How to Prepare for CMI Entrance ~ Avishek Hazra

Learn from the Achiever - Avishek Hazra (CMI 2022)

Avishek Hazra - CMI Entrance Success Story

Avishek Hazra has cracked the CMI Entrance 2022 Examination.

He shared with us how he prepared for the CMI Entrance in an interview with Cheenta. This interview will take you through the preparation journey of Avishek for CMI Entrance 2022 and can help you with some insights that you can utilize for your CMI preparation.

Here are some of the questions, that he answered in the interview.

Tell us about yourself

I am Avishek Hazra, Class 12th Student from St. Stephen's School. I recently qualified the Chennai Mathematical Institute, CMI Entrance Test. In addition, I cleared RMO in 2019.

I like new ideas and Math has a lot of them. Therefore, I like Math.

How did you prepare for the CMI?

My goal was learning new mathematics and developing my problem solving skills. So I learned new math and did more problems.

Can you suggest some resources (books, YouTube channels and websites) that had helped you in your preparation?

Mathematical Circles was a great book when I was just starting out. It was fun and the problems were doable.
Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz. Another fun book.

PSS by Arthur Engel, the problem books by Titu Andreescu, and papers from various Mathematics Olympiads serve as a rich source of problems.

I used Bartle and Sherbert for the calculus part of the exam.

What are you planning next?

Learning new stuff in college and then going with what excites me the most.

Any advice for the current aspirants?

Don't get demotivated if you cant solve problems. Keep at it. Math is hard.

How Cheenta helped you in your ISI - CMI preparation?

The daily problem solving classes by Aritra sir helped a lot.