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AMC news & updates
Registration news, preparation strategy and competition updates for the Australian Mathematics Competition.
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Australian AMC 2026 China Results: The 6–8 Week Window, Score Report and Who to Ask
Results for Australian AMC 2026 China arrive 6–8 weeks after the exam. Learn how to read your score report, why raw scores differ from award tiers, and who to contact if results are delayed.
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Australian AMC to AMC8 transition: From Australian AMC October to AMC8 January: A Three-Month Skill Bridge
For families with younger students around grade 3, the three-month gap between Australian AMC in October and AMC8 in January offers a focused skill bridge. This article explains what transfers between the competitions and where targeted attention is needed.
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Australian AMC Tutoring: Which Gaps Need Support Beyond School Maths?
A practical decision guide for parents: how to tell if your child’s Australian AMC gaps are from reading comprehension or deeper reasoning, and what to prepare before exploring tutoring options.
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The 2026 Early-Primary Pilot Is Not China’s Pre-A: What China Families Should Not Assume
AMT’s 2026 early-primary pilot is an online-only trial for Years 1-2 in Australian and New Zealand schools. It is not the China-region Pre-A paper. This article separates the two events and gives China families a short checklist of what to confirm through their regional coordinator instead of borrowing Australian rules.
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Australian AMC Sitting Day for Six- to Ten-Year-Olds: The Room Rules to Rehearse Before 11 October (2026)
What AMT’s supervisor script asks of a young child on sitting day – stay seated to the end, hand up for the toilet, no smart watch – and how to rehearse it before 11 October.
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Australian AMC Entry Check: The Grade Error That Hides Inside the Right Level Letter (2026)
For Grades 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 11, last year’s grade still gives the right Australian AMC level letter. AMT ranks awards by year level, so check the grade too.
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Australian AMC Access Arrangements: Extra Time, Large Print and What to Ask Before 28 September (2026)
AMT’s 2026 handbook provides for extra time and large-print AMC papers on request. China-region seats go through ASDAN, so ask before entries close on 28 September.
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October Is Already Full: Planning Backwards from a Sunday Paper Through the National Day Week (2026)
11 October 2026 is a Sunday and National Day falls on the Thursday before it. The last month before the Australian AMC holds far fewer usable days than it looks.
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What the Australian AMC Does Not Test — and the September Prep It Quietly Wastes (2026)
AMT publishes the AMC topic scope in seven short lines. Four things families spend September on never appear on the paper. A scope audit for the last three weeks.