Adam.Meads
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In Year 11, I was in the top 10% in Gen Maths in our school.
Now I'm in about the 35th percentile. My internal mark was around about 60%, compared to 80+% in Year 11.
There are several branches of the Maths that I don't understand.
Our teacher has been terrible ... She refused to give me any past papers, or even any help, because I didn't purchase Success One. Then she effectively told me bad luck.
Now with one day til Maths HSC, I just tried to do some Review Questions out the back of the text book... I could hardly get one right.
The main topics that I am struggling with are:
- Sine and Cosine rules, especially with regards to Angle of Elevation / Depression.
- Volume and area of irregular shapes and composites.
- Probability
- Credit and Loans, and Annuities
I know this is a majority of the course, thats why it is so urgent.
I DO NOT have a copy of Success One.
Nor do I have any past papers.
How should I go about last minute study, especially when my understanding of the course is very poor?
I'm aiming for a mark of around 70%, which is a 12% improvement on my Trial Mark. Yet I was more confident going into the Trials than I am with the HSC.
My marks for other subjects should be OK, with hopefully high B5s or Low B6s in PE and Ancient History.
So it all rests on Maths - and this mental blank I seem to have with it.
I can't really even concentrate on doing questions, I just look at an Angle of Elevation question out of my textbook, and consider it "too hard," so I dont do it. Motivation is 0, even though I have cause for motivation.
Anyways, any help would be much appreciated, my UAI rests on my General Maths mark, which at this stage, is looking around 55%
Now I'm in about the 35th percentile. My internal mark was around about 60%, compared to 80+% in Year 11.
There are several branches of the Maths that I don't understand.
Our teacher has been terrible ... She refused to give me any past papers, or even any help, because I didn't purchase Success One. Then she effectively told me bad luck.
Now with one day til Maths HSC, I just tried to do some Review Questions out the back of the text book... I could hardly get one right.
The main topics that I am struggling with are:
- Sine and Cosine rules, especially with regards to Angle of Elevation / Depression.
- Volume and area of irregular shapes and composites.
- Probability
- Credit and Loans, and Annuities
I know this is a majority of the course, thats why it is so urgent.
I DO NOT have a copy of Success One.
Nor do I have any past papers.
How should I go about last minute study, especially when my understanding of the course is very poor?
I'm aiming for a mark of around 70%, which is a 12% improvement on my Trial Mark. Yet I was more confident going into the Trials than I am with the HSC.
My marks for other subjects should be OK, with hopefully high B5s or Low B6s in PE and Ancient History.
So it all rests on Maths - and this mental blank I seem to have with it.
I can't really even concentrate on doing questions, I just look at an Angle of Elevation question out of my textbook, and consider it "too hard," so I dont do it. Motivation is 0, even though I have cause for motivation.
Anyways, any help would be much appreciated, my UAI rests on my General Maths mark, which at this stage, is looking around 55%