# NMTC 2K14 Is over...How well did you fare?

Hi Everyone! The 2014 NMTC (prelim) just concluded about an hour back in most indian cities. This competition known for its wacky and non-routine problems is quite akin to the Putnam Lowell competition as the median scores in this competition too are almost zero. (Because of the heavy negative marking). 2014 paper was a mix of happiness, sadness, shock and surprise to me. Actually it was a happy/joyous paper because it was quite an easy one ...(not too easy though)...sorrowful because I DIDN'T do my BEST.- I could have easily scored 20+ :(. Shocking because it contained some totally easy problems and surpising because despite it being easier than prev.papers, it was totally not-solvable in 2 hrs. ( unless you are truly a genius). Owing to my illness, My speed was badly reduced. I was able to attempt only 19 questions, though I could have easily notched up 3-4 more ones . Final score-19 (20 if +1 marks is given for Bonus) :'(

How well did you all fare? Please do post your scores! Do like and reshare so that it reaches a larger audience and we get to know their scores also!

PLS NOTE THAT I AM IN JUNIOR LEVEL AND SATVIK'S ANSWER KEY TOO IS APPLICABLE FOR THE SAME.

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5 years, 7 months ago

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I got 20. This is the answer key.

1. C

2. D

3. B

4. A

5. BONUS

6. B

7. D

8. B

9. C

10. D

11. C

12. C

13. C

14. C

15. B

.

1. 142857

2. 0

3. 20808

4. 625

5. 2

6. 30

7. 2

8. 3

9. 757

10. 31:74

11. 1

12. 726

13. 0.66666 or 2/3

14. 4

15. 400

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Wait....You got only 19! Bonus marks are not counted. Instead the paper will be evaluated out of 29.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

@Krishna Ar are you competing in JUNIOR LEVEL...? :?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Ans of question 15 is 395

- 5 years, 7 months ago

No..no...no!

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Resonance answer key is showing 395.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

How much are you scoring??????

- 5 years, 7 months ago

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Well, cyclic property of 7...or u can do it by writing an equation

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Why is the fifth question bonus.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

The answer wasn't matching with the options, though all the options were approximately correct..

- 5 years, 7 months ago

No i got option d exact and I will post my solution to my posted problem(NMTC 2014-2(Junior level)). But my friend also got a correct answer 520/7 but not matching the options. I am not sure why multiple answers are found. I will think about it.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

I also got 520/7. And all answer keys are saying this question is bonus...

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Did you check my solution?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Where? Will you give me the link?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

See i have deleted the question because the problem is incorrect because $\frac{AE}{E}=0.5$ not $\frac{2}{3}$ if you fix the rest things.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

It is $AE/EC$. Sorry for the typo.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

I am again very sorry for miscalculation it is not $0.5$ but $\frac{129^\frac{1}{2}-3}{6}$

- 5 years, 7 months ago

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Which class are you in? How can you give Junior exam if you are 17?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

See i am not 17 but i am 14 and this account used to be of my brother and now he dosen't use it any longer so i am using it.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Notice that almost all comments have been downvoted. Some pervert is doing this for cynical pleasure.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Yeah! Maybe you're right... :D

- 5 years, 7 months ago

I am JUNIOR LEVEL.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Yes.....how much are you getting..? I too am in Junior level

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Uhh... looks like 2nd level is not near reach. Shouldn't the 15th one be 399.375?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Nope its 400 exactly. ANyway @Siddharth G - how much are you getting? What is the expected cut-off at your center? Where did you write it? What are your friends getting?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Looks like 16.5. I gave it at my local FIITJEE centre(southdelhi). Don't know about their marks yet, probably tomorrow, due to my miserable paper, I came home without much discussion. Is the cutoff centre-wise?

