The United States selection, run by AAPT since 1986. It opens with the F=ma exam, 25 multiple-choice questions in 75 minutes sat by thousands; around 400 top scorers advance to the USAPhO itself, six problems in three hours split into a Part A and a Part B; twenty students are then picked for the team. Every sitting AAPT publishes is here as a stage of its year: the F=ma exam, the Quarterfinal it ran for two years, the Semifinal that was later renamed the USAPhO, the additional USAPhO Plus, and the theoretical and lab tests sat at the training camp.