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Sgany
United Kingdom790 Posts
Reason I am making this blog? "If you want to make sure you do something, tell everyone body you are going to do it so you are forced to" I am also looking for anyone with past Olympiad experince if you could give some tips, advice, books or websites etc, it would be greatly appreciated Thank you very much Hwaiting ^_^  | ||
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FinestHour
United States18466 Posts
a hobby? Sounds challenging but will probably be a great way to really apply yourself to something useful. Good luck! | ||
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Sgany
United Kingdom790 Posts
On October 18 2011 04:58 FinestHour wrote: So you say you are already havin trouble with math, but still want to pursue math as a hobby? Sounds challenging but will probably be a great way to really apply yourself to something useful. Good luck! Making my worst my best is something I have always done, in primary school my science was terrible constantly getting Ds in secondary school to present day my average is an A*/A1(same thing). In secondary school my English was terrible constant Cs or Ds, now I am constantly getting A1s. I also had constant 100% in major maths exams but I recently swapping countries so I have got hit the change in syllabus. | ||
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Kiarip
United States1835 Posts
Look up the problems from previous qualification exams and practice them. In US we have AMC -> AIME -> USAMO... I don't know if I can give any specific advice other than just solve tons of problems. | ||
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sixfour
England11062 Posts
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Sgany
United Kingdom790 Posts
On October 18 2011 05:08 Kiarip wrote: The 3 most important things you're gonna need to practice is Probability, number theory, and geometry. Look up the problems from previous qualification exams and practice them. In US we have AMC -> AIME -> USAMO... I don't know if I can give any specific advice other than just solve tons of problems. Ireland is just your Centre test > Nationals > Internationals a lot easier it seems  | ||
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Thrill
2599 Posts
On October 18 2011 04:55 Sgany wrote: "If you want to make sure you do something, tell everyone body you are going to do it so you are forced to" "NYU psychology professor Peter Gollwitzer has been studying this since his 1982 book “Symbolic Self-Completion” and recently published results of new tests in a research article, “When Intentions Go Public: Does Social Reality Widen the Intention-Behavior Gap?” Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others. Once you've told people of your intentions, it gives you a “premature sense of completeness.” | ||
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United States10328 Posts
 If you practice with US problems, and set your mind to it, you shouldn't have any problem ^^ (you can check out www.artofproblemsolving.com if you are actually serious about math contests!) | ||
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Typhon
United States387 Posts
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annul
United States2841 Posts
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Sgany
United Kingdom790 Posts
On October 18 2011 16:27 annul wrote: whats the difference between normal math and irish math? Not really a difference just some stuff I have not covered before is being used a lot so it is catching me out I am getting it now though ^_^ | ||
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John Madden
American Samoa894 Posts
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
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Sgany
United Kingdom790 Posts
Just needa order some books and begin practice questions. From what I have seen of sample questions and their solutions some of this stuff is insanely complicated and hard looking, but it shall be worth it. From struggling to match to a Olympiad finalist in several months, should be interesting | ||
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John Madden
American Samoa894 Posts
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Muirhead
United States557 Posts
Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience and move on to Zeitz's book The Art and Craft of Problem Solving If you can read those you'll be in a good position to start practicing old Irish Math Olympiad problems. | ||
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