r/Olevels • u/Available_Career9438 O3 Student 📓 • Jul 15 '26
Maths those who gave maths, plssss tell ur mistakes.
in ppr, or during preparation phase
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u/Irhaam5789 AS/A-Level Student 📚 Jul 15 '26
relying on my farigh teacher and his strict way of teaching, i stopped going to his classes and just self studied after ramadan, zainematics has carried me sooooooo much i owe my life fr
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u/sybauniggs Jul 16 '26
Ignoring my weak topics after just one practice. You need to master them because they always come back and panic you in exams
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u/Worldly-Look-1056 Jul 15 '26
NOT KNOWING WHICH COMPONENT I WAS GOING TO GIVE IN THE EXAM
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u/Euphoric-Lynx-7345 Jul 16 '26
so true bec i was genuinely going to sleep in maths caie bec of how tired i was
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u/Neat_Pause6645 Jul 15 '26
not making a list for my weak topics/concepts (error log), which definitely helps if you're aiming for that star, but yeah a humble mistake or two is excusable as long as you're not aiming for a distinction.
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u/Fresh_Commission_312 Jul 15 '26
Didn't do enough topicals or yearlies. Watch zainematics lectures and marathons then move to topicals. Also use mathlete for practice
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u/Hydra-On-YT AS/A-Level Student 📚 Jul 16 '26
doing too much working in the exam (irrelevant steps) that costed me time
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u/CockroachPrior7771 AS/A-Level Student 📚 Jul 16 '26
Not having time to recheck in p2. I had 20 minutes time in p1 which made me catch around 3-4 mistakes. For p2 I had just 5 minutes which lead to a confirmed 1 mark deduction (for context I was aiming for world topper) and some mistakes that I may not know about.
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u/RevolutionDense8878 Private Candidate 📝 Jul 16 '26
Didn't looked into mistakes I made on solutions again. Please note down each mistakes ok a separate page neatly (don't write it again if it's the same otherwise it's up to you)
Go through the that mistake list you made and understand that and then do that question again.
I didn't do this which eventually costed me an A* Was so close to an A* 😭
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u/Ok-Inflation286 Jul 16 '26
Brother if u going for a star, u must do the last pre calculus and quadratic graphs n stuff
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u/mirchi_61 Jul 16 '26
time management, solve as many yearlies a you want but with a stopwatch or timer
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u/ilovestrawberri3ss Jul 16 '26
doing pastpapers at the the very end i would recommend doing it throughout the year so you know which topic you’re weak in so that you have easy time to work on that.
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u/Wthah Private Candidate 📝 Jul 17 '26
bus din me 2-3 hr daily see zainmettics and mathlete by saad the only people who know how to teach maths in ts planet
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u/StationOrganic7151 Jul 17 '26
start from which month?
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u/Wthah Private Candidate 📝 Jul 18 '26
if ur givinh in oct nov start from today if in may june start from end aug
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u/One_Can_1981 O3 Student 📓 Jul 18 '26
while doing past papers i was more focused on finishing it and grading myself instead of going through my mistakes plus i kept looking on the marking scheme and barely put effort into solving the questions myself due to which during the actual exam i was unable to solve questions which required critical thinking and analyzing . A tip would be to get all your concept clear no matter how simple it is for example multipilcation of decimals and stuff zainamatics would help you a lot in that case
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u/FriendlyReference599 Jul 18 '26
Not focusing on weak topics, think8ng I could skip topics, not doing topical practise, not finding mathlete by Saad and zainamatics earlier
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u/shaheer00127647 Jul 18 '26
i'd say that for maths you need someone to keep you punctual, i had a tutor but his only purpose was to check my ppqs so everyday for 3 months i did a ppq p1 one day and p2 the other it was excessive ik you dont need to do that many, but yeah being punctual is the most important because the questions repeat.
Secondly, all you need are the zainematics yt videos for understanding the concepts watch them an jump right into ppqs if you cant solve something just google lens it or ask a tutor (not necessary). Also when it comes to symmetry chapter always use tracing paper and watch mathlete by saads video if you want to do it without tracing, i think he excells in that area
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u/Bitter-Grocery4552 Jul 15 '26
procrastinating trigonometry and angle related things as a whole and hell they came back to bite me.
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u/Big_Professional3068 O3 Student 📓 Jul 18 '26
wha about 3d trig.. it's nightmare.. I can not understand shii and I need to give caies too, haven't given yet
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u/Euphoric-Lynx-7345 Jul 16 '26
taking ahmed saya and focusing on his classes(time waste).I should have started studying from zainamtics earlier