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jassssm:
hey bri!
what did you do to prepare for your maths exam? and what did you do the week before an exam? and a couple of days before of an exam. i feel so much pressure
i used to do well in maths - i always did my work consistently throughout the term. but somehow i don’t do as well anymore.
now i don’t know what it feels like to get A’s in maths anymore :'( i don’t remember how i prepared for exams
Bri MT:
--- Quote from: jassssm on November 25, 2019, 10:43:07 pm ---hey bri!
what did you do to prepare for your maths exam? and what did you do the week before an exam? and a couple of days before of an exam. i feel so much pressure
i used to do well in maths - i always did my work consistently throughout the term. but somehow i don’t do as well anymore.
now i don’t know what it feels like to get A’s in maths anymore :'( i don’t remember how i prepared for exams
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Hey jassam!
Welcome to the forums :)
Most of my preparation was doing exam-style questions. In the week of my maths exams I had my psychology exam which restricted how much maths preparation I could do. An important part of my external exam (i.e. year 12 exam) routine is that I would take the day before any exam off from studying and focus on my wellbeing. I also made sure I was in the habit of waking up early so I wouldn't feel groggy or tired during the exam & that I had enough time to have a nice breakfast and still get to the exam venue (i.e my school) half an hour early. Part of what this meant was that in the lead up to the exam I would do at least one practice exam at the same time as my actual exam would be and under exam conditions.
Because I conditioned myself to associate exam days with calmness and being prepared to demonstrate what I had learnt throughout the year, I was largely able to escape exam panic.
Year 11/12 can be a bit of a jump up and it can be demoralising to see your grades drop - especially if you don't know what to do about it or why it's happening. I think that the most important thing you can do here is to keep asking and try to keep answering questions. It can be hard to speak up when you feel pressure to maintain the A/A+ image but please, even if it's after class or online on atarnotes, don't stop getting feedback and asking questions to improve.
The great news is we are heading into holidays which is a fantastic time to review your understandings starting from where your foundation is completely secure and then building up. Often in maths new topics will build on old ones and if you don't understand and simply get by on plugging numbers into a formula these cracks in your foundation will destabilise you later on and especially disadvantage you in application questions.
I would recommend looking through your work and honestly marking where you don't (or only sort of) understand what you are doing so you can tackle those concepts.
Rui has some really good advice on maths in the qce mathematics section of the forums which I would also recommend you look at.
Best of luck and please feel free to reach out if you have any follow up questions :)
rcour16:
Hi,
I was just wondering whether ATAR notes could create some more annotated syllabuses for all the Qld QCE ATAR subjects similar to the already posted one for English.
Bri MT:
--- Quote from: rcour16 on November 27, 2019, 03:02:34 pm ---Hi,
I was just wondering whether ATAR notes could create some more annotated syllabuses for all the Qld QCE ATAR subjects similar to the already posted one for English.
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Hi,
Welcome to atarnotes! :)
I hadn't been planning on doing this but if it would be helpful I'm happy to do so - are there any particular subjects you would like to see this for?
Snow Leopard:
Hey Bri,
How do you motivate yourself enough to avoid cramming and leaving things to the last minute?
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