<p>I just learned abt this after going on this site. I am pretty good @ math (SATI 790) & I wanted to give it a try. Is there any way I could still take AMC when I am already @ the end of my jr yr? If I can, assuming I qualify, is there any way I could take AIME before apps go out?</p>
<p>No to both.</p>
<p>Don't even bother...your a miserable failure</p>
<p>j/k yeah you can retake AMC 12 next year, but won't be able to put it on your apps. that sucks I guess</p>
<p>I only learned about it on the day that it was given, cause of a few of my friends were apparently doing it. I wish I had known about it, but oh well. I'm taking it next year, but it's too late for colleges to see it.</p>
<p>Take it anyway...if you do really well, you can tell your colleges, and they'll listen to you. (You have to do REALLY well, though...otherwise, don't bother)</p>
<p>SATI 790 Math is pretty good, but AMC/AIME test entirely different things...I got SAT I 800 Math freshman year (790 8th grade), but only 136 AMC and 7 AIME senior year (the only time I did it)...then I go out and meet this Caltech guy who got 14 AIME as a junior...lol</p>
<p>If you just want to know if you did well, ask ppl who took it before for the questions. You are allowed to take the test booklets home, so you can just check out the questions and maybe take a few exams to see how you do. Since it won't matter on apps or anything, you shouldn't pay to take it if you just want to know how well you will do. </p>
<p>btw, sat math is a very poor indicator, the amc and aime is only similar to it in the first few problems.</p>
<p>Sample AMC question: you have a regular octahedron with an ant on each vertex. When you say "go", each ant (which evidently understands English) randomly chooses an edge and walks along it to the adjoining vertex, then stops. What is the probability that there is exactly one ant on each vertex after you say "go"? (You'll probably have 5 min to solve this problem...10 tops)</p>
<p>Sample AIME question: If x = 4/((1 + 5^(1/2))(1 + 5^(1/4))(1 + 5^(1/8))(1 + 5^(1/16))), what is (x + 1)^48 (where ^ is exponentiation)?</p>
<p>Yeah, AMC & AIME are a different breed than the SAT...</p>
<p>tanonev i could do the second one on my 89, heh. 800 SAT I math, 98.5 AMC, though after looking over questions after test i got 14-15 right. I think it only makes a difference in college admissions if you are an extreme math genius.
tanonev, 136 AMC is amazing, as is a 7 on the AIME. Most get 1s or 0s on the AIME.</p>
<p>I concur. I got a fat 0 on my AIME, probably because they don't allow calculators on it though. MY calculator is what allowed me to barely pass the AMC 12</p>
<p>136 on the 10 or the 12? That's a very good 12 score. </p>
<p>So the Caltech guy is one of the Lohs? Because they have even more impressive achievements than that.</p>
<p>Here are the AMC (10 & 12) tests from 2000 and 2001 and their results.
EDIT: opps forgot to give the websitea ddress, here it is: <a href="http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/events/hscomp/samples/amc12/sample.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/events/hscomp/samples/amc12/sample.htm</a></p>
<p>I used to have a site with a lot of actual AIME tests, but I lost it. Just google around, you'll find it.</p>
<p>stambliark41,</p>
<p>You can not take the test(s) before the apps go out. However, you can have your guidance counselor call the schools with your scores before the 'official' April 1 acceptance date. The AMC 12 scores are available before the end of February and the AIME scores are available in late March. If you plan to do this I would suggest you take the early version of the tests (they are usually about 2 weeks apart).</p>
<p>Note, they do not allow calculators for the AIME test but if you know math it is really about problem solving and finding an elegant solution not brute number crunching. Just think of hard Algebra II word problems and you get the idea.</p>
<p>For someone like myself, who goes to a school that doesn't offer the AMC12, is it possible to take it somewhere else? Also, how would you go about doing so?</p>
<p>My 136 was on AMC12</p>
<p>"For someone like myself, who goes to a school that doesn't offer the AMC12, is it possible to take it somewhere else? Also, how would you go about doing so?"</p>
<p>You can (1) petition your school to host it, or (2) ask around at local schools...they should host you if you pay the $2 or so (it's like $10 for a pack of exams...).</p>
<p>Wow, good job on your 136. Very nice.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>what's LOH? And yeah... I'm not very good at math either, so I only got like a participant's certificate for the AIME.. would that be smth to put onto my cv or should I just not put that down - 'cause it can seem a bit embarrassing...??</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>But it wasn't enough to try to impress admissions with...the way I see it, they want the USAMO results if you're gonna bug them midway through the year. (But no 9-hour essay test for me lol...in retrospect, I'm glad I didn't make it...after about half an hour of that thing, I'd probably just give up...)</p>
<p>Loh, as in Sandra Tsing-Loh, the (former) Asian broadcaster for NPR? I know she went to caltech, and majored in some liberal arts subject (read that in LA times calendar section).</p>
<p>tanonev 2 questions
A. How do you get above a 4 at caltech? Do you take graduate school classes?</p>
<p>I don't know...but he told me at Prefrosh Weekend...</p>