"Competitive exams have a knack for beating the passion out of people by cranking up the intensity and making the pursuit of knowledge about winning rather than about understanding." - Truer words were never spoken!

So true! Exams absolutely dissipated the passion i had with science, out of me. Especially obscure formulas and statistics. Fortunately I followed my second passion, art, and got into design, film and conservator/restoration

That's the problem with competition, it's a double edge sword, on one hand it creates a greater motivation to be the winner but on the other hand takes the joy from the others and causes many to quit out of disparity, and as we all know more heads are better than one making the final answer easier to find. Maybe if we were ants all the answers would be available to us already.

Having gone into and completed an Astronomy, Space sciences, and Astrophysics degree, I WISH this was the sort of exam we were prepared for in the UK, and not been just an afterthought of a Physics/Mathematics program. I would have loved learning working towards this. An interesting exam paper for sure.

My grandson who is excellent with math complained about doing a recent homework paper. I’m a nurse not an astrophysicist but I love watching your videos. I told my grandson that math is a door that opens a wonderful world. Then I listed all the things he enjoys and told him when he gets older by learning math all the doors will be open. His mom said he hasn’t complained about homework since ❤

Tibees, just wanted to say I love your calming voice. It truly allows your content to be much easier to absorb, comprehend and retain.

Although the subjects discussed are from an area I have no knowledge of, I enjoy watching these videos because I learn a little more. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I love watching your videos.

“The pursuit of knowledge (is) about winning rather than about joy or knowledge” is one of the most profound statements I have ever experienced. As a docent at DMNS it gives me a unique perspective with which to approach our visitors so they don’t lose sight of my goal as their connection to science learning. Thank you for your most beloved KZfaq channel.

Thank you for helping people with physics and understanding it. Your work is really appreciated and I must say that you understand physics very well.Thank you for helping people with physics and understanding it. Your work is really appreciated and I must say that you understand physics very well.

This is quite interesting. Thank you for shining a light (no pun intended) on a fascinating test, and also noting potential pitfalls.

Tibees, with your focus on discussing various exams, have you ever looked into how well success on a test correlates with success in the profession?

I love going out at night and identifying the constellations that point to other celestial objects, which makes it so much easier to find what you are looking for. The little butterflies are pretty on your nails. Thanks for the interesting subjects.

Always nice to see your passion for academic test

The questions look conceptual and application of basic concepts instead of cranking up formulae. Really interesting - tried a few questions, and it reminded me of my love for physics and astronomy. The best thing is most of the details are given in the question. All you really need to do is think.

Astrophysicists.......Excellent.... Star gazing a fantastic hobby for us non math majors ...first time viewer going to check your other videos

Thank you Tibees, for reminding me the love I have for astronomy

I was there when the question was proposed in IOAA 2019 as Team leader. You failed to mention the most interesting problem from this year. The South-Est-North problem.

I could listen to this all the time.💐💝

Love this video! Thank you.

6:23 I still remember when I was in class 6th in 2017, our school took some students including me to Sariska, Rajasthan, in November when it's extremely cold in such a place. We stayed up until late night 2am learning how to use a telescope and learning night sky observation. I didn't take note of how cold it is until I looked at my phone back in my hotel room. Similar experience when we went there again for 3 days in 2018. It was a magical experience looking at the night sky filled with stars like that

Thank you for your valuable content.

Another prerequisite is probably living far enough from a major city to have skies dark enough to even ATTEMPT amateur astronomy as a hobby.

okay the contrast between the voice (induces lower level of brain activity) and content (demands higher) is weird, not in a bad way.

I participated in IOAA2023 (winning silver medal, from Thailand), and I’d like to say that while competitive exams are actually intense and difficult, the participants are very passionate about their discussion in astronomy and astrophysics. IOAA has excelled in their purpose to increase collaboration between countries, and for the participants to have fun. Most of us didn’t find the exam to be ‘difficult’, but ‘interesting’. For example, IOAA2023 Theory #6 caught us off guard as a geometry problem in disguise. All in all, I think competitive exams are simply a test whether one has true passion or not. People who actually have passion (like those who made it to an IOAA medalist) will excel whether it’s in competitive exams or a scientific career.

