Team & individual Contest Achievements

• • Four pupils qualified for USAMO 2026, via the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), one of the most selective mathematics gateways in the United States.
  • Prasanna Mahesh Pawar earned a perfect score on the AMC 12, the first AMMOC pupil ever to do so.
  • 14 of 15 participating pupils qualified for the AIME 2026, following a breakthrough performance at the American Mathematics Competition (AMC 10/12) 2025.
  • Pupils collectively earned 7 titles of Distinction, 2 of Honor Roll of Distinction, 5 of Excellence, and 1 of Achievement on the AMC, for scoring 90 or above while in grade 8 or below.
  • AMMOC ranked 17th among 78 elite invited teams, placing in the first quartile, at the Princeton University Mathematics Competition (PUMaC) 2025.
  • AMMOC secured the 8th position internationally in the Power Round of PUMaC 2024, on measure theory and fractal geometry.
  • AMMOC has ranked among the top 10 teams internationally every year since it began competing at the Caltech Math Meet (CMM).
  • AMMOC was ranked 9th internationally at the Caltech Math Meet 2026, on probability & expectation, convergence & the central limit theorem, and Markov chains.
  • Team AMMOC, led by Darsan, won 3rd rank in the world in the Power Round of the Caltech Math Meet 2024.
  • Team AMMOC (USA Junior) and AMMOC (USA & Asia) — twelve middle-school pupils — earned Distinguished Honorable Mention and Honorable Mention across all four categories of the Berkeley mini Math Tournament (BmMT) 2026.
  • Loukya Ghanta earned High Distinction, placing in the top 5%, at BmMT 2026.
  • Sritha Uppaluru earned Distinguished Honorable Mention at BmMT 2026.
  • Eight pupils — Vidur, Alicia Zhong, Saarang Agarwal, Rishabh, Aarnav, Yuvan, Dhruv, and Arjun — earned Honorable Mention in the Individual Round of BmMT 2026.
  • Team AMMOC (US-Junior I) earned Distinguished Honorable Mention at the Stanford Math Tournament (SMT) 2026.
  • Five protégés — Parth, Prasanna, Vibhu Konduru, Karma Pillai, and Ananya Kalia — earned Distinguished Honorable Mention in the Algebra/Geometry papers at SMT 2026; Kalkin Gandhi earned Distinguished Honorable Mention in the General Paper.
  • Eleven protégés earned 7 titles of Distinguished Honorable Mention and 9 titles of Honorable Mention at the Berkeley Math Tournament (BMT) 2025, whose Power Round was based on knot theory.
  • Two AMMOC teams earned Honorable Mention at the Purple Comet Math Meet, organized by Prof. Titu Andreescu, former coach of the US IMO team.
  • Four mentees were individually recognized with Distinguished Honorable Mention and Honorable Mention honors, alongside two full AMMOC teams, at the Stanford Math Tournament (SMT) 2025.
  • Charvi Atreya qualified for the Math Prize for Girls 2025, to be hosted at MIT, whose advisory board includes mathematicians from MIT, Harvard, and UC San Diego.

Individual Scores on the AMC 8-12 and AIME

(For context: AMC 10/12 is scored out of 150; AIME is scored out of 15; AMC 8 is scored out of 25.)

• • Madani Valenci earned a perfect score of 15/15 on the AIME, after posting a 145.5 on the AMC 12 — one of the rarest results achievable on the exam.
  • Parth Andhare scored a 14 on the AIME, after a 118.5 on the AMC 12.
  • Prasanna Mahesh Pawar scored a 13 on the AIME.
  • Raeyaan Muppaneni scored 145.5 on the AMC 12.
  • Vibhu Konduru scored 123 on the AMC 12.
  • Sergei Makarevich scored 118 on the AMC 12.
  • Shaurya Patil scored 99 on the AMC 12.
  • Sumanyu Nandecha scored 145.5 on the AMC 10.
  • Rakshith Chandrashekhar scored 145.5 on the AMC 10.
  • Sritha Uppaluru, an eighth grader, scored 91 on the AMC 10, earning a Certificate of Achievement under AMC rules for scoring 90 or above while in grade 8 or below.
  • Rishabh Bhatia scored 23/25 on the AMC 8.
  • Vidur Konduru scored 23/25 on the AMC 8.
  • Saarang Agarwal, Loukya Ghanta, and Aarnav Sivachandran each scored 19/25 on the AMC 8, while still in grade 7.

A scientific culture of Independent Study

(For context: Advanced Upper UG and Grad-level courses are for pupils who are in the last two years of their scientific education at AMMOC, and we do not admit anyone for a period less than two years.) We do not consider a case even if one has 18-20 months.

Competition results are only the visible surface of what happens at AMMOC. Underneath every scoreboard is a slower, quieter project: pupils working, often for years, through primary graduate-level texts under direct mentorship — not as a reward for talent, but as the actual substance of an AMMOC education. Below are the directed reading tracks currently underway, organized by subject, along with a note on how merit is supported regardless of a pupil’s circumstances.

Access on Merit: The Story of Madani Valenci

Madani Valenci joined AMMOC on a full scholarship, made possible in recognition of his mathematical ability and in acknowledgement of his family’s financial circumstances. This year, Madani earned a perfect score of 15/15 on the AIME, one of the rarest results achieved by any AMMOC pupil to date.

His talent was also recognised well beyond AMMOC: Madani was accepted, with a full scholarship, to both the Yau Mathematics Camp and Oxford PROMYS and separately admitted to Stanford’s SuMaC programme, for which the necessary support was generously arranged by Alex Gerko, a friend of AMMOC. After weighing his circumstances for the summer, Madani was advised to attend Oxford PROMYS. AMMOC is proud that a pupil’s financial background was never once a barrier to the opportunities his ability had earned him.

Directed Reading & Independent Study Tracks

Abstract Algebra

• Sergei Makarevich — Algebra: Chapter 0, Paolo Aluffi
• Parth Andhare — Graduate Algebra Notes, Richard Elman (UCLA); Basic Algebra, Anthony W. Knapp

Real & Multivariable Analysis

• Sergei Makarevich — Multi-Dimensional Real Analysis
• Saarang Agarwal, Rishabh Bhatia, Vidur Konduru, Aarnav Sivachandran, Loukya Ghanta, Yuvan Sathish, Dhruv Dubey, Alicia Zhong, Sritha Uppaluru, Anika Dubey, Arjun Rao, Shaurya Patil, Aaditya Sahu, Parth Andhare — Analysis I & II, Terence Tao

Linear Algebra

• Vibhu Konduru, Aaditya Sahu, Shaurya Patil, Sritha Uppaluru, Anika Dubey, Parth Andhare — Linear Algebra and Geometry, A. I. Kostrikin & Yu. I. Manin, with P. K. Suetin

Topology

• Parth Andhare — Topology, Kazimierz Kuratowski; Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint, John Milnor

Mathematical Finance

• Probability Theory in Finance: A Mathematical Guide to the Black-Scholes Formula, Sean Dineen — an elective track open to advanced pupils with an interest in quantitative finance.

AMMOC’s directed reading program is built on the conviction that a pupil who works, sustained and unhurried, through a primary text with a mentor learns something a curriculum can never fully deliver.