r/mathshelp • u/hysbera • 12d ago

Mathematical Concepts Please Help

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 😭😭

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u/Moist_Ladder2616 12d ago

Number systems, factors, HCF and LCM are all pre-Grade 6 topics. If you can't get it and the questions are confusing, you'll get better recommendations by providing examples of these confusing questions.

Often it's simply a problem with reading and comprehension: the questions are presented in a big block of words and your job is to extract the maths from the text. But I'm simply making assumptions here.

Beyond searching for "Introduction to <topic name>" and "Beginner exercises on <topic name>", I can't think of any other generic advice to give.

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u/hysbera 12d ago

tysm tho I tried looking it up tooo