<p>Thanks everyone for the responses! I also took the test with my school, so tomorrow I will ask my teacher if she received an e-mail.</p>
<p>Can I ask some basic questions about this...(please don't laugh..)</p>
<p>My son took AMC 12 last year- he was a junior. He is at an international school (not in Taiwan) where this exam is not a big deal to anyone. I think he had perhaps a single session to prepare for it. He got a score of 100, which at our school was one of the top 4 scores. Only the invited top 40 math students (of 900 in the HS) took the exam. </p>
<p>He didn't take any exams after this one, though he might have been invited to, I don;t know (like I said, it is low key here). Is this a good score compared to the rest of the group of kids taking the exam? The top score here was a 114, and that boy was a phenom (though perhaps not so much a math phenom as a general academic phenom)...</p>
<p>I just don't have a perspective and am curious. He was invited to take the exam this year, but had other commitments and decided not to. He is not planning to study math or engineering or a pure science in college. </p>
<p>Thanks...a lot of you know more about this than my son, that is clear!</p>
<p>15 right for me, none wrong = 115!
w00t</p>
<p>so when is the AIME, this was amc12b that i took since i missed the amc12???</p>
<p>robyrm - a score of 100 on the amc12 last year would have put your son in the top 8% of test takers. Since only fairly strong students at fairly strong schools tend to take the test at all, this would mean your son is much higher than top 8% of the general population of high schoolers.</p>
<p>phoenix - most people will take the AIME on Tues 8 March. A few people will take it on the alternate date of Tues 22 March.</p>
<p>Ok so, today I talked to the teacher in charge of AMC/AIME at my school and he still has not received any sort of confirmation email for any of his students that qualified through the AMC 12b...anyone else in a similar situation?</p>
<p>thanks texas137...</p>
<p>Jimmy - your teacher needs to contact them immediately. I have already received the exam packet for my AIME qualifiers.</p>
<p>my teacher gave us alist of qualified people. hopefully i was in there. but i didn't get any exam packet. do they only give that to high scorers?</p>
<p>i dont think there really is a "packet." i didnt get one this year or last, and i qualified both years. just ask your teacher about it.</p>
<p>ok you experts. What happens next? My son takes the aime next Tuesday. What kind of score is considered good, or qualifying at the next stage, and what is the next step if he qualifies after Tuesday?
Our school is very low key about these things, and gives no info to parents. Also, other than the experience of the test, what are the benefits of this program? I'm clueless.</p>
<p>the aime is the next test in the series of amc12, aime, usamo, mosp, and imo.</p>
<p>to qualify for the next test, the usamo, your son must get a combined score above either 210, 220, or maybe 230. you will take the number of aime questions that your son gets right out of 15, and multiply it by ten. you then add that to his amc12 score to get the final total. for example, if he had a 116 on the amc12 and gets 8 right on the aime, he will have a 196 total and not make it on to the usamo. only about 230~ or something students qualify for the usamo each year.
the usamo is a 3 hour test where you put in the answer, an integer from 0 to 999, as your answer. you wont be penalized for incorrect responses. the test is also noncalculator.
if your son keeps on going and makes usamo, this is quite an accomplishment, seeing as very few students make it every year. also, if you make it to imo, your pretty much guaranteed admission to most schools like mit or caltech, id assume. not sure.</p>
<p>thats all i know.</p>
<p>if you have any questions, you can check out the website:
<a href="http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e6-amc12/amc12.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e6-amc12/amc12.html</a></p>
<p>i was just told that i qualified for aime next tues. only 3 in our school- i got 100; 11 right strategy.</p>
<p>the students do not get the exam packet. The teacher gets the exam packet. I am a math coach, and the packet came to me with the exams for my qualifying students. A paper copy of the amc scores was included in the packet, but I also received it by email a couple of weeks ago.</p>
<p>Thanks, Kosuke.
so he's in it for the experience :)</p>
<p>Asap - is your son in 10th grade or below? If so, he won't have to worry about the formula. He just has to get the "AIME floor" score, which will be 6-8 (out of 15). This is very difficult to do. The avergae score is around 2.</p>
<p>This program leads to selection of the US team to the International Mathematics Olympiad. Doing well on the intermediate stages looks good to colleges. MIT and Caltech have a space on their apps for AMC and AIME scores. The exams also give talented math students an opportunity to challenge themselves and see where they stand compared to the best math students in the US and a number of foreign countries.</p>
<p>No. tex - he's 16 and a junior, but thanks for the info. </p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you who qualified. That, in itself, is an achievement, imo!</p>
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<p>Is there anyway one can prepare for the AIME test? Are there any publications available other than those on the AMC website?</p>
<p>"the usamo is a 3 hour test where you put in the answer, an integer from 0 to 999, as your answer. you wont be penalized for incorrect responses. the test is also noncalculator."</p>
<p>This is actually the description of the AIME. The USAMO is a 9 hour test with 6 problems. Students are asked to completely justify their solutions (ie, in writing.)</p>
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<p>old exams and solutions here:
<a href="http://www.kalva.demon.co.uk/aime.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.kalva.demon.co.uk/aime.html</a></p>
<p>books and internet courses here:
<a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com%5B/url%5D">www.artofproblemsolving.com</a></p>
<p>where do you take the AIME in? 3 hours? this kind of seems a lot.</p>