@@alexandace9550 In sport, I think one of those is the hour record in cycling. You get on a track and ride for an hour. If you ride farther than anyone ever did before, you win!
my mom is a physician idk how she did it, she’s still working and studying to get more qualifications but it’s crazy the amount of work it takes for this
@@goharsguide Do the Putnam video ASAP. As a UK undergraduate mathematics student that is crazy about extra-curricular math exams like the Putnam, I would love to see a detailed video on this. Tried a curated selection of Putnam problems - very few I could solve.
to get a good score on the JEE exam many students (including me) go to various institutes made especially for the JEE and NEET(medical) exam. If u live in India you'd know the big hype for these exams
@@kio2gamerbig mistake. Don't prepare for Mains. Prepare for advance or you will regret next year. Those who seriously prepared for advance got 99.9+ percentile in Jan attempt but I'm here only with 95 because I prepared for "Mains only".
You should also take a look at Instituto técnico de Aeronáutica's and instituto militar de engenharia's tests in Brazil. They require advanced, non-newtonian physics, absurd equivalent resistance calculations and hard calculus questions in a country where you don't even learn calculus in school. Most people take 3-4 years after school studying just to pass them
@@maxtr0b0t555basically it's physics where newton's laws are not applicable anymore and you would need basic understanding of elementary relativistic physics concepts to answer that question
I graduated from ITA (Aeronautical Technology Institute) and I can say that except for that tiles question from the Putnam exam, all other math questions are pretty average for a ITA and IME exam
Okay so actually about the JEE exams, math is generally the hardest section when compared to physics and chemistry. Recently I attempted JEE mains and only scored 26/100 in math which resulted me in scoring 97 percentile in math (top 3%). This paper becomes so much easier when physics and chemistry are considered too. Just a food for thought
When you say much easier you have to consider the fact that its much easier for us, but it might not be for students from other countries because they never learn half of this stuff so even physics and chemistry would be super hard for them.
I am preparing for jee and yes its very difficult...and what makes it more complicated is that we have to give it after high school so it's mentally tough to crack the questions
What's tough is not giving exam after high school because that's when most of the exams even in other countries are conducted. The tough thing is its preparation. Other countries' student prepare with school as the lead while that's not the case in India.
@@aalekhjain2682I prepared with school. Not really bro, my school has integrated coaching. Must have heard of Sri Chaitanya. 😅😅 So, in school itself it's like a coaching centre.
Nothing beats the german law exam (Staatsexamen): You study for 5-6 years law and all your exams are not counting until your final exam where you have 5 hours time to write and you do this 6-8 days in a row. In order to pass the exam people learn around 1-2 years specifically for the exam almost all day long (it's called "repetitorium" from latin "repetitio"). AND after all: 30 percent STILL fail. If you fail you only have a second attempt. And if you fail again, you will be almost 30, have no degree and wasted 7 years of your life.
JEE Aspirant here. The Main second session is going on rn, I just gave mine on 5th. I got 96.25 percentile in the Jan attempt. Watching these kind of videos kinda boosts my confidence, cuz I'm giving one of the toughest exams out there and these videos make me realise that what my percentile actually means. It means that not only I'm better than 96% of the students giving it but also than most other students across the world as well. I don't let it get to my ego tho. The big game (JEE Advanced) is in 47 days and I'm using it all to boost my confidence. I'm telling y'all, it's a lot of work. Best of luck to all the people reading this who are giving there exams.
It is a heckkk of alot of work mate, good work on the 96%! Very envious of students taking the JEE because of how good their problem solving skills become but also feel bad for the fact that competition for college seats are ridiculously toxic in the country. All the best for your advanced exam :)
@@sanaldahatkar9264 "It means that not only I'm better than 96% of the students giving it but also than most other students across the world as well." That statement is pretty stupid. At 96 percentile you scored anywhere from 150-180 marks I believe? How does scoring 150-180 marks in a PCM exam "make you better" than most other students in the world. There are people who get international olympiad medals, do out of the world extracurricular activities, and also write pretty challenging exams themselves. That statement seemed pretty ignorant, but I am sure you didn't mean to hurt anybody. Good luck
@@Saai_Arav oh don't get me wrong, I'm well aware that there are people who have a calibre million times better than me. By "I'm better" I purely mean on the basis of marks. I'm just saying that in the field of my subjects, getting this percentile, getting more marks than 96% of candidates has to mean smth right. I'm just using that as motivation that's all.
@@Saai_Arav looks like someones jealous... - and oh wait. have you done anything spectacular? thats what i thought. you can hide behind a screen as a stranger trying to say unnecessary comments, but I'm sure you didn't mean to hurt anybody
Question 8 of the IIT Exam is 3520! It's a series question where it classifies as neither arithmetic or geometric. I figured out the simple pattern, but sadly it had no formula. I typed all the first 20 numbers in a calc and added them together. It took long but I got the answer! Definitely take a look! I am so surprised that problem was so long/useless, but extremely easy!
6:17 nah, I'm just getting into the last bit of 7th grade and my math teacher barely teaches us anything 😭 you at this point are my teacher because of how much I watch your videos for help
This isn't basic probability like he makes it seem, it's very advanced binomials to even derive it, if you answer wrong it's -2 for that question even if you ticked 1 correct. Even if you get it wrong when you think you're right it's because the other options make just as much sense and if you make a tiny mistake those values pop out
As someone who's preparing for the IIT JEE exam, the reason why very few get into IIT is probably due to the huge population of India. Each family expects their child to get into great colleges let alone IIT. Being one of the hardest exams in the world, IIT only wants those who stand out.
just like the ivy leagues, but remove the holistic admissions system and solely focus on academics. tbh its very bad, VERY BAD for the mental health of students. spending 12 hours a day sitting in one place studying with no time to socialize. that's why I am going for biology (not neet) and want to go to Oxbridge or the Ivy Leagues (Not some generic third tier American colleges which are trapping foreign students), just as prestigious, if not more so, than the IITs. Good Luck to you, my prayers are with you. You will get into IITs, just work hard.
@@ParthJha-tx3vw aspiring doctor? Assuming you’re a NEET UG aspirant. Worry about MLE later and crack NEET first. USMLE isn’t that difficult! The process to land a seat there, however is thrice as difficult as the exam.
