A Day As A Professional: Recent Episodes
Skyla Ma
"A Day As A Professional" is a career path-related podcast for high schoolers. Our mission with is to help high schoolers better understand what specific careers entail and give them a better idea if the certain career may be one they want to pursue.
This episode focuses on how it would be like to work as a chartered accountant. The guest for this episode will be a senior manager who focuses on chartered accounting as their career.
Welcome to our first special episode! In this episode, we will be talking about what the AMCs are, some tips to do well, and benefits the AMCs give you. Our guest for this episode will be Sohum, who is an AIME qualifier and has several years of experience with the AMCs. Good luck and tune back in for our next episode next month!
Special Note: There may be controversial topics in this episode. This only reflects our opinions and feelings about them after taking the AMC. You are welcome to disagree.
Speaker Notes:
More about the AMCs: https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/AMC_10
AoPS Mock Test Community (will only work if you have an account and are signed in): https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c594864_aops_mock_contests
More Tips:
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The AMC 10A is typically similar to difficulty and types of problems in the AMC 10B, so you can prepare for the AMC 10B after taking the AMC 10A.
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In the recent years, the AMC series have gotten much harder, so you typically only need 16-19 questions right to qualify (depending on the difficulty and how many questions you leave blank).
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If you eliminate the possible answer choices down to 3, you could try guessing, although it is not recommended!
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Make sure you really know the material. If you need time to think about how to solve the problem and need to test multiple methods, you will most likely run out of time.
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When practicing with mock tests, give yourself some room to make mistakes!
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Keep calm and good luck!
This episode focuses on how it would be like to work as a data scientist. The guest for this episode will be Colleen Farrelly, who works as a data scientist, author, and more.
Speaker Notes:
About Kaggle Competitions: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions
Link to Introduction to AI article: https://blog.skylama.me/ai-reflection/
This episode focuses on how it would be like to work as a general surgeon. The guest for this episode will be Dr. Mahendra Sharma.
This episode focuses on how it would be like to work as a professional designer, especially in a tech company. The guest for our first episode will be Lawrence Wilfred, a designer at Harness, Inc.