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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep.  It's cheating.  My kid (who made olympiad last year and has always had DHR since 7th grade) got a 145.5 on the 12A and didn't make DHR.  He's pissed.  He knows 3 other kids who won awards at USAMO last year, including 1 who made MOP, and none of them had perfect scores.  Yet apparently 300 random kids did.

MAA is dumb enough that they're giving the problems to China a week early and they're not using a lockdown browser to administer the tests.  [/quote]

They need to move to paper only tests and everyone takes them on the same day, regardless of what country they are from. The higher scores are suspect and everyone knows it.

We thought my kids 96 on the AMC 10A would likely get him the AIME and were surprised that it didn't. The kids who are taking the test the way it is intended to be taken, honestly and working hard to do well, are getting screwed by the cheating. It would be helpful if the kids who saw the cheating happening actually reported it so that they could bust those kids but that doesn't seem to be happening.  [/quote]

So sorry for your kid.  From all of the chatter on the AoPS forums, your kid deserved to qualify this year.

I disagree in the first point, though.  Paper tests mean that the proctors have access before the test window opens, and that has been the source of some leaks.  I would instead have everyone take the test online within the same 2-3 hour window on a lockdown browser.  I hope they at least take some steps to secure the AIME.  
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