For the 15th Q, the area of the larger triangle is 405 and the smaller one is 5.625. Subtracting, I got 399.375

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Well it's quite fine for qualifying.. Yes, its center-wise. Its a huge plus for those who gave it from their school like me, I just had to you know get above 10 and I got 10 marks more than needed. You must also keep in mind that only 10% would move on to the next round. So Cutoff would be decided by only how the people who wrote in the same center as you did. Well , for 15...you dont need to find areas of small/large and all that...only thin' you need to do is- Find ar(pllgm)=720. Then you get ar(tri.gdc)=640*0.5=320. Thus it is 720-320=400. I hope it was clear

- 5 years, 7 months ago

However, the competition in an institution like FIITJEE, is higher than a one in an average school. I think about 200 students would have given the test. Acc. to me, ar(gdc) = $630*0.5$ =$315$

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Sid, if you use similarities, you will get it only as 640. Not 630. Donno how you got this..can you explain?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Sorry, took the wrong ratio. Same reason why I got 399.375

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Ah...It's fine. Well , I think AMTI will accept this perhaps.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

@Siddharth G One of my friends also got 399.375, but I got 400. Also, Brilliant will accept both, and so should the AMTI.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

With this answer key I got 25

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Congon! 25 is a really cool score in NMTC prelims.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

what is nmtc?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

@Anik Mandal @Rishabh Jain @HARSH SHrivastava -I've sent NMTC paper check it out

- 5 years, 6 months ago

sir can you please send me the paper of nmtc 2014 on deepanshjindal2001@ gmail.com

- 3 years, 10 months ago

Thanks,Krishna!!

- 5 years, 6 months ago

Thank you @Krishna Ar

- 5 years, 6 months ago

Yes the 5 th question is incorrect as we are getting three answers by three different methods and all are the in the options provided.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

No......Vidit.........three answers are coming......But only 230/3 is in the options........

- 5 years, 7 months ago

All the other are approximately equal

- 5 years, 7 months ago

OH No! when did this happen..I fORGOT!!..from the past 3 years I'd been writing..alwayz got to $2^{nd}$ level ,,wrote RMO..then came back..but this time shifting school and being busy in hosting cultural comp...I totally fORGOT! hope they have it once again...its really nice platform for me to make a lot of friends..for the questions they are easy in $1^{st}$ level but quite difficult nxt step...As for the past 5 years I've been shifting every year I get to see some of my old friends...and even some new ones ..whom I've not yet seen like @Krishna Ar well I wish myself better luck nxt time... Krishna Can you mail me the Q.paper ..even though I'd have been writing the Inter Level..

- 5 years, 7 months ago

:D. Shit does happen! Its ok! I will be scanning it coz sooo many people have asked for it...and I shall send it to you also @Anik Mandal

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Can anyone tell me when is the result going to be declared????

- 5 years, 7 months ago

31-09-14 most probably

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Nope- 31-08-14

- 5 years, 7 months ago

I have attempted 26 questions which I think are correct.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

You're in 12th? Which state?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

testi

- 5 years, 7 months ago

No no i am not in 12th but 9th. This account is of my brother and he dosen't use it any longer so i am using it.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Can anyone please tell me about what are the 3 values of 'm' in question no.8 in Part B.......

- 5 years, 7 months ago

You're talking about question 7, not 8. And the 2 values are 12 and 6.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Oh! ..Yeah.That only .I was thinking from long time that how 3 values of m are possible ?.. ....Sorry for that......btw thankx.....

- 5 years, 7 months ago

@Aditya Raut @Dinesh Chavan - How much are you guys scoring in INTER level ?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

I made some silly mistakes, otherwise I expected my score to be $29/30$ ,but now it's gonna be less than that .....too less....

For example, I factorized $27000001$ in half minute, using

$300^3+1^3=(300+1)((300+1)^2-3\times 300 \times 1)\\=301\times (301^2-30^2 )= (301)(301+30)(301-30)=7\times 43\times 271\times 331$

And after this, i wrote their sum as $642$ in stead of $652$

At one place, I introduced $\dfrac{1}{2}$ in heron's formula which is not there!!!

At one place, they asked double of that angle (ans being $225^\circ$), and I wrote the angle( $112.5^\circ$ )

Once in my rough work, i saw my own $6$ as $9$, and wrote an answer that was greater than right one by 3.

