<p>Texas137 ~ D thinks she may have answered 17 correctly and she eft the rest blank. If she did, then I think she will get 122 points. Honestly I have no idea, but it seems more likely to me that she would have missed one or two? I guess we'll know on Thursday when she can see the answers...thanks for all of your help. If she is close, I will propose taking the AMC 12 if they allow "walk-ins."</p>
<p>she may be okay even if she missed one or two. The cut-off was 120 last year, but could be a bit lower depending on where the top 1% line falls. Congratulations, and start preparing for AIME!</p>
<p>Alright... you get 6 points for a question you answer correctly, 2.5 for a question left blank, 0 for a question you answered wrong. So if c is number correct and w is number wrong: 6c+2.5(25-c-w)>100 (120 for the AMC 10)
3.5c - 2.5w > 100 (or 120) -62.5
3.5c - 2.5w > 37.5 (or 57.5)
so so some pairs (correct,wrong) that would work are:
AMC 12: (11,0), (12, 1), (13,3), (14,4), (15,6), (16,7)
AMC 10: (17,0), (18,2),(19,3),(20,5)
of course, if you get the first number and a number lower than the second, then you broke the boundary also... Good luck everyone... I'm pretty sure i got (13,0) on AMC 12 this time round...</p>
<p>is the AMC 12 much more difficult than the AMC 10?</p>
<p>I think 12 is easier than 10... may be thats just me.</p>
<p>usually amc 12 and amc 10 overlap around 5 questions</p>
<p>amc 10 and 12 overlap by 15 questions (out of 25). The ones they don't have in common are not exactly "harder" on the amc 12, but they come from subjects beyond algebra II which people in grades 10 and below may not have.</p>
<p>i think it's a ton harder to get 120 on AMC 10 than 100 on AMC 12</p>
<p>haha... at my school, the Higher Level Math teacher figured out the first 23 questions of the AMC 12 in approx. 30-60 minutes and they had a huge open forum sharing answers and stuff... We shared answers at lunch too. He's a genius... got to USAMO... need i say more? But everyone knows about how well they did...</p>
<p>Unfortunately, my school usually gets results less than a week before the AIME... so there's not much prep time. But the aforementioned superteacher has a bunch of old AMC/AIME tests to prep us i think...</p>
<p>Could someone give me a general overview of the AMC/AIME tests? I'm curious!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.math.uncc.edu/%7Ehbreiter/AHSME/amc12st.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.math.uncc.edu/~hbreiter/AHSME/amc12st.pdf</a>
there's amc from 2001</p>
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<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>So what's the best plan to prepare for the AIME? And when is the next milestone, assuming S/D get into the AIME competition? I have gathered that there are weekly problems, or multiple tests? What's next, and how do you prepare for it?</p>
<p>Sorry to be so far behind on the learning curve...</p>
<p>To prepare for the AIME, get all of the old tests by ordering the publications on the AMC Web site, and then set a schedule of doing one of the tests a week for the next year. (If your D qualifies this year, great, but it's too late now to prepare well for this year's AIME, in my opinion.) Remember, mean score on the AIME floats around 2.9 out of 15, and the modal score is 2 (or is that 1?). The AIME is hard, and takes plenty of practice of the math "you already know." </p>
<p>After the AIME comes the USAMO for students who qualify for it by getting at least the "floor value" score on the AIME. The USAMO involves writing proofs, so that is the skill to practice. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/AoPS_R_A_HowWrite.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/AoPS_R_A_HowWrite.php</a> </p>
<p>There are many university-level "transition" textbooks that are good guides to learning proof-writing. There is a good Amazon.com listmania list </p>
<p>or two </p>
<p>about this subject with lots of useful reading suggestions.</p>
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<p>there are schools and other programs that have weekly problem solving sessions to practice, but that is not something offered by AMC. There are various other competitions that also involve tests. In terms of the AMC exams, there are 2 dates for the AMC10/12 exams (and students can take exams on both dates), as well as 2 dates for the AIME exams (qualifiers can only take one). This is to allow for school holidays, illness, whatnot.</p>
<p>All of Tokenadult's suggestions are good. I wouldn't worry about proof-writing at this point, but it's something for AIME qualifiers to think about for the future. It takes a very long time to develop proof-writing skills. In contrast, I think you could get something out of preparing for AIME over the next 5 weeks. The Art of Problem Solving people will be hosting a crash AIME course at the end of the month:
<a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Classes/AoPS_C_Enroll.php#class4%5B/url%5D">www.artofproblemsolving.com/Classes/AoPS_C_Enroll.php#class4</a></p>
<p>This is all starting to become clearer to me. Thanks for the many useful suggestions!</p>