UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge 2016

Yeah, I realised 16 would be B, but i wasn't sure so i didn't go for it, but I'm seriously regretting it now atm :/
I mean tbh the intermediate challenge isn't that important ( to me), I'm currently in year 10, so I'd be focusing more on GCSE's than the maths challenges. But if there is any challenge I want to do well in would be the senior maths challenge because it gets more attention and theres obviously the BMO.
I have got best in year in past maths challenges I've done, doubt i will this year...but it wasn't my priority anyways.
Btw well done for the merit in the kangaroo!!!

Pink Kangaroo is for Year 10/11, I'm in Year 11.
I done Junior back in Year 8 lol, that was a bad day too - I still remember, mainly because I found it hard or something - got a bronze.
I've done IMC 2015... bloody hell that was annoying.

This one was much easier I guess and yeah I'm happy with 74 but just imagine if I had done the other three correctly with like 2 minutes extra if I read over my answers etc - I'd have got into the pink kangaroo, my first ever time for a follow-up round and I'd be the first in my year to get it. I'm not that clever but I still feel happy which is why I hoped for pink kangaroo

I don't think it was that hard??
I can't say anything as it'd sound injudicious because I didn't complete the paper only got to Q20.
But, if it was that hard - thank you because I may have a chance to somehow get into Pink Kangaroo then which is impossible at this point - guaranteed.

It's just so irritating when it's the reading of the question that lets you down, as opposed to the actual maths!

I have never really noticed a difference with my results whether I did a past paper before or not. I did a past paper last night and got 108, a comfortable Olympiad qualification, but then fluffed up in the exam and got around 90. On the other hand, before sitting my first senior challenge in November I did a past paper and got about 70, but in the challenge itself I got 96 or something. Basically: I feel that they have no bearing on how I'll actually perform, but they're good preparation to re-familiarise yourself with the questions.

As an aside: thanks for calling me clever lol. People always think I'm really thick until they see how good I am at maths because I say such dumb things! You seem rather clever too.

Oops got it the wrong way round. I have no clue why I thought it was that round. Sorry!

This was my first time doing the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge, so I highly doubt I'll get into Kangaroo never mind the Olympiad! I'm hoping for a gold, but really think I achieved silver (which I would still be happy about).

Lol, I get vain sometimes after the challenge so I just like to keep myself calm and think about the negatives of the challenge and then also think about the positives to not get angry! xD.
Also, thanks :P I guess I'm decent at Maths haha, in the middle of bad and good.

What was the complex decimal aritmetic one? (either 2016 or 2017) I put 2016 cause I didn't want to round so far up...

What was the complex decimal aritmetic one? (either 2016 or 2017) I put 2016 cause I didn't want to round so far up...

Np . It's good to read the page, you familiarise yourself more with the actual competition. It also allows you to get high hopes haha so you might get a high score and never realise that you've qualified for something called 'Grey Kangaroo' for example haha :P.

I read the page but obviously the information didn't go in. Too much history work to do... and what am I doing? procrastinating on TSR.

it is 336.
the key is that they say "BOTH the person on my left and the person on my right are liars"
so if a liar says it, he could mean that neither people beside him are telling the truth OR one of them is and the other isn't

What do you think gold/kangaroo/Olympiad thresholds will be?


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I was doing alright until I reached the last 10 questions. Since I'm in year 11 I was like- gold or nothing and answered them all .
I worked out that 15-19 you lose 1 mark for 1 wrong but you get 5 for getting 1 right, so I think I put C for them all and hoped that I got 1 right because that alone would get me a profit of 1 mark.

Risky... You'd have been better off putting B for them all! But well done on your 1 mark.

I didn't attempt the entire paper so it's very hard to say. Considering people are ranting about the paper's difficulty, I'd say:

68/69 for Gold, I'd say 68..
64 for Grey Kangaroo
72/73 for Pink Kangaroo
99 for Maclaurin Olympiad

does anyone know why q15 (about the area of a square in a circle) is not pi/4?

I really hope you're wrong about the kangaroo because I think I got 71 😁
Also your predicted thresholds are higher than last year's. Last year was 64 for gold, 61 for grey, 68 for pink and 95 for Maclaurin

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Yeah. Reason being is because I thought that the paper was moderate, just a few questions were looking hard but I got them right idek myself how. I didn't finish the paper so I wasn't able to assess the difficulty of the last 5 questions either.
Also, good luck I think I got 74 let's see.

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