<p>I’m a junior and I want to take the AMC 12 in 2011. By that point, I’ll be in Calc 2. I that good enough or should I wait until my senior year?</p>
<p>Take it during your junior year. You won’t submit the score it in time for admission if you take it in senior year.</p>
<p>AMC does not utilize Calculus. Having taken advanced math classes doesn’t necessary mean you’ll do better. It’s competition math - it seeks to test how creatively you look at and solve problems, which is something that’s not usually developed in traditional math teaching.</p>
<p>Yes, don’t worry about advanced math classes for the purposes of the AMC.
I performed better on the AMC & USAMO when I was taking Precalculus than when I was taking Linear Algebra/Differential Equations.</p>