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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dont listen to PP. [b]Anything above 10 is a great score - most elementary schools have only 1 - 2 6th graders that score higher than a 10.
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As another PP said, a 15+ (or 20+) might indicate that your DS is underserved currently and needs to be accelerated more. But a 10 in 6th grade is nothing to sneeze at.[/quote]

Is this true? My DS (6th) took it and got a 12. Knowing nothing about the test, I thought that was terrible score. He did no prep and isn’t enrolled in any outside math classes. [/quote]

AMC 8 is a test for kids up to 8th grade which covers topics covered in math through 8th grade. A 6th grader in AAP or Advanced Math would have covered some of 7th grade math at the time of the test so they should not be expected to know all the material. Your child's score of a 12 is just below the cut off for the top 25% of the kids who took the test. I would say that is pretty darn solid.

I am not sure why there are public ES schools in the area who offer the AMC 8 because the kids I would expect to do well on it are either accelerated into Algebra 1 in 7th grade, which is a small group of kids, or they are taking outside enrichment and have been exposed to more advanced math.

My kid enjoys his math competition class so I am not surprised that he scored an 18. He said that he wishes they had covered the geometry in his class a week earlier because he would have gotten a few more correct on the AMC 8. His class is geared towards prepping for AMC 8 and starting to look at AMC 10.

The link below will hopefully take you to the score distribution for this years test.

https://maa.edvistas.com/eduview/report.aspx?self=&view=1561&mode=6&sortCols=&pagerNum=1&pagerIteration=0&pagerIds=1769&timestamp=20240228131959905

DHR, top 1%: 22
Top 2.5%: 20
Top 5%: 18
Top 25% 13
Top 50%: 10
Top 75%: 8

The Average score was a 10.75
High score was a 25
Standard Deviation was 4.13
Total Students: 80685

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