How to get better at Maths in general to help next year for MM and SM (Yr 12) ?

[Andiio]

I always seem to make a few careless mistakes and sometimes get mental blanks in tests/exams...

Could someone please enlighten me with some advice?

Also, for application tasks and such: how should one normally approach them? i.e. approaching questions you have never seen before.

[98.40_for_sure]

You shouldn't even walk into the test/exam room if you haven't seen that type of question before, just shows your not prepared

[Andiio]

I don't mean the type of question or the concepts involved; it's just some questions are written to 'trick' and 'catch' students. E.g. Application q's

Just wondering mmm

[the.watchman]

I don't mean the type of question or the concepts involved; it's just some questions are written to 'trick' and 'catch' students. E.g. Application q's

Just wondering mmm

I'd suggest reading really carefully and visualising application questions during reading time, then you can solve quicker later
Also, be sure to go through the extended-response section of your textbook so that you are exposed to many question types

[98.40_for_sure]

I don't mean the type of question or the concepts involved; it's just some questions are written to 'trick' and 'catch' students. E.g. Application q's

Just wondering mmm

Expose yourself to as many "hard/tricky" questions as possible, trust me, there won't be a trick on there that you've never seen. and you'll be like AHH i seen this shiett before and you will be one of the only people to get it right

[Andiio]

Mm true that, haha! What books/sources would you guys suggest?

I don't think there is an extended response section in my current maths textbook (Maths Quest) :/

[the.watchman]

Mm true that, haha! What books/sources would you guys suggest?

I don't think there is an extended response section in my current maths textbook (Maths Quest) :/

Checkpoints are good, but past SACs and past papers are the best places to get questions from imo

[98.40_for_sure]

Mm true that, haha! What books/sources would you guys suggest?

I don't think there is an extended response section in my current maths textbook (Maths Quest) :/

Just because your school uses a specific textbook doesn't mean you can't use more than one... if your teacher says NO YOU CAN'T USE THAT BOOK, a baseball bat to the head will solve that

Best way to learn is to expose yourself to all types of questions, which one textbook alone simply cannot do. My teacher has a collection of books and photocopies us pages from them cos she believes that our textbook does not contain enough variety of some types of questions.

Essential maths books are mad (i don't know what they hell they're called... the little cute one)

[tram]

I always seem to make a few careless mistakes and sometimes get mental blanks in tests/exams...

Could someone please enlighten me with some advice?

Also, for application tasks and such: how should one normally approach them? i.e. approaching questions you have never seen before.

everytime you can DRAW A DIAGRAM like...this is so ridicuously important...i cannot emphisise how helpful this is to process info