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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is this?[/quote]

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. 
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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?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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