And then there’s Cambridge exams. They are geared both towards memorisation and critical thinking, however, they put more importance on critical thinking. Depending on the subjects you take, as well as the exam board (yes, there’s multiple exam boards) is the difficulty of the exam. Some have multiple choice, most have structured questions, and a few have a practical or alternative to practical, depending on the subject and the exam centre’s capabilities.
In maths at Cambridge(UK), there are the well-known Tripos courses & exams(cf. Wikipedia); I don’t know about the modern exams, but in the 19th century, the Tripos course exams were done over EIGHT DAYS, with as much as about FORTY-FIVE HOURS TOTAL examination time. The Top students of the Tripos Exam are traditionally called “Wranglers”. Some well-known British mathematicians, physicists & scientists were top Cambridge Wranglers (e.g. W. Cavendish, A. Cayley, Lord Kelvin, J.C. Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, J.J. Thomson, J.H. Jeans, A.S. Eddington, H. Bondi, P. Swinnerton-Dyer, J. Narlikar).
Just to put in to perspective on how hard to get in to Peking University through Gaokao, here are some stats: Most province use a Gaokao paper which the total score is 750, to get into Peking, one need at least 680, there are six subjects in Gaokao, thus, one must score at least 90% on all test to get in (it is impossible for the majority of Chinese students. Not to mention Gaokao is just like SAT but no calculator is allowed and some questions are extremely hard. The average math score of Gaokao is 66% in 2022 and English average score is 80%
I’m shocked that the UPSC exam from India is not on the list. It is as difficult as JEE, or even arguably, MORE DIFFICULT than JEE. I know it because I cleared it in my 4th attempt.
As an IIT BHU Passout working at an MNC and simultaneously preparing for UPSC, @@An_ony_mous bhai mains is of 1750 marks, there is no competition around UPSC, JEE ADV is just a exam with very difficult questions, but UPSC is more difficult to crack overall, the sheer volume of syllabus, as a person who has experience with both exams UPSC is much more difficult than JEE Adv...
As you can see,I'm a Chinese.To make GAOKAO stranger,it is devided by areas you are in.The hardest part is called XINGAOKAO I JUAN,and actually we can choose the 2courses from PHYSICS and HISTORY. Then you can choose 2 from ZHENGZHI,Chemistry,Biology and Geography.
Question: It flies upwards and when a voice asks if it is tired it says “no” Ans:I think the answer is the “SOUL” of a person. Reason? Well after a person’s death he/she are often referred to as “RIP” Rest In Peace. Here since the soul of a person is expected to go to heaven an angel(for eg.) may ask if it is tired and the obvious answer we get is “No”(since the person is in peace). I don’t know what other’s perspective is but in my view I find this a suitable answer. Thanks
exams regarded to be tough is based on the intensity of questions, on the other hand UPSC depends on mental maturity making it take time to understand and apply
putnam was actually fun to participate in. I managed to solve 3 problems (29points). pretty decent score for someone who didn't prepare at all (as a formal olympiad winner)
@@bunnyff2970 it's easy those exams are hella easy compared other exams. Competitiveness doesn't mean it's hard, use ur iq please. Their is a huge population in India and sit for that exam but the demand is low and positions are limited in that case u need to get a high score. You're just a another indian who thinks their exams are in the list of world's hardest exams 😂
16:32 Correct me if I'm wrong but this question is too easy. The MacLaurin/Taylor Series for e^x is 1 + x + x²/2! + x³/3! +..... None of the coefficients of x are zero. Therefore bk is always greater than zero unless you put x=0, which I don't think works since, in that case, b0 = 1 which is non-zero.
there is also 'suneung' in south korea, and its really similar to the gaokao, where korean students have one chance a year that would determine what university they would get into. the exam tests on all kinds of subjects, where students would have to get almost a perfect score to get in the top three universities (SNU, yonsei, and korea univ.) this test is what determines their future (income, job, etc.) so its a really challenging exam
Yeah, the med exam is crazy hard, but im glad it is because it makes a kind of insurance. People who pass it have to be the best of the best, so we can be certain that we're in good hands. Mad respect
bro the one word essays are just like how we used to write essays about(cow,tree,water,oxygen)in our child hood .I think Indians could relate ,we Indians used to get this type of essays in our 2nd language paper (for people who do not know 2nd language is our mother tongue....btw nice video 😃
You should look at Brazil's IME (Military Institute of Engineering)/ITA (Aeronautics' Institute of Technology). So , starting off , the exam gives you 4 hours to complete 80 MCQ's + essays (split in two days). The topics are: mathematics , physics , chemistry , Portuguese language (and literature) and English language. Some of the topics are Math - calculus (single/multivarible) , linear algebra , number theory and advanced trigonometry/complex numbers. Relativistic/quantum/fluid mechanics , nuclear physics , photonics , electromagnetism , and modern thermo/electrodynamics. Chemical thermo/electro/photodynamics , kinetic theory , modern chemistry and (in)org (bio/geo/biogeo)chemistry. That's just the first phase , by the way. We also have 3 consecutive days for those who were approved. Out of the 10k participants each , no more than 300 go to the second phase , which has open questions that have even more elaboration. If I forgot to mention , all of these questions are in Olympic level and you can't take this test with more than 21 years of age. Just so you have an idea of what the questions look like , I'm going to show a chemistry question (chemistry is the easiest subject in the exam): Consider the alkyl halide below , which reacts according to the Sₙ1 and Sₙ2 mechanisms: 2-chloro-3,3-dimethlypentane (Sₙ1, H₂O)→ intermediate 1 + Cl⁻ (step A)→ intermediate 2 (H₂O)→ product B ⇋product C + H₃O⁺ Draw the planar structural formulas of Intermediates 1 and 2, and Products B and C. Name Products C and D (IUPAC nomenclature) and the reaction that occurs in Step A. That's literally the easiest question in the whole exam (aside from languages/essay) and you have no more than 20 minutes to do it , or you'll not have time for the other questions. Other questions have demonstration commands , so you have to prove a property or prove that an equation is valid. That's mostly for mathematics and physics , but chemistry also has a lot of profound proof-based question. By the way , did I mention that Brazil has some of the lowest math/physics scores in standardized education tests? I mean , our students get out of highschool without knowing basic mathematics , like fractions and stuff. Yet , we have an exam way above JEE-Advanced and Gāokǎo.
