Hey Jake!
I have like 2 and a bit weeks to trials and have been pumping our past 2U papers but my marks in each has not improved at all!!
I've done the whole, do extra revision on stuff you get wrong but IT ISN'T WORKING!!!
What do I do? I'm usually a band 6 student in maths, so this is really annoying me!!
Thank you!!
Hey!
Firstly, welcome to the forums! Nice job studying for trials; sounds like you're really putting the hours in.
Firstly, two and a bit weeks is ages. You could learn the entire Maths curriculum from scratch in that time.
It looks like you've identified what areas you are weak in, because you have tried doing revision for topics that you lose marks in. What kind of sections are you struggling with? At the end of the day, if there is a section you're not very confident with, and you just do a billion questions of that type, you might not improve at all. That's because, in those sections, it might come down to UNDERSTANDING, before repetition. If you struggle to understand a concept, doing it wrong 100 times won't improve your mark.
Past papers is really all you can do. Write out questions you get incorrect, and redo them once a day for a few days until you can do them with ease. This will solidify the methodology in your mind, and make sure that none of your time is wasted. Again, if you let us know where you are specifically struggling with, maybe we can help!
Keep at it. You have so much time left, and doing past papers DOES help even if it feels like it doesn't. There's no like secret trick or anything, nothing I can tell you right now that will get you 100% in every paper you do. But past papers helps you improve, and identifying areas of weakness will help you improve. If you have any specific questions, post them here, and we can talk them through with you in a way that will hopefully help you understand the fundamental underlying mathematics as well as the answer itself.
You'll be fine! Keep at it.
Jake