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Start competition maths

School maths comes easily and the Junior Challenge was the first thing that made you stop and think. Nothing here needs mathematics you have not met.

Problems

900

Hours

107

Hours a week

Problems a week

Start at stage 1 Not sure this is your level?

What you work through

Stage	Roughly this paper	Problems
1	UK Junior Maths Challenge · CEMC Gauss · AMC 8	320
2	UK Intermediate Challenge · CEMC Pascal and Cayley	320
3	AMC 10/12 early · UK Senior Maths Challenge	260

Where it leaves you

Working comfortably at Intermediate Challenge and AMC 10 level, and no longer thrown by a question with no obvious method.

Make-up of these 900 problems

8% want a proof the rest want an answer topics rotate throughout

The weekly figure assumes you finish in 26 weeks. Take longer and it drops; the order stays the same either way. Time per problem is estimated from the stage rather than measured — an estimate, not a promise. Some problems fall in minutes and others ruin an evening.

Other goals

Start competition maths

What you work through

Where it leaves you

Other goals

Qualify for AIME

Make USAMO

Reach BMO Round 2

From BMO to the squad

Train at the hardest end