There are two ways to attempt your test. One approach is to take things under “testing conditions,” which means you time yourself, solve all the problems all the way out, avoid using a calculator, don’t check for the answers, and last but not least don’t ask for support. The other approach is not doing anything.
To help with your next test, here are tactics to keep in mind that can help you to succeed.
Time management
This is a helpful idea to get a sense of time management and calculate what you are going to get on the actual exam.
The other approach to do it is not to time yourself & take as much time as you need to just work on a problem until you see how to complete it, which is possibly the best thing to do for most of your study efforts (especially during Euclid contest).
You can say that without calculating the real answer, just make sure you know how to do it.
When you have resolved or gotten stuck on all of them, you can focus on the issues. To work on another, feel free to take a break from one topic. The majority of students give up too quickly, don’t let you be that.
Don’t just stare at the book or notes
Use your skills in problem-solving. What strategies usually apply to some of this issue? Did you try them all? Did you attempt to look at a simplified version of the very same problem? Does anything remind you of this problem?
Don’t give up
Before you give up, make sure you really have run out of ideas. Have you made all the insightful observations on the issue that need to be made?
Here’s a way to determine if you’re giving up too soon, or not giving up fast enough (less likely). If you give up and read the solution and think, “oh, there’s no way I could have that because I’ve never seen Technique X before,” or if you just don’t know what the solution is doing, so when you did, you were right to give up. But if you’re reading the answer and you don’t get the feeling, you’ve given up too fast.
One-step analysis
In the US, this means the AMC 10 and the Mathcounts AIME, and the AIME Olympics, and so on. This is # 1 because I believe, while maybe not as relevant as some of the others, in my view, this is the one that is least emphasized.
Get yourself trained
This is imperative. You’ve got to know which subjects are replicated. You also get a sense of various types of issues and common errors to look out for. I personally never really time myself about timing, though this could be because I am quick, so decide what works for you (I can have 1-20 done in 10-15 minutes on Mathcounts sprints, and I can have the first 20 done and reviewed in 25-30 minutes on AMC 10).
Check the work during competitions
And if you always have trouble, you can still try it out. It is typically more profitable to spend a few minutes checking quite a few issues than wasting those minutes to solve one more complicated problem at the end.
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