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drop(faq): CR-4 answer should just be "no"
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No. It is a long-standing policy of AMC that decisions of the
USAMO graders are final and may not be appealed.
I am also not able to look up your exact score distribution for you.

I won't claim that we graders never make mistakes,
but all papers are read independently by at least two graders
(and sometimes more if the solution is especially different or unusual);
these graders must agree before a score is assigned.
Then the top papers on each contest
(anyone within one problem or so of an award or MOP invitation)
are re-graded again, independently, by a third (or fourth, ...) grader.
Nearly all the graders are either past USAMO winners or IMO medalists
or high-scorers of some national olympiad.

I will say that USAMO grading tends to be stricter than IMO grading,
or most other national olympiads for that matter.

All that being said,
this is a good incentive to learn to write your solutions neatly.
You don't want to be the one with a correct solution
that the graders can't understand!

### {{ faq("CR-5", "What results may be cited without proof on USAMO or IMO?") }}

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