Argh.. SMO nightmare

SMO(singapore mathematical olympiad) does seem like a nightmare to most people because most just dont know the methods or suffer a serious mindblock during the test.

I hate it because i fall into neither catagory.. i was doing the paper and i felt pretty confident that my answers were correct because i had resorted to primative counting methods most of the time rather than what i had learnt.

let me just state 1 example of where i screwed up. everyone knows that for all real numbers, x squared is greater than 0 and thus -3/x^2 is less than zero. but i forgot this basic fact. cry...

I solved 22/35 questions last year in the Senior section and that was really around how many i could solve but however this year i could have solved 28 with ease yet i screwed up 10 of them most because of carelessness.. so i ended up with only 18. i thought cos 300 was -ve.. argh..

In the Open i did better than last year(7/25) i got 10/25 right but i could have done much better infact i couldnt solve the simple equation 1298^2+1829^2=5a^2.

and i also did not manage to do simple things i had learnt before. Anyway i have something to be happy about.. i was still the best amongst the people i checked with in the Open catagory in our school.

Although i believe the paper became easier this year they became more technical and require more thinking.. they also involve a lot of arithimatics and that is what i never really practiced.. I should have listened to my father scolding me to memorise my timetables.

argh.. i am sad.. i wish everyone in singapore is having a bad day like me.. argh.. hate this feeling.. no wait i cant let others suffer.. i change my wish.. i wish noone should be having a bad day like me.. i know Son is sad, Daniel is sad, Anson is sad, I am sad... and probably Wei Hao too because he didnot manage to get us to perform to our real potential.

i have started to writeup the questions and will be posting them here once i am done.. i am however unsure that if i do then will i be breaking any copyright laws??

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