Thank you very much for the video! It is really interesting! I suggest checking out the public examination in Spain to become a notary public or a state's attorney. It takes 3.5 years to 'learn' the whole specific syllabus (check out the concept of learning for these examinations because it is where the real challenge is for these exams i), and 6 or 7 years of study (almost 365 days/year, only 1 week vacation) to have less than 15% of chances to pass them. Those public examinations are called 'oposiciones'. The Spanish verb 'opositar' means to prepare for and take those public examinations. All the exams you have mentioned have something in common: They 'can' be solved by using a wide range of cognitive skills (memory, logic, creativity, etc...). The examinations I mention require only 1 of those skills: memory. The rest of the required skills to pass them are psychological. You don't have to be a brilliant student to pass them, the real struggle is more psychological than anything else. I'll leave it here in case you are interested to dig more about these examinations.
Here's a question from my sister's 7th grade Knowledge Mock Test. This test is taken by the council members, junior prefects' from class V, sports captains, subject heads, et cetera et cetera. There are 80 questions in it. It was mainly a kind of a collection of riddles. So here's the question you've been waiting for. 64. The force of energy cannot be stopped if it is pushed or stopped to create small amout to no movement at all. It take Downfall to a large number for guest collisions and stopped the energy. When does the Downfall occour after?
just to clarify, to get into Peking Uni(at least in Guangdong),you ususally need to be in the top 100 among350000 students for a good major, 500 if you don't care about the majors.
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) stands as the pinnacle of academic rigour, renowned worldwide for its uncompromising challenge, testing the mettle of students under 18 with unparalleled complexity.
Overall, Step 3 is the most difficult exam because one must have successfully completed medical school and started residency training in order to even take it. That's the most arduous (and expensive) prerequisite for any exam in the world.
@@placeholderfornow4766Putnam's given by UGs in the likes of MIT,Caltech,Stanford and Harvard(top institutes in the world) while JEE advd is for high school engineering aspirants.Huge difference💀.Plus those guys are research oriented and have probably already won Olympiads.(Some of them have gone on to become nobel prize winners 💀.) Richard Feynman is a notable Putnam scholar for instance.
@@placeholderfornow4766Plus if you fail to clear the Putnam not much is at stake.If you fail to clear the JEE on the other hand, you'll waste a year of your life .Only scholarships are at stake wrt the Putnam as far as I know.
@@placeholderfornow4766Jee advanced is given by high school students and Putnam is given by University students though I agree that Putnam is much harder.
What I feel is that the toughness of an exam is decided by the selection percentage. For example, Gaokao is considered the toughest exam because its the only exam Chinese students have to give to get into college, though the questions are pretty easy to moderate. About JEE, though other exams are available and infact GATE and SAT also have opened lines for fields but still, JEE tops in terms of numbers. Other exams are tough because of paper. I personally feel, US students have a variety of options so they divide themselves in all the exams rather than going after a particular one.
I'm currently preparing for JEE, and though it (Adv.) is already a tough examination, it checks how strong your basics are; formulas just don't cut it, you need critical thinking (Like there's this question we did this week, about parabola. It was just two lines long, but it's solution filled the whole whiteboard (it's a pretty big one btw), and you could not apprach it if you fail to apply the very definition of a parabola: locus of a point equidistant from a line and another point). What makes it truly challenging is the sheer number of candidates appearing for it (around 1,230,000 in '24) It's also biased towards Math. My senior (who didn't qualify in Advance but got 327 in BITS due to his experience here) got less than 90%ile in Physics with around 73%age, but got 94%ile in Math with 'just' 36%age.
The Putnam seemed like it would be fun since I enjoy math a lot and I’m really good at it, but I’m only about to go to 9th grade, so it’ll have to wait.
13:26 Guess what ISC board examination compulsory for grade 12th students enrolled in the schools affiliated to the board face this "one word essay". The only relaxation we have is a choice among 5 essay topics.
I really love your videos, even though I'm not in anyway a science student but I enjoy the way you are explaining things, its so inspirational to watch.
Our med. school tested us at least once a week. When we took the USMLE we were told that ours was the second highest scoring class in the country. They were disappointed because the class before ours was the highest and I think the one before them was, too, but not sure. One of my lab partners had the highest individual score for parts 1 and 2. I did nothing to prepare for the MCAT because, after all, how can one? Your entire educational career is you prep. I aced it. In those days the scores were not disclosed to the applicants which placed us at a disadvantage. But one interviewer let slip that I had a perfect score. Bottom line: None of these tests are really that hard at all. I had exams in college that were much harder than the MCAT. So, if you are considering taking any of these tests, don't worry. As long as you were a competent student, relax, you will do well.
we had this in a recent international competition. It's an international competition held by french high schools all over the world. The top students in philosophy get to do the competition where one must write an essay in 6 hours where the subject is just a word. This year's subject was "jouer un rôle" meaning play a role and i was fun to get to write about it !
@@Yopiwastaken I had comp math experience in grade school and was enrolled in a course intended to prepare students for the Putnam. Like all math competitions though it's not really something you study for.
Look at Maths-D of X-ENS 66 (a French exam to access the second best engineering school in France) Note : you’re passing this exam just 2 years after passing the SAT (well the French equivalent)
Thanks for showing the gaokao :D! Things have changed a little now (at least in some provinces) and you're asked to take a pass/fail exam on 10 subjects (Chinese, Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Political Science, History, Geography, IT, fail one = cannot graduate) along with a Chinese+Maths+English/Japanse (out of 150)+three other subjects you choose out of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography and History (out of 60, however three lines are marked and candidates between lines get the same score).
@@theopenkingdomim shandong testtaker.each subject of our dengjikao exam applies a method that calculating score based on rank and proportion.that means,if you got 80 out of 100 in the physics exam,but you ranked 1st,then your calculated physics score is 100.if your physics score is about 70 but you are among top 3% testtakers in physics,then your calculated score wont be lower than 90.(im not sure if that propotion right but few can get 90+ calculated scores in every subject of dengjikao in shandong)however,some provinces like hunan and jiangsu dont apply this method in history and physics dengjikao.
5:29 is the timestamp of the zoomed in exam paper. Take a look. The problems are so involved and are probably just long. They don't look impossibly hard for someone who studies calc for years. The time pressure and overall anxiety is probably what causes its insane difficulty and low pass rate!
