Higher Maths 2019/2020

The highermathematics.co.uk website is really good. It has past papers arranged by topic and, if you're using the Heinemann textbook, then you can find worked solutions to all the questions on there too. DLB Maths on youtube is also great. The key with Maths is consistency. Do as many questions as you can and your hard work will pay off

Where is everyone at with higher maths? We are halfway through the last topic in Unit 2!

There is units??? We have like 12 portfolios like in different topics and right now we are at portfolio 7. I think our school has done it a strange way as we started with Logs and Exps which on like websites for help it is one of the last topics

Is anyone doing the prelim in Monday, if so what's gonna be in the prelim and is it non-calculator or calculator or both?

Different schools do their prelims on different dates (and using different question papers), but I'd expect that you'll have both a calculator & non calculator paper, covering all of the topics that you've done so far, unless your teacher has told you otherwise. Good luck with it!

Hey could someone be able to help me with question 8, I understand simple chain rule stuff but this question has got me stumped

Looking at that shows me how much a actually need to study omg, all those questions are hella confusing 😂😂

Anyone else find just anything to do with graphs confusing! I just look at them and almost give up lol

Yeah, optimisation is the absolute worst though. It cost around 20 marks in the prelim and I hadn't a clue on how to do a single step

Failed the prelim

Failed the prelim

Sorry to hear it didn't go so well

But don't give up, remember a prelim is just a prelim - it doesn't really matter. You've still got time to turn things around before the exam in May

Looking at your question paper...
Were there particular topics where you lost lots of marks?
Or particular question types?
Or maybe your grade in one of the papers was much lower than the other?
Once you identify these things you'll have a pretty good idea of what areas of the course you need to focus on.

Here, I don't mean the questions, I mean the actual exam on the day...
How did you feel the exam went?
Did you have a bad day, or was something distracting you from giving it your focus?
Did you struggle with your timings?
Was it different/easier/harder than you expected?
Did you follow a plan of how you approached the exam? Did the plan you followed (or the lack of one) work well for you?
Answering these will help you find out if you need to work on any particular aspects of exam technique.

And thinking about your preparation...
What methods did you use to revise? Are these the same ones you used for Nat 5, or have you adapted them to suit the Higher content/level? Are you using active methods of revision that work effectively for you as an individual?
Did you have enough resources (decent teaching, revision materials such as past papers, support from teachers, time) to prepare?
Have you been able to keep up with the work/homework in class? (there's lots of reasons someone might not have, so there's no shame whatsoever if this one is a no)
Equally, have you balanced this preparation with looking after yourself?
If there's an aspect of these that you feel is missing, taking action to make it better might be able to make quite a big difference & improve your grade.

The above is to think about, rather than necessarily something you need to respond to here (though happy to chat about it!), and will hopefully help you figure out what key things you could work on between now and the final exam. Hope this helps- you've got this

So I got a c in my prelim and I never passed the recent test we had in February and I don't know what else to do to up my marks. I've done all past papers and practised on the stuff I did bad in, In my prelim. Anyone got any more tips????

So I got a c in my prelim and I never passed the recent test we had in February and I don't know what else to do to up my marks. I've done all past papers and practised on the stuff I did bad in, In my prelim. Anyone got any more tips????