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Maths hard questions

Hi
Ive been trying to revise for my maths tests (im taking igcse edexcel higher maths) and ive been using mathsgenie and physics and maths tutor but even tho i can solve all the worksheets there rly easily, the actual questions in the tests im taking at school r so much harder. Does anyone have any websites with challenging qs that r like 6-7 marks?
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Original post by NotRightNow
Hi
Ive been trying to revise for my maths tests (im taking igcse edexcel higher maths) and ive been using mathsgenie and physics and maths tutor but even tho i can solve all the worksheets there rly easily, the actual questions in the tests im taking at school r so much harder. Does anyone have any websites with challenging qs that r like 6-7 marks?

Idk about IGCSE I do normal GCSEs but we don't have 7 markers do we????
Original post by NotRightNow
Hi
Ive been trying to revise for my maths tests (im taking igcse edexcel higher maths) and ive been using mathsgenie and physics and maths tutor but even tho i can solve all the worksheets there rly easily, the actual questions in the tests im taking at school r so much harder. Does anyone have any websites with challenging qs that r like 6-7 marks?
MyMathsCloud under targeted papers is good for this, or dr frost Maths under full coverage
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Original post by AnVeryBigIdiot
Idk about IGCSE I do normal GCSEs but we don't have 7 markers do we????

Not sure tbh i just remember asking my teacher whats the highest mark q possible and she was like 7? Maybe its 6. Anyway i just meant the hard highest mark questions.
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Original post by NotRightNow
Hi
Ive been trying to revise for my maths tests (im taking igcse edexcel higher maths) and ive been using mathsgenie and physics and maths tutor but even tho i can solve all the worksheets there rly easily, the actual questions in the tests im taking at school r so much harder. Does anyone have any websites with challenging qs that r like 6-7 marks?

I do iGCSE higher (but haven't got results yet). I jumped from around 48% in my mocks to consistently 90%. These questions are very repetitive and require similar methods for each topic. I would practice as many hard questions for each topic by going to the last 5-7 questions of the paper and trying to complete them. There are so many, and you should use all the papers since 2012 really; they are pretty similar to the new style of papers. Then maintaining a high accuracy is critical as you are bound to get questions you don't know how to do in the exams, so you have to try and avoid losing marks elsewhere in the paper. Use the international papers (R) and the January papers as well.
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I do iGCSE higher (but haven't got results yet). I jumped from around 48% in my mocks to consistently 90%. These questions are very repetitive and require similar methods for each topic. I would practice as many hard questions for each topic by going to the last 5-7 questions of the paper and trying to complete them. There are so many, and you should use all the papers since 2012 really; they are pretty similar to the new style of papers. Then maintaining a high accuracy is critical as you are bound to get questions you don't know how to do in the exams, so you have to try and avoid losing marks elsewhere in the paper. Use the international papers (R) and the January papers as well.

Tysm :smile: Thats actually so much smarter cos all the hard questions r at the end of the paper and i can easily find past papers on savemyexams. Ive also started doing lots of practice qs because i keep losing marks in the test over stupid things like putting the wrong numbers in the calculator. Add that on top of the hard 5 mark questions that ive never seen before and i end up losing a lot of marks.
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Original post by NotRightNow
Tysm :smile: Thats actually so much smarter cos all the hard questions r at the end of the paper and i can easily find past papers on savemyexams. Ive also started doing lots of practice qs because i keep losing marks in the test over stupid things like putting the wrong numbers in the calculator. Add that on top of the hard 5 mark questions that ive never seen before and i end up losing a lot of marks.

Yeah, I would recommend what I said. You shouldn't run out of paper too, especially if you use the old ones. Topics like vectors, sequences, circle theorems, coordinate geometry, area and volume etc. are all so easy for me now, because I did this. Anyway, hope it helps.

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