<p>uhhh woops my bad</p>
<p>For my school we have this system for checking answer >.<
everyone write the answer they put on their test booklet (we get to keep them since the school just don't want it)
With our moppers and 150s from past years we pretty much know our score right after the test if we are in the 130s or below range. For the last couple problems, even if the geniuses got the right answer or what not, they aren't sure.
That answer checking system goes for every other math contest too ^_^</p>
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Anyone else wonder why they have nonintegral values on the test when they could just double the point values or just give 1 or 2 points for blanks?
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LMAO! you wonder about the most random things =)</p>
<p>nointegral values.. heh =)</p>
<p>Well, say someone lives in Georgia where there are 20 people in his or her school take the exam and scores the highest with the score of 124.5 on the AMC and a 7 on the AIME... will they think that's good or is that average-ish?</p>
<p>^^That's very good. It's close to USAMO qualification, isn't it?</p>
<p>For a school with grades up to 9th, if you have to make a choice of AMC10 vs. AMC12, I would consider of doing AMC12. AMC10 and AMC12 have about 10 overlapping questions. In the current grading system (6 points/ correct answer, 0 point/ wrong answer, 1.5 points/ blank), it is a lot easier to qualify for AIME through AMC 12 (14 out of 25 correct answers with the remaining blanks to make 100 /150 points, i.e. top 5 %) than through AMC10 (20 out of 25 correct answers, 5 blanks to make 120/ 150 points, i.e. top 1%). For a school with students up to 9th graders, having more people to achieve AIME qualification may be a more realistic goal. Qualifying for USAMO is just so much harder for anyone even it is a good school, unless your school has that tradition. If you cannot qualify for AIME, there would be no further indices/indexes to talk about anyways.</p>
<p>@collegealum314: You have no idea as to how disappointed I was last year when that happened... I was 2.5 points off the USAMO qualification. If I hadn't guessed on an AMC question, I would have gotten it :(</p>
<p>@susan4: I think for the AMC 10, you can answer 19 correctly and leave 6 blank for a 123. That's as close I can see it being cut though.</p>
<p>Domnu, sorry, I miscalculated. You are right, *19 correct answers should do it for AMC10. *My kid did AMC10 in 8th grade with the rest of the 9th and 10th graders in that high school and was the only AIME qualifier from the school in that year, after that always AMC12. Good luck with everyone taking AMC10b and 12B!</p>
<p>all depends on what year.... they kept changing the scoring and the rules
first 1.5 for no guess
now no calculator</p>