Aime

Test Preparation
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<p>The funny thing is I was staring into space half the time and I only figured out the answer to number one 5 minutes before time was up. I'm a freshman in precal, so I hope I can improve my score by next year.</p>

<p>Anyone else have a similar experience?</p>

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Anyone else have a similar experience?

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<p>Yeah - by the end I figured I solved everything I would and was sitting there. I had about 10 min left and I gave no. 13 a last desperate try... worked out =p.</p>

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<p>The classroom I was in had some interesting people... I couldn't help but listen in on their stories.</p>

<p>I got a 3 :/</p>

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<p>I ended up with a 2... was the only person at my school to take it, so i didn't hear any stories.</p>

<p>Is there a solution manual anywhere?</p>

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<p>hey hey</p>

<p>Yea....2...</p>

<p>Im really ticked....some of the early questions could have been solved easily....</p>

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<p>YOur teacher should get the dolution manual with the scores.</p>

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<p>Hey I'm proud of my 2. My goal was to qualify and get at least a 1. And by my calculations, a two is twice as good as a one!</p>

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<p>I'm proud of my 2 too.</p>

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<p>I also got a 2. I answered numbers 1 and 3 in the first 10 minutes. Then i sat there trying to answer the others in the time provided. That test was so hard.</p>

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<p>At your schools is there any preperation for this stuff, or is it all individual?</p>

<p>I kind of thought aime was gonna just be a stepped up version of AMC, but it was much more difficult... I guess the purpose is to test to see if the student can inately solve such difficult problems?</p>

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I guess the purpose is to test to see if the student can inately solve such difficult problems?

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<p>It's an intermediate step between the AMC problems and the pretty insane olympiad problems on the USAMO and IMO exams. You can certainly practice - that's the only real way to do good on this kind of test.</p>

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<p>thats so lame that they only post answers and not the questions. i answered all of them but couldnt remember any of my answers. i wrote them all down on a sheet of scrap paper... if only i could find it now!!</p>

<p>and by the way guys, why didn't you answer all the questions? it doesnt hurt your score to guess and you do have a chance of getting one right!</p>

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<p>Yeah, but your chances of getting one write is 1/1000 if you guess. Anyway, I just put a random answer for the ones I didn't know.</p>

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<p>Got 4 -- same as last year.</p>

<p>Did #1, 3, 5, 9. I didn't understand 2, so I couldn't do it...4 was not bad either, except I made a logic error. #8 is strange...</p>

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<p>oasis: what a coincidence! I answered #1, 3, 5, and 9 correctly as well: a total of 4</p>

<p>I too didn't quite understand #2 though I did guess and was off by one.
For #6 I neglected that a, b, c are 'distinct' digits.</p>

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<p>lol i got a 0.</p>

<p>i'm cool.</p>

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<p>what do you think the national average this year will be?</p>

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<p>sljaeger...
too cool for school :D</p>

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<p>dang tetrahedron...please instruct me in your geniously ways...</p>

<p>Kindly be my sensei for the AIME</p>

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<p>I got a 6. :( o well, i'm only a freshman.</p>