I got 224/240 on a Foundation Tier Maths Mock. How should I improve my mark?

You did rlly well, I don't think you need to worry but if you rlly want to aim for 230+, here are some tips

I get the impression that you have a good understanding of the topics in the paper as 224 is still a very good mark. So I think mybe you need exam technique rather than help with topics

When you are in an exam or doing a timed practice paper at home its rlly important to slow down and read the questions properly. I think under timed conditions a lot of ppl try to finish the questions as fast as possible but it only leads to more mistakes. Maths is a subject in which you can easily finish with 30 mins left.

Also if you don't understand a question it's important not to panic. After having a go at it if I don't understand I continue and answer questions I can, then at the end I use the time left to answer the questions I didn't understand. This rlly helped me in my mocks as many ppl found calculator hard in my school and ended up messing up the exam.

I'm not sure how much time you get for a foundaton exam but I think its similar to the higher. In that case I think these tips should help

You did rlly well, I don't think you need to worry but if you rlly want to aim for 230+, here are some tips

I get the impression that you have a good understanding of the topics in the paper as 224 is still a very good mark. So I think mybe you need exam technique rather than help with topics

When you are in an exam or doing a timed practice paper at home its rlly important to slow down and read the questions properly. I think under timed conditions a lot of ppl try to finish the questions as fast as possible but it only leads to more mistakes. Maths is a subject in which you can easily finish with 30 mins left.

Also if you don't understand a question it's important not to panic. After having a go at it if I don't understand I continue and answer questions I can, then at the end I use the time left to answer the questions I didn't understand. This rlly helped me in my mocks as many ppl found calculator hard in my school and ended up messing up the exam.

I'm not sure how much time you get for a foundaton exam but I think its similar to the higher. In that case I think these tips should help

Thanks a lot. Your a great person. Also I added my time together for all the 3 papers. So I don't always have to check for 1h 30 minutes etc. I just added all the time for the 3 papers and did it in timed conditions like you said. Also what did you get overall out of 240 marks.

You could probably do decently at higher tier!

Stop bothering with foundation and go up to higher. Evidently you're too good for foundation - this mark is well in excess of a 5. Why aim for a higher 5 on foundation when you could be getting 6s/7s or even higher on higher?

You could probably do decently at higher tier!

I could get 176/240 (73%) overall or maybe 200/240 (83%)

that's a great mark, well done! i do genuinely think that you could do really well at higher tier! however i'm not sure if it would be possible to swap over now just because of all of the extra content in higher and (i'm assuming you're in year 11 here haha) and how we don't have ages until the exams? that's something you could ask your teacher when we go back as i'm not too sure myself. even if you cannot swap, i think it could really help you to try out some higher papers, just as they will give you a wider overview of maths and it could help you to get an even better score on the foundation paper (although you don't have much room for improvement with that score! to improve your score, you could just practice more papers so that you don't make any mistakes - which i myself make a lot of hahah. wishing you all the best!

Thanks what would you get out of 240 if you did the foundation papers 1, 2 and 3 with an overall score and grade?