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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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Yesterday at 3:18 PM
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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
dcouchman   1
N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
Want to help AoPS remain a valuable Olympiad resource? Help us add contests to AoPS's Contest Collections.

Find instructions and a list of contests to add here: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c40244h1064480_contests_to_add
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dcouchman
Sep 9, 2019
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Apr 5, 2023
k i Zero tolerance
ZetaX   49
N May 4, 2019 by NoDealsHere
Source: Use your common sense! (enough is enough)
Some users don't want to learn, some other simply ignore advises.
But please follow the following guideline:


To make it short: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!
If you don't have common sense, don't post.


More specifically:

For new threads:


a) Good, meaningful title:
The title has to say what the problem is about in best way possible.
If that title occured already, it's definitely bad. And contest names aren't good either.
That's in fact a requirement for being able to search old problems.

Examples:
Bad titles:
- "Hard"/"Medium"/"Easy" (if you find it so cool how hard/easy it is, tell it in the post and use a title that tells us the problem)
- "Number Theory" (hey guy, guess why this forum's named that way¿ and is it the only such problem on earth¿)
- "Fibonacci" (there are millions of Fibonacci problems out there, all posted and named the same...)
- "Chinese TST 2003" (does this say anything about the problem¿)
Good titles:
- "On divisors of a³+2b³+4c³-6abc"
- "Number of solutions to x²+y²=6z²"
- "Fibonacci numbers are never squares"


b) Use search function:
Before posting a "new" problem spend at least two, better five, minutes to look if this problem was posted before. If it was, don't repost it. If you have anything important to say on topic, post it in one of the older threads.
If the thread is locked cause of this, use search function.

Update (by Amir Hossein). The best way to search for two keywords in AoPS is to input
[code]+"first keyword" +"second keyword"[/code]
so that any post containing both strings "first word" and "second form".


c) Good problem statement:
Some recent really bad post was:
[quote]$lim_{n\to 1}^{+\infty}\frac{1}{n}-lnn$[/quote]
It contains no question and no answer.
If you do this, too, you are on the best way to get your thread deleted. Write everything clearly, define where your variables come from (and define the "natural" numbers if used). Additionally read your post at least twice before submitting. After you sent it, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.


For answers to already existing threads:


d) Of any interest and with content:
Don't post things that are more trivial than completely obvious. For example, if the question is to solve $x^{3}+y^{3}=z^{3}$, do not answer with "$x=y=z=0$ is a solution" only. Either you post any kind of proof or at least something unexpected (like "$x=1337, y=481, z=42$ is the smallest solution). Someone that does not see that $x=y=z=0$ is a solution of the above without your post is completely wrong here, this is an IMO-level forum.
Similar, posting "I have solved this problem" but not posting anything else is not welcome; it even looks that you just want to show off what a genius you are.

e) Well written and checked answers:
Like c) for new threads, check your solutions at least twice for mistakes. And after sending, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.



To repeat it: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!


Everything definitely out of range of common sense will be locked or deleted (exept for new users having less than about 42 posts, they are newbies and need/get some time to learn).

The above rules will be applied from next monday (5. march of 2007).
Feel free to discuss on this here.
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ZetaX
Feb 27, 2007
NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
Sequence of numbers in form of a^2+b^2
TheOverlord   12
N an hour ago by ihategeo_1969
Source: Iran TST 2015, exam 1, day 1 problem 3
Let $ b_1<b_2<b_3<\dots $ be the sequence of all natural numbers which are sum of squares of two natural numbers.
Prove that there exists infinite natural numbers like $m$ which $b_{m+1}-b_m=2015$ .
12 replies
TheOverlord
May 11, 2015
ihategeo_1969
an hour ago
Question about USAMO, self esteem, and college
xHypotenuse   15
N an hour ago by xHypotenuse
Hello everyone. I know this question may sound ridiculous/neagtive but I really want to know how the rest of the community thinks on this issue. Please excuse this yap session and feel free to ignore this post if it doesn't make sense, I don't think I really have a sane mind these days and something has gotten into my head.

