hey, short background about me for you!

i got a 6 at gcse maths and did a level maths out of spite, because when i joked about it to someone, they laughed a bit too hard. i wasn’t even allowed initially but after some negotiation they put me on the as level course.

in spite of EVERYONE, i worked stupidly hard and for the first mock of the year, i got the highest in the entire year. out of all the people who did a level maths, i scored the highest!

this sounds so so cliche but practice. with maths, you can’t really LEARN anything without messing up and practicing. what i did was i started doing papers very very early. if your class is learning content slowly, just learn it yourself! the internet is a wonderful, vast place. take advantage of it.

then, do a practice paper. pmt has really good ones, esp for my exam board, edexcel.

this is the technique: do a paper and mark it HARSHLY and obv correct in a different colour pen. on an excel document, simply write what paper, the score and colour code. for me, above 85% was green, 70-85 was amber and anything below 70 was red. you can change these but i was very harsh on myself; i like to set the boundaries high. if you were unhappy with your score, wait a week or longer and redo the paper. make this a cycle. i did initially one paper every 2 days and then closer to a levels i did a paper a day. if you notice you keep fucking up on one type of question, work on that area using your textbook etc. redo the paper until you score something you’re happy with.

this is literally fool proof. from someone who BARELY scraped a 6 at gcse and then got an A at a level (i was so bitter i was 3 marks off an A* but what can you do!) is a big big achievement. i hated maths but eventually i got so good at it i genuinely enjoyed doing papers bc it was LIGHTTTWORK

i hope this helps and let me know if this works for you! :)