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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If my 6th grader got a 10, is that a bad score?[/quote]

Math is entirely all about practice. The children who get good scores in these tests practice a lot.

If your child takes the test without much practice, he/she would not get a good score. The important thing is not equate this with smartness or their inclination towards math. I see kids compare and label themselves as good or bad and it really hurts the kids who think they are bad.

My child does a lot of practice and he gets close to full score. It is painful to see friends label the child as smart - both my child as it creates unnecessary belief in their own smartness and their kid who labels himself as poor in math and becomes convinced that there is no use practicing much.

Whatever you do, do not compare. No bad score, it just means did not practice much.

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I agree.

It is entirely about practice. I have a child who likes math alright. I would not say she’s passionate. She is in algebra II as a 7th grader though. She’s not in aops academy, Russian school, or kumon or any other math club either online or in person. She has no private tutor. She has never taken the AMC before and only decided to this year because it was easy to do online. Anyway, my point is starting in September she practiced old AMC 8s. She started out getting 11 and 12 (this even with math through geometry at that point) and then by November she was scoring 20ish. She scored a 17 on this year’s.

It just takes practice. There are very similar questions on each year’s tests. I guess you start to figure it out with practice. If you had a teacher explaining the tricks to you like at a math club it would likely be even easier to raise your score. And time is a huge factor. She simply runs out of time.

It’s very similar to skiing. Competent skiing and competitive math are both small communities st this age. The kids who practice most are the ones doing well. And you will say “no, my kid is actually gifted in math and has passion”. Maybe, but he’s also practicing a lot. So there you go. [/quote]

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