Web — how should i prepare for the putnam?# for the most part, preparation for putnam looks similar to that for usamo, except that euclidean geometry is absent,. Web — what does it really mean? It is not about the history of the. Weba is it possible for there to be easier questions on putnam than usamo? S this is somehow very personal. As a student i found putnam problems more suited to me than. Webi felt like it was easier than the 2021 and 2022 exams, but probably harder than older exams like the 2013, 2014, and 2016 ones. The bijection writeup for b1 was quite tedious imo. Websolving real math problems is usually harder than solving imo problems, because imo problems are designed to be solvable in a relatively short time, if you find a “trick,” while. Webis the putnam harder than the imo? Putnam has twice more problems than imo has to be solved in 2/3 of imo’s time (3 hours compared to 4. 5). Webcurrently, the system is on a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 is the easiest level, e. g. Early amc problems and 10 is hardest level, e. g. China imo team selection test. Webnot that i tried very hard, and recalling the interview with the former imo champion who allegedly practised 3000 hours for the olympiad (iirc), i certainly don't want to put in. Webi also think that imo is more difficult than ioi. I would say that imo bronze equals ioi silver, and imo silver equals ioi gold. If you are a good imo contestant, you can. Webwe would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Webi don't know about all of them, but imo is for high school students whereas putnam is for undergraduate students. So to compare them directly in terms of difficulty seems a bit. Webdon’t have much experience with putnam, but imo 2014/1 and imo 2013/1 are very, very easy imo (haha) for imo questions. Then again imo 1/4 is usually not very hard to avoid. Web — specifically, what is the gap in difficulty between the bmo1, bmo2 and the imo (for those of you who have competed in the british math olympiads) and how long. Webthe problems that appear in difficult math competitions such as the imo or the putnam exam are usually very difficult and require some ingenuity to solve. Webpeople probably work harder to prepare for the imo because countries have training camps and such for it in high school, but the putnam comes at a stage when students are a bit. Web — also, the putnam is a lot stricter than imo; It’s really easy to think you have a correct solution but come out with only zero points. My guess is that since the putnam. Each session has six problems that cover a wide.
