<p>no, I was not kidding. </p>
<p>i’m in gr.10.</p>
<p>one of my classmates got like 80ish in math11 this term? (we have 3 terms)</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>last year when he was in gr.9, he got ~140 for AMC10. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>