<p>I'm currently freaking out about my Acc Pre-calc final, which is on Friday. I am not particularly great at math - better than average, not amazing - and I need a high B/low A on this exam to maintain my A in the class. Some of my friends have taken it already and I've heard terrible things. There were tears in the exam room. </p>
<p>So. What strategies do you guys use when studying for math exams? The thing I'm most worried about is word problems - my teacher is known for giving ridiculously difficult, creative word problems, and I don't know how to prep for these because they're usually not the sort of problems we've covered in class. Any advice at ALL would be helpful.</p>
<p>Find all your old tests and do the problems without looking at the answers.
Read your textbook (the parts you’re supposed to know).</p>
<p>be careful, do harder than normal difficulty problems. Expand your mind. Think outside of the box. Use problem solving strategies.</p>
<p>“There were tears in the exam room.”
I’d pay to see this</p>
<p>OT: Practice problems</p>
<p>lol I don’t
although I’ve been getting 94s on all the tests this marking period so maybe I should start</p>
<p>best of luck!
(this was a completely pointless post)</p>
<p>I too am studying for a math exam – AP Calculus. It is on applications of the derivative. What I’m doing is going through each section of the chapter being tested, and doing problems from the end of that section. If I’m confused, I hit up the homeboy Khan over at KhanAcademy and watch one of those videos. I can usually figure out the practice problems afterwards.</p>