From the Junior Challenge to the Guts Round.

Three papers — two UKMT short-MCQ challenges and the long-form Harvard-MIT tournament — covering the breadth of high-school maths competition from Year 8 to undergraduate-bound senior.

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In This Department

Three papers.

Audit

Maths · Year 8 and below

UKMT Junior Challenge

25 MCQs · 60 minutes · 135 marks.

Q1–15 worth 5 marks, Q16–25 worth 6. No negative marking. Junior Kangaroo / JMO follow-on.

UKMT · April →

Audit

Maths · Year 11 and below

UKMT Intermediate Challenge

25 MCQs · 60 minutes · negative marking begins.

The middle paper in the UKMT pyramid. Selects into the Pink, Grey, and Kangaroo follow-ons.

UKMT · February →

Triage

Maths · Tournament

HMMT — Harvard-MIT Math Tournament

February · November · individual, team, guts.

~200 problem sets across 27 years of February tournaments. Archive currently blocked behind an authentication gate.

Harvard & MIT · twice a year →

An editor's note

The UKMT pyramid is the obvious first ladder.

For most secondary-school students, the UKMT's three challenges — Junior, Intermediate, Senior — are the most accessible mathematics competition in the world. The papers are sat in school, the answers are multiple-choice, and the follow-on rounds (Kangaroo, Olympiad) provide a graceful escalation.

HMMT is a different animal: a team-based tournament held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that draws the top high-school math students from across the world. The November tournament is the entry point; February is for the experienced.

A note on access

HMMT's official archive is currently blocked behind AWS API Gateway. We've documented the block as boundary evidence; for the archive itself, the AoPS-hosted mirror is the most reliable secondary source.

— The Editors