The Australian Mathematical Olympiad (AMO) is a two-day Olympiad-level contest comprising four questions each day and conducted under school supervision. Around 200 students are invited to participate in this event from Australia and New Zealand. The contest is held over two days in February and is used to select students to attend the Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee’s Selection School.
The AMO is the second step in Australia’s qualifier for the International Maths Olympiad.
2023 AMO results: Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver, Bronze, Bronze, Bronze, HM.
(2 Senior invites and 3 Inter invites)
~150 invites:15 Gold (6 NSW), 24 Silver (12 NSW), (2Gold, 9Silver students I’ve taught in some programs) 39 Bronze, 52HM
The AMO is the Australian Mathematics Olympiad and is an invitational contest for the top 100 math students in the Nation.
After all these competitions the AMT (Australian Mathematics Trust) invites whom they consider the best 25 students to attend the School of Excellence. This is pretty much the same thing as the Camp mentioned before except for Mathematics. It is held in Melbourne in December (presumably during the Holidays).
Everybody who goes to the School of Excellence (camp) is invited to go to the IMO (International Mathematics Olympiad) training program which is done also during the same Christmas holidays and is also operated during the Easter Holidays (after the December Residential).
There are usually 8 Olympiad-style Math questions that the students will take during the camps. Then the Team Selection Test is done during April, normally in Sydney over Easter. This decides who the 6 people will get to go to the International Mathematics Olympiad.
The IMO team of six will then attend another training camp in June, just before the IMO (which is generally in July).
The Australia National Olympiads include the AMC, AIMO, AMOC, AMO and APMO. The one you may notice at first is the AMC. The AMC is the most well-known of all the National Math Olympiads. It is a test for which there are 3 divisions (Junior, Intermediate, and Senior). Anyone can compete in this ‘olympiad’. It has 30 Questions that you have 75 minutes to Answer.
There is also the AIMO. This is the Australian Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad. This is for students in years 9 and 10 (and gifted or talented years 7 & 8). This competition can also be entered by anyone, although it is based on more difficult and foreign materials in mathematics.
The AMOC is a 4-hour mathematics examination for generally year 11s, although years 9 and 10 can sometimes participate. I am quite sure this contest is only invitational.