You should consider taking an exam at the Cambridge section of the school in Gomti Nagar Extension, Lucknow. The papers, especially the checkpoint ones, are quite challenging. In India, we have having very difficult papers for students in grade 8, along with strict time limits. Thank you for the video, it was very helpful.
Idk if you would know, but it almost sounds like Soulless 5 by ExileLord. At least the progression is the same. Probably not what youre looking for but its something.
@@bigbrain2730 I do know it! I had the same association at first, as I played Clone Hero for some time and this is my most played song. The first bar is exactly the same, but the second one differs with two notes: instead of G Eb D C it goes G E D# C.
the Putnam is one of the most fun to take--am on a 3 year scoring streak (starting with the 82nd Putnam) with 10, 4, 9, respectively. imo the 84th (last year's) was the hardest of the ones I've taken
Bro forgot the "I'm not a robot" test
Lmao 😂
LOL
"Select all the images that contain buses"
@@Focusquick*proceeds to show landfill*
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Exams are the worst but once you pass it's like the greatest relief.
Doesn't happen with me. Gave the last exam but the stress is same, if not more.
Fr
Me here going to give JEE Mains and JEE advanced next to next year
@@anshharnaikar dont you dare waste your time here
Fr
thank god I've never had to take any of these exams
twin
Lol
lol
Do surgeons have to take the USMLE too or is it just for doctors?
Lol fr
When he said median score of 0 at the start, I knew it was the Putnam as he went over it in a short a couple of years ago.
If anyone's wondering, it was a short about "What is the hardest achievement?"
its the imo
Isn't imo international maths olympiad?😅
@@mythiliperumal4092 yes???
@@alexandace9550 In sport, I think one of those is the hour record in cycling. You get on a track and ride for an hour. If you ride farther than anyone ever did before, you win!
Timestamps:
0:30 USMLE
3:51 JEE
8:02 GAOKAO
11:29 ALL SOULS FELLOWSHIP EXAM
14:29 PUTNAM
Nao ter ITA aí é criminoso
@@guilhermetheodoro6022 talvez existam provas piores que o ITA... e isso é assustador
Bro directly read Q5 of Putnam wherealse the Q1 and Q2 and so easy
PE exam
JEE From India , While it is already hard , The competition to get into a prestigous college is soo cut throat
he forgot neet competition where over 2,000,000 people write the exam for 100,000 seats
@@hello-cv1ib
Yeah fr
NEET aspirants have it a lot tougher than us,
But aren't getting any praise
@@hello-cv1ib Im writing neet so i didnt want to jinx myself lmao
@@hello-cv1ibinfact there are more NEET participants this year than JEE. A rare occurrence.
@@aryangarg7702 Rare? No?
Jee-joint entrance exam ❌
Jee-jeevan elimination exam✅
POV: JINKA SELECTION NHI HUA😂
😂😂
@@PourushSharma999 Well 98% won't get select that is harsh truth and in neet 99.2% don't get select 😊
😂
good one brother
my mom is a physician idk how she did it, she’s still working and studying to get more qualifications but it’s crazy the amount of work it takes for this
W mom
What’s her specialty? I’m in college wanting to go to med school
idk rn she’s working from home (she finished med school in 2015) and she does a lot of notes and figures out what medications/procedures patients need
@@zaraaa_m dude ur lucky
Give her a hug
bro went from college advice/ high school prep to talking about real world and hardest exams
trying to mix things up a bit 🤝
@@goharsguide Do the Putnam video ASAP. As a UK undergraduate mathematics student that is crazy about extra-curricular math exams like the Putnam, I would love to see a detailed video on this. Tried a curated selection of Putnam problems - very few I could solve.
ON salivated on My SHirt
@@goharsguideSo 🤮
@@goharsguidekeep it up ! I love your videos 💗💗
The JEE Advanced in other years:😰👺
The JEE Advanced of 2016 & 2020:💀☠☠
bhai 16 ka advanced jo gand phadu aaaya tha
😮 abhi karha sabse hard questions inhi years mein hain
2022 meanwhile
@@theunrandomaryan1756 Yep
Putnam is harder, way harder!!
Haven't watched and I already feel like JEE or Putnam will be up there 💀
Jeee frrr
Good prediction.
Both are up there bro💀
to get a good score on the JEE exam many students (including me) go to various institutes made especially for the JEE and NEET(medical) exam. If u live in India you'd know the big hype for these exams
fr bro
im preparing for JEE mains
@@kio2gamerbig mistake. Don't prepare for Mains. Prepare for advance or you will regret next year. Those who seriously prepared for advance got 99.9+ percentile in Jan attempt but I'm here only with 95 because I prepared for "Mains only".
@@kio2gamermat prepare kr bhai...kuch fayda nhi....jaake dekhle....next year 95 cut off jayega for sure ... advanced keliye...
@@An_ony_mous thx for the advice bhai
@@An_ony_mousYea good advice.
You should also take a look at Instituto técnico de Aeronáutica's and instituto militar de engenharia's tests in Brazil. They require advanced, non-newtonian physics, absurd equivalent resistance calculations and hard calculus questions in a country where you don't even learn calculus in school. Most people take 3-4 years after school studying just to pass them
Everything was fine until I read non Newtonian physics- what the heck is that? I never thought it was a word!
@@maxtr0b0t555basically it's physics where newton's laws are not applicable anymore and you would need basic understanding of elementary relativistic physics concepts to answer that question
@@LucasGabriel-rv9lf thanks but I still didn't understand when u said basic understanding of... sorry I am just a 10th grader 😭
IA FLR ISSO
I graduated from ITA (Aeronautical Technology Institute) and I can say that except for that tiles question from the Putnam exam, all other math questions are pretty average for a ITA and IME exam
Okay so actually about the JEE exams, math is generally the hardest section when compared to physics and chemistry. Recently I attempted JEE mains and only scored 26/100 in math which resulted me in scoring 97 percentile in math (top 3%). This paper becomes so much easier when physics and chemistry are considered too. Just a food for thought
When you say much easier you have to consider the fact that its much easier for us, but it might not be for students from other countries because they never learn half of this stuff so even physics and chemistry would be super hard for them.
then imagine how tough math is gonna be for them @@Rutam7
ayo i got -3 in my jan attempt lol and i got 15 percentile
Bro I just started preparing for jee mains +advanced, you just gave me so much hope rn, gonna get back to studying now
@@SHYINC ayyo bhai which college you get in this rank
Another great video by gohar . Thank you so much you help me survive life
thank you for the support!!