I want your advice on what I should do in this situation. It has been my dream to make usamo since ~second semester of 9th grade and I started grinding from that time on. Last year, I qualified for the aime and got a 5. This year I really wanted to qualify for the olympiad and studied really hard. I spent my entire summer working on counting and probability, the subject I suck at the most. And yet, on amc 12, I fumbled hard. I usually mocked ~120-130s on amc 10s but on amc 12 this year, I got really mediocre scores ~100. So I had no chance of making usamo.

So during winter of 2024-2025 I kinda gave up on aime studying and I was like "hey, if I can't get into usamo, maybe ill qualify for usapho." Since I was pretty good at physics at that time. So I spended my winter hard grinding for f=ma and guess what? The test had stupid and ridiculous questions and I only got an 11. What really sucks is that even with the stupid amount of cheaters in f=ma, if I changed all of my "D" guesses to "C," then I would have qualified. Since I solved 10 actually and guessed the rest. Absolutely unfair that only 1 of my guesses were correct.

And also since I didn't study for aime, I ended up being super rusty and so I only got a 7. Solved 9 tho. (I usually can consistently solve 10+ on aimes).

And now here's my senior year and ofc I want to apply to a prestigious college. But it feels stupid that I don't have any usamo or usapho titles like the people I know do. I think I will have good essays primarily due to a varied amount of life experiences but like, I don't feel like I will contribute much to the college without being some prestigious olympiad qualifier. So this led to me having a self esteem issue.

This also led me to the question: should I study one last year so that I can get into usamo in my senior year, or is there no point? Since like, colleges don't care about whatever the hell you do in your senior year, and also, it seems just 'weird' to be grinding math contests while the rest of the people from my school are playing around, etc. So this time around I've really been having an internal crisis between my self esteem (since getting into usamo will raise my self esteem a lot) and college/senior choices.

I know this may seem like a dumb question to some and you are free to completely ignore the post. That's fine. I just really want advice for what I should do in this situation and it would really help bring my life quality up

Thanks,
hypotenuse
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xHypotenuse
6 hours ago
xHypotenuse
an hour ago
Perpendicular following tangent circles
buzzychaoz   20
N an hour ago by ihategeo_1969
Source: China Team Selection Test 2016 Test 2 Day 2 Q6
The diagonals of a cyclic quadrilateral $ABCD$ intersect at $P$, and there exist a circle $\Gamma$ tangent to the extensions of $AB,BC,AD,DC$ at $X,Y,Z,T$ respectively. Circle $\Omega$ passes through points $A,B$, and is externally tangent to circle $\Gamma$ at $S$. Prove that $SP\perp ST$.
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buzzychaoz
Mar 21, 2016
ihategeo_1969
an hour ago
R to R FE
a_507_bc   10
N an hour ago by jasperE3
Source: Baltic Way 2023/4
Find all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that $$f(f(x)+y)+xf(y)=f(xy+y)+f(x)$$for reals $x, y$.
10 replies
a_507_bc
Nov 11, 2023
jasperE3
an hour ago
Functional Equation from strings to a set of integers
Jia_Le_Kong   3
N an hour ago by jasperE3
Source: own
Let $S$ be the set of all non-empty sub-strings of "Socrates".
Thus, "Soc", "crates" $\in S$ but "teS", "sorat", "setarcoS" $\notin S$.

Define the sum of two strings $x$ and $y$ as follows: take the string with the first term that appears first in "Socrates" (if both have the same first term, take the shorter one) and WLOG let it be $x$. Then the sum of these two strings will be the string formed by all the letters between the first term of $x$ and the last term of $y$. For instance, "Socr" + "te" $=$ "Socrate" and "cra" + "ates" $=$ "crates".

Find all functions $f:S \rightarrow \{t : 0 \le t \le 49, \text{ } t \in \mathbb{Z}\}$ such that

$$f(x) + f(y) = 2f(x+y)$$
for all $x, y \in S$.

