Yr10 going into yr11‼️ tips for maths edexcel

I’m in top set maths by some miracle but I got a 6 in my last report card. Any tips on how to improve, I’m incredibly bad at maths. What should I do this summer? What topics do you think I’d should look over now that you think are the hardest? (Would also appreciate tips for French (edexcel) and chemistry (aqa)).

Reply 1

D33n

5

Yh I got a 6 in my year 10 mocks aswell last year, what you got to do is get a sheet of every topic of corner maths and colour code it from what u do know and what u don’t know, Then from September just do the red topics first (the harder ones) by watching Corbett maths vids and maths genie questions until u understand it. Keep doing this moving from hardest topics to easiest, when u get to march, do tons of past papers from Corbett maths/ edexcel

Reply 2

D33n

5

Original post by overachiever1

I’m in top set maths by some miracle but I got a 6 in my last report card. Any tips on how to improve, I’m incredibly bad at maths. What should I do this summer? What topics do you think I’d should look over now that you think are the hardest? (Would also appreciate tips for French (edexcel) and chemistry (aqa)).

Also make sure you purchase a edxcel higher book, that helps a lot

Reply 3

spowerr

4

i would say first try to focus on the first half of the paper and focus on getting all of them right. then i would focus on the harder subjects at the end of the paper like for example circle theorems, vectors and things like that just so u can get any last minute marks in the actual exam. (hope this makes sense!!)

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Muttley79

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Original post by D33n

Yh I got a 6 in my year 10 mocks aswell last year, what you got to do is get a sheet of every topic of corner maths and colour code it from what u do know and what u don’t know, Then from September just do the red topics first (the harder ones) by watching Corbett maths vids and maths genie questions until u understand it. Keep doing this moving from hardest topics to easiest, when u get to march, do tons of past papers from Corbett maths/ edexcel

You should do amber first - not red

Reply 5

Muttley79

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Original post by overachiever1

I’m in top set maths by some miracle but I got a 6 in my last report card. Any tips on how to improve, I’m incredibly bad at maths. What should I do this summer? What topics do you think I’d should look over now that you think are the hardest? (Would also appreciate tips for French (edexcel) and chemistry (aqa)).

Review your knowledge here: https://www.drfrost.org/courses.php?coid=12809

Did you get your papers back? Focus on amber topics first ie ones where you got partial marks.

Reply 6

overachiever1

OP

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Original post by D33n

Also make sure you purchase a edxcel higher book, that helps a lot

Yep - I received it two days ago

Reply 7

overachiever1

OP

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Original post by Muttley79

Review your knowledge here: https://www.drfrost.org/courses.php?coid=12809
Did you get your papers back? Focus on amber topics first ie ones where you got partial marks.

Yeah we did - the problem was it was a mix between higher and foundation so it is quite disappointing I scored so low.

Reply 8

Muttley79

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Original post by overachiever1

Yeah we did - the problem was it was a mix between higher and foundation so it is quite disappointing I scored so low.

There is an overlap of questions in all papers - that's how they make sure a grade 4 on Foundation is the same as on Higher

Reply 9

Yinbeemie

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Original post by overachiever1

I’m in top set maths by some miracle but I got a 6 in my last report card. Any tips on how to improve, I’m incredibly bad at maths. What should I do this summer? What topics do you think I’d should look over now that you think are the hardest? (Would also appreciate tips for French (edexcel) and chemistry (aqa)).

Hi, also doing chemistry aqa have you tried using cognito they have a website and alot of videos explaining chemistry and it really helped me alot because I do triple science aqa. Pretty sure cognito does maths chemistry biology and physics too

Reply 10

futuredoctor17

14

use dr frost as recommended above as well as sparx maths and onmaths
sparx and dfm are good for seperate topics
dfm is also good to do past papers online with space next to it for working out
and onmaths also contains past papers as well as predicted papers to attempt online

for chemistry use seneca and gizmo.ai

Reply 11

ConfusedPenguin1

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For the higher mark questions in particular (especially but not only geometry), past paper questions are essential. Many of these questions will be based on concepts that aren't that advanced and can often be found in the formula sheet provided (trigonometry is the big one), so the real challenge is figuring out how you should approach the question. Knowing the cosine rule is great, but ultimately useless in these questions if you never think to use it.

Practice paper questions can really help with getting more familiar with these tricky questions, and are, in my opinion, a necessary part of revision.

Yr10 going into yr11‼️ tips for maths edexcel

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