Official AMC 12A Discussion Thread

<p>Remember, we have to wait till Wednesday till we can actually discuss the contest but you can post your quims/aspirations/etc. about the AMC in general beforehand. Good luck to everyone taking this test tomorrow!!!:)</p>

<p>I think it went alright. I did better than I expected</p>

<p>Answered 16 of them - I'm pretty sure i got 15 right.</p>

<p>answered 16 too. hopefully got all right.</p>

<p>i have the answer key. my teacher gave us each a copy of the answers right when we handed it in so if you want to pm me i can give them to you if you even remember i also have the questions</p>

<p>It went alright...I could have answered a few more that I left blank because of time constraints. I got answered 15 and I KNOW I got 13 right and I omitted the rest.</p>

<p>The 2 I know I missed were just ridiculously stupid.</p>

<p>118.5 (16 answered and correct). So it DOES seem as if first 16 were the very easy ones. Not just me, then.</p>

<p>logisticswizard... you might want to retract your post, as people haven't taken it, and you have no way of knowing if people who pm you have taken it.</p>

<p>I found the first 16 easy, and left the rest blank. Hoping for 118.5. Although this just means competition for USAMO will be harder this year.</p>

<p>Oh, your right I suppose. But isn't the one tomorrow different anyways??</p>

<p>answered 15, got a 109 (made one ultra stupid mistake) X(.</p>

<p>should we bother updating colleges on this?</p>

<p>USAMO participation has been increased by 50% this year.</p>

<p>It wasn't really bad. Ironically I found some of the later problems to be a lot easier than expected (less computations than normal). Overall, the test was easier than say last year.</p>

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Answered 16 of them - I'm pretty sure i got 15 right.

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<p>Same here....</p>

<p>yea... I MISSED IT</p>

<p>see, first hour i have to go to this other school to take physics C </p>

<p>soo... i didnt even kno they were talking it</p>

<p>104: 17 answered, 14 correct, 8 blank. All three errors resulted from stupid mistakes.</p>

<p>16 Answered 14 Correct, 9 Blank. 106.5. Stupid mistakes also...</p>

<p>I answered 15, 13 correctly. So, I just made the cut at 103. Made the mistakes on early on, easier questions and got later ones right, haha.</p>

<p>16 answered, one wrong which is on the easist question possible in the world (number four, the digital clock digits), and I also skipped a question that should have been incredibly easy by accident.</p>

<p>Guys, don't mean to be a downer, but don't be so confident that you got all the ones you think you got right since some of the questions may have been a little trickier than you thought them to be at first. Besides, you guys weren't supposed to talk about this test with ANYONE remember?</p>

<p>That said I foolishly answered 17 and may end up getting 3-4 wrong since I wasn't 100% confident on some of them after I thought over my reasoning.:( If I don't make the cutoff for AIME on AMC 12A, I'm going to go into the AMC 12B with the mindset and goal of answering only 11 questions that I'm 100% sure are correct and leaving the rest blank, to ensure that I at least qualify to AIME.</p>

<p>Haha I figured out right before the test (my first AMC!) that you could get 11 right and leave the rest blank and qualify, so that was my original intention. But I found the first 16 incredibly easy (except for #12 with the links... I had the right answer but wasn't TOTALLY sure so I didn't want to risk it).</p>

<p>Anyway, I got all 15 right (no tricks, they were very easy), so I ended up with a 115, though I could've gotten 118.5 easily.</p>