I love this community, I was in the old Rishab Academy Discord but I never participated or even looked at much of the conversations (except when I was pinged in #news). This is likely because of the abundance of people and the way the conversations are occurring (spontaneous with hard to distinguish valuable info with trolls). However, this community is much more engaging by establishing a reddit like format of threads, when you click on a post, you know what you want to read about and all the discussion in the comments are very informative. As other people have mentioned, the addition of more categories to posts is a nice addition. My recommendation is to add some categories that highlight the academic level the advice is for (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, college). The category for courses has the description for your courses (SAT prep, ACT Prep, Cold email, etc.) but I think more people would be interested in talking about specific courses. For example, I could make a post regarding specifically Calculus AB and share my tips to get a 5. In growing this community, I am unsure if it is good to have specific incentives to encourage people to join this community. Of course, the benefits are that you will engage in discussion with highly academic students interested in STEM and learn a lot. However, things such as the $1000 prize for reaching level 7 seem counterintuitive to the purpose of the community. If a person joins simply for incentives and not because they care about STEM/Research/Academics/etc, then it lowers the value of the community as a whole because there will be a group of truly motivated students and those who are just here for the incentives. I think sharing the community with friends who are similarly interested in Research is a good idea. I like the setup the way it is right now. Thank you for your patience in reading this post and I hope it was helpful!

SAT is not that difficult of an exam when it comes to knowledge. The Reading is something that you just have to learn inherently through your English classes and practicing.The math section only tests up to algebra 2. Preparing for the SAT in middle school seems suboptimal as you could use that time learning about your passion and just doing more productive things. I would say the right time to start preparing for it is in the summer of junior year (after you finish sophomore year). Start lightly, and then when you have a set date for the exam , e.g. you know you're going to be testing on March 23, increase your preparation time to about 1-2 hours every other day 2 weeks before the exam. The best resources to practice are the BlueBook Practice Tests, and the educator question bank. I made the mistake of not making an error log and going into depth about understanding my mistakes. I suggest you do this for the best preparation. I hope this helped!

I think the CS50 Course from Harvard is a good introduction to Computer Science. However, if you are already familiar with most of the basics, I do not think it will of great value. Rather, I think it's better to develop projects if you already have some introductory knowledge on programming. Project-based learning is the best way to learn CS in my opinion. Overall, It depends on your stage in CS. If you are a complete beginner or are very new to CS with little info, I think it will be of value.

Hello, I am a rising senior in Florida. I am interested in AI/ML and Mathematics/Physics. I am particularly interested in using computers to improve our understanding of the world and improve our lives overall. I aim to combine my knowledge from AI/ML with Mathematics/Physics to achieve genuine impact in the world.