International Math Olympiad 2014 results are in! (India fails again)

[my2cents]

A las, i wasn't blessed with a 'liberal' father. Mine was a physician who scolded me when I first told him I wanted to go into History. He said to me, "History cannot feed you. Medicine or Engineering!"

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But Math is so boring....

Have you seen the movie "the three idiots"? It pertains to pursuing parents expectations at the cost of our innate abilities. Very funny movie....
Here is a clip...enjoy

 

[Indischer]

India International Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp • Art of Problem Solving

Just googled and found that India does provision public coaching to IMO.

The INMO awardees are invited to a month long Training Camp held in May every year at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education(HBCSE) in Mumbai. INMO awardees of the previous year(s) who have not joined any university/college and who have satisfactorily gone through postal coaching throughout the previous year are invited again to a second round of training and they constitute the Senior Batch. On the basis of four selection tests through the Camp, a team of the best six students is selected from the combined pool of junior and senior batch participants to represent India at the IMO. Each selection test comprises of 3 problems to be done in a time of 4 and a half hours. Moreover, before the selection tests, two practice tests comprising of 3 problems each are held for the Junior Batch students but they are meant for practice and do not reflect in the final selection. The best 6 students comprise the Indian IMO team for that year and they are invited to pre-Departure camp at HBCSE before departure to IMO for training.

Of course, there has to be a structure to select a team from amongst the many contenders. But that month-long coaching seems to be a relatively new fixture.....and I'm not very confident that a month's hard work is enough to win an Olympiad. It's the effort put in to get noticed by the INMO that actually holds the students in good stead.

If India is proceeding towards putting a structured training cum selection process, it's a good thing. But a lot needs to be done at the grass-roots level, and in rural and semi-urban areas before the Olympiad will be seen with the same seriousness as the JEE.

 

[Armstrong]

Of course, there has to be a structure to select a team from amongst the many contenders. But that month-long coaching seems to be a relatively new fixture.....and I'm not very confident that a month's hard work is enough to win an Olympiad. It's the effort put in to get noticed by the INMO that actually holds the students in good stead.

If India is proceeding towards putting a structured training cum selection process, it's a good thing. But a lot needs to be done at the grass-roots level, and in rural and semi-urban areas before the Olympiad will be seen with the same seriousness as the JEE.

@Ayush still uses an abacus to do his engineering calculations !

Whereas when I asked @levina apa to teach me Differentiation as part of my Calculus studies....she instead gave me a course in Anthropology extolling the virtues of 'Diversity' & how 'Discrimination' or 'Differentiation' as I called it was a bad thing !

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

@Ayush still uses an abacus to do his engineering calculations !

Whereas when I asked @levina apa to teach me Differentiation as part of my Calculus studies....she instead gave me a course in Anthropology extolling the virtues of 'Diversity' & how 'Discrimination' or 'Differentiation' as I called it was a bad thing !

From now on, whenever I have to do any differentiation, I will practice discrimination instead.

Especially against Kashmiri people like Armstrong.

 

[Indischer]

From now on, whenever I have to do any differentiation, I will practice discrimination instead.

Especially against Kashmiri people like Armstrong.

There was a Sri lankan troll here some time back. Spoke once about all the Women he'd 'integrated'.

@Armstrong will continue to be differentiated though.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

@Armstrong will continue to be differentiated though.

I'll help you.

 

[Indischer]

I'll help you.

Just one problem though. He too whitey whitey. Me Indiano, darky darky.....me likey likey White Kashmiri! Me no sharey sharey with you!

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Just one problem though. He too whitey whitey. Me Indiano, darky darky.....me likey likey White Kashmiri! Me no sharey sharey with you!

Me yellow yellowy then I guess.

LOL, btw this is such a racist emoticon, I have no idea why the Admins refuse to get rid of it.

 

[Armstrong]

Just one problem though. He too whitey whitey. Me Indiano, darky darky.....me likey likey White Kashmiri! Me no sharey sharey with you!

Me no homo...homo !

 

[Aepsilons]

Me no homo...homo !

Just one problem though. He too whitey whitey. Me Indiano, darky darky.....me likey likey White Kashmiri! Me no sharey sharey with you!

LOL! Reading this,...i automatically thought of Jar Jar binks..I don't know why.

 

[Indischer]

Me yellow yellowy then I guess.

LOL, btw this is such a racist emoticon, I have no idea why the Admins refuse to get rid of it.

That emoticon has the closest approximation of my features.

Me no homo...homo !

Not a problem. We'll adjust somehow.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

That emoticon has the closest approximation of my features.

I seriously doubt that.

I'm not actually yellow either, it's just how people say it. People don't actually mind because yellow is a color very closely related with Chinese culture, red and yellow are lucky colors for us, and we consider ourselves descendants of the Yellow Emperor and the Flame Emperor.

 

[Indischer]

LOL! Reading this,...i automatically thought of Jar Jar binks..I don't know why.

 

[BDforever]

no wonder @Armstrong fails in CA exams

 

[Soumitra]

India International Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp • Art of Problem Solving

Just googled and found that India does provision public coaching to IMO.

The INMO awardees are invited to a month long Training Camp held in May every year at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education(HBCSE) in Mumbai. INMO awardees of the previous year(s) who have not joined any university/college and who have satisfactorily gone through postal coaching throughout the previous year are invited again to a second round of training and they constitute the Senior Batch. On the basis of four selection tests through the Camp, a team of the best six students is selected from the combined pool of junior and senior batch participants to represent India at the IMO. Each selection test comprises of 3 problems to be done in a time of 4 and a half hours. Moreover, before the selection tests, two practice tests comprising of 3 problems each are held for the Junior Batch students but they are meant for practice and do not reflect in the final selection. The best 6 students comprise the Indian IMO team for that year and they are invited to pre-Departure camp at HBCSE before departure to IMO for training.

JEE is much higher in prioirty for Indians then this olympiad. There are JEE training centers in every city and town training kids to clear the toughest Engineering entrance exam where lakhs of students compete for a few thousand seats.

There is a small city in Rajasthan whose economy runs just on coaching for JEE. If you ask a parent whose kids is in 11th or 12th standard where are his kids and if the answer is "Kota gaya hai (He has gone to Kota)" no other explanation is required. Everyone knows the kid has gone to Kota to prepare for JEE. In Kota there are coaching classes for JEE and Coaching classes to get into these coaching classes.

The coaching of JEE starts from 5th standard itself. Parents order Brilliant's Tutorial materials for there kids in 5th standard to prepare for an exam which will take place 7 years later. Then there is the internationally awarded Super 30 classes where 30 underprivilaged children are given training to crack JEE.

All these things I am talking about JEE, Kota, Bansal Classes, Brilliant Tutorials etc are household names for Indians. Our kids are bright and they focus on things that give them a good future