AMC 8

Registration time: October every year to January next year. 

Qualification: Students with a passion for problem-solving who are in grade 8 or below and under 14.5 years of age on the day of the competition are eligible to participate in the AMC 8. 

Range: The material covered on the AMC 8 includes topics from a typical middle school mathematics curriculum. Possible topics include but are not limited to: counting and probability, estimation, proportional reasoning, elementary geometry including the Pythagorean Theorem, spatial visualization, everyday a pplications, and reading and interpreting graphs and tables. In addition, some of the later questions may involve linear or quadratic functions and equations, coordinate geometry, and other topics traditionally covered in a beginning algebra course. 

Question type: 40 minutes. 

Scoring criteria: Full score of 25 points, 1 point for a correct answer, 0 point for a wrong answer. 

Activity time: January of each year.

(*Please refer to the notice for specific activity time.)