<p>How early should one begin preparing for this contest? Also, exactly HOW should someone prepare? :)</p>
<p>go to <a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com%5B/url%5D">www.artofproblemsolving.com</a>, go to forums, then American Mathematics Competition. I posted a thread about this very question some 20 minutes ago.</p>
<p>If you can't find it, post on this thread, and I will either put a link in here or copy what people have said into here.</p>
<p>Doing old questions is the best way to prepare (or similar questions). A lot of questions follow the same format/type of thinking. Good luck!</p>
<p>Go to Aops yourself and go to the forum I told you to go to. There are ample practice questions to entertain you for the next month or so.</p>
<p>why in god's name would you spend you're free time practicing for the AMC? you will break 100 and if you don't you probably shouldn't be taking the test.</p>
<p>how did you find out about this contest?</p>
<p>I don't get what BananaPeel is trying to say. I found out about this contest through my school.</p>
<p>btw, if i were to take this test, how long would it take for you to get your results?</p>
<p>when they publish the solutions at your school 24 hours later</p>
<p>We get the answer booklet right after we finish.</p>
<p>Bananapeel is being dumb. There is a difference between a 100 and a 150: 5 AIME questions to be exact. If you're going for USAMO, try on the AMC.</p>
<p>You get the answer booklets 1 day after the exam. At least, thats the way its supposed to be done.</p>
<p>One solution booklet comes with each registration. Packets of solution booklets to hand out to students cost extra. Schools may or may not choose to order them. I think the answers alone (w/o explanations of the solutions) were available on the AMC website last year, a few days after the exams. So if you have your test booklet you can at least see which ones you got right or wrong even if your school didn't order the solution booklets. <a href="http://www.unl.edu/amc%5B/url%5D">www.unl.edu/amc</a></p>
<p>paris, if you take the amc12 and get over 100, you qualify to take the aime, and if you get a certain combined score (not sure what that is), you can qualify for usamo. what bananapeel was saying is that getting 100 isn't all that hard, but zogoto has a good point--since they combine your scores, it isn't a bad idea to study to try to improve your amc score. i've even heard that some schools (mit) ask for your amc12 score on the application.</p>
<p>If you can't get the answer booklets from your school, they will surely be on AoPS the day after.</p>
<p>what exactly is this contest for? and what grade do you do it in?</p>
<p>9-12 can participate. There's the AMC10 and the AMC12</p>