For one thing, it's not a real score; they judged the results themselves and Putnam judges are notoriously tough. There was not a single 8 on the problem they claim partial credit for (or any partial credit above a 2) amongst the top 500 humans. https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/putnam2024stats.html.
For another thing, the 2024 Putnam problems are in their RL data.
Also, it's very unclear how these competitions consisting of problems designed to have clear-cut answers and be solved by (well-prepared) humans in an hour will translate to anything else.
For another thing, the 2024 Putnam problems are in their RL data.
Also, it's very unclear how these competitions consisting of problems designed to have clear-cut answers and be solved by (well-prepared) humans in an hour will translate to anything else.