Another inspiring vídeo. Congrats Tibee. What are the figures in your nails? They seem to be snow flakes but could be little stars too.

That sounds like a fun exam to study for. I wonder if I could spare the time to learn enough to do well in it?

And how did you go with viewing the Ring Nebula in Lyra? I have an old 8" Celestron (Schmidt Cassegrain) and it has just enough light collecting power to resolve it. But it's an "averted vision" object - you can't look directly at it, you have to look off to one side and keep shifting your view every 10-15 seconds as the indigo purple is exhausted in your eye's rod cells (which means you cannot see it in colour with an 8" SCT).

Hello, Tibees!

I understand this comment section is inherently going to be more intellectual than in most YT channels. But 23 comments already and no mention of the exquisite details on her nails, which are obviously on display here, was down right disrespectful. Alright.. this is fixed now. Let's go back to the physics.

I’ve been sick all week and have been binging your videos (again) so I actually said “New Tibees! :D” out loud when I saw this video posted LOL

Totally agree, Ruining fun for astrophysics and astronomy lovers for the seck of winning is really boring and makes STEM more aviodable, In other hand we need smart STEMs to solve hard problems.

That's a lot of rote memorization of things you can easily Google, or things that don't seem to be relevant in real work (the history/date memorization question, for example). Or one of the practical questions asks for the UTC time of the observation, but the proctor will only provide CEST, so the student needs to remember CEST is UTC+2 - was this necessary or was it done just to make the exam more stressful?

For spooky season, The Shadow Out of Time, Lovecraft. If Aussies don't celebrate Halloween (I know I'm early too), then The Dream of the Ridiculous Man by Doestoyeveski is a nice light read. My best explanation for how those kids could know so much. Ch 6. Myshkin vibes. But idk, I'm just Kafka at the Castle.

You should look at romanian's medical school entry exam, would be very interesting. There s two type of exams: Anatomy + Chemistry Anatomy + Physics

This girl is literally inspiring me to be a physicist 😢❤ i want to be a theoretical physicist oneday 😔💜

how about making a video on the history of math . How people started counting and other things and how those evolved

Could you make a video about the books written by John Horton Conway? Why is his tone always so special ?

Completely agree about tests taking away passion. I’ve always loved Physics, but college exams ruined my passion for it. You’re forced to study things that normally wouldn’t interest you in the pursuit of “general knowledge”. But being able to obsessively learn what you want can send you down some very interesting rabbit holes and give you new insights that others may not have. It strips you of individuality, and you just end up knowing what everyone else already knows

Can you make a full course video Playlist on calculus

Can you do a series on category theory?

I love you tibees

Great video.

THANK YOU

Thanks alot ❤

Thank you

Wow, Thanks, awesome ❤

Is elevation angle the same as Altitude?

I wonder if the exam offers any exposure to the issues raised by Tom Van Flandern, PhD in astronomy, specializing in Celestial Mechanics. He found in his work/research in orbital dynamics the problems with current gravity calculation rules that are ignored by the establishment. Not likely, but that would be the time to expose young minds to the questions that physics still cannot answer.

Thank you.

your voice's so soothing

Alright A train leaves crewe at 7.15 am bound for Ipswich. It travels at an average speed of 14mph. Stopping 11 times along the way for an average of 6 minutes.

Awesome!! :)

Just watched you International Physics Olympiad video... Siobhan would've aced this back in school

