Well it's easy to change that. Maths is a fairly predictable subject where the amount of work you do can greatly improve your performance. If you are willing to work hard, do plenty of textbook questions, and do lots of practice exams at the end of the year, you will be pleasantly surprised by your result.
Exactly right. Building a strong foundation is
essential for methods, as well as developing your application skills, and pretty much the only way you can do this is by doing at least more questions than what's for homework. Definitely try to do all the chapter review questions and completing all the exercises under the review chapters (especially the one with only extended response questions) because you never know what will come up on the exam (especially after last year's exam hahaha....ha...) and you'll be more prepared than most of the state.
Don't exactly agree with doing
lots of practice exams though. I know quite a few people who did a lot more practice exams than me (they did around 30-60 in total), including timed, but got a study score less than what they were capable of (were still decent though). What matters the most is that out of the exams you do manage to complete in full,
do as many in timed conditions. I can't stress that enough.
A decent amount of practice exams would be at least 20, but it is more essential that you learnt from all the mistakes you made in these practice exams.
Also, just because you think you suck at it doesn't mean that you can't improve. I got 74% on my first methods 1/2 test and around 73% in one of the parts of my first methods SAC (which was worth my entire unit 3 sac mark
). What's important is that you reflect on where you went wrong and, building on this, you aim and strive to do better in your next sacs and ultimately the final exam