maths isn't the problem the problem is you people like to over complicate maths but getting the grade is incredibly simple when you know how there are only two ways that you can lose marks in a math paper your goal is this 100% here now imagine that we start the paper with this 100% but with each mistake we make that drops lower and lower the only two possible errors you can make is a a silly mistake mistake you said that 6 * 7 is 13 or something or B a genuine lack of knowledge you see the
question and you're perplexed by it don't know what to do if you eliminate these two errors I can guarantee you that you will get that 100% screw it 110% but we can get even smarter than this Within These categories there are even more specific mistakes that you could make for the genuine lack of knowledge is is it that you forgot the knowledge is it that you were never taught it in the first place is it more of an attention spam kind of thing for making silly mistakes is it an emotional thing you know do you
get maths anxiety were you under too much pressure or was it a physical response e didn't sleep well enough didn't eat well enough people make the mistake of thinking that it's either just pure memory or just pure knowledge or that you're just a genius and that's it but there are a heck of a lot more factors that go into whether or not you get that 100% so our equation for today has two variables Within These two variables we are going to discuss a variety of different things knowing plus pure focus is equal to 100% in
your math test simple enough right let's zoom in on knowing and then we'll do pure Focus there are three steps to knowing but the first is understanding understanding is the easiest part to screw up you might have zoned out a second in your math class and now your teacher's talking about imaginary numbers how did we get here we were just talking about the cube root of 343 if you find yourself not understanding something it's always for one of two reasons one there is a crucial piece of the method the actual doing that you have missed
or you've got the crucial piece of method but you might not understand why you're doing them for example you might understand that 6 2 + 8 s is equal to 10 s like yeah the numbers add up 36 + 64 is equal to 100 but why are we squaring the six why are we squaring the eight why do I have to add them together is it just a coincidence that they happen to equal another square number why is there a triangle for all of these questions would be running through your mind not because you don't
understand what to do but because you don't understand why you're doing it what rule does it link to in this case that's Pythagoras theorum and Pythagorean triples pause the video now if you want an explanation on it but sometimes you may not understand the method at all here are some things that can help math is a cumulative subject meaning you gain knowledge in building blocks the same math that you were doing in primary school or Elementary School is also going to help you out in secondary school or high school for example can you imagine trying
to teach someone the concept of square numbers Cube numbers indices if they weren't even familiar with multiplication can you even imagine trying to teach someone how to multiply if they weren't first familiar with the concept of addition because that's what multiplication is just repetitive addition 3 * 5 is just 3 + 3 + 3 five times can you actually imagine trying to teach someone that if they haven't even gotten a grasp on Edition yet people forget the same thing applies for complex maths if you can't solve a singular algebraic equation how are you supposed to
solve a simultaneous equation a quadratic simultaneous equation a quadratic simultaneous equation inside of a vector a quadratic simultaneous equation inside of a vector moving in 3D space a okay I'll stop now I think the issue is with a lot of math teachers is that they do not check whether the class actually has an understanding of the basics or not and most students are too embarrassed to admit this we may have forgotten them we may have never learned them suffice to say that if we want that grade in math we have got to be willing to
grasp them the absolute worst thing that you can do in a math class is to sit there when you know you're not understanding Jack every time that happens you have got to hold up a red flag in your mind something has gone awfully wrong and you have the rest of her along the math classes to fix it the best thing you can do is to be an annoying little toddler in your three-year-old class and continually ask why you just times up by 87 I don't understand why you times up by 87 or where the 87
even came from time to put my hand up that's when your teacher can point out the logic behind the method it may not feel like it but all math indeed follows a logical process when your teacher explains the why Behind these questions you can start pinpointing if you've missed any key bits of information or any building blocks and then address it from there not all teachers are crap but some are we've got applications like GPT that can help you link here to a video where I talk about that in a lot more depth or if
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you why going back and doing old papers is going to help you but the absolute worst mistake you can make is to do a paper mark it and then leave it as that if you want that fast rapid Improvement you've got to dissect your papers out like a surgeon open a new document or get a sheet of paper and en title it the paper you did the date and the mark now go through and take note of the very first question you got wrong do this for every single question you got wrong in the paper
