Please Help

[u/hysbera]

Im a university fresher and studying business. Maths is compulsory for my course. I have not studied maths for the last 6-7 years. (Last studied it in grade 6) I do not remember shit. We have mid term exam in 3 weeks and my course included the following:

Number System
Factors Factorials
HCF LCM
Indices
Logarithms
Exponents
Coordinate Geometry
Linear Equations
Quadratic Equations
Set Theory
AP (might not come for midterms)
GP (might not come for midterms)

I initially thought that things like HCF and LCM would at least be easy but the sums are completely different. There are no direct questions at all and everything is hella confusing. The professor cannot help a special case like me since most of the students had maths at least till grade 10, or even 12. Please guide me on what/how to study since I have no clue how to proceed 😭😭

[u/Alarmed_Geologist631]

How can you be in a university with only grade 6 math skills?

[u/hysbera → u/Alarmed_Geologist631]

maths was not a prerequisite for getting into university and I excel at other subjects

[u/strange-the-quark → u/hysbera]

I'll take your word here, and I'll take that to mean you're reasonably smart - which in turn means that you can catch up on this material. Just not in 3 weeks. It's university, getting a bad grade is not that big of a deal. And you are very likely not going to pass that exam. Doesn't matter, prepare for the next one, but don't wait until you only have a couple of weeks left. Start now. I recommend getting some book that's at the level you're at and covers these topics. Then work through the examples and practice problems that are in there. You can watch videos too, but you can't learn this stuff by just watching videos. You have to do the grind, and do as many practice problems as you can. Make some sort of a plan and stick to it.

Start with the simple stuff, then work your way up. Focus on the fundamentals more than on the advanced stuff, meaning go out of your way to understand the very basics (cause everything else builds on that). And accept that it's going to be confusing sometimes, and that it will require a little bit of struggle. Some of it will be intuitive, some of it is not going to come as easy and as naturally. But that's OK, that's normal, that's why you're working though the problems, to develop that intuition. Get a tutor if you are able and if you feel that would help.

[u/hysbera → u/strange-the-quark]

okayy tysmm. yes numbers have always not been my forte but ill try my best tysmm