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How to get better at pretests?
By TheWorse, 106 minutes ago, In English

I used AI to fix my grammar, so this blog might look like it was written by AI.

So, recently, I participated in a school contest that had pretests. I was quite sure that I was going to get a high rank; however, after the system tests, I was disappointed to discover that I had forgotten to define int long long (and forgot many other stuffs), which ruined the whole thing.

So, how can I get better at handling pretests? I'm not talking about Codeforces rounds, because on Codeforces, the pretests are euqual the same as the system tests.

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I'm facing the exact same issue too.

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Get better at problem solving!

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Just get better in problem solving in general

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might you not mind sharing the contest link

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One thing that I have noticed in general is, when the idea you are thinking has a very bad implementation, that might not be the intended solution, because most questions have intended solutions based on 1 or 2 ideas. If you feel your way of thinking is clean enough, that is when you implement the solution

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