UKMT/BMOS thread 2020-2021

Any updates on intermediate Olympiad results?

It is a never ending moving "1 week", "2 week" target. Normally they mark within a month but this exam was 3 months back.

Yeah this has taken a ridiculous amount of time. Although the circumstances are a bit different this year to be fair… at least put the solutions up though😂

They still haven’t written the solutions ... I don’t understand how it could take so long

solutions and answers are out. thresholds should be out soon. what did everyone get?

Thresholds out as well I think

Got 30, so managed to get a distinction. Wbu?

Well done on the distinction, I just scraped a medal @ 33 though the whole paper is a bit of a blur as we were having our delayed mocks at the same time. Feel over the moon now though!

Got 30, so managed to get a distinction. Wbu?

Well done on the distinction, I just scraped a medal @ 33 though the whole paper is a bit of a blur as we were having our delayed mocks at the same time. Feel over the moon now though!

I got the same score as you lol. I'm pretty gutted as well considering that I was one mark of a book prize last time. But I got the score I expected so I can't really complain

Congrats! What questions did you do and what marks did you get on the respective questions out of interest? Pretty gutted I was 2 off a medal - but overall very happy.

I answered q’s 1-3 completely and q4 partially, but I’ve not had my mark breakdown yet.

Hello! Please may I know if you recommend any books to read for maths olympiad or just general books that are useful for problem solving? Thank you!

Hello and thank you for the reply!
I'm in year 10 at the moment and I've done IMC once last year. I did get a certificate but certainly was not the best that I could have gotten. I'm doing IMC again this year in Feb and I think I'm pretty ok with solving problems as I've already practised all avaible past paper Qs on the website and the results were all fine but I'm just stressed about the time limits. I think I can get my head around geometry better then algebra or number theories stuff.