How to improve at competition math

dsi411
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 01:42:08 +0000

I just finished my junior year of high school and I have a whole summer to prepare for math competitions in the upcoming year. This will be the first real time I’ll be participating in math competitions (although I’ve done the AMC contests before) and I really need to prepare because I am terrible at it. I really am. I mean, I’m good at “school math” (I was in Calc BC during the school year and I did quite well) but I’m terrible at this. I guess that means I’m not really good at math but whatever. It’s very frustrating and disheartening to go on places like AOPS and see 4th graders outperforming me on these competitions. Seeing things like that always makes me want to give up. I’m on a math team for my school so it’s kinda important that I do well. Please help.