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[burnt pasture]

Basically as a grade 9 gcse student , what i figured is that to be smart in maths you need to be either special (natural ability) or trained(hardworking) . Unfortunately i fall into the trained bracket. Is there any way I can make maths more natural and I can become special 😭

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[gritty heath]

I think most of the struggle students have with math comes from math classes. They tend to present math as being a set of, like, arbitrary formulae, when it's actually a system of logic. Everything in math makes sense, always, and if it doesn't make sense to you, you should look for a proof.

[burnt pasture]

I wouldn’t say I’m a struggle student but I know I’m not that good . What should I do to improve ? Past papers?

[gritty heath]

What about papers?

[marsh gull]

What I've discovered in grade 9 is that it's a lot more fun to research something you find interesting about math. I've learned a lot about number theory by researching what I personally liked instead of a curriculum.

[limpid sierra]

stare at your math questions

chances are

that you will find a "eruka" moment where you realize its true

[brisk moon]

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[lilac oasis]

100%

[lilac oasis]

in terms of doing well in your exams, all you can do is learn the topic and do past papers, but i don't think this makes you good at maths

i think being good at maths is really just the desire to actually understand everything because if you want to understand it, you can

[burnt pasture]

Where could I start ?

[lilac oasis]

maths gcse right?

[burnt pasture]

Yep

Rn I’m working at a grade 9

[lilac oasis]

i sat them in year 10 and if you want to get a 9 then just do past papers tbh but focus on the back 4-5 questions cause the first ones are super onoriginal and easy

[burnt pasture]

Alr ty

How could I revise further maths gcse ?

[lilac oasis]

but i'd say if you are interested

[burnt pasture]

I got mocks in a couple of weeks 😭

[lilac oasis]

you should actualy lok at every topic and understand why everything works

[burnt pasture]

Paper 1 and 2 further maths

[lilac oasis]

i have my further maths mock in like 3 days lmao

[burnt pasture]

😭😭

What would u reccomend me to do

Any online resources ?

U reccomend

[lilac oasis]

physics and maths tutor cause im pretty sure further maths has like 4 past papers lol

i haventr revised it yet

[burnt pasture]

Ah alr

I also need to revise the sciences

[lilac oasis]

physics in 2 days for me lol

[burnt pasture]

Are u good at science ?

[lilac oasis]

maybe not rn but after mocks, i reccomend looking thru your spec and searching up proofs for them, like a proof of a^2 + b^2 = c^2 bc i personally cannot blindly plug something into a formula without understanding the proof

[burnt pasture]

Alr alr

[lilac oasis]

at this level science is 90% memory imo but i have a good memory so im alright

[burnt pasture]

Fair