Australian Mathematics Competition practice
The AMC is a problem-solving competition run by the Australian Maths Trust and sat through schools, usually in late July or early August. It isn't a curriculum test: most questions can be attacked with content a student already has, and the difficulty comes from seeing how.
We build practice papers at all five levels.
Last updated: 12 October 2026
Every level has the same structure: 25 multiple choice + 5 integer answers.
- A — Middle PrimaryYears 3–4 · 60 min · Calculator allowed
- B — Upper PrimaryYears 5–6 · 60 min · Calculator allowed
- C — JuniorYears 7–8 · 75 min · Calculator not permitted
- D — IntermediateYears 9–10 · 75 min · Calculator not permitted
- E — SeniorYears 11–12 · 75 min · Calculator not permitted
On our Middle Primary and Upper Primary papers an on-screen calculator is available for the whole paper; from Junior up there isn't one.
There's no penalty for a wrong answer, and the paper gets harder as it goes — the last five questions, where you have to produce a number rather than choose one, are a different order of difficulty from the first five.
How we calibrated these
Our AMC-style questions are built to sit at the difficulty the real papers actually reach, level by level — calibrated against published papers rather than estimated from year level. We don't copy AMC problems into our bank; we build our own.
Why competition practice is worth it even if your child isn't a "maths kid"
Curriculum practice asks whether a method is secure. Competition practice asks what to do when no method is obvious — which is the part that transfers to senior secondary and to any test with a time limit. Our AMC papers draw across year levels by difficulty rather than by grade, so a Year 7 student can meet a question built on Year 5 content that's genuinely hard.
Practise free, no account needed. Every paper is marked the moment your child finishes, with a worked solution on every question.
Guides
The AMC explained: divisions, scoring and awards covers the five divisions by year level, how the paper is scored and what the result report on the certificate shows.
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