Look at Gohar so inspirational
look at curry man so inspirational
I am preparing for jee and yes its very difficult...and what makes it more complicated is that we have to give it after high school so it's mentally tough to crack the questions
What's tough is not giving exam after high school because that's when most of the exams even in other countries are conducted. The tough thing is its preparation. Other countries' student prepare with school as the lead while that's not the case in India.
@@aalekhjain2682I prepared with school.
Not really bro, my school has integrated coaching. Must have heard of Sri Chaitanya. 😅😅 So, in school itself it's like a coaching centre.
@@An_ony_mous Ha Sri Chaitanya alag hai magar most bache to dummy lete hai na.. 😅
@@An_ony_mous ayyyo me too, which branch?
Mera 26 KO advanced hai😂 ghanta samgh nhi aarha kya karu....
Nothing beats the german law exam (Staatsexamen): You study for 5-6 years law and all your exams are not counting until your final exam where you have 5 hours time to write and you do this 6-8 days in a row. In order to pass the exam people learn around 1-2 years specifically for the exam almost all day long (it's called "repetitorium" from latin "repetitio"). AND after all: 30 percent STILL fail. If you fail you only have a second attempt. And if you fail again, you will be almost 30, have no degree and wasted 7 years of your life.
JEE Aspirant here. The Main second session is going on rn, I just gave mine on 5th. I got 96.25 percentile in the Jan attempt. Watching these kind of videos kinda boosts my confidence, cuz I'm giving one of the toughest exams out there and these videos make me realise that what my percentile actually means. It means that not only I'm better than 96% of the students giving it but also than most other students across the world as well. I don't let it get to my ego tho. The big game (JEE Advanced) is in 47 days and I'm using it all to boost my confidence. I'm telling y'all, it's a lot of work. Best of luck to all the people reading this who are giving there exams.
It is a heckkk of alot of work mate, good work on the 96%! Very envious of students taking the JEE because of how good their problem solving skills become but also feel bad for the fact that competition for college seats are ridiculously toxic in the country. All the best for your advanced exam :)
@@sayedariyan6943 Oh thank you so much!
@@sanaldahatkar9264
"It means that not only I'm better than 96% of the students giving it but also than most other students across the world as well."
That statement is pretty stupid. At 96 percentile you scored anywhere from 150-180 marks I believe? How does scoring 150-180 marks in a PCM exam "make you better" than most other students in the world. There are people who get international olympiad medals, do out of the world extracurricular activities, and also write pretty challenging exams themselves. That statement seemed pretty ignorant, but I am sure you didn't mean to hurt anybody. Good luck
@@Saai_Arav oh don't get me wrong, I'm well aware that there are people who have a calibre million times better than me. By "I'm better" I purely mean on the basis of marks. I'm just saying that in the field of my subjects, getting this percentile, getting more marks than 96% of candidates has to mean smth right. I'm just using that as motivation that's all.
@@Saai_Arav looks like someones jealous... - and oh wait. have you done anything spectacular? thats what i thought. you can hide behind a screen as a stranger trying to say unnecessary comments, but I'm sure you didn't mean to hurt anybody
My cousin is currently preparing for the GaoKao. I wish her the best of luck.
how did it go for her?
how did it go for her?
Question 8 of the IIT Exam is 3520! It's a series question where it classifies as neither arithmetic or geometric. I figured out the simple pattern, but sadly it had no formula. I typed all the first 20 numbers in a calc and added them together. It took long but I got the answer! Definitely take a look! I am so surprised that problem was so long/useless, but extremely easy!
sadly calculators are not allowed in jee/iit
6:17 nah, I'm just getting into the last bit of 7th grade and my math teacher barely teaches us anything 😭 you at this point are my teacher because of how much I watch your videos for help
This isn't basic probability like he makes it seem, it's very advanced binomials to even derive it, if you answer wrong it's -2 for that question even if you ticked 1 correct. Even if you get it wrong when you think you're right it's because the other options make just as much sense and if you make a tiny mistake those values pop out
@@Megusta508nah bc i’m in 7th aswell and i thought i was slow bc i only understood a portion of the problem 😭
As someone who's preparing for the IIT JEE exam, the reason why very few get into IIT is probably due to the huge population of India. Each family expects their child to get into great colleges let alone IIT. Being one of the hardest exams in the world, IIT only wants those who stand out.
just like the ivy leagues, but remove the holistic admissions system and solely focus on academics. tbh its very bad, VERY BAD for the mental health of students. spending 12 hours a day sitting in one place studying with no time to socialize. that's why I am going for biology (not neet) and want to go to Oxbridge or the Ivy Leagues (Not some generic third tier American colleges which are trapping foreign students), just as prestigious, if not more so, than the IITs.
Good Luck to you, my prayers are with you. You will get into IITs, just work hard.
Eh, the population is the reason for the competition not the low selections, that's because IITs have a limited number of seats, nothing more
People not living in America 😢😢😢
97% of all of humans
@@ArpanDe wdym
England is fine thank you.
I'm good in Australia!
@@ItzJupiter
I am coming in your country how would be a life of 150k aud per year in states like Melbourne and Sydney
AMAZING VIDEO, 🎉🎉🎉this was so well made
this being like a month before AP exams is crazy
lmaooo
do a "everything you need to know about the sat" video
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I'm an aspiring doctor and seeing the USMLE being the first on the list of super tough exams shattered my heart. I did not expect it there
Don't worry, you'll do fine...maybe it's just one of those "harder-than-it-looks" things...right?
@@GastyX153 thanks :)))
It is not that hard..u survived it you will too
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aspiring doctor? Assuming you’re a NEET UG aspirant. Worry about MLE later and crack NEET first.
USMLE isn’t that difficult! The process to land a seat there, however is thrice as difficult as the exam.
Not hard if u study, and USMLE is only in USA, other countries has different types of exams which are not that hard.
And then there’s Cambridge exams. They are geared both towards memorisation and critical thinking, however, they put more importance on critical thinking. Depending on the subjects you take, as well as the exam board (yes, there’s multiple exam boards) is the difficulty of the exam. Some have multiple choice, most have structured questions, and a few have a practical or alternative to practical, depending on the subject and the exam centre’s capabilities.
