AMC

[collegebookworm]

AMC...how did it go for you?

109.5...I was hoping for better, but only found out Monday night that we couldn't use any calculators...

Why couldn't we at least use a scientific or four-function calculator!?!?

[Quelloquialism]

I shot up from last year's 97.5 to a 121.5 (unofficial, of course) this year...yay! That was about a thousand times better than I was hoping for.

I answered 20 questions (#1 through #19 and #21), and ironically enough, the only one that I missed was #1, because I don't know how to add...I'm not too sad about that, though. I had a silly mistake there, but I'm just glad it was my only error.

Strangely enough, I think the new no-calculator rule actually helped me. Last year, I tried to force my TI-89 Titanium to think for me far too frequently, even to the point where I wrote one or two brute-force solutions in the on-board TI-BASIC program editor rather than analyzing the questions and thinking. I guess it would have been nice to have a four-function calculator laying around to pop out the simple calculations, but it didn't really hurt me that I couldn't, I think.

[Michael T]

Took AMC A five days before AMC B as my first amc test ever. Got a 99 on AMC B. (Answered 15, missed 1.) Not bad, I suppose. : \

[The3point14]

bombed it.
Like 70s i think i was depressed after the test and didn't grade it completely after noticing that I missed #1 and #2.

[thething2]

Pretty much all I can say is that I # on that test. I had no idea how to do pretty much anything. I did get #1 and 2 right though.

I got around the same score as Josh, in the 70s.

[The3point14]

officially an 82.5, lol. I am ashamed. I guess we should have taken a practice AMC before we took the test, It was completely new. haha, stupid nederland kids...