AIME

I don't really feel like posting any problems or anything, I've just been kind of tired lately. However, I will say that I've signed up for an AIME prep course (I'm fairly confident that I can pass the AMC without taking a course). It's an online, weekly 90 minute class length course which discusses AIME problem solving, "aimed" (lolololol) towards specific test strategies, as well as going over techniques which will be helpful for approaching the different categories of problems. The schedule looks like this:

Week 1: Equations
Week 2: Complex Numbers and Polynomials
Week 3: Functions
Week 4: Inequalities, Optimization Problems, Sequences and Series
Week 5: Counting
Week 6: Probability
Week 7: Number Theory
Week 8: Number Theory (Algebraic Methods)
Week 9: Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry
Week 10: Euclidean Geometry
Week 11: Euclidean Geometry
Week 12: Extending Your Geometric Range

"Extending Your Geometric Range" looks kind of funny. Like they're trying to be sneaky and not give away even a scent of the "secrets of geometry" that they'll be sharing, so they just call it that to not give any hints. My first class is next week, so I'm looking forward to it. Looking at the schedule, the emphasis seems to be on counting, number theory, and geometry, starting at the second half of the class, while the first half is more general stuff. And I have a math test next week. I've been struck with a 98 streak, so hopefully I'll finally break free of it and get the triple digits.

Btw, I know that sounds absurd (not being happy with a 98), but a 100 is well within my reach, so it's more that I'm unhappy with myself not living up to what I'm capable of.

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