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Last year, after barely qualifying for the AIME, I came out of the test with a 1. Thankfully, I've qualified again, but I still have no idea how to do most of the AIME problems. My question to you people is: given a month to prepare, is there any way for me to do significantly better this year?
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you can take a crash course or buy books meant to help you prepare at <a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com%5B/url%5D">www.artofproblemsolving.com</a>
you can also download old AIMEs at <a href="http://www.kalva.demon.co.uk/aime.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.kalva.demon.co.uk/aime.html</a></p>
<p>A lot of AIME problems have some trick to them that makes it easy if you look at it the right way. The tricks tend to repeat. Going through a lot of problems and having someone show you how to do it, or reading the solution to figure out how it was done, will help you get the hang of them.</p>