Understand key concepts - pay attention during lectures/lessons and make sure you can keep up
Clarify with classmates, teachers, lecturers - ask questions after the lesson if you don’t understand, or even go for consultations to clarify (it’s better to clarify now instead of before a big exam and you realise you know nothing) (lol)
Practice, practice, practice - math is all about practice and getting the hang of it, don’t give up!
Preparing for an exam/test
Know what’s being tested - list down all the topics that are being tested and make sure you understand every one of them
Practice by topic - do questions specific to each topic/concept so you know which you’re weaker in and you can dedicate more practice to it
Do timed practices - try to do it in exam settings (quiet place for the whole duration of the paper) so you can truly test your understanding
Know your formulas - know which will be provided for you, which you need to memorise and even which are commonly tested
Know your calculator functions - I’ve been using my huge TI-84 calculator for 1.5 years and I still take a while to remember which function I need to use, this slows you down during papers - so use it often, breeze through the manuals if you need to
Time management - if you get stuck on a question for a long time, move on!! you’ll end up getting more frustrated and you waste time instead of doing questions you can score in (questions are not organised according to difficulty - some questions at the back can be easier than the ones in front!)
if you can keep the question paper - go home and try to re-attempt the questions you couldn’t do with your notes - practice makes perfect!
if you have a second paper - check which topics were not tested and practice them more, there’s a higher chance that they’ll come out in the second paper!
Hope these were helpful, math isn’t as bad as it seems, you just need to know how to tackle it!! (I’m a humanities student whose best subject is math lmao)(If I can do it, so can you!!) Feel free to message/ask me for any help :-)
