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[quote=Anonymous]Your 8th grader did not make the honor roll on the AMC 8. A score of 16 is strong but it is not in the 95th percentile that is recognized by the hosting organization. He is justified in feeling proud of his score, he did better then a lot of kids, but his score is not one that screams that he will do well on the AMC 10 or close to well enough to make the AIME cutoff. Your tutor is telling you that he has not mastered the skills needed to make the recognized awards on the AMC 8 and the AMC 10 will require more, a lot more.

This is where things get a bit weird because your child is doing well in Math and is a bit advanced, Algebra 1 in 8th grade. He is doing great by every standard. But there are a good number of kids who are ahead of him. There are 30 about kids in 6th grade in FCPS taking Algebra 1 and about 1,500 in 7th grade. They are, objectively, ahead of your child in math. I would bet that a decent number of them took the AMC 8 and scored higher than you child.

My 6th grader scored an 18 on the AMC 8. He started taking a math competition class in 4th grade. He is in the 95-99th percentile in every competition he takes, and he does a lot of them. I expect him to be in Algebra 1 H in 7th grade and that he will likely be bored because he has learned a lot of Algebra and Geometry in his math competition class. And I promise you that my kid is probably seen as behind by people on this board because he only started math competition stuff in 4th grade and because we didn’t push for Algebra 1 in 6th grade.

DS is aiming for distinguished honor roll on the AMC 8 next year and to see how he does on the AMC 10. We have no clue how he will do on the AMC 10, we don’t have a specific goal. His math competition class is geared towards preparing for it though. The summer online program he is doing with AoPS is geared towards math counts because he wants a shot at making the larger group at Carson. He knows there will be a lot of kids aiming for that group. The AoPS class he is taking this summer recommends that kids score at least an 18 on the AMC 8 to take this particular class. His RSM competition class during the year is aimed towards AMC 10 prep and the higher level MS competitions.

Your child is doing great. He really is. It is just that what he has been doing does not match with what you think he can do on the AMC 10 next year.

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