Bonus. What if we change "Socrates" to a string assumed to be of an arbitrary natural number length, with distinct letters (or symbols, if we need more)? The range $\{t : 0 \le t \le 49, \text{ } t \in \mathbb{Z}\}$ is still the same.
3 replies
Jia_Le_Kong
Jul 29, 2023
jasperE3
an hour ago
GCD of x^2-y, y^2-z and z^2-x
EmersonSoriano   1
N 2 hours ago by alexheinis
Source: 2018 Peru Cono Sur TST P5
Find all positive integers $d$ that can be written in the form
$$ d = \gcd(|x^2 - y| , |y^2 - z| , |z^2 - x|), $$where $x, y, z$ are pairwise coprime positive integers such that $x^2 \neq y$, $y^2 \neq z$, and $z^2 \neq x$.
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EmersonSoriano
Yesterday at 9:38 PM
alexheinis
2 hours ago
hard problem
Cobedangiu   1
N 2 hours ago by Cobedangiu
Let $x,y,z>0$ and $xy+yz+zx=3$ : Prove that :
$\sum  \ \frac{x}{y+z}\ge\sum  \frac{1}{\sqrt{x+3}}$
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Cobedangiu
Yesterday at 6:11 PM
Cobedangiu
2 hours ago
An inequality problem
Arithmetic_fighter   2
N 2 hours ago by Arithmetic_fighter
Given $a,b,c \in \mathbb R$ such that $a^2+b^2+c^2=3$. Prove that
$$\frac{a b}{c^2+a^2+1}+\frac{b c}{a^2+b^2+1}+\frac{c a}{b^2+c^2+1} \leq 1$$
2 replies
Arithmetic_fighter
4 hours ago
Arithmetic_fighter
2 hours ago
2 var inquality
sqing   4
N 2 hours ago by sqing
Source: Own
Let $ a,b> 0 $ and $ a+b= 2 . $ Prove that
$$ \frac{a^5}{a^5+ b^3}+ \frac{b^5}{b^5+ a^3}\leq 1$$$$ \frac{a^6}{a^5+ b^3}+ \frac{b^6}{b^5+ a^3}\leq 2$$
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sqing
2 hours ago
sqing
2 hours ago
IMO ShortList 2001, combinatorics problem 2
orl   57
N 2 hours ago by NicoN9
Source: IMO ShortList 2001, combinatorics problem 2
Let $n$ be an odd integer greater than 1 and let $c_1, c_2, \ldots, c_n$ be integers. For each permutation $a = (a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n)$ of $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$, define $S(a) = \sum_{i=1}^n c_i a_i$. Prove that there exist permutations $a \neq b$ of $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ such that $n!$ is a divisor of $S(a)-S(b)$.
57 replies
orl
Sep 30, 2004
NicoN9
2 hours ago
Harmonic Series and Infinite Sequences
steven_zhang123   2
N 2 hours ago by NTstrucker
Source: China TST 2025 P19
Let $\left \{ x_n \right \} _{n\ge 1}$ and $\left \{ y_n \right \} _{n\ge 1}$ be two infinite sequences of integers. Prove that there exists an infinite sequence of integers $\left \{ z_n \right \} _{n\ge 1}$ such that for any positive integer \( n \), the following holds:

\[
\sum_{k|n} k \cdot z_k^{\frac{n}{k}} = \left( \sum_{k|n} k \cdot x_k^{\frac{n}{k}} \right) \cdot \left( \sum_{k|n} k \cdot y_k^{\frac{n}{k}} \right).
\]
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steven_zhang123
Mar 29, 2025
NTstrucker
2 hours ago
INTEGIRLS Spring Competition on 4/20!!!
integirls.bayarea   0
3 hours ago
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[center]INTEGIRLS Bay Area Spring Competition![/center]

Hi everyone! INTEGIRLS Bay Area is excited to invite you to participate in our eighth biannual, free, virtual math competition. The event is open to all girls or non-binary individuals comfortable with being grouped with girls in middle or high school and will take place on Sunday, April 20th from 9 AM - 1:00 PM (PST).

If you're excited to dive into a day of math, make new friends, and win fun prizes, then we encourage you to sign up here!

**Note that the Bay Area chapter of INTEGIRLS writes their own problems, so you can participate in another INTEGIRLS chapter's Spring Competition as well :thumbup:

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WHO All middle school and high school students who identify as female or non-binary are invited to join our competition! You can sign up with teams of up to 4 people, or choose to be paired with other students at random.

WHAT Our competition will feature individual, team and tiebreaker rounds with problems written by our amazingly talented team, fun games and a social room to meet new people! There will be separate rounds for middle and high school students as well as exciting prizes for our participants.

WHEN The competition will take place on Sunday, April 20th from 9 AM to 1:00 PM (PST).

WHERE We will host the competition over Zoom, so students from all over the world may attend!

