I'm failing A Level maths?!?!?!?

Question

Please help I don't know what to do. Since September, I've failed every single class test we've had. I've got the worst maths teacher at out school, he's completely useless. I've tried to teach myself but I'm still not getting anywhere. Everyone in my class apart from me and two other girls has a private tutor, so they're starting to at least pass, but I'm still stuck at an average grade of 27%. I used to be excellent at maths at my old school but since moving here I've had awful maths teachers.

I got a C at GCSE - but I know I would've done better if (due to personal family reasons) I hadn't been forced to move suddenly and change schools in year 11. That move completely messed everything up for me and then i refused to work in school (stupid, but i wanted to get back at my parents) but now I'm ready to give it my all.

Is Edexcel Maths really this hard? I'm in AS, STILL doing C1. Is it possible to be able to go from fails to an A in the actual exam in June by teaching myself? (Also with the help of a tutor perhaps.)

Please give me advice on how to study/practice maths, and also which topics should I focus on in C1? As in what topics are hard and require more attention?

Answer 1

I am now studying Maths at University and I struggled at the beginning of A Level Maths because it is such a step up from GCSE. And also, nobody does well in C1 first of all, everyone in my year resat this exam and once you've gone to C2 it will seem a lot easier and you won't know what you were worried about.



Advice I can give for exam practice is past papers, go through a past paper without the solutions just see what you can do and then go through with the solutions. You will soon see, similar questions come up all the time just with different methods so hopefully that will help. Don't spend too long doing notes, maths is a doing subject you have to keep practicing questions so perhaps write notes on a topic then do lots of different questions from the text book. The mixed exercises in the text book are very useful as they have exam type questions.



Good luck!

Answer 2

Vast majority of C grade GCSE students mess up a-level maths. You should seethe stats, considering your GCSE you where always going to do well to get an E at AS. Your college should have stopped you doing AS math with a C for GCSE. Bad college.

Answer 3

Which areas in specific of the course are you no longer comprehend-how? a minimum of throw some subjects which you have a situation with into the question. I did AS point maths final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days.

Answer 4

revise