In maths at Cambridge(UK), there are the well-known Tripos courses & exams(cf. Wikipedia); I don’t know about the modern exams, but in the 19th century, the Tripos course exams were done over EIGHT DAYS, with as much as about FORTY-FIVE HOURS TOTAL examination time. The Top students of the Tripos Exam are traditionally called “Wranglers”. Some well-known British mathematicians, physicists & scientists were top Cambridge Wranglers (e.g. W. Cavendish, A. Cayley, Lord Kelvin, J.C. Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, J.J. Thomson, J.H. Jeans, A.S. Eddington, H. Bondi, P. Swinnerton-Dyer, J. Narlikar).
Just to put in to perspective on how hard to get in to Peking University through Gaokao, here are some stats:
Most province use a Gaokao paper which the total score is 750, to get into Peking, one need at least 680, there are six subjects in Gaokao, thus, one must score at least 90% on all test to get in (it is impossible for the majority of Chinese students. Not to mention Gaokao is just like SAT but no calculator is allowed and some questions are extremely hard. The average math score of Gaokao is 66% in 2022 and English average score is 80%
for every like, I'll study 1hour to get into a great college
Gl man 2 hrs aint nothing but pray you dont blow up
@@eightZ01 half a day man
Guys stop it doubles everyday
Im from Hong Kong, we study 3 years for an exam, China have it worser tho
@@Fairfax-pz1jn What does that exam grants you acces to hogwarts?
I’m shocked that the UPSC exam from India is not on the list. It is as difficult as JEE, or even arguably, MORE DIFFICULT than JEE. I know it because I cleared it in my 4th attempt.
dude clubing JEE mains and advanced is a crime , Advanced is a whole another ball game , btw UPSC is arguably one of the harder exams
Bro jee is given by high school students have some respect, if they are capable of cracking those tricky advance problems.... 🙄
@@AliceZ-nw6qs dude i understand that after all i have my advance in like 30 days 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@Boiiiiiiiisss padhle bhai bhala ho jayega main kaisa gaya tera???
@@skillissuehaibhaiiya-rm7cy 98 percentile hopping for better one in april attempt , jan attempt mei mera 27 s1 aya that L laggaye.
@@Boiiiiiiiisss koi ni ho jayega good luck
Thanks, for USMLE in the first , it's extremely hard , and many people dont even consider it
Anyone from India waiting for UPSC and JEE ADVANCED?😂
Mee😂
Jee is there
UPSC isn't hard. Only selection ratio is bad. That's why no UPSC.
@@An_ony_mousbhai upsc ek baar de kar dekh 😂
As an IIT BHU Passout working at an MNC and simultaneously preparing for UPSC, @@An_ony_mous bhai mains is of 1750 marks, there is no competition around UPSC, JEE ADV is just a exam with very difficult questions, but UPSC is more difficult to crack overall, the sheer volume of syllabus, as a person who has experience with both exams UPSC is much more difficult than JEE Adv...
As you can see,I'm a Chinese.To make GAOKAO stranger,it is devided by areas you are in.The hardest part is called XINGAOKAO I JUAN,and actually we can choose the 2courses from PHYSICS and HISTORY. Then you can choose 2 from ZHENGZHI,Chemistry,Biology and Geography.
1 like = 1 hour of studying (i have exams in a few days)
Almost a day of studying
Good luck 👍
Good luck 131 hours of studying
@@yuoeaswryk 132
Good luck 140 hours of studying and probably you have just a few days left
Omg gohar I love your vids
Those who came here for JEE
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Question: It flies upwards and when a voice asks if it is tired it says “no”
Ans:I think the answer is the “SOUL” of a person.
Reason?
Well after a person’s death he/she are often referred to as “RIP” Rest In Peace.
Here since the soul of a person is expected to go to heaven an angel(for eg.) may ask if it is tired and the obvious answer we get is “No”(since the person is in peace).
I don’t know what other’s perspective is but in my view I find this a suitable answer.
Thanks
I am surprised that UPSC isnt up there
exams regarded to be tough is based on the intensity of questions, on the other hand UPSC depends on mental maturity making it take time to understand and apply
putnam was actually fun to participate in. I managed to solve 3 problems (29points). pretty decent score for someone who didn't prepare at all (as a formal olympiad winner)
Can you please make a video about the CA examinations in detail?
The USMLE is literally a beast of an exam. It’s really a humbling experience once you complete all 3.
😂
Where is UPSC and NEET🧐
They are easy
@@Pixeelated U have not seen the world yet lil kid go drink milk 🍼🍼🍼
@@bunnyff2970 it's easy those exams are hella easy compared other exams. Competitiveness doesn't mean it's hard, use ur iq please. Their is a huge population in India and sit for that exam but the demand is low and positions are limited in that case u need to get a high score. You're just a another indian who thinks their exams are in the list of world's hardest exams 😂
@@bunnyff2970 you're language explains a lot 👍
@@Pixeelated 🤨😑
this was real humbling as a guy who struggled on the AP Calc AB exam
you are really good at explaining the questions.i hope i have a teacher like u
16:32 Correct me if I'm wrong but this question is too easy.
The MacLaurin/Taylor Series for e^x is
1 + x + x²/2! + x³/3! +.....
None of the coefficients of x are zero. Therefore bk is always greater than zero unless you put x=0, which I don't think works since, in that case, b0 = 1 which is non-zero.
6:18
Ways to get it are:
A: 4 success 1 fail(5 possible ways)
B: 5 success
A: (1/3^2)^4*(8/3^2)*5
B: (1/3^2)^5
Add A and B to get 41/3^10 = 123/3^11
nah f this
there is also 'suneung' in south korea, and its really similar to the gaokao, where korean students have one chance a year that would determine what university they would get into. the exam tests on all kinds of subjects, where students would have to get almost a perfect score to get in the top three universities (SNU, yonsei, and korea univ.) this test is what determines their future (income, job, etc.) so its a really challenging exam
I hate entrance exams man. I'm from Pakistan, and some of them are pretty chill, but others are so fucking hard that it genuinely gets me tweaking.
Yeah, the med exam is crazy hard, but im glad it is because it makes a kind of insurance. People who pass it have to be the best of the best, so we can be certain that we're in good hands. Mad respect
5:05 correction here
2.5 % gets qualified but iits have 15 k seats which is 1% of 1.5 M students
JEE ADVANCE - 🗿🗿
Questions like these are definatley humbling i applaude every single person who does well on these exams
HI! Love your vids
bro the one word essays are just like how we used to write essays about(cow,tree,water,oxygen)in our child hood .I think Indians could relate ,we Indians used to get this type of essays in our 2nd language paper (for people who do not know 2nd language is our mother tongue....btw nice video
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1STTT your videos has helped me so much!
