Ten Enloe High students qualified to take the American Invitational Mathematics Examination on March 17 based on the results of their testing on the AMC 12 and AMC 10. The AMC 12 qualifiers are Daniel Vitek (school winner), Alex Vasilyev and Shreyas Tikare. The AMC 10 qualifiers are Nick Tobey (school winner with a PERFECT score), Michael Bai, Amitoj Singh, Claire Zeng, Jeremy He, Arjun Bhattacharya and Ivan Kuznetsov. The tests are 25 questions, 75 minute multiple choice examinations in secondary school mathematics containing problems which can be understood and solved with pre-calculus concepts. The AMC 12 is for students in grade 12 or lower and the AMC 10 is for grade 10 or lower.
The tests seek to spur interest in mathematics and to develop talent through the excitement of solving challenging problems in a timed multiple-choice format. The problems range from the very easy to the extremely difficult. Students who participate should find that most of the problems are challenging but within their grasp.
All students who took the AMC 12 and achieved a score of 100 or more out of a possible 150 or were in the top 5% are invited to take the AIME. All students who took the AMC 10 and had a score of 120 or more out of a possible 150, or were in the top 1% also qualify for the AIME.
For the 2008-09 school year, the date for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination is Tuesday, March 17. The AIME is a 15 question, 3 hour examination in which each answer is an integer number from 0 to 999. The questions on the AIME are much more difficult. Students who take the AIME are seeking to qualify for the United States of America Mathematics Olympiad.
UPDATE
In a second round of testing, Enloe High students Kimberly Yao, Yash Mehta and Lisa Zheng qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME). Lisa missed only one question on the AMC 10B to qualify with a score of 144 out of 150 possible. Sophomores Kimberly and Yash qualified based on their scores on the AMC 12B – the version given to juniors and seniors. In addition, Calvin Deng, an 8th grade student from Ligon who takes AP Calculus AB at Enloe, also qualified for the AIME. He got a perfect score on the AMC 10A.