Amc, Aime, Usamo

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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All i can say is, for me, getting AIME is a piece of cake. doing higher level math for me however, is time comsuming and hurts my brain.</p>

<p>even [getting qualified] for the USAMO is no where near the amount of effort needed for even like something simple as AP calc BC.</p>

<p>but that's just me. it's opposite for most people

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<p>XD, the opposite is definitely true for me! I beasted calc BC (granted, with a fair bit of studying), but I only just barely qualified for the AIME.</p>

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<p>was he kidding?
seriously..</p>

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<p>Yeah, I don't know. All the math contest whizzes at my school also ace calc BC without too much effort.</p>

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<p>getting 8 questions + on the AMC12 is better than like gettin 800 on Math II, Math I, Math whatever</p>

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<p>Narcissa:</p>

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that website <a href="http://www.maa.org/news/052207usamoceremony.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.maa.org/news/052207usamoceremony.html&lt;/a> is for the top 12 USAMO scorers only--the usamo "winners". a few of them even had IMO before they were seniors, i remember sherry went to IMO as a sophmore. they were more than qualified to go to any school in the US.

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<p>I said, "This past year's USAMO winners are going to schools like Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, and MIT." =p</p>

<p>At any rate, I still think that's a testament to the caliber of those who qualify for USAMO. I don't think it's so much USAMO that gets them into HYPS, etc. -- they're probably already pretty awesome, and their awesomeness got them to USAMO. It also got them into HYPS, etc. =)</p>

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<p>Hey I know one of person in <a href="http://www.maa.org/news/052207usamoceremony.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.maa.org/news/052207usamoceremony.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>He's now in Princeton. I can only tell you that he's the smartest person I've met. He always wins 1st place in math competitions. What's even more amazing is that he completes the test in like 5 minutes (no kidding) and still manages to get a perfect score, while other competitors need the full time of 30 minutes.</p>

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<p>well of course, he's a USAMO WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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I said, "This past year's USAMO winners are going to schools like Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, and MIT." =p

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<p>oops...sorry...gotta read more carefully ^__^ </p>

<p>but then this statement is not right then...nobody can jump from not having participated in the USAMO to winning haha. not that i can think of ^^</p>

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'Course, these students were accepted there before they participated in USAMO.

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<p>Actually, you can. Krishanu Sankar was a USAMO winner in 2007, but didn't qualify for the USAMO in 2006. But from what I know, that has more to do with him making stupid mistakes than improving that much. But it's still possible.</p>

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<p>dang that's HARSH
but AIME is the worse in carelss mistakes
no partial credit
and no Multiple choice</p>

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<p>of course it's multiple choice!, you just have a 1/1000 chance of guessing the right answer :P</p>

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<p>What'd suck is get the right m/n and add m+n wrong on the AIME.</p>

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<p>loll no. it's 1/999 :)</p>

<p>1 and 999 probably aren't answers, cuz ppl tend to guess those, so...</p>

<p>1/997 :D</p>

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What'd suck is get the right m/n and add m+n wrong on the AIME.

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that, and then finding out that you're .5 points below the cutoff</p>

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<p>you forget 0 MUAHAHAHA, 0 comes up as the answer more often than 1 or 999</p>

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What'd suck is get the right m/n and add m+n wrong on the AIME.

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<p>Or when you misread 1000 as 100. Or when you forget that 21 is a multiple of 3. Or when you forget to divide by 4. Or when people decide to not walk on the moving walkway.</p>

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<p>"Or when people decide to not walk on the moving walkway."</p>

<p>haha was this #3 AIME last year? I remember like a huge paragraph question and read VERY carefully heh.</p>

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<p>Hahahahahha!</p>

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<p>lol I'm guessing those are rantings about past mistakes.</p>

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<p>per shravas' comment "Actually, you can. Krishanu Sankar was a USAMO winner in 2007, but didn't qualify for the USAMO in 2006. But from what I know, that has more to do with him making stupid mistakes than improving that much. But it's still possible."</p>

<p>I happen to know him personally (he's a great guy) and yeah, from his account, it was all careless errors.</p>

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<p>that does suck
this is a good thread, i like takling about math competitions.
there are like none on CC...all "Chance me" threads
lol if you go to AOPS however all of them are AIME/USAMO threads
but the ppl there are like 94750745082475027 x smarter than normall...like your average straight A 2400 HYPSMC valedictorian on BRAIN STEROIDS...(aops is like absoultely insane! a lot of CCers are AOPSers too tho)
and i sound stupid
so that's why i dont go there =)</p>

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<p>why don't we try to guess who's who on AOPS? lol, too big a forum though. I liked it before the Mathlinks expansion.</p>

<p>Big as it is, I've seen you around Narcissa!</p>