gcse maths help??

ever since yr9, i have been capped at grade 6 in every maths mock
my grade has not improved at all since our last mocks
i want to get grade 8
i do edexcel higher

background info
to be completely honest, i never revised for maths in yr9 and especially yr10 bc of issues at home n me taking lots of absences in yr10 due to health
but now im back, i think im just lost on how to start revising effectively bc ive missed so much content
ive done like an hour or two everyday since the end of jan, but in my recent mocks i only scored 5 points higher than my nov mocks (50% ish)
i cant wrap my head around certain concepts (especially geometry and probability) and its hard to concentrate when i dont enjoy the subject
any advice would be appreciated

(edited 8 months ago)

Reply 1

xinnie

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Reply 2

Zarayaldanawabi

Original post

by xinnie

ever since yr9, i have been capped at grade 6 in every maths mock
my grade has not improved at all since our last mocks
i want to get grade 8
i do edexcel higher
background info
to be completely honest, i never revised for maths in yr9 and especially yr10 bc of issues at home n me taking lots of absences in yr10 due to health
but now im back, i think im just lost on how to start revising effectively bc ive missed so much content
ive done like an hour or two everyday since the end of jan, but in my recent mocks i only scored 5 points higher than my nov mocks (50% ish)
i cant wrap my head around certain concepts (especially geometry and probability) and its hard to concentrate when i dont enjoy the subject
any advice would be appreciated

Hiii!!! I went from only getting 44 in paper 2 to getting 73 in these mocks so tips I have is to please do past papers, go on math websites like math links and practice the grade7-9 topics, Corbett maths also helps so much!!! Sparx is also good but you need to do the independent learning, if you are able to you should look at your old mock papers and see what u got wrong and keep doing questions on that topic until its as easy as addition! :smile:

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Reply 3

Aimee_5

hellooo~ I’m currently doing AQA Maths and I absolutely love and enjoy every aspect of maths (well just 0.00001% less for those annoying graphs..) I’ve always been able to achieve 9s (or equivalent percentage of scores) since like yr 8, but nowadays my scores are fluctuating at around 75/80 due to the silly mistakes I always make (and its driving me nuts)..

Alongside studying maths, I also enjoy explaining maths to ppl since its very satisfying for me to see the improvements they make after understanding it.

Sites that I use to study for maths:

Corbettmaths (brilliant site with banks of questions and videos on each topic)

MathsGenie (amazing site if you want more challenging exam questions based on each topic)

OnMaths (An alternative site you can use to do past papers)

SparxMaths (a site that track your progress and has a bank of questions and videos explaination for every topic)

Firstclassmaths (best site for challenging predicted papers, spicy questions to strech yourself to the next level, list of topic appearance based on exams in the previous years, etc)

thirdspacelearning (my fav site to refresh myself on a topic that Im about to forget, or even to learn a new topic!)

My advice for doing/ studying for Maths:

Always start learning a topic from basic because all the topics are build on the simplest ideas! Just imagine constructing a building, if the base of the building is not stable, it doesn’t matter how perfect the top is, since it’s still inevitably gonna collapse.

Always ask for help straight away if ur stuck on smth bc all things in maths are interconnected. This means if u ignore your misunderstandings on one topic, this will very likely affect ur performance on another topic. Think about a 5 marker never just involve one single topic, it’s always a mix of skills from diff topics.

Do a lot of past papers, by that I mean at least 2 a week starting from today because getting good grades in maths is all about the amount of practice you do and your exposure to diff types of questions.

Always check for silly mistakes at the end. I can never emphasise enough the importance of avoiding silly mistakes, and the truth is, everyone including me still do so in every exam. So just make sure you do every question carefully and underline the important information to reduce the chance of having silly mistakes at the first place!!

Don’t stare at a question for 10 minutes in an exam since you do not have time for that. You’ll rather revisit it at the end if you have time cuz maybe by that time your brain will have a different way of interpreting the question!

Don’t avoid studying the topics you hate and go for the ones you love since there’ll be absolutely no point studying if you let your brain to just avoid it!

Don’t make notes! I do know this is very controversial, but think about you could’ve spend the time on actually practising some questions instead of taking notes. (Maths is a incredibly practical subject, it’s not memory based, you have to adapt on doing the questions). Plus I never make notes for maths.

Doing maths is so much better with a buddy there with you, so you can support each other and aim for improvements together.

I hope that you will find some of these information helpful!

Remember it’s never too early or late to start working hard on maths, the more you practice, the better you’ll be!

Please feel free to ask me in wtv way if you have a specific question or topic that you need explaination on (I’ll try my best to do so) or just anything at all about maths! There’s never something too big or small to ask about maths!

GL to everyone on revising! ^^