Originally Posted by ColinsMum
ETA: Weirdly, you hear the same thing about problem-based maths competitions: "you can't study for them". Of course you can, and if you want to do well, you should!

This is another thing that I wished I had realized at the time.

Although I really wasn't that into the math competitions.

I was more into History Day, even though I was inherently stronger in the maths/sciences.