One of them I left unattempted ,but later got it, just after giving the answer sheet back !

so sad right? LOL ! Few more mistakes like that, for which someone should slap me .... But nvm, that's a part and parcel of life :P

- 5 years, 7 months ago

What say @Satvik Golechha or @Krishna Ar ? Do you feel like giving me a strong slap for the above noted silly mistakes ?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Nope...In your case it was silly mistakes, in my case- I could have easily scored 5/6 marks more than what I'm getting (20)...so for me both are the same...everyone makes silly mistakes, I'm sure that you are selceted

- 5 years, 7 months ago

And if I don't I will find your house whether it maybe in any part of the world, I'll come to give you a party :P

- 5 years, 7 months ago

:D :P The results are out...aren't they?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

They are?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Yes (Unofficially). Contact the FIITJEE person who's incharge of this.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

ty

- 5 years, 7 months ago

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Some person has already done that, just search in brilliant search , he posted each of the questions separately. I don't remember name. @Dhruva Kothari

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Hmm... Seems like a tie! here are mine-
-- I found the answer for 16, went wrong with verification, and skipped the question.
-- In the AP formula, I divided by 2 twice!
-- Wrongly added four two digit numbers.
-- Took the wrong ratio in similarities.
-- $37*2=39$!
-- Multiplied both side by $0$

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Can you send me the inter level paper at rajat16nov@gmail.com

- 4 years, 9 months ago

What was the cutoff for junior level (1st and 2nd both levels) ?

- 5 years ago

Can you please send the question paper at the email id given sur_rathi@yahoo.co.in

- 4 years, 8 months ago

can anyone upload nmtc paper of 2014 of class 9 and 10

- 3 years, 11 months ago

hey krishna give me some more detail about the competition and pleade some questions also coz it looks very interesting from maths point of view

- 5 years, 7 months ago

www.amtionline.com

- 5 years, 7 months ago

is it popular in southern india ??

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Yes...but its conducted in 70+ cities and this year over 1.5 lac people are participating

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Too many silly mistakes.Fluked the 23rd, erred 25th, blundered the 29th and am still doubtful about 30th.
Attempted- 24
Correct(probably)- 20
Score(approx.)- 18
BTW what was the timing at your centre?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Timing 2-4. I attempted 19 and got all of them right! :D

- 5 years, 7 months ago

- 5 years, 7 months ago

OK.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Tell me which batch are you in and which class?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

SANKALP47R(class X)

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Yeah. Me too at junior level. I am getting 20.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

I participated in the Inter Level, and I am expecting about 18-20. Could anyone post solutions, or help me with some problems?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

@Nanayaranaraknas Vahdam Why don't you post the problems here? Then anyone can have a go at them.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

hey can u mail the scanned copy of paper to me at debit97@gmail.com

- 5 years, 7 months ago

What does NMTC stand for?

- 5 years, 7 months ago

National Mathematics Talent Contest

- 5 years, 7 months ago

www.amtionline.com

- 5 years, 7 months ago

are you given paper for your home if yes then please email me the pdf file of it at - debit97@gmail.com please email me it would be helpful for me

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Ok...I shall try to!

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Can you send it too me also?@Krishna Ar

- 5 years, 7 months ago

- 5 years, 7 months ago

hey you haven't mailed it !!

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Yes, @Rishabh Jain - My scanner was (And is) down...Thus I was unable to scan it...Apologies to all

- 5 years, 7 months ago

I am too at the junior level and I am faring about some 16 marks.

- 5 years, 7 months ago

In Part A , ques.9 ........It is not clearly seen as EF = FC...........It should also be bonus........It is seen as EF-FC....

- 5 years, 7 months ago

How much are you scoring?...No it is a very clear question

- 5 years, 7 months ago

Not vry much sure , ........But something around 18 or 19 mks........

- 5 years, 7 months ago

@Siddharth G @Satvik Golechha and others- Post your scores! Post it preferably in the form of - (No. attempted, No. correct, Score)

- 5 years, 7 months ago