<p>I'll be taking this from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.</p>
<p>Good luck, everyone.</p>
<p>(If you're wondering what this is, visit unl.edu/amc)</p>
<p>Some good formulas/stuff to know:</p>
<p>Trig: addition/subtraction; double angle; half angle
Cpx #s: DeMoivre's Theorem
Geometry: Heron's formula; Pythag. Thm.; Angle Bisector Thm; Median Concurrence; Stewart's Theorem; Circle Theorems
Number Theory: Probability; Counting</p>
<p>HTH</p>
<p>I'm done with AIME. I did okay, I thought. But I'll shut up for now since the people in America are just starting to take it. Good luck!!</p>
<p>I just finished too. Anyone know when the answers go up or when we can start posting? I'm ready to put my 2 cents!</p>
<p>don't post before tomorrow (Wednesday). If they follow the pattern of the AMC, answers will be up on the AMC website on Thursday.</p>
<p>Yes, PLEASE wait before talking about any aspect of the test. Waiting until Thursday noon (in your time zone) is what the AMC director requested on another site. Moderators, PLEASE delete any mention of specific answers to the AIME test before then.</p>
<p>THURSDAY NOON???
I was thinking tonight since everyone should be done. Am I wrong?</p>
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<p>I looked thru the teachers manual before I suggested Wednesday, and didn't see a time, but I just found the announcement that Tokenadult is referring to on the artofproblemsolving site. Thursday noon seems a little overly cautious, but maybe there are international schools taking it on what would be Wednesday for the US. Or maybe they want to allow Wednesday for them to actually get on the way in the mail. In any case, it seems like a good idea to respect the AMC director's wishes.</p>
<p>I agree. I just wish there was some way to confirm some of my answers. I'm DYING to know since this was my first AIME.</p>
<p>i just wished I read the questions thoroughly... Not doing so cost me 30 min (and getting that Q wrong)
... Good luck all~!</p>
<p>BC - are there other students from your school who took it with you? There's nothing to prevent you from comparing answers and discussing it with them.</p>
<p>hmm i took my first AIME today, and i'm a senior..... just me from my whole school... I answered 8, and had a little bit of clue on at most 5 of them.... is that good or bad or really bad?</p>
<p>I heard that there's a money scholarship associated with it if you get more than 6 right, anyone know about this? Also, what does it usually take to get into USAMO? I had a 100.5 on the AMC 12, barely getting to take the AIME, so I'm not really hopeful but just curious.</p>
<p>lol, AIME was painful. i just brute forced a couple problems and went to sleep =)</p>
<p>lillian, i think ud need like a 10 on the AIME with that amc score</p>
<p>a score of 6 puts you in roughly the top 5% of AIME takers, and you get your name immortalized in the "Summary of Results and Awards" book. It's a very good score.</p>
<p>Juniors and seniors need a USAMO index of at least 220 to advance (AMC score plus 10 times AIME score). Younger students just need the "AIME floor score" (the lowest AIME score from the junior/senior group). So a senior with an AMC score of only 100 would need an AIME score of at least 12, which only a few people in the entire country are going to get.</p>
<p>In 2000 and 2001 there was a scholarship for the top 2 AIME scores in each state. (there may have also been separate awards for males and females, if I recall correctly). In any case, they have not had funding for that before or since.</p>
<p>Yep, what Texas137 said about the scholarship not existing anymore. But definitely EVER reaching the level of having a clue on five or so AIME questions is doing pretty well. A lot of AIME test-takers score a good bit lower, as the AIME</a> statistics reveal. </p>
<p>Be patient till Thursday noon, and then we can let loose and talk about the test.</p>
<p>What about private messaging? Could someone pm another person to compare answers? I mean would that be against the rules?</p>
<p>I don't think the USAMO Qualification score has been determined yet. It varies; last year it was a 210, but the year before it was 226. (Not that it affects me anyway.)</p>
<p>I hate stupid mistakes...</p>
<p>I totally flunked it. It really made me determined though, to study hard.</p>
<p>Is it just I or is the AIME getting harder and harder each year? I think I got a 5 or 6 on this year's test, and that's just what I scored in the past two years (10th and 11th).</p>
<p>The lowest USAMO cutoff I've seen is a 213; the highest a 226.
For 9th/10th graders, the lowest I've seen was 6, and the highest 8. (Damn the 2003 cutoff for being 8 when I scored a 6, which would have made the 2002 cutoff.)</p>
<p>I did pretty bad for a first timer.</p>
<p>4 I'm 100% sure of
another one maybe?</p>