WHY Explore exciting math problems, make friends, and most of all, have fun! Through our competition, we hope to inspire a passion for math in more students, and by bringing together girls who love math together, we aim to create a community of future female mathematicians. Math is an amazing subject full of hidden puzzles and strategies, and together, we seek to create an event full of joy where girls bond over the beauty of the subject.

HOW Register for the competition now here!

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MOP Cutoffs Out?
Mathandski   28
N Yesterday at 10:36 PM by Yrock
MAA has just emailed a press release announcing the formula they will be using this year to come up with the MOP cutoff that applies to you! Here's the process:

1. Multiply your age by $1434$, let $n$ be the result.

2. Calculate $\varphi(n)$, where $\varphi$ is the Euler's totient theorem, which calculates the number of integers less than $n$ relatively prime to $n$.

3. Multiply your result by $1434$ again because why not, let the result be $m$.

4. Define the Fibonacci sequence $F_0 = 1, F_1 = 1, F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2}$ for $n \ge 2$. Let $r$ be the remainder $F_m$ leaves when you divide it by $69$.

5. Let $x$ be your predicted USA(J)MO score.

6. You will be invited if your score is at least $\lfloor \frac{x + \sqrt[r]{r^2} + r \ln(r)}{r} \rfloor$.

7. Note that there may be additional age restrictions for non-high schoolers.

See here for MAA's original news message.

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Edit (4/2/2025): This was an April Fool's post.
Here's the punchline
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Mathandski
Tuesday at 11:02 PM
Yrock
Yesterday at 10:36 PM
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Mar 30, 2025
mdk2013
Yesterday at 10:23 PM
What to do...
jb2015007   32
N Mar 31, 2025 by jb2015007
im in 7th grade and took the AMC 10 A/B with absouletely nauseating score, which i will not reveal. I wasnt even close to AIME frankly. My goals are the following:
7th grade: AMC 8 - DHR
8th grade:AIME qual, AMC 8 Perfect
9th grade: AMC 10 DHR maybe?, AIME 7+
10th grade: USAJMO, AIME 12+, AMC 10 DHR
11th grade: USAMO, AIME 12+, AMC 12 DHR
12th grade: USAMO, AIME great score, AMC 12 perfect or close?
These are the goals that i want to achieve. I will do literally anything to achieve them. Can someone please give me a good tip so i can follow it for the next 5 years of my life to become a 3 time USAMO qual and a 5 time AIME qual, and have an perfect AMC 8 under my belt?
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jb2015007
Mar 31, 2025
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im in 7th grade and took the AMC 10 A/B with absouletely nauseating score, which i will not reveal. I wasnt even close to AIME frankly. My goals are the following:
7th grade: AMC 8 - DHR
8th grade:AIME qual, AMC 8 Perfect
9th grade: AMC 10 DHR maybe?, AIME 7+
10th grade: USAJMO, AIME 12+, AMC 10 DHR
11th grade: USAMO, AIME 12+, AMC 12 DHR
12th grade: USAMO, AIME great score, AMC 12 perfect or close?
These are the goals that i want to achieve. I will do literally anything to achieve them. Can someone please give me a good tip so i can follow it for the next 5 years of my life to become a 3 time USAMO qual and a 5 time AIME qual, and have an perfect AMC 8 under my belt?
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if you haven't already I would recommend starting with the intro aops books then do intermediate algebra and then do aops precalc(precalc for trig and complex numbers). Maybe you dont need to go all the way to precalc but once you have a good grasp on the concepts you can start mocking some practice tests to see where you're at. From there you just have to keep doing problems. (idk if im qualified to give you good advice but if it helps I got a 129 on the recent 10b)
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oh sorry for not including the books,
Ive done intro to nt and geo and im working on alg and c and p rn
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arent u supposed to be researching wildfires?
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bro if im supposed to stop worrying about others than y are u yapping on my thread
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start doing some wildfires before i summon the mods
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quit showing ur goofy ah attitude lil bro
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wow this is crazy
though if u have good motivation, then you'll be fine
probably finish the introduction books and then move to the intermediate ones
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alright thx
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lol his posts already got deleted
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MathRook7817 wrote:
wow this is crazy
though if u have good motivation, then you'll be fine
probably finish the introduction books and then move to the intermediate ones

