General Information
Events
The major events of each tournament include individual tests, the team round, and the guts round.
Please refer to this page for a full description of the tests.
In addition, HMMT hosts two additional events: Friday Night Events and Sunday Education.
The Friday Night Events feature optional social activities, including dinner and ice cream, with the goal of allowing the students to have some fun and to possibly warm-up before the tournament.
Events are typically organized by students from both Harvard and MIT and by sponsors of HMMT, and range from for-fun activities like puzzle hunts and board and card games to math-related events like Integration Bees and Estimathons.
The Sunday Education initiative is a set of events designed to share with participants topics in higher math and their applications.
The events are centered around classes taught by professors, alumni, and students from both Harvard and MIT, usually taking place on the Sunday after the competition. The programming also consists of panels and guest speakers.
To find out more, see our past catalogs and event schedules in the Education Archives.
More information will be provided to competitors closer to the tournament dates.
Testing
Both tournaments feature individual tests, a team round, and our signature guts round. The testing
formats differ slightly between the two tournaments: see
this page
for a summary of the differences.
A full team is considered as 6 students for November's tournament and 8 students for February's tournament.
The scoring system for teams aggregates the sum of the individual scores, team round score, and guts score.
Thus, it is advantageous to have a full team.
For more information about testing rules and the types of tests, see
Testing Information.
Awards
Prizes will be awarded to the ten highest-scoring individuals overall, the top ten scorers on each of the individual tests, the five highest-scoring teams on the Team Round, and the five highest-scoring teams on the Guts Round.
The top ten teams overall will be named the Sweepstakes winners.
Ties will not be broken.