Worried about not making any progress

[McMethods]

Hi guys,
The title basically says it all.

I used to have a tutor but I cancelled our sessions because it was hard for me to travel back and forth to the library. And even though I understand the topics and am able to attempt most of the questions, I still perform poorly. We recently did a SAC- the analysis tasks I believe which apparently is worth 14% of our SS. I'm almost ranked last and it's really affecting me now. Methods isn't so bad, I'm doing quite well but it's Specialist Maths which I'm struggling with the most- our teachers gives us extremely hard SACs btw and the first ranked student therefore gets around ~70.

What should I/can I do?

I will obviously keep trying, but I don't even know where I'm going wrong......

[keltingmeith]

I will obviously keep trying, but I don't even know where I'm going wrong......

This is your first problem. Imagine if a race car was moving really slowly, no matter what the driver did, what do you think would happen? They'd get the car looked at to see what's wrong.

Simply sitting down and smashing through questions to see if you can answer them is not an effective method in your case. You need to sit down with the questions you've already gotten wrong, and figure out *why* you got them wrong. Once you've done that, then you can think about re-learning the theory that you're struggling with. After that, THEN you can think about smashing through questions again (until you get one wrong, and the process continues).

The easiest way to get to a 99.95 ATAR is to make no mistakes - however, in order to make no mistakes in the exam, you need to make them before the exam first. It's only after you've made them that you can work on never making them again.