How to Prepare for the AMC 12

The AMC 12 is one of the most prestigious high school Math competitions in the USA and the world. It is a great way for younger students to gain valuable experience with math competitions and develop powerful problem solving skills.

The best way to prepare for the AMC 12 is to attend our AMC 10/12 training program. This is a well developed, comprehensive, systematic one-year program offering an entire course to cover all the topics that will be tested on the AMC 12. Students who participate in our training program will have free access to video recordings of every single class. Students who are not able to attend our training program can also purchase our course materials and recordings, including tutorial handouts, recorded videos, detailed solutions of homework problems, and mock tests, to learn all our course content. Starting each November just after the AMC 12 contests, we offer these sessions in sequence, as shown below.

It is very worth emphasizing that in each session, no old material is repeated. Each session contains new, unique material, as well as a brand new comprehensive art of problem solving. We strongly believe that learning should be a long-term process of acquiring new material, information, and knowledge.

The easiest way to prepare is to practice solving previous official AMC 12 problems. Click the links below to visit our Practice Page for:

• Archived Exams: A full archive of every year’s AMC 12 A and B tests. Students can take a practice exam that includes the real questions, timing, and scoring of each exam.
• AMC 12 Mock Tests: Practice exams are also available for purchase. Our team developed 20 different sets of AMC 12 mock tests for students to practice with. They are intended to mimic the actual AMC 12 exam with 25 brand new questions all calibrated to be at the same style and difficulty level as the real AMC 12. In particular, they are peer-reviewed by at least two experts in math education outside our center. These simulated tests are extremely helpful for assessing students’ level of preparation for the AMC 12. Our team also devised detailed solutions to all 25 problems on our 20 sets of AMC 12 mock tests.  All these mock tests and their detailed solutions are a golden fountain of knowledge for our students, who are the ultimate beneficiaries. Surprisingly, some problems in our previous mock tests appeared in the recent official AMC 12 tests, as shown at:
  • The 2020 AMC 10/12 Contests Recycle Four Previous AIME Problems
  • Some Hard Problems on the 2017 AMC 10A/12A are Totally the Same as Previous Problems on the AMC 10/12
  • Some Problems on the 2016 AMC 10/12 are Exactly the Same as Previous AMC/ARML Problems
  • The AMC 10 and AMC 12 Have 10-15 Questions in Common

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