How much does high school contest skill improve your grades in university math?

[mathboy]

How much does high school contest skill improve your grades in university math courses? Currently I find that all the contest tricks that I've learned play almost no role in my university courses, and studying my textbooks is all that matters now. Any clever thinking I had for those contests is just not helping me much in my topology proofs, for example, at least not directly.

 

[Vanadium 50]

It sounds like you've answered your own question.

 

[mathboy]

That's my opinion only.

 

[Feldoh]

The tricks themselves don't really help, however the problem solving skills learned helps tremendously.