how many hrs should i do per weekday and weekend to achieve these goals
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jb2015007 wrote:
MathRook7817 wrote:
wow this is crazy
though if u have good motivation, then you'll be fine
probably finish the introduction books and then move to the intermediate ones

how many hrs should i do per weekday and weekend to achieve these goals

probably >1 hr each, but if you really want to get good, probably as much as you can
if school is too busy, maybe you dont have to do math on weekdays

proabably ~4 to 5 hours on weekends, but if you get tired of working, take a break and do something else
again, it kinda depends on your schedule

since ur in 7th grade right now, you still have plenty of time
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i currently do about 3hrs on weekdays and ~5-6 hours on weekends
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and im taking intro to geo and c and p
ive taken nt as well
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Im grinding intermediate algebra rn also use aops to contact me I'm grounded lol @jb2015007
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AIME 12+ in G10 its insane
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jb2015007 wrote:
arent u supposed to be researching wildfires?

who is bro talking to?
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pqr. $        $
his post got deleted
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notgarv wrote:
Im grinding intermediate algebra rn also use aops to contact me I'm grounded lol @jb2015007

BRUH $        $
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bro wht getting grounded doesnt even make sense like who goes outside
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bro wht getting grounded doesnt even make sense like who goes outside

I used to go outside like everyday to play basketball and workout
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ive mocked low ~70's before
Ur gonna be fine trust me :thumbup:
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ya thx man
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I scored 46.5 last year and went to a 135, its just practicing and consistency
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dangg!
i mean andys orz anw
i wish i could get that kind of improvement lol
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I’m in 6th grade, I got around a ~70 last AMC10 and I’ve been working on the Intro to C&P and Intro to Alg books (alg I’m on b), do you think I will be able to get around at least around a 100 next AMC10 if I keep practicing and stuff? :)

@2bove
Wow….
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notgarv wrote:
fake123 wrote:
bro wht getting grounded doesnt even make sense like who goes outside

I used to go outside like everyday to play basketball and workout

oh it was a joke I go outside lol (for sure)
Andyluo wrote:
I scored 46.5 last year and went to a 135, its just practicing and consistency
orz bro that's the kind of improvement everyone strives for
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Wait andy can you pls tell me everything you did like books and practice and how many hrs you practiced for it would help a lot im mocking just above aime but not enough for usajmo so pls help
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notgarv wrote:
Wait andy can you pls tell me everything you did like books and practice and how many hrs you practiced for it would help a lot im mocking just above aime but not enough for usajmo so pls help

When I was preparing in the summer, I did one (aops) mock every other day, (or sometimes every day or even twice a day) and I reviewed the tests after.

I took a spreadsheet of my sillies and found ideas that kept coming up again and again, and I also reviewed and brushed up on my theory.

Doing the intro series definitely gives you a nice baseline, but you may want to consider taking the intermediate series as well, as that's going to fully solidify your knowledge. Volume 1/2 are also good for reviewing and brushing up.

I do recommend taking AOPS mocks, as those tests typically train your knowledge at a higher level, and require more problem solving.
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the goals might be kind of hard to set seeing as maa has been releasing some really weird difficulty tests recently (compare 2023 to 2025 aime)
maybe theyĺl become hard again
or maybe theyĺl get even easier
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Andyluo wrote:
notgarv wrote:
Wait andy can you pls tell me everything you did like books and practice and how many hrs you practiced for it would help a lot im mocking just above aime but not enough for usajmo so pls help

When I was preparing in the summer, I did one (aops) mock every other day, (or sometimes every day or even twice a day) and I reviewed the tests after.

I took a spreadsheet of my sillies and found ideas that kept coming up again and again, and I also reviewed and brushed up on my theory.

Doing the intro series definitely gives you a nice baseline, but you may want to consider taking the intermediate series as well, as that's going to fully solidify your knowledge. Volume 1/2 are also good for reviewing and brushing up.

I do recommend taking AOPS mocks, as those tests typically train your knowledge at a higher level, and require more problem solving.

Thank you I will add this to my goals :)
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Andyluo wrote:
I scored 46.5 last year and went to a 135, its just practicing and consistency

Wow so orz. I went from 111 to 127.5, but my consistency is about the same as the weather forecast's accuracy :wallbash_red:
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nice interpretation lol
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