<p>yeah, but I thought that this year's AIME was about as hard as the 2004 AIME, where the cutoff was a 220 or so. Plus, they are expanding the number of qualifiers from 250 to 375</p>
<p>I thought the AIME this year was much easier than last's...</p>
<p>But the increasing qualifiers thing will definitely lower the index.</p>
<p>The AOPS people mostly seem convinced that the index will be very low this year. (or at least compared to last year's.) I personally disagree - I see it being a lot like last years.</p>
<p>lol tetrahedr0n I remember you barely missed the cutoff last year. What'd you get this year?</p>
<p>I got 233.5, so I think I'm going to miss it again by a couple points. But it's not as important this year though...</p>
<p>That was the cutoff last year, right? And people said the cutoff was insanely high, so I doubt that will happen again. What state are you from?</p>
<p>you're crazy. theres no way a 233.5 wont make USAMO. I've got a 226 and I'm pretty confident that I will make it.</p>
<p>It isn't that farfetched... last year I claimed there was no way the index would hit 230 and it did. Expansion or no expansion, I think this year's AIME was easier.</p>
<p>I'm from MI, and we have higher scores than mine, so I can't make it by the highest qual method.</p>
<p>what's the cutoff for MOSP?</p>
<p>I'm thinking the cutoff will be around 210-220. To me, it wasn't as easy as last year's, and there's also the expansion.</p>
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<p>That's hard to say...</p>
<p>"Red" mop (freshman MOP) had a cutoff of 1 2 years ago and of 7 last year. It depends how hard the USAMO is, but expect it to be between 1 and 7.</p>
<p>"Blue" mop - the real mop group for everybody is usually much harder - like 17,18-28,29 depending on your grade (they have a bias towards younger kids, and to make it as a senior. you have to be in the top 12 on the USAMO.)</p>
<p>the USAMO cut-off will be a little lower this year (probably a point) because AMC got funding from Art of Problem Solving to increase the # of USAMO qualifiers from ~250 to ~350.</p>
<p>^i never knew that.<br>
Cool!</p>
<p>I'm ****ed because my teacher knew I qualified but didn't do anything about it; she was too busy apparently.</p>
<p>^ I remember when I was in 7th grade and qualified for AIME, but we got a snow day on the day of the AIME A contest. My teacher said "too bad"...</p>
<p>haha, that's like my school this year...we received a <em>bomb threat</em> on the day of the AIME. i wasn't going to take the test anyway (not a math person), so I'm not clear on the details, but I think they're going to take the B test later this month.</p>
<p>danielsjang, wow you qualified in 7th grade? What was your USAMO index this year?</p>
<p>Maguo - contact the AIME people. You can still sign up to take the B exam. The AIME folks are very helpful and can work with you to make sure you can take the exam. </p>
<p>The school where my son was supposed to take the AMC cancelled the exam the morning of the exam (after we had driven a considerable distance to that school.) As it was the B exam there would be no second opportunity to take the exam. I immediately called the exam people. They asked who else might be available to give him the exam. After a few phone calls, I found his Scoutmaster at home. AMC e-mailed the test to the Scoutmaster and my son took the exam at the Scoutmaster's home later that evening.</p>
<p>zogoto:
oops my bad. I was invited as a 8th grade. 7th grade woulda been nice. I just remember scoring decently (125+ ish?) on the AMC that year. I forgot which AMC it was tho (8 or 10?).<br>
As for the index, I didn't do so well afterwards. I was just good w/ AMCs, and not really w/ AIMEs (5 last year, and 5 this year, too, i believe)</p>
<p>Sorry, wanted to correct a mistake I made before. The alternate exam is tomorrow, the 22nd, not the 21st. At least, my teacher's packet says Wednesday the 22nd and that's when we're taking it; the site has the 21st listed for some reason...</p>