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Tag: Season Planning
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The AIME 2027 Window Falls on Chinese New Year: How China-Based Families Should Plan Around 5-6 February
MAA’s 2027 AIME window is 5-6 February: Chinese New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Who the date binds, what is unconfirmed for China, and how to plan travel now.
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Both AMC 10/12 Papers or Just One? How the Fixed AIME Line Changes the 2026 Second-Sitting Decision
AIME qualification is now a fixed 100 or 85, so a harder paper no longer brings a lower line. How to read your mock margin and decide on a second AMC sitting before the 10 October refund cut-off at our China-region centres.
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More Practice, a Better Book, or a Teacher? Matching AMC Help to the Gap You Actually Have
Most AMC plateaus are not a teaching problem. A four-question audit separates a volume gap from a syllabus gap from a diagnosis gap, and only one of them costs money.
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Your AMC Cutoff Table Expired in August: How to Date Any AMC or AIME Source Before You Plan Around It
MAA rewrote the AIME in August 2026. Five phrases date a stale page, one over-correction assumes the AMC changed too, and old cutoff tables now mean something else.