Isaac Senior Physics Challenge 2024

You know each other?

I'm on 318 c1s, 407 c2s and 123 c3s (normal a level), my futher a is less but still over 100 in futher As. Im not actually guaranteed the camp since there are 4-5 other people from my school w a similar number of questions to me😪

this is precisely what i was worried about; i'm on:
a level
251 c1
255 c2
91 c3
further a 150 ish
uni 50 ish

I wouldn't use me or him as a reference for how many question to do because our school is slightly crazy when it comes to competitions like these. I would say you've done more than enough questions to qualify, and if you have done the most questions out of anyone in your school, you should definitely get a place.

I wouldn't use me or him as a reference for how many question to do because our school is slightly crazy when it comes to competitions like these. I would say you've done more than enough questions to qualify, and if you have done the most questions out of anyone in your school, you should definitely get a place.

is it true that cambridge basically instantly accept you after doing this camp?

is it true that cambridge basically instantly accept you after doing this camp?

Hey do you know perhaps what the ‘fair distribution of maths/ physics’ could be? And what’s yours?

Nah definitely not - but the insane amount of practice you get from doing the questions, as well as it looking pretty impressive, greatly increase your chances, but the summer school itself doesn't really give you a massive advantage over others when applying to cambridge.

Hmmmm - sounds familiar.

is it true that cambridge basically instantly accept you after doing this camp?

do you guys tell each other how many questions you've done? do you think i should do that with the guy at my school?

do you guys tell each other how many questions you've done? do you think i should do that with the guy at my school?

Yeah totally. I’ve been telling everyone in my school and someone who wanted to do it heard how many questions I’d done and decided to give up because they wouldn’t be able to overtake it in time. Sounds pretty evil but at least I can now sleep at night unlike you guys

We kind of have no choice because of how intense the competition has become - people would sneak up behind you to look at your question wheel anyway so we just don't bother hiding it, though all 5 of us have basically nearly completed every question on the website anyway and we all know that, so there's even less reason to hide it. I think that whether you should share your number of questions with the other person in your year group is down to what they are like. If they are the type of person to start trying harder if they see that you've done more than them, I would keep it a secret until the deadline.

Yeah totally. I’ve been telling everyone in my school and someone who wanted to do it heard how many questions I’d done and decided to give up because they wouldn’t be able to overtake it in time. Sounds pretty evil but at least I can now sleep at night unlike you guys

Yeah totally. I’ve been telling everyone in my school and someone who wanted to do it heard how many questions I’d done and decided to give up because they wouldn’t be able to overtake it in time. Sounds pretty evil but at least I can now sleep at night unlike you guys

There are stealth-lords like that in my school too but yh, I don't think he's one of them. If I tell him, realistically, a few things could happen but they all result in him giving up or try-harding for the remaining days. And I'm already try-harding again, so I'd cancel out his progress on the question gap between us.
Let's put it this way: how many questions do you think you could bang out in 20 days if you were back at an "average" question count? That should give me a "time locus".

Probably a good 200, possibly more. I'm known for being able to put in ungodly hours of work to grind out something when I want to, so would be averaging around 4-5 hours on school days and more on weekends.

That was our plan as well, but the people in our school took it as a challenge instead of as a threat. 😭