Need MATHS Advice!!! (1 Viewer)

[lilkiwifruit]

Ok so I just finish my yr 11 ext maths yearly and the mark is going to be really really shit because I only did the 1 mark questions and probably only completed every second question. How can I improve my maths?? It's like my marks are getting worse and worse as the teacher tries to speed up our learning and cram the topics into our heads!!!! Sometimes I do well and get into like the top 10 or 15 people...but sometimes my marks are soo bad i fail.. should I just give up and drop extension altogether....or are there ways to improve ???

 

[rama_v]

Ok so I just finish my yr 11 ext maths yearly and the mark is going to be really really shit because I only did the 1 mark questions and probably only completed every second question. How can I improve my maths?? It's like my marks are getting worse and worse as the teacher tries to speed up our learning and cram the topics into our heads!!!! Sometimes I do well and get into like the top 10 or 15 people...but sometimes my marks are soo bad i fail.. should I just give up and drop extension altogether....or are there ways to improve ???

Well the first thing to do is to do your homework, every day, and complete the whole exercise. If you find it hard to complete the exercise, ask your teacher, get a tutor or look at another text book to understand it better. Learning the topics is the first part to success in maths. Once you've learnt the topics your halfway there. THe rest is just doing past papers so that you can expose yourself to different types of questions, under exam conditions. This also helps to reduce the amount of silly errors you do.

 

[lilkiwifruit]

LOL this might sound stupid but i have this "fear" towards maths...probably a lack of confidence because i do sooo badly in it most of the time......would doing a lot of past papers work help me overcome this problem?

 

[Dreamerish*~]

For maths, you need to do lots of exercise to familiarise yourself with various kinds of questions. For example, some HSC questions combine two or three topics within one question, or put an annoying twist into a common question.

Past papers are good because they show you what to expect from exams, and end-of-chapter exercises are also good for practice.

Don't fear maths. Maths is logic, logic is present in all of us.

 

[lilkiwifruit]

For maths, you need to do lots of exercise to familiarise yourself with various kinds of questions. For example, some HSC questions combine two or three topics within one question, or put an annoying twist into a common question.

Past papers are good because they show you what to expect from exams, and end-of-chapter exercises are also good for practice.

Don't fear maths. Maths is logic, logic is present in all of us.

Thank you now i have to spend my holidays catching up before year 12 starts >< :

 

[sam_account]

math is rather one of the easier subjects in the hsc..

as long as you get lots of practice...by "lots" i mean like finsih all h.w, do extra, do past paper questions....

but after a while, when u've got the main concepts, use different sources for more exposure to "hard" questions.

1/2 hrs of math everyday--shud gurantee u a band 6 i reckon..

btw, get fitzpatrick for both 2u and 3u..

after u finish these books --past papers all the way man.

good luck

 

[Dreamerish*~]

Thank you now i have to spend my holidays catching up before year 12 starts >< :

No worries.

Don't worry, you have plenty of time to catch up.

 

[lilkiwifruit]

math is rather one of the easier subjects in the hsc..

as long as you get lots of practice...by "lots" i mean like finsih all h.w, do extra, do past paper questions....

but after a while, when u've got the main concepts, use different sources for more exposure to "hard" questions.

1/2 hrs of math everyday--shud gurantee u a band 6 i reckon..

btw, get fitzpatrick for both 2u and 3u..

after u finish these books --past papers all the way man.

good luck

fitzpatrick is confusing sometimes.....like the author doesn't bother to put some of the answers in

 

[Dreamerish*~]

fitzpatrick is confusing sometimes.....like the author doesn't bother to put some of the answers in

Fitzpatrick is shit. The questions are good, but they do make quite a few mistakes, and are so cheap that they don't have answers that are in graph form.

 

[sikeveo]

Kiwifruit, who do you have for maths?

Seriously, Cambridge is the best.

 

[rama_v]

Kiwifruit, who do you have for maths?

Seriously, Cambridge is the best.

Yeah I agree, cambridge is awesome. But Fitzpatrick is alright too...just some of the questions are totally impossible lol

 

[lilkiwifruit]

Kiwifruit, who do you have for maths?

Seriously, Cambridge is the best.

We use fitzpatrick at school....but yea maybe its because my maths interpreting skills are bad..I read the examples they give us and then i can't do 2/3 of the questions..but the crappiest thing is that there's no answers for it.

 

[pLuvia]

We use fitzpatrick at school....but yea maybe its because my maths interpreting skills are bad..I read the examples they give us and then i can't do 2/3 of the questions..but the crappiest thing is that there's no answers for it.

kiwifruit everyone knows fitzpatrick is crap, cant you hear certain people in the class saying stuff about it LOL

 

[pLuvia]

Fitzpatrick is shit. The questions are good, but they do make quite a few mistakes, and are so cheap that they don't have answers that are in graph form.

exactly dreamerish, i always say that in class, he basically leaves the whole exercise if its graphs its so crap, and cheap

 

[lilkiwifruit]

kiwifruit everyone knows fitzpatrick is crap, cant you hear certain people in the class saying stuff about it LOL

lol usually rakan or gleb i think...

 

[pLuvia]

lol usually rakan or gleb i think...

hahaha, oh wellz, rakan i dropping to 2u, you're not are you?

 

[Mumma]

Ive been doing about 2 hours for maths every day, pays off, got 99% for my last 3U test and 90% for the one before that. Im not sure about the yearly, it was pretty hard and it had probability in it which i hate. Hopefully I can pull off a 90%+.. stupid probability...

 

[rama_v]

Ive been doing about 2 hours for maths every day, pays off, got 99% for my last 3U test and 90% for the one before that. Im not sure about the yearly, it was pretty hard and it had probability in it which i hate. Hopefully I can pull off a 90%+.. stupid probability...

I've given up on learning probability with permutations and combinations (the harder ones anyway). Im just gonna hope they continue the trend of past years hscs and give us easy questions on that topic.

 

[lilkiwifruit]

I've given up on learning probability with permutations and combinations (the harder ones anyway). Im just gonna hope they continue the trend of past years hscs and give us easy questions on that topic.

Probability is sooo frustrating~!!! we started the topic like 2 weeks before our yearlys ><" I don't even understand it

 

[lilkiwifruit]

hahaha, oh wellz, rakan i dropping to 2u, you're not are you?

I might have to.. since im doing so badly