👋 Some of the stages of the Math Olympiad program 2024 --- 2025 are

  Date and Time Total marks, Number of Questions Remarks Website(s)  
           
IOQM
Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Mathematics		 8th September, 2024, 10:00hrs — 13:00hrs 100 marks, 30 questions 10 questions worth 2 marks, 10 questions worth 3 marks, 10 questions worth 5 marks. Answer to each question is an integer between 00–99. MTAI, HBCSE  
           
RMO
Regional Mathematical Olympiad		 3rd November, 2024, 13:00hrs — 16:00hrs 6 questions Requires writing detailed proofs. HBCSE  
           
INMO
Indian National Mathematical Olympiad		 19th January, 2025, 12:00hrs — 16:30hrs 6 questions Requires writing detailed proofs. HBCSE  
           
IMOTC
International Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp		 Held from April to May   Leads to formation of IMO team through TSTs (Team Selection Tests) HBCSE  
           
PDC
Pre-Departure Camp		 Before leaving for IMO     HBCSE  
           

👋 Please go through the homepage https://jpsaha.github.io/MOTP/, to know

  • What is the purpose/goal of (making) this website?
  • How the material available here can be used?
  • The sitemap, that is, the layout of the entire webpage.

Here are some of the suggestions from Evan Chen regarding the preparation of Math Olympiad.

  • Pick up any standard textbook to work through, so you learn some of the standard theory that is tested in math contests.
  • Go through some past problems from previous contests.
  • Rope some friends into learning with you. It’s more fun that way, and you can learn from each other.
  • You should repeat these steps until you have some comfort with the kinds of problems that appear.
  • As you get experience, you will automatically start to know what deep understanding feels like.
  • Be aware that you will see many, many problems which you can’t solve, where you read the solution and ask, “how was I supposed to think of that?”. This is okay and expected: it’s not because you’re dumb, it’s because you are learning.

A few training programs

The OTIS program

  • Olympiad Training for Individual Study, run by Evan Chen and people, is a proof-based olympiad training program, with over 300 students per year from across the world.
  • Sunaina Pati, who received a Silver medal in EGMO 2023, remarked the following in a post discussing How to start with Math olympiads.

    Do join OTIS! It is simply so good. Evan is also very kind with financial aid. Moreover, do not be scared of applying! And if there is some financial burden, do tell to Evan.

👋 Some of its alums are

Name IMO APMO EGMO Sharygin Geometry Olympiad Iranian Geometry Olympiad Tournament of Towns  
Anant Mudgal IMO 2015 (HM), 2016 (B), 2017 (B), 2018 (S) 2016 (B), 2017 (S)          
               
Pranjal Srivastava IMO 2018 (S), 2019 (G), 2021 (G), 2022 (G) 2018 (HM), 2019 (G), 2022 (G)          
               
Atul Shatavart Nadig IMO 2022 (B), 2023 (G) 2022 (S), 2023 (G)          
               
Anushka Aggarwal     EGMO 2019 (B), 2020 (B), 2022 (B)        

The Sophie Fellowship

  • It is a training program and fellowship for students preparing for IMO, EGMO, INMO and other national and international mathematical competitions.
  • It is a student-run initiative to assist selected high schoolers passionate about mathematics, by offering help from people who have performed well at various mathematical contests such as the IMO, APMO, EGMO, and INMO.
  • The program will be completely free of cost.
  • It is run by a bunch of students who really like math and want to spread it further in the country. They aim to improve the quality of math education in India by making Olympiad math more accessible, as well as improve the gender ratio in the mathematical community.
  • The team consists of many IMO and EGMO medalists, as well as others who have attended the Indian IMO training camp. They have previously participated in Olympiads, we understand the challenges students in the math community face and want to help them.
  • Sunaina Pati, who received a Silver medal in EGMO 2023, remarked the following in a post discussing How to start with Math olympiads.

    Sophie Fellowship is the gem! It provides such a nice community and so many resources!

Online Math Club 2.0

  • To quote from this post of Sunaina Pati,

    The Online Math Club is an initiative to reach high school students interested in math and give them a platform to learn more and interact with others. The Club aims to increase exposure to olympiad mathematics and advanced mathematics. And OMC is free and open to all!

  • The Online Math Club 2.0 is a student-run mathematical program that aims to help students from all over India and internationally prepare for mathematical olympiads. The team consists of a group of math enthusiasts who have taken part in these math olympiads in the past, many of whom are also IMO and EGMO medallists and awardees from the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad. The classes run on a Discord server.
    • There are weekly olympiad mathematics sessions on each Saturday and Sunday. Through these classes, a wide range of olympiad mathematical topics are covered that are required for RMO and INMO preparation in each of Combinatorics, Geometry, Number Theory and Algebra, starting from the basics and building up to several advanced topics over the course of the year. This page contains further details.
  • Blog
  • On YouTube

The Philomath Club

  • It is a math club founded by Sunaina Pati, which aims to motivate the elementary and middle school students to do Mathematics but in a fun way. The club wants to spread the awareness towards non-routine mathematics.

Contests, Programs, Camps

  • International Tournament of Young Mathematicians

    A team competition for high school students from all over the world.

  • Purple Comet! Math Meet!

    A team mathematics competition designed for middle and high school students conducted annually since 2003.

  • Maths Beyond Limits
  • Maths Beyond Limits Balkans
  • STEMS
    • Test

      STEMS (Scholastic Test of Excellence in Mathematical Sciences) is an annual first-of-its-kind open resource examination conducted for students from 8th grade to undergraduates across India. The exam will be held in Mathematics, Physics, and (theoretical) Computer Science in December. The relaxed duration of the exam and original conceptual questions promote academic creativity over rote learning and research interest, increasing the interest and awareness of mathematical sciences amongst the students.

    • Camp

      About 30 of the best scorers across the three disclipines of STEMS will be selected for a 3-day, fully-funded camp at CMI. Past students selected for this camp include various medalists at the IMO, IOI and few of the brightest school and college students across India.

    • STEMS 2024 Final Camp
  • PROMYS India

    A challenging six-week residential mathematics summer programme, PROMYS India is open to mathematically talented secondary and higher secondary students (Standards IX - XII or equivalent). Meticulously selected students from across India will gather on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru to immerse themselves in rigorous mathematics.