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UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge

Hi! I am in Year 10 and I want to take part in the Intermediate Maths Challenge and I am targeting a gold. Has anyone taken part in it or knows how you can prepare for it? Thanks!
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Original post by genz14
Hi! I am in Year 10 and I want to take part in the Intermediate Maths Challenge and I am targeting a gold. Has anyone taken part in it or knows how you can prepare for it? Thanks!

A few things, and the most important thing is to do a bit of "stuff" regularly, rather than doing a burst and forgetting it all fairly quickly.

Past questions and reflecting about the solutions for the ones you couldnt do/get wrong. You can get the papers/solutions at ukmt web or do them online from drfrost. If youre doing a paper, Id try and do it timed, but then spend some extra time on the ones you couldnt do and try and do them open book, before looking at the solutions

Drfrost also has a club/topic worksheets/... for imc

parallel.org.uk has a regular set of discussions covering jmc/imc

Learn a bit of problem solving, so how to approach unfamiliar questions so visualising, work backwords, simplify or transform the problem, sub numbers, ...

You should have covered most of the topics but when you come across something unusual like divisibility rules, ... find out a bit about it. Parallel will help with this somewhat


Really the actual score on the imc means fairly little, but hopefully you learn some stuff which generally improves your maths and enjoy it (somewhat).
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Reply 2
Original post by mqb2766
A few things, and the most important thing is to do a bit of "stuff" regularly, rather than doing a burst and forgetting it all fairly quickly.

Past questions and reflecting about the solutions for the ones you couldnt do/get wrong. You can get the papers/solutions at ukmt web or do them online from drfrost. If youre doing a paper, Id try and do it timed, but then spend some extra time on the ones you couldnt do and try and do them open book, before looking at the solutions

Drfrost also has a club/topic worksheets/... for imc

parallel.org.uk has a regular set of discussions covering jmc/imc

Learn a bit of problem solving, so how to approach unfamiliar questions so visualising, work backwords, simplify or transform the problem, sub numbers, ...

You should have covered most of the topics but when you come across something unusual like divisibility rules, ... find out a bit about it. Parallel will help with this somewhat


Really the actual score on the imc means fairly little, but hopefully you learn some stuff which generally improves your maths and enjoy it (somewhat).

Hii! Thank you so much for your advice!!!!! It was extremely helpful !!!

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