I'm Really Bad At Maths!

Thanks that sounds great, the level 1 exam is today so it's too late for help with that one sadly. But the level 2 one will contain algebra which I was always useless at so you could probably help me with that.

Let me know when you are ready. You can use this forum in asking for help on any question. Best wishes on level 1.

Yeah there's no rush the course I'm doing is one where you go at your own pace.

Just did the mock exam and only got 26 out of 40 which is not enough to pass I needed 30, not too far off though which is quite encouraging.

Yes you're right I just have to keep doing the sums, there's a really good website designed for adult learners too which is helpful. It has explanations and activities to do to improve your skills.

What a terrible teacher to say something like that to you, if you couldn't grasp it it was because of his teaching skills not you. I'm just going to have to put in a lot of effort to learn things I should have known years ago. It's the education system that let down my generation really. When we were at primary school you were shown times tables but didn't have to know them, by middle school you were meant to know them but through no fault of our own we didn't. We were also allowed to use calculators in exams right up until the year before I took my maths GCSE so of course I never learned to do mental arithmetic and it was too late to teach us then. Now the standard kids have to achieve is standardized so hopefully it's easier for kids now as they don't keep changing the goal posts on them.

From what I can gather from how I'm doing in the test bits of the learn direct site I'm going to struggle to get level one, and I have to have level 2 to get the equivalent of A GCSE. (They are the exams we take in England when were around 16) but I'm getting better already, I seem to have grasped ratio's and and rounding numbers to the nearest decimal place anyway. I find maths very painful too. I'm better at language skills I got good English grades at school, but science and maths baffled me.

I'm starting to learn a few of the formula's finally, I had such trouble with that when I was younger.

It's not all about formula, you need a sharp mind to solve the tricks. And don't forget to do much exercises as possible ;-) Wah, I got an exam tomorrow, there will be 5 papers. 1 of em is math and IQ test. I don't even study anything yet. Oh no!!!!!!

I know it's frustrating most of the stuff they are making me learn I will never use lol. I've found a section on the BBC website with helpful activities to do teach you about ratio and such I'll just have to soldier on with it. It upsets me because it seems to come so easily to some people but it's gibberish to me.

I've just done 2 mock exams for the test and I'm still failing by about 2 marks, but I know where I'm going wrong I just have to practice doing long division and multiplication with a pen and paper instead of a calculator. It's annoying to have to learn it because I know I'll never use it since in real life I'd always have a calculator, mobile phones even have them now. Glad to hear the computer programs are easy to use, because of my maths problems I get spooked out by anything to do with numbers, hopefully finally getting this qualification will put an end to that. I'm actually aiming to be a "virtual assistant" in the future, where people send me typing and things to do and I do it and send it back to them so I won't have to work in an office. I do want to do at least some work experience in an office to help me to apply the stuff I've learned, and even hopefully get the BTEC in office administration through doing a work placement.