]

Yeah thats what probably happened

[safe flint]

Might do next year

[high goblet]

if ur off by a few marks, u can pay to get in to do BMO1

i know someone who paid to do BMO2 and did surprisingly well in BMO2 so they got invited to camps etc. after BMO2

i also know someone who did IMO for the UK who completely flopped BMO1 the next year ahaha so they paid to do BMO2

they didn't even meet BMO2 qual but they got 40/40 on BMO2 💀 💀 💀

thye are probably like one of the only ppl to score better on BMO2 than 1 (cus BMO1 is out of 60)

u can probably work out who they are if u look on the BMO1/2 leaderboards, there's really not that many 40/40s