If you have ever wondered what it takes to get a 9 in GCSE Maths, you are at the right video because
today, I'll be sharing with you all the top 10 advanced tips on how to really get that 9 in GCSE
Maths and how to really smash that exam so that you walk out of it very confidently and proud,
so if you're interested to find out the tips, then please keep watching this video till the end. So,
these 10 tips are all based on three areas. Number one is my own personal mistakes and experience on
how I undertook the GCSE Maths exam and how I wish I did it differently. Number two is based
on my own sister's teachers' comments and what it takes to get a 9, hence top expert advice from her
school and Number three is, of course, based on research online and YouTube videos that I watched
all put together and I've created these top 10 advanced tips on how to really get done 9 in
GCSE Maths, so if you want to jump straight into it, click play. So, of course, before I move on to
the advanced tips on how to get 9 in GCSE Maths, I want to make sure that you're covering these four
basic tips already. The first one is, making sure that you're looking at the mark scheme,
the examiner's reports, as well as the teacher's comments in terms of how to improve your answers,
and how to really get that. If you're not looking at these resources, then you're really missing out
because, these truly give you the golden advice and golden nuggets on how to really get that 9 in
Maths, so you want to make sure that you're looking at these three resources every time
you're completing anything based on Maths. Number two is making sure that you're practicing as many
past papers as possible because for Maths, that's no brainer, and I should not have to
explain this that detail because that is very basic and the only way to get a 9 in Maths is
definitely by practicing. Number three is making sure you're looking at the YouTube resources,
or any kind of free resources available online, to make sure they teach you the content very much. So
you can look at maybe flashcards like Quizlet, or any other free summary sheets, or any kind of
YouTube videos out there that help you with that. Number four is making sure you're sending as much
as work as possible to your teachers only if it's applicable because I understand that Maths is not
like English where you really have to write your own points and your own evidence etc.
so even if you can show to your teachers that you have completed some work at home on your own,
independently, that can be a really good way to stand out and make your teacher look like that
you're putting a lot of heart. So now, I'm going to be moving on to the advanced tips and the first
one that I'm going to share with you all is the fact that you have to print out the specification
list or the syllabus list of all the topics that are guaranteed to be coming up in your exam. I'm
aware that in the UK, you can actually do this where the teachers will exactly tell you what
are the topics that are coming up in the exam, and that can be really helpful first of all,
to really see which topics you are finding them very difficult, and you want to tackle those
first. This does not mean that you're living out all those topics they are very confident about,
but you want to tackle those difficult ones first because those are going to take time for
you to really achieve that confidence level that you can actually do them really easily without
having to really worry much. So you want to make sure that you're printing out your syllabus,
seeing which topics are very difficult for you, and you're tackling those first
whilst also practicing the confident one, so you already know how to do really well. So, this is a
customized tip from my sister who's also actually doing her GCSE Maths this year 2021, and that's to
make a flashcard, or a cheat sheet with all kinds of formulas equations, or any kind of algebraic
equation that you might be doing, and you want to put them in a flashcard and know the steps on
how to solve them very easily. It's basically kind of knowing how to solve those questions
and knowing the content on how to really solve those things. So, in Maths, I know it is all about
practicing and how to get the right answer, but you also don't want to forget the content on how
to really solve those questions, so I want you to actually make flashcards of each kind of topics,
especially the algebraic ones, because in that way, you will know exactly what are the steps to
actually answer those questions, and number two, you know exactly the content so that even if you
get a very difficult question in the exam, you will know how to answer it. Tip number
three is making sure that you're making up your own questions and answering them and in a way,
you're creating your own past paper in this way. First of all, testing your own knowledge,
number two you're applying the knowledge and number three, you're also getting to use active
recall to make sure that you are can answer also difficult questions as well even if you
have never seen those type of questions before. In the exam usually, they will give you questions
that you may have never seen before as well, so you want to attempt as many different kinds
of styles of the same topic in different ways that it might be presented for you to answer,
so you want to make sure that you're creating your own past paper in a nutshell. Tip number four is
making sure that you're taking all tests, or any kind of assessment that you might be taking right
now, in your school very seriously till the end of your exams, or the end of your year. This is very
important because, when you are taking up all your tests, and any tests you might be given that might
be added to your final grade of GCSE Maths, so you want to make sure that you are well prepared
in all kinds of tests, and you do not take them lightly in a way. Take them as real exams almost,
and try to attempt them and revise for them as if though you are going to be having the real exam
that you may have had if there was no COVID-19, so you want to prepare for each kind of test in
a very well structured and organized manner, and making sure that you're not cramming for these,
because that's not a really good idea for anyone anyways. Even if it is, it's only
for a small percentage of people so and you don't want to take that risk on testing out if you fall
into that 1% of people. So, you want to make sure that you're well organized and well structured and
you start revising as early as possible and take all these tests very seriously. Tip number five
is making sure that you have a study group, or a group of classmates where you can rely on whenever
you don't understand a question, or you don't understand a topic. You can actually rely on them
to make sure they can explain back to you, and teach it back to you,
and you also can teach it back to them whenever they don't understand something, in that way,
you're creating like a small study group and you can help each other out to get the 9 as well.
We all want to be helping each other up here, and trying to be the best version and students
as much as possible, so I believe that having a study group can be very useful in terms of
subjects like Maths and Physics. So, you want to have as much support as possible,
especially if the teachers out there might be very busy and might not give you the time,
and might be unavailable to really help you. So, in that situation, having friends and having
classmates, or a study group can really help you to achieve the best grade possible in your next
test I would say. Tip number six is probably the most important one and it is okay if you don't
understand a topic right away, and it takes you time to really understand that topic because as a
student who has been really weak at Maths myself, this has been a very big challenge for me because
I wouldn't understand topics right away as my peers would, or my friends would very easily. So,
you want to make sure that you're telling yourself that it is okay if you're taking time to actually
understand a topic, and it's not the end of the world in a way because everybody has different
capabilities and different levels of understanding on a subject. You might be really good at English,
but another person might not be good at it, and vice versa for Maths as well. So, you want to make
sure that you're taking your time understanding, and this is why it's very important for you to
start very early on so that you know exactly which topics you're finding it difficult,
or you need time to actually understand, and in that way, you'll be able to achieve a really
good grade at the end, because then you have tackled both difficult and the confident topics
altogether, and hopefully you will achieve a 9 at the end. This brings me to the end of today's
video. I hope you really enjoyed and found this video really helpful for you in terms of GCSE
Maths and how to get a 9 in that subject because I know how difficult Maths can be for some people as
it was for me as well. So, I hopefully think that these tips have really helped you, if it did then,
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