<p>To Chaos: I am in 10th grade. I will be really tough for me to make Aime</p>
<p>15-20 kids from my high school (5 from 12th, 5 from 11th, 5-10 from 10th) took it this morning. THis was my first time, and I got REALLY excited at it's simplicity. By the 10th question, I started to want to cry. I took the AMC 12s, btw.</p>
<p>I think I either just missed or just made the 100 point mark. I hope I got that 100.5 I planned out to get. :]</p>
<p>So how does everyone think the point change will alter AIME qualifications, if at all?</p>
<p>I think the point change from 2.5 to 1.5 for a blank response will definitely lower the # of AIME qualifiers, because now you definitely need to be more qualified. Last year on the AMC 12 I got a 100.5 by answering the minimum possible to advance and hoping that they were all right, which luckily they were. This year I felt alot more pressure with the 1.5 instead of 2.5, and I decided going into it that I would attempt 18 questions (15 correct and 3 wrong would give 100.5). I made a few mistakes I shouldn't have and I went from 100.5 last year to 82.5 this year (12 correct; 6 wrong). For any of you who have the test booklets, the ones I got correct were 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,14,15, and 21, and I got 8,9,12,13,16, and 17 (how do you solve this?) wrong.</p>
<p>I'm kind of thinking not, since it has been before that about 20% of the people to take the AMC 12 make it to the AIME, which is a lot.</p>
<p>Comet, someone posted in another thread that we aren't allowed to discuss the test until February 6th is officially over</p>
<p>I can talk about some of the ones you missed tomorrow (and then I'm sure there will be other people who will start filtering in and sharing as well)</p>
<p>I took the safe route myself as 14 correct and 11 blanks just breaks 100 with 100.5 .__. </p>
<p>Shravas: oh, wow the old number was 20%? hmm well then I think they probably won't use the 5% rule.. because even though a lot of people will be eliminated with the new score drop, I don't think over 15% would miss out on qualifying</p>
<p>yeah i answered exactly 14, and i know i got 1 wrong for sure already :(
if i had gotten 14 correct, i would've had a 100.5. Now its more like a 94.5.</p>
<p>Does that mean my chances are completely gone going into the next round since you guys are saying the 5% rule wont be used? That 2.5 to 1.5 reduction really hurt..</p>
<p>Cheech, I'm really sorry :(</p>
<p>And it's still possible that they will follow the 5% rule (I was just surprised because I used to think the percentage of people qualifying was only 6-10) - if my school is an example, most of the guys who qualified for the AIME last year as juniors will not this year as seniors.... (just barely missing with scores in the upper 90s) so perhaps the effect all across the nation will be just as extreme and they'll use the 5% cutoff</p>
<p>haha no worries, this isnt a huge thing for me. It would've just been cool to go on to the next level.
Let's hope for the best right? :D</p>
<p>I answered 15, but 2 of them were "educated guesses." I needed to get all 15 of them right, or else I wind up with only a 99. Sucks, I should've planned it out better.</p>
<p>Now I'm all excited for the alternate test....!
Seriously, I wish it was tomorrow.
Or maybe the day after, because I've got a physics lab due tomorrow...</p>
<p>I love math competitions. They make second semester fun.</p>
<p>They downgraded the points for the blanks, but they don't take off for wrong guesses anymore.</p>
<p>They never took off for wrong guesses, technically...
Before it was
6 points -- correct
2.5 points -- blank
0 points -- wrong</p>
<p>I answered 18. They definitely did not compensate for the scoring change by making this year easier. I like the AIME better anyway.</p>
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Shravas: oh, wow the old number was 20%? hmm well then I think they probably won't use the 5% rule.. because even though a lot of people will be eliminated with the new score drop, I don't think over 15% would miss out on qualifying
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<p>Well, the old number wasn't 20%, but the lower of 100 or the top 5%, so last year, I think about 20% of the people got in.</p>
<p>So yea, unless this test was for some reason, extremely hard, I don't think they'll be using the 5% rule.</p>
<p>What score is usually needed to be in the top 1% of the AMC 10 test? I am just curious since on the test booklet it states that those who score in the top 1% are invited to AIME.</p>
<p>wow.. I answered 15 and I believe one of those is wrong so i'll have a 99...! Missing cutoff by 1pt!!</p>
<pre><code> edit-- anyone answer 17 or 21? pm me!
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<p>hmm, the official website shows that more than 1% of the AMC10 takers qualified for the AIME last year.. about 100k took the test and 2.5k qualified</p>
<p>our math teacher is stupid...he just kept all the stuff. so i have no idea what 17 and 21 is. btw, skp, did you answer 23? if so just pm me..</p>
<p>time to blow off school and start reviewing aops 1 again.</p>
<p>did anyone miss the test because of a cold/snow day? we had one here in OH and hopefully we won't on the day test B is administered (only one our school participates in)</p>