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Title: senior australian maths competition
Post by: Nato on December 01, 2012, 11:11:15 pm

could anybody please give me tips/advice on how to approach westpac/australian maths competition problem (in particularly the senior paper).
Every year I participate in these compS i always seem to receive credit. i really want to be able to reach my goal which is distinction and would even study extra for it.

basically how do you guys study for it and what strategies do you use.

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: TrueTears on December 01, 2012, 11:15:49 pm

reading art and craft by paul zeitz is my number 1 advice for any student wishing to get some good ideas/tricks etc for the AMC

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: PsychoM on December 02, 2012, 06:44:43 pm

Is it a book or something ?

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: TrueTears on December 02, 2012, 06:45:34 pm

yeah ;)

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: pi on December 02, 2012, 06:47:30 pm

Doing past AMCs also helps :)

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: paulsterio on December 02, 2012, 06:49:52 pm

The AMC papers are probably slightly easier than the University of Melbourne Maths Comp papers, which are, in turn, easier than the Olympiad papers, but both of them will offer good practice for AMC, because I know that AMC don't publish their papers online, so defs check those out.

There's another book about Mathematical Olympiads by Terrence Tao which is actually quite good. I enjoyed reading through that and working through it as well, so google it!

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: heart on December 02, 2012, 06:53:56 pm

A very nice set of books that you can download specifically designed for such problems.

Moderator edit: Removed links to copyright material

not sure if allowed to do this.

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: pi on December 02, 2012, 06:56:20 pm

^Sorry mate, no links to torrents like that on AN :/

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: PsychoM on December 03, 2012, 03:50:06 pm

Past AMCs are really hard :(
Thanks I will google it. I just got back my certificate and it stated im top 28%. so basically how many marks/points do I need to get to top 25% since it is a distinction?

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: paulsterio on December 03, 2012, 04:44:57 pm

Quote from: PsychoM on December 03, 2012, 03:50:06 pm

Past AMCs are really hard :(
Thanks I will google it. I just got back my certificate and it stated im top 28%. so basically how many marks/points do I need to get to top 25% since it is a distinction?

It actually varies quite wildly every year, so you never know.

Title: Re: senior australian maths competition
Post by: PsychoM on December 03, 2012, 05:27:39 pm

Im quite unhappy because 3% to a distinction :(
I almost get the last question right because I must have calculated wrongly and ended up 330 but the right answer is 315. Sigh