Are there "misplaced" questions on the AMC 10 and AMC 12?

Links below. Wanted to address this hot topic in the aftermath of the contest period. I think it's important to discuss such things and to understand properly to the best of our ability these aspects of the test. Sorry for my Mandarin speaking friends if I butchered the Mandarin lol. Today is Chinese New Year(celebration began yesterday in China). Aside from misplaced questions I also wanted to ask something of my viewers which I appeal for at the end of the video. A great comment from AoPS user donian9265 I wanted to share: "Here are my 2 cents: Because the time limit for the amc's is pretty small, the solutions are pretty short. There is usually one realization and a bit of computation and then you have solved the problem. This means that for competitors who find this realization quickly, they are going to be done with the problem very quickly. If it was a late problem, they might say the problem was "misplaced". Similarly, if a competitor takes a long time to find a realization for an earlier problem, they might again say it is "misplaced". I think a good example is problem 12 on amc10 (this year). If someone saw that the volume will remain constant, then the problem is trivial, however, if you don't see that (like me), the problem becomes "misplaced". As many people have stated above, whether it is "misplaced" or not for a given competitor is mostly dependent on their background in math. For me, on the 10A this year, I found 15-20 unusually hard and decided not to look at 21-25. I had 30 minutes left at the time. If I instead just skipped the problems 15-20, I would have definitely been able to solve 2-3 of the problems between 21-25, which would have heavily increased my score. I assumed that the problems were arranged in increasing difficulty (for me) which was clearly a big mistake. On the B this year, I learned from this. Whenever I didn't see a solution to the problem after 30 seconds, I would simply skip it (I skipped 8,15,18 originally). I was able to look at 21-25 this time and I solved 2 of them (I later had time to solve 8 and 15). This had the potential to increase my score by over 20 points although 2 sillies brought in down to 10 points. My point is that whether people think that the problems should be in some order or not, I think we should accept that they might not be perfectly arranged for our own strengths and weaknesses and should be ready to skip problems." Links: AoPS wiki info on AMC 10 which has many links for further exploration: https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/... MAA website info on AMC 10:https://www.maa.org/math-competitions... Evan Chen(former highly successful IMO participant, and very intelligent communicator with lots of knowledge about the AMC series process. I have no idea how often he responds to comments. Feel free to ask him a question or reach out to him and see what you can learn. He is also one of the moderators on AoPS Contests and Programs Forum.) YouTube Channel:    / @venhance