You are sitting in the SASMO exam hall, staring at a problem that asks for the remainder when a huge number is divided by 7. You could try long division, but the number has 50 digits. Your heart sinks…
Some SASMO problems look like magic tricks: the answer seems impossible to reach, until you realize something never changes. That unchanging something is called an invariant. It is a secret key that u…
You are sitting in a SASMO exam room, the clock ticking. You read a problem that asks for the approximate area of a weird shape. Doing the exact calculation would eat up three minutes. But rounding so…
Geometry in the SASMO can feel like a puzzle wrapped in a diagram. One wrong assumption about a line, one forgotten formula, and a perfectly good solution falls apart. But here is the truth: most geom…
Key Takeaway Past SASMO papers are not just practice tests. They reveal which topics the exam writers favor year after year. By systematically analyzing five to six recent papers, you can spot recurri…
You sit down to take a practice SASMO test. The first few questions feel familiar. Then you hit number 18. It looks like a simple arithmetic pattern, but something is off. Your standard formulas don’t…
Every SASMO practice paper I review tells the same story. A student knows the math. They can handle number theory, geometry, and combinatorics. Yet they leave marks on the table because they misread t…
Functions and graphs aren’t just another topic to check off your list. They are the backbone of many SASMO problems, appearing in everything from pattern recognition to speed, distance, and time quest…
You are staring at a SASMO problem that gives almost no numbers. It asks: “In a group of 13 people, can you guarantee that at least two of them were born in the same month?” Your instinct says maybe, …
Getting the hang of inequalities is one of the smartest moves you can make for the SASMO math competition. These problems pop up in number sense questions, algebra sections, geometry limit puzzles, an…