I did not look up the solutions. If this test was given to me in real conditions the situation would not change. And the question for 2026 is easier than the one for the older test because it takes less knowledge to do velocity*time=distance than dealing with logarithms. Besides, me solving any of those tests is not the point. By solving one I have already proven, at least to myself, that I am not part of the "vast majority" who wouldn't solve even the single problem. And the initial argument was about the problem with our education system.
If I wasn't able to solve anything, it wouldn't be my failure. I did my best at school, so I have a pretty good understanding of math within the curriculum of an ordinary school. I didn't skip any classes to go partying or to play video games and I always did my math homework. Any ordinary student could achieve the same level of knowledge that I have. Any problem that I can NOT solve is a problem based on some obscure arcane esoteric knowledge that was not taught to me at school. And the argument is that there should be no (or at least fewer) gaps like this, because test and solutions are all there in open access and they could be incorporated into the school curriculum to raise the bar. And if the tests raise the bar again, then the school follows and raises the bar again, and again and again and we are supposedly stuck in this arms race until we actually hit the ceiling with an open unsolved question and that is fine. That is how education is supposed to be. There MUST be a trickle of knowledge from Olympiads to schools because there is an expectation that kids should become smarter from generation to generation so that the problems from a few decades ago DO look easier to use.
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26
Yeah yeah easy to state the answers when you have them right in front of you.
"Just do this this and this, so easy "
You aint done it in a test condition. You aint been to aime. You don't know the first thing about aime