AMC 12 Prep Books

<p>Hi all, </p>

<p>I'm a rising sophomore interested in raising my AMC 12 score. Searching through these forums, I've found that, in my opinion, the best way for me to raise my score to 100+ on the AMC 12 from around a 90 would be to use prep books basically.</p>

<p>So I was wondering if you could please suggest some good prep books for me in addition the list I have below? Thanks so much</p>

<p>Art of Problem Solving Volume II
Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz
Problem Solving Strategies by Arthur Engel
First Steps Math Olympians Competitions </p>

<p>Please suggest some books in addition to these. Thanks so much, I appreciate it a ton!</p>

<p>Those are pretty extensive books, particularly AOPS Volume II. You should focus on that book and the others and make sure you understand every concept and know how to do most of the problems in that book, including the others. that will take some time trust me.</p>

<p>Also go through the past AMC 10/12 exams on aops and even AIME if you can handle it or later on.</p>

<p>I used “First Steps of a Math Olympian,” which is a good book but doesn’t have a whole lot of questions (if I remember correctly, 10 per chapter).</p>

<p>AoPS has a lot of great books. They also have past AMC, AHSME, and AIME exams.</p>

<p>@sirswish7: dude if you truly do understand all the material given in the books you mentioned and the application of those concepts to the problems, then you should have no trouble even on the AIME. Don’t jump around from book to book thinking that you have mastered all of those. AMC 12 should be a piece of cake with all that knowledge. I suggest: go back to all those books and understand each and every sentence. Then do a bunch of problems related to it. Now, read the solutions to the problems. Understand the solution. Know the solution. Internalize the solution. Admire the elegance and grace of the solution. Now, you are ready to ace the AMC 12.</p>

<p>I would suggest trying some #15-25 type problems. That’s what always got me on the AMC12, I usually scored around the 100-110 range but the last five problems always got me.</p>

<p>Also, you can try some easy-mid AIME problems (those are comparable to the hardest of the AMC problems). The later AIME problems you can worry about later (although some of them can be quite easy). If you can qualify for USAMO, that will look very good on a college application.</p>