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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AMC8 is targeted at students who are enrolled in prealgebra or higher.

There is an honor roll for 6th graders who score 15+ out of 25. (But AMC honor rolls are secret now, so that's not very exciting anymore.)

If s student is not scoring at least 15 on a practice test, I wouldn't go chasing down a random site to test at. But you should encourage your school to offer the contest to all the students.

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6th grade AAP math is basically prealgebra and should suffice.

I disagree about needing a 15 on practice tests.  If OP's kid tries a practice test and enjoys it, there's no problem with finding a random testing site to take the test.  There's no need to meet an arbitrary benchmark, and the AMC tests are supposed to be open to anyone who wants to take them.

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It's not a social /  team activity. What's important about going out of your way to get an official score 2 years early? Is sitting quietly in a random classroom more fun than sitting at home?

You can do an extra practice test in the time it takes to commute back and forth to the testing site, then chat about the problems. 
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OP here. He enjoys participating in the competitions. He normally scores well, 95th percentile or higher. He learned some important lessons from the one he did not score well on. He had flown through the test and didn’t double check his work. Every test since then he has double checked his work and slowed down. None of his friends participate in competitions, it’s just something he enjoys doing. I have not suggested AMC8 to him, I have read about it here over the past few years and realized that pre-algebra was being taught so maybe AMC8 was an option.

He attends RSM, which is how he heard about competitions. He just enjoys math. [/quote]

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