Super Archive

Hello Brilliant Community and Brilliant Staff,

I need heavy preparation for AIME and thus would think a huge archive of past problems in level 3-4-5 would be very helpful. Now I understand that you often repeat problems, but I also understand that you have a huge surplus of problems. Hence, I don't think it's too unreasonable of a request. At least, can I have a random problem generator in a new practice section dedicated specifically to Olympiad AIME prep?

Thank you,

Cody :)

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Comments

I fully support the inclusion of such an archive.

I think the main thing you should do to prepare for AIME is practice old AIMEs, but not necessarily in the time limit. The main thing I credit for my score last year (10) was taking the AIME problem series class on AoPS. Not really because of the teaching, but mainly because it "made" me do the problems on the "homework", because I wanted a good report tab :) . As the date nears, using the time-limit would be a good idea, as I made two silly mistakes last year, which I might have not with better test-taking strategy.

This is why I support an archive, and also one reason I use Brilliant. Brilliant problems are fun, and also a good learning tool. The problems help me practice for AIME, and olympiads to an extent (through the harder problems and solution writing).

Brilliant problems are similar, and good practice, but do note there are some differences. For example, I feel like quite a few brilliant problems are rather easily guessable. Also, Brilliant biases towards some topics, such as maximum/minimum values of expressions and functional equations.

About repeating problems: I think that once the new problem submission system comes out, this will not be a problem, but it currently is a legitimate concern. The other thing is we users could compile an archive. We could copy problems from the past solutions region into another thread.

Daniel Chiu - 7 years, 6 months ago

I just realized I'm late to enroll in the AMC class. Oh well.