How To Get Grade 9 In Maths Gcse

I walked out of my previous school with a 9 for GCSE Maths and an A^ in GCSE Further Maths, so I thought I should highlight how much I revised to get these grades.

You may already be looking well ahead of a grade 9, but this article could still give you some extra pointers, or if you are looking to achieve grade 9, but you don`t feel that you can get a grade 9, then I suggest you do what I`m going to say.I felt the need to make this article, especially because during the last few months, I was helping out a lot of my friends by staying after school, lunchtimes, and etc for specially maths, and one of my friends whom i helped out till the last day (the day before the exam) he walked out with an 8. I wasn`t the total reason, but I was pleased to know I had a role in that.Now, to get a grade 9, one of the most significant things which you would have to do is PRACTICE. Practice makes perfect. Unlike sciences and other subjects, maths isn`t just one subject which you can master by memorizing everything in the textbook that your teacher gave you. It`s a subject which requires utter concentration and dedication, especially if you are looking at high grade 9s and A^. There are a handful of ways to practice maths. One of the best ways is to do practice papers, which are either done by your corresponding exam board, or by finding some that others have made and have generously put on the internet for the use of others. These papers are your key to success. Keep doing them, but make sure that you do with regular intervals, like every 1 month or if you are nearing the exams, every 1 week.Doing papers isn`t just enough. After each paper, you need to either mark it yourself or give it to someone else (parents, teachers, etc) and tell them to mark. Then you need to identify everything section which you did wrong. Then you want to redo and practice on that ENTIRE topic.For example, you may have gotten a question wrong which required you to factorize a quadratic. However, you may have got it wrong. Due to this, I recommend that you redo the entire factorizing section from your textbook, or the internet all over again, even if the question was 2 marks. Because remember, that 2 marks can be the stepping stone between a grade 9 and 8.Practice papers aren`t the only way. Many of you may have already heard about the books called CGP. Now, for maths, the book from CGP which I would recommend are the exam practice workbooks. These workbooks are filled with exam style questions, corresponding to their topics. Plus they also include a practice paper set at the end. The books cost around £5-7 depending on where you buy it. But remember, money is nothing compared to education. It`s never wrong to spend a £1000 on education. If you however feel that you are extremely stuck in maths as a whole, then I recommend that you get the revision guide, or do booster lessons at your school, or at home. Now for those who want to revise hardcore maths, and by that, I mean doing hardcore questions which will stretch your boundaries, then I recommend the grade 9 targeted book. You can find grade 9 Targeted books from both CGP and another company (which I seem to forgotten lol.) These books are hard. At the start when I had bought them, I couldn`t do the first page. I was stuck on it for hours before I could move onto the next page.If this happens to you, don`t worry. It doesn`t mean your bad. It means you need more practice. Don`t hesitate to look at the answer. If you truly feel stuck, then look at them. See how to book works it out. Then imitate that till you are comfortable with doing more questions like. When you reach the exam season, one of the things I recommend students to do, is to put away their revision guides for maths, and starting working on questions. If you still have to look at revision guides in the last few days, it doesn`t mean you`re not ready for a grade 9. Therefore don`t be put off by that. It`s always good to learn something new.It seems that I`ve focused a lot on books, but those aren`t the only things. I also used a lot of online resources, such as MathsGenie, which was extremely useful as it provided me with papers and topic papers.Also, if you have run out of exam papers by the end, or cannot afford to get any more papers from like CGP or something, then do other exam board papers. I did AQA, but during the exam season in my room, there was a lot of Edexcel papers from CrashMaths and etc, and a lot of OCR papers. I even did some of the really old linear B papers, which were perfectly helpful, and even some of the WJEC papers, and some of the OCR CIE papers. It`s totally fine to do other exam board papers. Remember that 2+2 is always 4. Maths never changes, and neither does the paper.Remember to do a question till you can never get it wrong, not till you can get it right.If anyone needs extra help, or extra resources (mainly AQA, including old Linear B papers, and the pilot papers, and some of the practice papers) you are always more than welcome to contact me on my Tutor Hunt profile.

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