How Did You Prepare for the Physics Olympiad?

[rockinwhiz]

I really would like to know the process of your preparation... Like how and when you started preparing, what growth you saw in your problem solving capacity and so on. Kindly share about the beautiful journey. If possible, give me some tips/resources as I'm also an aspiring olympian.

 

[atyy]

I did it long ago when it was held in Cuba as a member of the Singapore team. Food in Cuba was great and so was the music. The beaches were stunning and old Havana was beautiful. The Americans did take part. One of their members won the prize for the highest score by a female, but she declined it as she did not want to be recognized on that basis. The Chinese won 5 golds. I studied Halliday and Resnick, bits of Beiser, and some of the problems of past Olympiads published by World Scientific.

 

[rockinwhiz]

I did it long ago when it was held in Cuba as a member of the Singapore team. Food in Cuba was great and so was the music. The beaches were stunning and old Havana was beautiful. The Americans did take part. One of their members won the prize for the highest score by a female, but she declined it as she did not want to be recognized on that basis. The Chinese won 5 golds. I studied Halliday and Resnick, bits of Beiser, and some of the problems of past Olympiads published by World Scientific.

That's damn cool!