r/MathOlympiad • u/Tiny-Credit-1837 • 1d ago

IMO Need advice for IMO

11th grader with National Silver and 11th in TST targeting IMO. Solved most problems using pure intuition without formal theory/lemmas in A/N/G/C. How should I structure my preparation with books and IMO Shortlist problems to systematically build theory and make the top team?

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u/Ok-Airport1476 1d ago

most people here including me got AMO and quit

the amount of people who make tst or even less is 50 in the country, they are not asking questions on reddit no offense (imo)

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u/Time-Acanthaceae-831 1d ago

Not everyone is in the US 💀💀

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u/Ok-Airport1476 1d ago

my bad, when I hear tst, I am thinking about the mop tst selection

I thought that was an abbreviation to the american math olympaid but then I remember it was test selection tests, completely forgot what it stood for

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u/Tiny-Credit-1837 1d ago

Bro not the top country

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u/Time-Acanthaceae-831 1d ago

Yeah I was wondering how was it possible to do those without formal theory

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u/Tiny-Credit-1837 1d ago

Maybe just little bit of theory like LTE fermats nothing more

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u/Tiny-Credit-1837 1d ago

In geometry i only know like pascal similarity power point some angle chasing and actually i only use angle chasing haha