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Mathematical Olympiad for Girls

Hi all,
I am sitting this on Tuesday and I was wondering if anyone had any tips for how to prepare for it? For most questions the solutions are actually really simple but it's often difficult to spot those tricks/approaches, so was just wondering if anyone had any tips?

Thank you

Reply 1

student004

same but I tried the past papers and I feel that the questions are much harder than the UKMT intermediate / senior challenge

Original post by LaurenLovesMaths

Reply 2

student004

ive got a silver / almost gold in the Intermediate Maths Challenge. I am not sure if I should do this because it seems very hard

Reply 3

LaurenLovesMaths

Original post by student004

same but I tried the past papers and I feel that the questions are much harder than the UKMT intermediate / senior challenge

I agree. And here you lose marks for silly things like not proving that x2-y2=(x+y)(x-y)

& I really didn't want to do it but I didn't have a say in the matter - my teacher entered me anyway!