AMC 12A AIME cutoff changed, AMC award cutoffs changed

[Anonymous]

FYI:

New cutoffs:


Old cutoffs, cancelled (in quotes so they don't get repeatedly displayed when people reply)

[Anonymous]

I suppose this is after eliminating those who cheated?

[Anonymous]

What is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is this?

The AMC's are math competitions that are used to feed into, eventually, the US International Math Olympiad team. The AMC 8 is meant to test kids on math skills up through to the 8th grade, the AMC 10 through 10th grade, and AMC 12 through the 12th grade.

The AMC 10 and 12 both have paths to the AIME, a second test for a small percentage of the kids who take the AMC 10/12. The top scorers on the AIME qualify for the US Junior Olympiad, AMC 10, or the US Olympiad, AMC 12. The AMC 12/AIME/US Olympiad helps select the 6 students on the International team.

High scores on these tests are things people will place on their college applications and can be used as justification to participate on math teams and into specialized math programs.

The competition tests are challenging and a relatively small number of students will ever take them. It is not unheard of kids who are advanced in math to start taking these earlier then their grade year. My son was "late" to taking them, he took the AMC 8 in 6th grade, and was on the honor roll. There are kids who will take it before that. He took the AMC 10 as a 7th grader because he wanted to see how he would do. He scored a 90 on the 10B. We think it is a great score but I am positive that there are kids in his grade who scored higher, which is pretty amazing.

[Anonymous]

So many cheaters for these tests that they are becoming irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many cheaters for these tests that they are becoming irrelevant.

There have always been people who cheat on tests, this is nothing new. The good news is that they are catching people and doing something about it. You just like to bash people who kids enjoy STEM topics and whose kids are excelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is this?

The AMC's are math competitions that are used to feed into, eventually, the US International Math Olympiad team. The AMC 8 is meant to test kids on math skills up through to the 8th grade, the AMC 10 through 10th grade, and AMC 12 through the 12th grade.

The AMC 10 and 12 both have paths to the AIME, a second test for a small percentage of the kids who take the AMC 10/12. The top scorers on the AIME qualify for the US Junior Olympiad, AMC 10, or the US Olympiad, AMC 12. The AMC 12/AIME/US Olympiad helps select the 6 students on the International team.

High scores on these tests are things people will place on their college applications and can be used as justification to participate on math teams and into specialized math programs.

The competition tests are challenging and a relatively small number of students will ever take them. It is not unheard of kids who are advanced in math to start taking these earlier then their grade year. My son was "late" to taking them, he took the AMC 8 in 6th grade, and was on the honor roll. There are kids who will take it before that. He took the AMC 10 as a 7th grader because he wanted to see how he would do. He scored a 90 on the 10B. We think it is a great score but I am positive that there are kids in his grade who scored higher, which is pretty amazing.

That's a solid score! He'll likely qualify for AIME next year if he continues putting in the work.

How many kids made AIME from your school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many cheaters for these tests that they are becoming irrelevant.

There have always been people who cheat on tests, this is nothing new. The good news is that they are catching people and doing something about it. You just like to bash people who kids enjoy STEM topics and whose kids are excelling.

DP. It is a huge issue at the top end. My kid last year made top 1% honor roll without cheating and should have qualified for JMO, but fell a little short, likely due to cheaters. This year, he once again made top 1% honor roll, but is feeling really disgruntled and discouraged by the entire thing. MAA has been saying that they're improving test integrity, but it doesn't look like they're doing much, if anything, about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is this?

The AMC's are math competitions that are used to feed into, eventually, the US International Math Olympiad team. The AMC 8 is meant to test kids on math skills up through to the 8th grade, the AMC 10 through 10th grade, and AMC 12 through the 12th grade.

The AMC 10 and 12 both have paths to the AIME, a second test for a small percentage of the kids who take the AMC 10/12. The top scorers on the AIME qualify for the US Junior Olympiad, AMC 10, or the US Olympiad, AMC 12. The AMC 12/AIME/US Olympiad helps select the 6 students on the International team.

High scores on these tests are things people will place on their college applications and can be used as justification to participate on math teams and into specialized math programs.

The competition tests are challenging and a relatively small number of students will ever take them. It is not unheard of kids who are advanced in math to start taking these earlier then their grade year. My son was "late" to taking them, he took the AMC 8 in 6th grade, and was on the honor roll. There are kids who will take it before that. He took the AMC 10 as a 7th grader because he wanted to see how he would do. He scored a 90 on the 10B. We think it is a great score but I am positive that there are kids in his grade who scored higher, which is pretty amazing.

That's a solid score! He'll likely qualify for AIME next year if he continues putting in the work.

How many kids made AIME from your school?

No idea, he does not talk math comps with his friends. Our school does not provide a AMC8/10/12 test area so we go to a proctor on the list provide by AMC.

He was happy with the score and is hoping to improve his AMC8 score this year.

[Anonymous]

Cheating has been rampant these past couple of years (ever since the pandemic, I think). Last year, there were a couple of people selling 10A on Discord. There were leaks again this year. JMO/AMO cutoffs will be sky high again (typically 11+DHR for AIME1 and 9+DHR for AIME II.)