3 pillars of math competitions (and maybe other things in life too)

[@beautyofmath6821]

Thanks for the vid, I myself get stuck in pitfall 1 a lot, I just focus on theory too much thinking that when the problems come out ,theory is going to be much more important, well time to work on some easier problems.

[@ShefsofProblemSolving]

Yes!!

[@karrarx2084]

This might sound like a dumb question but is there a way to see the difficulty scaling of questions? I want to build up my knowledge but I'm not too sure what is considered to be a "simpler" problem per se

[@ShefsofProblemSolving]

No dumb questions as far as I'm concerned. I don't think you can really see difficulty of a problem of the bat, the best thing you can do here (without any coach) is to use a heuristic: Countries which perform worse at the IMO have easier Team Selection Test than those that perform better, competitions for younger competitors are easier than competitions for older competitors (JBMO vs BMO), and the more local the competition (AIME vs USAMO) the easier the problems.

[@aniaguchikamso603]

Well that was helpful. Thanks man

[@ShefsofProblemSolving]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@shreyamjha3058]

Once share your imo experience in one of these videos ,like about the inner game and your psychology while attempting math contests ..

[@ShefsofProblemSolving]

Sure, I'll put that on the topics list. Would just the IMO experience be useful or would the entire competitive journey be useful as well ?

[@abhinavchoudhary3019]

@@ShefsofProblemSolving I wanna know about the entire competitive journey. How did you start with competitive math? How did you stay motivated?. I want you to make a video answering these kind of questions

[@ShefsofProblemSolving]

@@abhinavchoudhary3019 I'll put the topic on the video list :)

[@ishansahasec-broll-1094]

helllo shef really cool video can you tell me from start to go which competion i should solve problems first and then build up in to imo level step sbyu step procees please my age is 16

[@boraolmez6622]

is one of the problems in the background imo 2008/3?

[@ShefsofProblemSolving]

Good eye! Yes it is :)

[@Anonymous-ui7nr]

Do You have any idea about INMO ......and how to prepare for it

[@ShefsofProblemSolving]

I don't know what the levels of competition to get to the INMO are. Can you comment links to previous exams from INMO to the first competition?

[@Anonymous-ui7nr]

In India these are the stages .....Pre Rmo ,RMO , INMO , IMO

[@ShefsofProblemSolving]

@@Anonymous-ui7nr Ok can you send me a link to sample exams on those levels?

[@md.mahabuburrahman1323]

Hello shef,you can get them at the Indian section of AoPS contest collections.

[@shafikbarah9273]

Can you please give me a list of books to study for the imo

[@anonimx3512]

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