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USAMO qualification in a year

AMC 12 is fine and AIME is no shock. What you need now is the move from getting answers to writing proofs.

Problems

1,440

Hours

685

Hours a week

Problems a week

Start at stage 4 Not sure this is your level?

What you work through

Stage	Roughly this paper	Problems
4	AMC 12 late · AIME early	340
5	AIME late	400
6	BMO Round 1 · national olympiad first round	400
7	BMO Round 2 · USAMO P1/P4 · IMO P1/P4	300

Where it leaves you

Able to write up a USAMO P1 or an IMO P1 properly, not just see the idea.

Make-up of these 1,440 problems

46% want a proof the rest want an answer topics rotate throughout

The weekly figure assumes you finish in 52 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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USAMO qualification in a year

What you work through

Where it leaves you

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