I'd like to see more topics on our "Solar System" and "nearby" space, perhaps our region of the galaxy. I have to wonder if there are more jobs, or will be, for instance (over upcoming decades) regarding NASA and private enterprise activities in our own corner of space, rather than dealing with the fascinating aspects of FURTHER-distant space? Yet I've been more than once surprised at my own past and ongoing ignorance of our own solar system. And yet there can be plenty fascinating, I assume, about the solar system and Milky Way, too. Even simplistic questions could be of interest. For instance, are the planet's orbits around the Sun basically or approximately in the same plane? And if so, why? Are the planets orbits all rotating the Sun in the same general direction, or sort of some "clockwise", and others "counterclockwise". And IF the same basic direction, why? How about the moons of the various planets? Do they orbit in similar "Planes" or this way and that? Do they tend to orbit in similar "directions" for a given planet? How do moon orbits compare from planet to planet? How about Saturn's rings? Are they aligned somehow with Saturn's plane of orbit? Tilted relative to Saturn's orbit? Seemingly, Earth rotates basically daily, but on a bit of a tilt and slow wobble, rather than strictly perpendicular to the Sun. How about the other planets? Are they similar in that respect, or might some rotate in significantly different/tilt orientations, perhaps with "poles" more horizontal or perpendicular/vertical relating to their orbits? Seemingly, Earth's Moon has a "dark side" which generally faces away from us, so that the Moon is rotating relative to the Sun, as it circles Earth, our moon's known side facing us? So, relative to Earth, it almost seems as though the Moon is NOT "rotating" as to our views of it? How about the moons of Mars , Jupiter, Saturn, etc? Do some or many of them have rotation in respect to their associated planet? Are any similar to our moon in that "dark side" respect? If a planet has multiple moons, do they rotate or not, similarly to each other, for a given planet? Or might some rotate one way, others other ways? An do they orbit their planet similarly, or in varied ways? I think knowing more about our own "Solar System" may be "relevant" and inspiring towards our more likely explorations and maybe business and jobs of the "forseeable" future.

you should see the tests I have to deal with.

The very first question being a history question rather than a being an astronomy question irks me. I dont need to know anything about darwins past to have sound knowledge of evolution, and to prove that point to the doubters, i bet half of you have never heard about alfred russel wallace, the guy who was a co authored with darwin on thier first published paper about evolution.

What is the age limit for this exam .

what is the age limit for this exam

Lol.... The electron traveling as a wave is so simple to understand it's.....

I'm so early that we're still in premodial soup

My only achievement in this exam is that I have seen a person who won a medal in it up close(not in a crowd)😂

😍Perfección!

Tibee i want to ask that some thing in physics cant be mathematically proved and some thing like + and- charges attracts cant even . Why so??

thanks alot , i would prefer that you decide to explain science rather papers history and some stuff made me feel like all people are same , we do need to reach your mind not your exams analysis please Tibees , do you here me???

Hi, are you an emissary from the 5th dimension sent to educate and diplomacize with us?

For theft is hand chopped for 2ed dimension theft is head chopped. But for you (because you so lovely) is no chocolates for 1 week!

Me: I like your funny words magic man

the question of what shadow would be longer is wrong ,a summer shadow would last longer

She has her name on her pencil

dédicace a ceux qui sont là grâce à Antoine Dianel, je vous souhaite une bonne nuit

Love your nails! 😊

It's you

Very interesting ! Thanks.

Hows our 2d friend? Is it still on the island? Lol

It’s a good thing for me I went to medical school.

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If (x-4)^y/(x+y)^4=3 and (x)^y=73.212121 Then find the maximum value of y-x Please solve this

I like your finger nails. Interesting choice for your filming.

Astrophysics, an EXAM for HIGH-SCHOOL students!!!!! WHAT THE ACTUAL F- -by a masters student facing difficulty in solving gyroscopic problems

I got an F just watching the test!!

Light pollution is a problem for me. Time is not my friend.

In Bible when Yeshua - Jesus Was born was it Jupiter - or a Big comet that the Wise guy's from the middle East followed ... It was Big , Bright & moved to Jerusalem .....

w e e d e a t e r

I thought it was find the elden ring for a sec. 😂😅

Indian ❤

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I feel like this isn't for people "interested in astronomy." It's more for people who like to torture themselves with math.

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Toby, why bother studying physics when there are precisely zero jobs in this field in my state?

How much cosmology influence astrophysicist? Is there still free minds around academies 🤔

First i guess😂

Why are we here in this life? Why do we die? What will happen to us after death?

I've read 80,000, and it's very poorly written.

Anyway we could save ourselves and go to the Stars if we live like the Amish and stop giving money to Big Business and started giving it to charity instead

get pregnant

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