Amc, Aime, Usamo

u_ername
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:17:05 +0000

no, I was not kidding.

i’m in gr.10.

one of my classmates got like 80ish in math11 this term? (we have 3 terms)

but he also got 71 in COMC and was only 1 point away from qualifying for canadian math olympiad. seriously, although it’s probably easier to get in CMO than USAMO, there are only 50 people that get CMO. he was 1 point away. and he’s grade 10.

last year when he was in gr.9, he got ~140 for AMC10.

so yeah there are alot of people though not nearly as much as the opposite do well on contests but not so well in school.

school math is… boring and time consuming but all you need to do is like study for a few minutes before and ace the test, forget material.

contest math is simple, elegant math that requires you to know the stuff more deep and be able to critically think. It’s different. not harder. it’s even easier, I would say.