How to improve at Maths Challenge

Don't do it fam
First maths challenge I knew nothing about it, was told on the day and got a bronze
Second maths challenge, found some past papers and got golds, did the actual paper, got stressed out, got a bronze again. Dem feels.

But nah obviously like with any other test you will become better by looking at previous questions (provided you do not put too much pressure on yourself like I did). In general every question has a, generally fairly cheap, "trick". You will become better at spotting them through practice.
(well, this is perhaps true of questions past the first ten or so, those early questions tend to be rudimentary, while 10-15 is a little weirder, and 15+ is the actual testing part)

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Original post by 1 8 13 20 42

Don't do it fam
First maths challenge I knew nothing about it, was told on the day and got a bronze
Second maths challenge, found some past papers and got golds, did the actual paper, got stressed out, got a bronze again. Dem feels.

But nah obviously like with any other test you will become better by looking at previous questions (provided you do not put too much pressure on yourself like I did). In general every question has a, generally fairly cheap, "trick". You will become better at spotting them through practice.
(well, this is perhaps true of questions past the first ten or so, those early questions tend to be rudimentary, while 10-15 is a little weirder, and 15+ is the actual testing part)

lol 1st maths challenge was the 2nd day after I got moved to top set
(I got 0 :rofl:

)2nd maths challenge I was 2 marks off a bronze
fml fam

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Original post by CheeseIsVeg

lol 1st maths challenge was the 2nd day after I got moved to top set
(I got 0 :rofl:

)2nd maths challenge I was 2 marks off a bronze
fml fam

0...but you start with 25, you'd have to get all 25 wrong :beard:

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Original post by 1 8 13 20 42

0...but you start with 25, you'd have to get all 25 wrong :beard:

i guessed them all m8
I was shocking at maths until later year 11

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Original post by CheeseIsVeg

i guessed them all m8
I was shocking at maths until later year 11

You guessed them all and you were wrong in every case..
The probability of that is 0.3777% if my calculations and memory are correct. xD
Ah right, we weren't asked as a class to do anything until AS. I also improved in later year 11; I mean I got 58/60 in my Year 10 exam, but I had Bs and As in mocks and things generally didn't "click" until later on.

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Original post by 1 8 13 20 42

You guessed them all and you were wrong in every case..
The probability of that is 0.3777% if my calculations and memory are correct. xD
Ah right, we weren't asked as a class to do anything until AS. I also improved in later year 11; I mean I got 58/60 in my Year 10 exam, but I had Bs and As in mocks and things generally didn't "click" until later on.

Yeah. I'm also not sure if I finished the paper... It was the year 10 challenge ok :tongue:

lol
the 2nd one was in y11 (early y11 xD )
damn
I got really low A's and one test I got the mark for an A*
What I never understood was that I was better at GCSE FM than M (in terms of %) :lolwut:

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Original post by CheeseIsVeg

Yeah. I'm also not sure if I finished the paper... It was the year 10 challenge ok :tongue:

lol
the 2nd one was in y11 (early y11 xD )
damn
I got really low A's and one test I got the mark for an A*
What I never understood was that I was better at GCSE FM than M (in terms of %) :lolwut:

Spoiler

Maybe the paper is different, I would not know.. :beard:

I did better in A level FM than A Level Maths, all because of 87 in C2. :colonhash:

Physics Olympaid papers look pretty cool, never did one though.

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bigmansouf

Original post by 1 8 13 20 42

Don't do it fam
First maths challenge I knew nothing about it, was told on the day and got a bronze
Second maths challenge, found some past papers and got golds, did the actual paper, got stressed out, got a bronze again. Dem feels.

But nah obviously like with any other test you will become better by looking at previous questions (provided you do not put too much pressure on yourself like I did). In general every question has a, generally fairly cheap, "trick". You will become better at spotting them through practice.
(well, this is perhaps true of questions past the first ten or so, those early questions tend to be rudimentary, while 10-15 is a little weirder, and 15+ is the actual testing part)

how does one improve their level of maths to be able to do imo and bmos?

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Original post by bigmansouf

how does one improve their level of maths to be able to do imo and bmos?

IMO is mainly about talent I believe. BMO, well, personally I still find even BMO1 hard, and I'm a maths student. So I think talent is important even there to an extent. But the mundane answer of "practice" still holds, I believe (and would hold for IMO, but I think most could never get into that regardless of how much work they put in).

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