2018 AMC 8 Problems and Answers

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The AMC 8 was administered from November 13, 2018 until November 19, 2018. According to the AMC policy, students, teachers, and coaches were not allowed to discuss the contest questions and solutions until after the end of the competition window, so we are only now able to post the 2018 AMC 8 Problems and Answers. You can click the following to download them:

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This year’s AMC 8 was MUCH more difficult than the last year’s AMC 8. Some hard problems were even at the AMC 10 level. For example, Problems 21, 22, and 24 on the 2018 AMC 8 are three typical hard-level AMC 10 problems.

2018 AMC 8 Problem 23

2018 AMC 8 Problem 24

We predict that this year’s AMC 8 Honor Roll and Distinguished Honor Roll cut-off scores will be: 15 and 19, respectively. Read more at: AMC 8 Historical Results from 2010 to 2017

Because the AMC 8 problems are getting harder, we must practice not only previous AMC 8 problems but also easy, medium, and even high difficulty level problems from previous AMC 10/12 to do well on the AMC 8!

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