How to Prepare for Math Competition?
Even the strongest Math students
face difficulty in preparing for Math competition, like AMC or international
Olympiad. Everybody knows that any Math completion is a tough nut to crack.
Here are some tips to help you out.
Start in advance
No matter whether you are girding
up your loins for International Math Olympiad (IMO) or AMC Math competition, an
early start is must for every aspirant. Start in advance, at least two months
before the competition. It will allow you create a timetable which is not
crammed with back to back study hours the entire day. You will get ample breaks
in between to refresh your mind and spare time for mock tests, and revisions.
Any world level Math competitions, like IMO or AMC, is taken by millions of
students all over the world every year. Of course, questions are going to be
trickier than you are used to. So, you need plenty of time to imbibe every
concept and solve these problems.
Gather your study
materials
Go through the syllabus several
times and gather all the study materials you need for your preparation. You can
take help of friends who take the same test to make sure that you have not
overlooked any key portion, concept or problems. You can also take help from
reliable online sources, like Math forum, to do the required research.
Find a mentor
A good mentor can play a
significant role in giving the right direction to your preparation. Make sure
that who are taking guidance from someone who has a good understanding of the
subject. Check your progress.
Revision
Revision is an indispensable part
in preparing for Math competition. As you study, take notes, note down
formulae, and revise them time to time. Short notes come extremely handy when
it comes to revise and refresh the memory. Cue cards are another good old way
to revise what you have studied. They should have sufficient points to make you
understand the topic readily. Revision is an important indicator of your progress.
There must be some topics, you need to go back too often. Pay extra attention
to those topics and watch out for common mistakes you always make. Even the
greatest mathematicians make mistakes that alter the course of problems. Stay
extra careful with symbols, signs, brackets, and moving decimal points.
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