Same!! Still in HS and his vids are helping!!!
You should look at Brazil's IME (Military Institute of Engineering)/ITA (Aeronautics' Institute of Technology).
So , starting off , the exam gives you 4 hours to complete 80 MCQ's + essays (split in two days). The topics are: mathematics , physics , chemistry , Portuguese language (and literature) and English language. Some of the topics are
Math - calculus (single/multivarible) , linear algebra , number theory and advanced trigonometry/complex numbers.
Relativistic/quantum/fluid mechanics , nuclear physics , photonics , electromagnetism , and modern thermo/electrodynamics.
Chemical thermo/electro/photodynamics , kinetic theory , modern chemistry and (in)org (bio/geo/biogeo)chemistry.
That's just the first phase , by the way. We also have 3 consecutive days for those who were approved. Out of the 10k participants each , no more than 300 go to the second phase , which has open questions that have even more elaboration. If I forgot to mention , all of these questions are in Olympic level and you can't take this test with more than 21 years of age.
Just so you have an idea of what the questions look like , I'm going to show a chemistry question (chemistry is the easiest subject in the exam):
Consider the alkyl halide below , which reacts according to the Sₙ1 and Sₙ2 mechanisms:
2-chloro-3,3-dimethlypentane (Sₙ1, H₂O)→ intermediate 1 + Cl⁻ (step A)→ intermediate 2 (H₂O)→ product B ⇋product C + H₃O⁺
Draw the planar structural formulas of Intermediates 1 and 2, and Products B and C. Name Products C and D (IUPAC nomenclature) and the reaction that occurs in Step A.
That's literally the easiest question in the whole exam (aside from languages/essay) and you have no more than 20 minutes to do it , or you'll not have time for the other questions. Other questions have demonstration commands , so you have to prove a property or prove that an equation is valid. That's mostly for mathematics and physics , but chemistry also has a lot of profound proof-based question.
By the way , did I mention that Brazil has some of the lowest math/physics scores in standardized education tests? I mean , our students get out of highschool without knowing basic mathematics , like fractions and stuff. Yet , we have an exam way above JEE-Advanced and Gāokǎo.
I’d argue that the Gaokao is only so difficult because 90% of students do all of the studying but choke out of sheer fucking pressure.
@@Lianhua253 not really. The exam truly is difficult , but it's way more competitive , because of China's total population.
As a guy who just entered 11th grade and started jee preparation, yeah its tough
Thank you very much for the video! It is really interesting! I suggest checking out the public examination in Spain to become a notary public or a state's attorney. It takes 3.5 years to 'learn' the whole specific syllabus (check out the concept of learning for these examinations because it is where the real challenge is for these exams i), and 6 or 7 years of study (almost 365 days/year, only 1 week vacation) to have less than 15% of chances to pass them. Those public examinations are called 'oposiciones'. The Spanish verb 'opositar' means to prepare for and take those public examinations.
All the exams you have mentioned have something in common: They 'can' be solved by using a wide range of cognitive skills (memory, logic, creativity, etc...).
The examinations I mention require only 1 of those skills: memory. The rest of the required skills to pass them are psychological.
You don't have to be a brilliant student to pass them, the real struggle is more psychological than anything else.
I'll leave it here in case you are interested to dig more about these examinations.
Bro casually NEGLECTED CHARTERED ACCOUNTANCY EXAM
make a video about the hardest grammar schools to get into
Bro you forgot upsc civil services examination of India
It is for civil services different from science field
Talking about Technical exam not memorising exam
Here's a question from my sister's 7th grade Knowledge Mock Test. This test is taken by the council members, junior prefects' from class V, sports captains, subject heads, et cetera et cetera. There are 80 questions in it. It was mainly a kind of a collection of riddles. So here's the question you've been waiting for.
64. The force of energy cannot be stopped if it is pushed or stopped to create small amout to no movement at all. It take Downfall to a large number for guest collisions and stopped the energy. When does the Downfall occour after?
omg i really needed this ty
just to clarify, to get into Peking Uni(at least in Guangdong),you ususally need to be in the top 100 among350000 students for a good major, 500 if you don't care about the majors.
Thanks, Gohar!
8:15 love how this basically translates to “high test”
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) stands as the pinnacle of academic rigour, renowned worldwide for its uncompromising challenge, testing the mettle of students under 18 with unparalleled complexity.
Did you have ChatGPT right this ?
IMO is an olympiad, not an examination, you don't take an IMO to get into college/university.
@@jackdan1811 tbf, you don’t take the Putnam to get into anywhere either
FIGHT FIGHT, I need entertainment to relax my mind
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Yeah lol
Overall, Step 3 is the most difficult exam because one must have successfully completed medical school and started residency training in order to even take it. That's the most arduous (and expensive) prerequisite for any exam in the world.
Meanwhile JEE Advanced:look what it took them to mimic a fraction of our power
Putnam makes JEE advanced look like a joke
@@placeholderfornow4766Putnam's given by UGs in the likes of MIT,Caltech,Stanford and Harvard(top institutes in the world) while JEE advd is for high school engineering aspirants.Huge difference💀.Plus those guys are research oriented and have probably already won Olympiads.(Some of them have gone on to become nobel prize winners 💀.) Richard Feynman is a notable Putnam scholar for instance.
@@placeholderfornow4766Plus if you fail to clear the Putnam not much is at stake.If you fail to clear the JEE on the other hand, you'll waste a year of your life .Only scholarships are at stake wrt the Putnam as far as I know.
@@placeholderfornow4766Jee advanced is given by high school students and Putnam is given by University students though I agree that Putnam is much harder.
@@adityasingh3963 Yeah that's the point, you can't really compare the two because of that, plus Putnam is more competition-styled too
What I feel is that the toughness of an exam is decided by the selection percentage. For example, Gaokao is considered the toughest exam because its the only exam Chinese students have to give to get into college, though the questions are pretty easy to moderate. About JEE, though other exams are available and infact GATE and SAT also have opened lines for fields but still, JEE tops in terms of numbers. Other exams are tough because of paper. I personally feel, US students have a variety of options so they divide themselves in all the exams rather than going after a particular one.
."Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I passed the world's hardest exam with full marks. Can you believe it?
I'm currently preparing for JEE, and though it (Adv.) is already a tough examination, it checks how strong your basics are; formulas just don't cut it, you need critical thinking (Like there's this question we did this week, about parabola. It was just two lines long, but it's solution filled the whole whiteboard (it's a pretty big one btw), and you could not apprach it if you fail to apply the very definition of a parabola: locus of a point equidistant from a line and another point). What makes it truly challenging is the sheer number of candidates appearing for it (around 1,230,000 in '24)
It's also biased towards Math. My senior (who didn't qualify in Advance but got 327 in BITS due to his experience here) got less than 90%ile in Physics with around 73%age, but got 94%ile in Math with 'just' 36%age.
The Putnam seemed like it would be fun since I enjoy math a lot and I’m really good at it, but I’m only about to go to 9th grade, so it’ll have to wait.
You are the best, you hell me stay very motivated as a middle school architect❤
13:26 Guess what ISC board examination compulsory for grade 12th students enrolled in the schools affiliated to the board face this "one word essay".
The only relaxation we have is a choice among 5 essay topics.
I really love your videos, even though I'm not in anyway a science student but I enjoy the way you are explaining things, its so inspirational to watch.
This scared me, coz I want to be a doctor,😢 now I am rethinking 😅 1:05
If you're dream doesn't make you scared, then you're dreams are not big enough. You can do it
For JEE the drawback is maths questions are lengthy af, even toppers score only around 50 in math and 90+ in physics and chem
Gohar the goat
Our med. school tested us at least once a week. When we took the USMLE we were told that ours was the second highest scoring class in the country. They were disappointed because the class before ours was the highest and I think the one before them was, too, but not sure. One of my lab partners had the highest individual score for parts 1 and 2.
I did nothing to prepare for the MCAT because, after all, how can one? Your entire educational career is you prep. I aced it. In those days the scores were not disclosed to the applicants which placed us at a disadvantage. But one interviewer let slip that I had a perfect score. Bottom line: None of these tests are really that hard at all. I had exams in college that were much harder than the MCAT. So, if you are considering taking any of these tests, don't worry. As long as you were a competent student, relax, you will do well.
yes bro, just preparing for the JEE Exam 🙂
we had this in a recent international competition. It's an international competition held by french high schools all over the world. The top students in philosophy get to do the competition where one must write an essay in 6 hours where the subject is just a word. This year's subject was "jouer un rôle" meaning play a role and i was fun to get to write about it !
I love the pattern of jee advanced questions
Yup. Especially Paragraph and Matrix matching. That's fun to solve it. You get answers to all the questions under the paragraph by solving only once.
😂😂😂 bro try it first,, this is jee not 9 th grader exam,, especially in advance Matrix problem you have to solve all the option,
I've taken the Putnam a few times, and one year with a significant amount of luck I ended up getting top 200 :)
how long did you study for the exam before taking it? did you have competition math experience elsewhere?
@@Yopiwastaken I had comp math experience in grade school and was enrolled in a course intended to prepare students for the Putnam. Like all math competitions though it's not really something you study for.
Look at Maths-D of X-ENS 66 (a French exam to access the second best engineering school in France)
Note : you’re passing this exam just 2 years after passing the SAT (well the French equivalent)
no one talks about GCE A/L exam in sri lanka
Yes! You are AMAZING!!!!!! Thank you! 🙏
My mom , dad, uncle, aunt,2nd uncle, 2nd aunt,3rd uncle ,3rd aunt ,4th uncle are all doctors
Suffering from success??
These sound like a lot of fun ngl, especially the Putnam
1 like = 1 hour of study
Study boy
Get to work
@@Ballin_Cat4 aight' 👍🏻
get it done
118 hours of studying
Thanks for showing the gaokao :D! Things have changed a little now (at least in some provinces) and you're asked to take a pass/fail exam on 10 subjects (Chinese, Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Political Science, History, Geography, IT, fail one = cannot graduate) along with a Chinese+Maths+English/Japanse (out of 150)+three other subjects you choose out of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography and History (out of 60, however three lines are marked and candidates between lines get the same score).
We call the first one a "Hegekao", and the last one "Dengjikao"
Oh and, although the total score of dengjikao is 60, students get their final marks out of 100
@@theopenkingdommaybe ours are a bit different from yours
@@theopenkingdomim shandong testtaker.each subject of our dengjikao exam applies a method that calculating score based on rank and proportion.that means,if you got 80 out of 100 in the physics exam,but you ranked 1st,then your calculated physics score is 100.if your physics score is about 70 but you are among top 3% testtakers in physics,then your calculated score wont be lower than 90.(im not sure if that propotion right but few can get 90+ calculated scores in every subject of dengjikao in shandong)however,some provinces like hunan and jiangsu dont apply this method in history and physics dengjikao.
I’m done.
Best comment. 😂
5:29 is the timestamp of the zoomed in exam paper. Take a look. The problems are so involved and are probably just long. They don't look impossibly hard for someone who studies calc for years. The time pressure and overall anxiety is probably what causes its insane difficulty and low pass rate!
It was jee main bro 😂
Jee main is easy as shit compared to advanced
I have 2 parents who passed these I am now scared of them
ppl who are preparing for jee💀
Me 💀
Me 💀
@@mission6months why did you say me 2 times XD
You should consider taking an exam at the Cambridge section of the school in Gomti Nagar Extension, Lucknow. The papers, especially the checkpoint ones, are quite challenging. In India, we have having very difficult papers for students in grade 8, along with strict time limits. Thank you for the video, it was very helpful.
May I ask what is the song used from 00:27? It sounds sick and I've heard it somewhere else, but I don't know how to start the search for it
Idk if you would know, but it almost sounds like Soulless 5 by ExileLord. At least the progression is the same. Probably not what youre looking for but its something.
@@bigbrain2730 I do know it! I had the same association at first, as I played Clone Hero for some time and this is my most played song. The first bar is exactly the same, but the second one differs with two notes: instead of G Eb D C it goes G E D# C.
the Putnam is one of the most fun to take--am on a 3 year scoring streak (starting with the 82nd Putnam) with 10, 4, 9, respectively. imo the 84th (last year's) was the hardest of the ones I've taken