if there’s a topic/concept you’re struggling in, as much as it’s boring and repetitive and time-consuming, the only way it will get easier, is to do MORE of those types of questions.
Once you ask for help, things will start clicking into place. Methods is not an easy subject by any means, and I know you know this, but you won’t see results unless you keep pushing.
I definitely understand the feeling of ‘Mt Everest worth of work’, and you and I have probably heard this a million times, but you just need to take that step and start again. Once you start, you will keep going, Methods is only for 6 more months, not for a lifetime. Try your best to keep going and pushing till then.
You can’t give up, I can tell you, with effort, time, dedication and perseverance, it will all work out, and you will see results.
The quote that I've highlighted in bold is so many levels of ironic that it's almost funny.
Like, you're telling me that doing work will make it
easier for me? How? Won't I just get confused and stuck on a difficult question? And the cycle continues.
As I've said, I've most certainly tried to learn and be engaged in this subject, but I haven't had much success. I don't know if it's perfectionism, but it genuinely angers me that I can't understand a good majority of the Methods course. Sure, I know a few things, but even
that knowledge is crumbling with the awareness that those exam questions are even less forgiving. I acknowledge that I
do have weaknesses. But what do you do if you feel like you're struggling with the
entire course? For me, Maths definitely has the potential to be interesting. I am aware of its applications and beauty. It's just unfortunate that this beauty is outside the scope of the study design and I feel like I am stuck with trying to decipher an alien language. It feels like total luck whether I learn something in class or not. It's either I understand what is being taught, or I don't. If I 'get it', great! If I don't, well then that's just too bad, I'll never understand this.
Do I ever walk away from maths class exclaiming, 'wow, I learnt something new today?'. No, I don't. I feel like we're just studying to do well on an exam, not genuinely trying to understand the mathematical processes involved. And when we
do go over mathematical processes, I feel so lost and even further behind than I already am. I guess that's just the nature of VCE, which I can't do anything about.
I feel helpless. I feel that I am unable to improve my situation in Maths.
I apologise in advance for what I'm about to say:
I feel like I don't genuinely learn or understand anything in class. It all seems like a fruitless exercise, like a waste of time.