I became pupil a few days back and now I am deathly afraid of falling down back to Newbie but at the same time I really want to give contest because i like it. How do i combat this?

I have been struggling at around problems of 1200-1300 difficulty for a month, and ever when do i get the intuition to approach the Problems it just seems like it is a fluke and not a solid logical approach. A standard approach for proofs of such to solidify my approach would be nice.