I gave RMO 2018 and messed up (missed by 14 marks lol!! ). I saw some scope of improvement and thought, "Next year, I'll surely qualify!". I worked hard day and night, banging my head on the desk, learning from the solutions and got better day by day. Somehow, the days passed. I got much better than last year at geometry but my other topics still sucked! I had more 4 weeks left. I decided to go for Number Theory. It was a bad decision. Still I kept losing and learning from solutions and got better. According to the PEN, there are about 16-17 topics in Olympiad Number Theory, among them is a topic called " Rational Numbers"! So boring isn't it? Who likes rational numbers? I mean I didn't ever see any rational number question in recent competitions, so decided to skip this topic. I couldn't get much better at NT, but I was confident that I would get atleast 3 problems out of 6 on RMO 2019!

Then, the RMO day came. 20th October 2019, to be specific. I confidently turned the paper. Saw two geo's and both were HELL TRIVIAL!!! In about 1 hour I had written down the solution and rectified any possible mistake. Now, according to me the paper should have contained 2 decent NT's. But the first problem was from Rational Numbers, P3 was an inequality and to me P4,P6 seemed combi. I striked off P4,P6. I had more 2 hours. I tried doing P3, but all I knew was AM-GM & CS. I don't think I made much progress on this one. I tried P1 but no success at all. Such a disappointment!!

What the hell did I even work for the whole year? Come'on I didn't expect this. I live in Mumbai and the cut-offs at Mumbai get around 32-36. But since this paper was much tougher, people say the the cut-off is surely <34. I was earlier confident that I would get 34! But then later I realised that I didn't write the proof for Nine-Point Circle existence on P5 and I tremble thinking upon the fact that maybe I made some trivial typos on the P2. If this all totals to >33, I'll surely qualify but if not, then I HAVE MESSED UP RMO 2019!!!

All I have to do is wait for the scores now, It is 16th today. About 27 Days have passed. I'm not sure how much more time do they need for paper checking. I'm sure, that I won't do more MO's next year onwards, but I didn't think that my journey would end on RMO!! I thought I would surely make it to INMO this year. Ahhh, I hate this, I really hate this. Oh god, pls lemme through, PLSS PLSSS!!!!

K, lets wait for the scores and lets wait for the AoPS Student's team for scraping of birthdates so that we can declare unofficial cutoffs. I really didn't think this would end this wayyyy. No AoPS from now onwards, I will really miss all the fun and joy of problem solving ,etc. I had on AoPS...