<p>Hi all. I’m taking the AMC12 on Wednesday. What should I study? Any links to websites would be great. Assume that the amount of time that I can study is ~36 hours. lol, I’m going to study straight to it.</p>
<p>People study for the AMC?
It’s math, you should already be fluent with all the concepts needed.</p>
<p>All i can suggest is to plan your strategy, i.e. answer 13 and no more. (Minimize risk of getting under 100, however forfieting your chance at a very high score)</p>
<p>here’s a link to old tests (AMC12 and AHSME are the same thing):
<a href=“http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/events/hscomp/samples/amc12/sample.htm[/url]”>http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/events/hscomp/samples/amc12/sample.htm</a></p>
<p>formulas, concepts, etc. that I should know?</p>
<p>theleet, not to discourage your studying, but you should really relax these last two days before the exam. Success on the AMC is cultivated through months of hard, diligent work, and thus cannot be attributed to a few days of intense studying. At the end, you’ll only wear yourself out, when you could have enjoyed the final days before the test and relaxed your mind so it could function fresh and sharp on Wed. </p>
<p>As for formulas, it would depend on which test (10 or 12) you are studying. But for the sake of this thread’s name, I assume you are taking the AMC12.
The harder geometry, counting, and number theory problems do actually require much understanding behind them. You could memorize Ptolemy’s theorem, Vandermonde’s Convolution identity, or Wilson’s theorm and stuff before the test, but all those random formulas will help you little if you do not fully understand their respective consequences. My advice is therefore to just look over quick and important formulas like the angle bisector method, basic conditional probability techniques, and counting methods (some intermediate counting would help) and take it from there. I hope that helps a bit.</p>
<p>Best wishes to you.</p>
<p>studying??? what??? why??? just take the test… i recommend guessing… it helps haha</p>
<p>Don’t guess unless you can narrow the answer down to two choices (though I don’t see how you could due to the nature of the test…).</p>
<p>oh… i can…</p>
<p>I was looking at an old test and they make it nearly impossible to backsolve. Like they ask, instead of the zeros of a function, the sum of the zeros.</p>
<p>I did manage to get the answer to one problem through backsolving on one. It had a cubic equation and 2004 as a coefficient. It asked for the amount of possible coeficients of one of the components of the equation. I just divided each answer by 2004, and the one that divided evenly was the correct answer.</p>
<p>My math teacher said he gives extra credit if you score above a certain level, but hasnt told us what.</p>