EmilySarah00’s 2017/18 struggle to University (A*AA)

Not really I've had 5 days since my last exam and the only day I've worked is today I'm also very not prepared...
My dad tried to take me out with the sat nav on Sunday and it was such a disaster...there's a load of double roundabouts around me and it only gives you the instruction for the second roundabout once you're already on it and committed to a direction Yeah worry about tomorrow first!
Hopefully!
Good luck tomorrow!

Good luck, I'm sure you'll get an A or A* in FP4.

I am I only have 2 more exams
Have fun with that!
Good luck with FP4 today!! I know you'll smash that exam!!
for that improvement!!

good luck with the exam!

I just failed my S3 exam( at least 7 marks) and I’m soooooo depressed rn😭😭😭😭😭

good luck with FP4! 💫

How was it? @EmilySarah00

Don't feel too bad, it's ok to have a break sometimes at this point there's no need for you to overwork yourself (that comes next year for you...)
I hate double roundabouts! I'm lucky there's only 1 test route with 1 on for me, but what I gain there is more than lost in double parked roads...
I needed that luck but sadly even luck didn't help me today!

23/05/18 - FP4 Exam Summary :

Reflection:

It didn’t really hit me until I opened todays paper that this is it… this is my one chance to show my worth, and it decides my future, it all rests on a few exam papers and if I have a bad day that’s it.. I don’t get what I want.

This realisation as I opened the paper wasn’t a good way to start, I was thrown off for a while before I could kind of get into it, this resulted in me getting even the first question wrong which isn’t ideal.

I worked through questions 2-4 alright and then got to 5 and just couldn’t do the first part, I was getting awkward algebraic fractions which looked like they cancelled but I wasn’t confident enough to cancel them down (which in reflection was stupid) so I left them as big huge fractions, I then had to sub these fractions into other equations and it took A G E S.

The rest of question 5 and 6 were okay but then I only had 20 minutes to complete the last (what I thought was 2) questions. So I was rushing these a lot and then midway through question 8 I realised I actually wasn’t at the end and there was also a question 9 on this paper.

So with 5 minutes remaining I had 17 marks worth of question left to do and safe to say I chucked most of those marks away as I was just panicking so much.. it was the most horrible feeling, I felt so sick at one point I thought I was going to have to run out of the room. Then it was all over, I was mid question and in tears.

It’s just so horrific that all the work I put in resulted in this, like I tried so hard and it just turns out to be a shambles, all I’ve really revised for is todays exam so now I’m just left thinking how much serious work I’m going to have to put in now to even stand a chance of getting the grades I need, when really all I want is another shot at FP4.

Predictions:

Judging by the unofficial mark scheme I reckon I got about 45 marks on that paper which going off standard grade boundaries is about a D, C at absolute best. (Plus the grade boundaries won’t be lower than usual because in hindsight it was a fairly average paper)

I know people will come out and say “I’m sure it wasn’t as bad as you think,” that’s all I’ve heard all day, but I’m not having any of it. I’m usually really good at predicting what I got on Maths papers, and I’m usually only a few marks off.

So this means to get the A that I need in Further Maths I need an A on my other 2 papers, I can’t slip up and even get a B on one of them because that will put me into a B overall. The pressure is more than ever now, I was really hoping all the work I put in to this one would pay off, but it really didn’t.

(Sorry this is depressing, but this is the ugly truth of today)

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Hoorah! I really can't wait for it all to be over, 7 to go..
Thanks for the luck, not sure luck was with me today though...

You know what...

Before your next exam, you need to meditate the night before/the morning of the exam. It will allow you to get into a more focused headspace.

Try downloading the app: ‘Calm’ on the App Store or :’Headspace’.

Mindset is extremely important on the day of the exam so take this as a learning experience. Actually, when you are in the exam hall, I personally think it’s best to think of it as a mock to help ease anxiety.

You're almost there
Move on and do your best in the next 2 exams There's nothing you can do to fix your FP4 exam now.. It's better to just put it behind you and do your best for the next ones!!

you've done your best hopefully you'll be in a better mindset for the next paper

I’m going to try, I’ve just kind of lost all motivation now though, it’s been a day and I still feel really upset about yesterday, so now I have triple maths and I just don’t want to do it.

Sorry to hear about how the paper went. Here are some tips for your next paper. When you open the paper, try to look through the whole thing and check which questions come to you immediately and which look more difficult. You then have a much better chance of picking up marks as you know beforehand roughly how hard the question will be and so you can split your time proportionately. Obviously, I don't know if that'll help you but, for me, it gives me a bit of control over the exam, which might also help with the feeling of dread you felt.

But if worst comes to worst, you should know that I was one mark off a D in S1 but I still ended up with an A* in Maths.

That’s incredible, So you even still managed to average 80%? Crazy

That’s what I need, I worked out I need an average of about 81 UMS on my other 2 Further Maths exams to still manage that A overall

Sorry to hear about how the paper went. Here are some tips for your next paper. When you open the paper, try to look through the whole thing and check which questions come to you immediately and which look more difficult. You then have a much better chance of picking up marks as you know beforehand roughly how hard the question will be and so you can split your time proportionately. Obviously, I don't know if that'll help you but, for me, it gives me a bit of control over the exam, which might also help with the feeling of dread you felt.

But if worst comes to worst, you should know that I was one mark off a D in S1 but I still ended up with an A* in Maths.

Sending virtual hugs
Take it easy today then

oh no
i’m really thankful that you’re so honest with us, because things don’t always go how we want to them to

at least you can use it to hopefully act on your mistakes and smash the rest of your exams xxx

Hey I am a y11 thinking of doing Maths, Further Maths and Computer science for a level, do you think its manageable? Is it too much maths?

You will get it! Keep pushing

Okay. It's happened. Nothing you can do now can change that unfortunately, you just have to smash your other exams. Check through the paper at the beginning next time to see how many questions there are. And if something is taking ages, as happened in question 5, move on and come back to it.