I want you to note down a how many marks you lost and B the type of mistake that you made as we just established there are two types of mistakes put the genuine lack of knowledge in one color and put the silly mistakes in the other you are going to feel embarrassed while you were doing this you were going to feel like God why do I have to rub all of my own mistakes in my own face well I'm only about to make this even more embarrassing count up all the marks lost on silly mistakes
and count up all the marks lost on a genuine lack of knowledge to make this slightly less embarrassing I'll show you some of mine the reason why I need you to do this exercise is because I need you to get brutally honest about the mistakes you're making and why we've got the cause and the effect the effect is your mistake you got to look at the cause if you want any chance of solving this so again knowing we've talked about understanding we've talked about practicing and now our final stage is remembering you need to make
sure that you remember as much of what you've understood and as much as what you practice as possible that's why I say past papers lock in with them because you're not just getting tested on one topic you're getting tested on as many topics as they can cram into a singular paper it's also the closest replication to the actual exam as you're going to get so when you see that score it's probably going to reflect what you were to get if you were to sit the exam today the goal is to slowly increase that score until
you get into your desired range of scores but again remember math cumulative sub object you've got all these tiny little building blocks you forget one piece of information the Jango piece is gone the whole Tower comes crashing down but because of this cumulative nature of maths as a subject past papers may not be enough for you to remember all of the content I mean this especially if you're doing math at a higher level than me I only did math up to a gcsc level we're talking a level uni Mass you were going to need a
heck of a lot more materials to memorize than I'd used but that's where flashcards come to save our day you can make flashcards for rules formula you forget and you can make flash cards for methods too if you forget them for example I would always forget the method to find the nth term of a quadratic sequence I'd get halfway then I just start doing random things with the numbers that make absolutely no sense so I made a flash card that outlined all of the steps for me I'd also always forget the difference between mathematical similarity
and congruence so I made a flash card for that too only do this for information you forget you're wasting your time making flash cards for something that you're not going to forget and that's knowing done we have solved half of our equation let's get into the next variable pure Focus pure focus is what stops you from making silly mistakes if you did that exercise I just said and found that a lot of your marks were lost here this next section of the video should be able to help it classifies as a silly mistake if you
genuinely know that 6 * 7 is 42 but it got all fuzzy in your head and now you said it's 13 for this I need you to identify whether it's a physical response or an emotional response by physical response I mean your brain did not even have sufficient energy to solve the problem this happens when you don't take care of your body and or your brain ever took an allnighter revising only to do your test and and still flop your brain can know all of the content but if it doesn't have enough energy to solve
the question then good luck babe Chapel pun fully intended it means all the cliches eating well sleeping well doing exercise Etc but if it's an emotional response you might be doing all of these and still making silly mistakes you might just think you're not good at maths and there's nothing you can do about it you might get MTH anxiety you might think mass is a waste of time and if that's you you're getting the special treatment today because I've already made an entirely separate video for you linked there which I suggest you watch after this
one also attention spam counts as an emotional response when it comes to human attention spam loads of different sources are going to tell you different things some sources are going to say 8 seconds some sources are going to say 20 minutes 5 hours it seems like the research at this moment is very inconclusive but whatever online sources will tell you your goal is to have this Focus for however long your math paper lasts I think that there is a lot to speak about attention spams and I will save an entirely dedicated video for that your
goal when you're doing these Mass papers is to get into a complete state of flow you have been in the Flow State many times before and you can do it again you ever get so lost in something you just forget how much time has passed because you're just so in tuned with it that's what you need when you're doing these math papers put that phone on do not disturb if you have parents bugging you to do the chores do the damn chores before this put the timer in front of you do everything on your power
to ensure that you are not Disturbed from this state of pure focus and even if you do get Disturbed just f it and start again the second you are able to do a bunch of questions without even realizing how much time has passed that's when you know you just succeeded and you should be really proud of yourself but this Flow State can be hard to achieve especially if you have resistance towards math and for that we've got this video here to help and if you've got a whole lot of math to learn in a very
short period of time we've also got this video here to help too go demolish that mass paper
