Goals /Qualify for AIME

Qualify for AIME

You are comfortable with most of an AMC 10, or a UK Senior Maths Challenge. Now build the range, and the speed, to break through.

Problems

1,000

Hours

275

Hours a week

Problems a week

Start at stage 3 Not sure this is your level?

What you work through

Stage	Roughly this paper	Problems
3	AMC 10/12 early · UK Senior Maths Challenge	260
4	AMC 12 late · AIME early	340
5	AIME late	400

Where it leaves you

Comfortable with late AIME problems: the ones that need an idea, not just care.

Make-up of these 1,000 problems

18% want a proof the rest want an answer topics rotate throughout

The weekly figure assumes you finish in 26 weeks. Take longer and it drops; the order stays the same either way. Time per problem is estimated from the stage rather than measured — an estimate, not a promise. Some problems fall in minutes and others ruin an evening.

Other goals

Qualify for AIME

What you work through

Where it leaves you

Other goals

Make USAMO

Reach BMO Round 2

From BMO to the squad

Train at the hardest end