Hello,

So I recently wrote Waterloo's Euclid math contest. I fully understood about half of the questions, partially understood a few others, but got my butt kicked on others that I could not comprehend one bit. I'm scared to go into engineering or actuarial science due to my inability to comprehrend such complicated math problems. Will I do bad/fail in engineering or actuarial science (or any math related career for the matter) if I did not do "well" on Euclid? Thanks!

Don't worry about it one bit.

I remember doing those back in high school, with roughly the same sort of result, and I got through engineering math just fine.

You will be fine for math at university. The professors will teach you everything you need to know and although it might be fast-paced as long as you actually study and work through assigned problems sets you should have anything too crazy thrown at you

You'll be good brah. If anything, you'll be better than good just by doing the contest. I remember doing one of them back in grade 12 as well, and I did okay at best (in other words, pretty bad). Those questions are pretty hard and generally require creativity and "thinking outside the box". So with even getting half of the questions correct, you should be happy.

The math questions you'll see here (if you go into engineering or actuarial science) will not be much harder than what you saw on the contest (not in terms of material, but in terms of the general problem solving and creativity needed). I'm graduating from Mathematics & Statistics, so I've taken enough proof-based courses, and I can say that contest was just as hard if not harder for me than some of the stuff I've done here, from what I can recall.