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AIME in six months

You can do most of an AMC 10 or a UK Senior Maths Challenge, and you want to qualify for AIME and score on it.

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

15% 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, so read the hours as a rough size, not a timetable.

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What you work through

Where it leaves you

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