TIPS NEEDED ASAP - Day before math exam (1 Viewer)

[hi_998]

hey guys i have my 2u math exam tmmrw and its only algrebraic techniques plus surds. ive been studying all week yet i feel like im not up to maximum potential, and i still and making mistakes. ive pretty much completed every single thing i can. but i know im not ready. i really dont know how i should set out my time today as i feel like its not enough. what should i do?

 

[iloveeggs]

what specifically are you bad at and why are you making mistakes? also have you done past papers and timed practise?

 

[C2H6O]

If you've got a textbook go to the chapter review of algebraic techniques and do every question

 

[hi_998]

what specifically are you bad at and why are you making mistakes? also have you done past papers and timed practise?

yes ive done all past papers and im getting mixed up on sig figs and also hard questions in the end. and expressing things im simplest form for example. i just have given up beacuse the exams out of 40 and each mark would be 2.5% so i would hve to get really good to get an A

 

[hi_998]

If you've got a textbook go to the chapter review of algebraic techniques and do every question

yeah ive done that

 

[Legendary16]

Given the proximity to your exam, your best bet is to look at any notes if you have them. It would be wise to just focus on any challenging questions across sig figs or simplest form, or even just normal questions in other topics you’re weaker in. If you still have time you can look at more past prelim papers on thsc and glance over each question with how you’d approach each one.

 

[hi_998]

Given the proximity to your exam, your best bet is to look at any notes if you have them. It would be wise to just focus on any challenging questions across sig figs or simplest form, or even just normal questions in other topics you’re weaker in. If you still have time you can look at more past prelim papers on thsc and glance over each question with how you’d approach each one.

thank you!!!!

 

[iloveeggs]

Given the proximity to your exam, your best bet is to look at any notes if you have them. It would be wise to just focus on any challenging questions across sig figs or simplest form, or even just normal questions in other topics you’re weaker in. If you still have time you can look at more past prelim papers on thsc and glance over each question with how you’d approach each one.

instead of notes i would suggest like videos or like worked solutions of harder questions (maybe eddie woo has some). you can try solving the question at the same time as the video and see what is different in their approach as opposed to yours. also dont go through thsc, most prelim papers dont have that many algebraic techniques and surds questions (esp selectives tend to have very little) so you are best off looking in the cambridge textbook in the harder questions or past papers that your school may have provided.

i would focus most of today towards fixing your mistakes in the easier questions and aim to get 100% in the easier questions. obv work on the harder stuff too but dont be too caught up in that stuff because getting a few hard questions right is not worth getting a bunch of easy questions wrong bc you will lose more marks that way.

if you cant answer a hard question do as much as you can and as much working as you can and then stop working on it and come back to it