Getting stressed out by maths

Hi all,

I've been consistently getting Ds in my mock exams. I know that they don't represent my actual exam grades, but I feel like they're a good indication I'm hardly progressing at all in maths.

I dedicate several hours a week to practicing maths in addition to using Anki flashcards, yet it feels like for every lesson I know, there's like 5 more things I don't know. Everytime I do a maths paper, especially a pure one, I'm overwhelmed by how little I actually know.

A part of me kinda regrets choosing maths, yet I don't want to drop out - mainly because I need it for my dream uni (University of Manchester)

I'm in Year 13 and a few months away from my actual exams. Overall, this, my strict self-made schedule and the other things I need to do for college are making me anxious and really stressed (and I respond badly to stress). My maths studying during GCSEs wasn't this rigourous yet I somehow got a 7, so where did I go wrong?

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DerDracologe

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Maybe change up how youre revising if it’s not helping you? Also if youre consistently getting Ds then that means youre keeping the same level of ability as the demands of tests increase over the a level course, that means you are progressing but so is the difficulty of the test so you remain at the same grade.

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