What is a good book for the amc and aime?

shrig94
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:07:27 +0000

“Honestly, a lot. I have a friend who got 120+ on the AMC 12 and did all the AIME tests for the past 20 years (and gets around 10 on average)… he bombed it this year.”
This is basically me.
I made it from not knowing what the AMC was to USAJMO in a year.
I worked every AIME ever, other than maybe 2 or 3 that I couldn’t find.
I didn’t touch an AMC.
That last decision of mine was the worst; I didn’t make AIME. I could’ve scored a 9. And this was a HARD year.
Oh well, I’ve had fun doing real math. If you don’t really enjoy contest math, try and get into doing research and higher level math. I found out that that was more for me anyway. :)