<p>When are the peoples at AMC gonna send out the official scores?</p>
<p>your teacher will get them by email in a couple of weeks, by snail mail a week or so after that. They go out in batches.</p>
<p>Augh I did really bad, 65.5, Made way too many stupid mistakes.</p>
<p>FOr those of you who took the AMC 12A, where did you take it? At your high school? What if your high school has never heard of the AMC? Is there a chance I can convince my school to register for the AMC 12B just so that one person (i.e. me) could take it? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>duality- I took it at my school. The registration deadline for the 12B test may have already passed (I don't know about that), but if you really want to take it you should probably contact a nearby school that offers it. If they have extra copies available then you might be able to take it there.</p>
<p>I'm disappointed... 10 right and 2 wrong... it's a 92 or something like that. I misread the window question and only solved half of it, and I approached another question the wrong way and added up my answer incorrectly. Darn, I was so close, too.</p>
<p>I got a 138, because I made careless errors on two questions. Obviously it's as good a score as I will need, but it's terribly frustrating that I've come close to a 150 so many times but always slip up. Only one chance left...</p>
<p>For those of you who consider AMC "easy", what is your math background?</p>
<p>GUYS... NO... our school hasn't taken them yet, NOT YET!!!!!!!</p>
<p>if your school hasn't taken them yet, then they're the AMC 12B, not 12A like us.</p>
<p>And reiterating ronlivs question, feulre and others who got 115+ what math background do you have? you people are beasts! I think I got a 104.5, can you pass the mathematical steriods my way?</p>
<p>I think feuler has always been a math beast hehe</p>
<p>He slaughters the SAT's like they are jokes.
Must be pure brilliance.
No sharing allowed. :)</p>
<p>I take AMC 12B on the 16th. Hope I do better than I did last year on 10B.
I didn't know what I was doing last year and just marked in answers for the ones I ran out of time for.
I ended up with a 65.5</p>
<p>I beleive I tried 20 and got 1 wrong (which is 126.5)
When I was a 8th grader, I got 120+ on AMC 10.<br>
I do consider myself to be pretty good at math, but no where near other geniouses.</p>
<p>19 right, 0 wrong, 6 omitted (129) - AMC12, 2005
Currently taking CalcAB as senior.
Uh... other than some regional competitions, it's fair to say I have 0 exp.
(SAT math IS easy. People can boost their numbers by 200 by little effort of DOUBLE CHECKING)</p>
<p>Well, I'm nowhere close to being genius... only if you see the USAMO qualifiers you'd say that, too.
(unless you are one lol)</p>
<p>How is the AIME run? What kind of math is it? I think i qualified with a 104.5 (+12, 13 Omitted). At my school there aren't any amazing genius in my grade, I feel awkward when people call me "smart at math" when there are those who could do like USAMO stuff in their sleep! How is the AIME and USAMO?</p>
<p>get sample questions at <a href="http://www.unl.edu/amc%5B/url%5D">www.unl.edu/amc</a></p>
<p>Almostalbert,</p>
<p>What you must understand is that almost all of us are either the only smart ones or one of a very small minority of smart kids at our school. Most of us congregate here in order to a) feel superior to others b) feel inferior to others or c) see how we relate to others in our abilities. </p>
<p>Your score shows that you are rather good at math and you should not feel awkward when people call you "smart at math". Relatively to them you probably are. Afterall, you are better at math than roughly around 97-99% of the population. (67% of numbers in this post were pulled out of the tuhos).</p>
<p>There are, of course, those who will be better than you, smarter than you, and harder working than you, but you must realize that you are still rather smart. We, the people who worship the thick threads of CC, represent a small minority of the population. Most people are not as motivated, as smart, or as eager to go to a top college as we are. </p>
<p>So remember, smartness is relative. To kids at your school YOU are the math genius. To CC'ers, the person who can pull off a 1600 is a genius, and to that person, the 1000 other kids at MIT who pulled off a similar score are geniuses. Don't be ashamed to be called smart! It's all relative.</p>
<p>Be proud of your smartness--you do appear to be smart (nice looking score), and try to set a good example of how smart people act in your school. Represent us well (not that y'all would deign to call me one of your own).</p>
<p>Now that I have brought this [relatively] long post to a close, I am not sure how it began, or what influenced me into writing it. All I know is that it is 1:00 AM (relatively speaking on the East Coast) and there is no reason for my being awake. Good luck everybody tomorrow, and I'll leave you with this: You're all smart.</p>
<p>(Damn, I felt like a smart-person motivator throughout this post! I probably shouldn't quit my day job though).</p>
<p>Woah... jabbermouth, thanks for the motivation, i guess it kinda helps but I'm on the East Coast too (Boston, woot!) But as of now I have fout Harvard Model Congress Papers due today! Don't quite your day job, but keep jabberin'</p>
<p>well said jabbermouth</p>
<p>Actually, I would say that better than 99.5% may be more accurate, as shocking as it may sound. Source: Johns Hopklins CTY says that people who qualify to attend CTY are at the top 0.5% of the population, even though who don't get perfect scores on SAT Math (I'm under the assumption that most of you are qualified to attend CTY). We also must note that National Merit scores reward the top 0.5% of college-bound students, not the entire student-age population. Once you're past SAT Math, there are no tests that you can compare with the general population, for the general population doesn't take those.</p>
<p>Right, and because only the higher echelon of the total student body of that year actually even takes the SATs, if you are in the top 96% of that body then you are really in the top 98-99% of the total student body that year (including those who do not take the test). </p>
<p>Don't sweat it though, it's only a test. Just use my moto: keep smiling. :)</p>