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Registration news, preparation strategy and competition updates for the Australian Mathematics Competition.
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Twenty-One Days to the Deadline: The Australian AMC Registration Choices You Cannot Take Back (2026)
China-region registration closes Monday 28 September 2026. Three of the choices bundled inside that form are hard to undo. Here is the order to make them in.
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Calculators, Dictionaries and Readers: What the Australian AMC Permits on the Desk (2026)
AMT publishes exactly what may sit on an AMC desk. Printed language dictionaries are permitted; calculators depend on your division. What that means for a China-region seat.
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The Year You Move Up: What Changes When You Cross into a New Australian AMC Level (2026)
Six of the twelve year groups on the Australian AMC ladder start a new level each season. Crossing a band changes the paper and resets your benchmark – here is how to prepare.
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The First Ten Questions: The 30 Marks You Lose to Handling, Not Difficulty (2026)
Questions 1-10 carry 3 marks each – 30 of the 135 on the Australian AMC paper. They are almost never lost to difficulty. A first-block protocol that protects them.
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Online or on Paper: How Delivery Mode Changes Your Australian AMC Preparation (2026)
AMT delivers the AMC online or on printed paper. Which one your seat uses changes how you annotate, how you record answers and how you rehearse – and it is one question to your coordinator.
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From Credit to Distinction: The Middle Questions Decide Your Australian AMC Band (2026)
Questions 11 to 25 carry 65 of the 135 marks – more than the first ten and more than the last five combined. That is where the move from Credit to Distinction is actually made.
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Metres, Minutes and Money: The Australian AMC’s Measurement Questions, Decoded (2026)
Measurement is on AMT’s published topic list and it quietly leaks marks: squared and cubed conversions, base-60 time, day-of-week arithmetic and misread scales. A four-family repair guide.
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Which Level, Really? Mapping IB, British and Chinese School Years onto the Australian AMC Levels (2026)
Your Australian AMC level follows the grade your school records from September 2026. Here is how IB, British and Chinese year labels convert, and why Australia’s own division names do not match.
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The Error Log That Earns Marks: A Weekly Repair Method for the Weeks Before 11 October (2026)
Most Australian AMC practice produces a score and nothing else. Sort your wrong answers into four kinds, fix each kind differently, and re-test on a ten-day delay.