Contest Prep

Geometry has a reputation as the least predictable section of a competition paper — the one where you either see it in two minutes or lose twenty. That’s fixable: the unpredictability comes from configuration recognition, and recognition is trainable in a way raw insight isn’t.

These articles cover the preparation side: which theorems to know cold, how to classify a problem fast, when to abandon an elegant synthetic route for reliable coordinates, and how to pace a paper. See Geometry Competitions for a format-by-format breakdown.