Studying A-level maths not working
I study A-level maths and am currently in my final year. over this past academic year I've noticed i'm becoming dumber in a-level maths since my grades have dropped drastically from A/B to D/E within months.
I had a mock a little under 2 weeks ago and I revised practically all of A-level pure which i believed to be my strong suit. I spent hours revising every topic in pure only to be destroyed in the mock even in my confident topics like integration.
If i'm being honest i've never actually revised before this and was confident in Maths even being as close as to getting 1 mark away from a 9 which i think gave me the blind confidence to also not revise for a-level maths which did work at first until it didn't.
I want to know how to study effectively over the next 70 days till paper 1 so I can hopefully get an A maybe even an A*. I will try my best to stick to these tips so i can get into my uni of choice which i need a B for for my conditional offers
I had a mock a little under 2 weeks ago and I revised practically all of A-level pure which i believed to be my strong suit. I spent hours revising every topic in pure only to be destroyed in the mock even in my confident topics like integration.
If i'm being honest i've never actually revised before this and was confident in Maths even being as close as to getting 1 mark away from a 9 which i think gave me the blind confidence to also not revise for a-level maths which did work at first until it didn't.
I want to know how to study effectively over the next 70 days till paper 1 so I can hopefully get an A maybe even an A*. I will try my best to stick to these tips so i can get into my uni of choice which i need a B for for my conditional offers
Reply 1
Hi there,
I am a fellow year 13 student doing Maths and further maths A-level, and on track for an A* on both.
How I revise for maths is by having a table on excel with the columns being the topic, confidence level out of 10, last time done a question on it, and another for any extra info. I would then do a past paper. Make sure to spend as long as possible marking the paper, noting where you went wrong, and updating the table. Then, the topics you aren't confident on review the concepts, making sure you understand why you do a process, not just memorising a mark scheme. The questions are supposed to feel somewhat unfamiliar, so doing this is crucial in answering dodgy questions.
The only exception the above is advice if for statistics I'll make revision cards for the written questions based on mark schemes, you'll notice that the same general themes appear but always in the context of the question to get the mark.
Sorry for bad grammar, any questions please fire away.
Junias
I am a fellow year 13 student doing Maths and further maths A-level, and on track for an A* on both.
How I revise for maths is by having a table on excel with the columns being the topic, confidence level out of 10, last time done a question on it, and another for any extra info. I would then do a past paper. Make sure to spend as long as possible marking the paper, noting where you went wrong, and updating the table. Then, the topics you aren't confident on review the concepts, making sure you understand why you do a process, not just memorising a mark scheme. The questions are supposed to feel somewhat unfamiliar, so doing this is crucial in answering dodgy questions.
The only exception the above is advice if for statistics I'll make revision cards for the written questions based on mark schemes, you'll notice that the same general themes appear but always in the context of the question to get the mark.
Sorry for bad grammar, any questions please fire away.
Junias
Reply 2
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by abdillahiahmedI study A-level maths and am currently in my final year. over this past academic year I've noticed i'm becoming dumber in a-level maths since my grades have dropped drastically from A/B to D/E within months.
I had a mock a little under 2 weeks ago and I revised practically all of A-level pure which i believed to be my strong suit. I spent hours revising every topic in pure only to be destroyed in the mock even in my confident topics like integration.
If i'm being honest i've never actually revised before this and was confident in Maths even being as close as to getting 1 mark away from a 9 which i think gave me the blind confidence to also not revise for a-level maths which did work at first until it didn't.
I want to know how to study effectively over the next 70 days till paper 1 so I can hopefully get an A maybe even an A*. I will try my best to stick to these tips so i can get into my uni of choice which i need a B for for my conditional offers
I had a mock a little under 2 weeks ago and I revised practically all of A-level pure which i believed to be my strong suit. I spent hours revising every topic in pure only to be destroyed in the mock even in my confident topics like integration.
If i'm being honest i've never actually revised before this and was confident in Maths even being as close as to getting 1 mark away from a 9 which i think gave me the blind confidence to also not revise for a-level maths which did work at first until it didn't.
I want to know how to study effectively over the next 70 days till paper 1 so I can hopefully get an A maybe even an A*. I will try my best to stick to these tips so i can get into my uni of choice which i need a B for for my conditional offers
Hi,
Also in y13 and doing maths. Predicted A* but have fallen to B, so similar situation as yourself but perhaps not as bad. Wasn't really revising before (half an hour before my mock started I revised all of y2 integration in 5min 😭).
What I have resolved to do (and hopefully it will work) is this. For my weak topics I am going to go through them, perhaps two a week, watching videos to revise before doing pmt exam questions on each. At the same time I am going to do one past paper a week (some paper 1s, some paper 2s. Paper 3s I will start later) and go through my wrong answers. This will continue till close to exams when I increase the number of past papers and drop revision on specific topics.
Now I have realised that @Juni1 has essentially said this (thanks) but I'm posting it anyway
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