What to say to GCSE Tutor to convince her I can do higher tier maths?

>Today I did an assessment and only got 22% on it
wants to take higher level maths.

If you were seeking reassurance here? You will find none.

>>8987096
Why do you think the assessment isn't an accurate evaluation of your results in this program? Unless you have a really good reason, I'd say you're intentionally setting yourself up for failure. There's easier and less catastrophic ways to do that. Challenge a buff guy to an arm wrestling match. Challenge a nerd to a chess match. Ask a hot chick on a date. Seriously. I understand looking into the abyss and wanting to jump in. But don't do that with your education. It's a lot harder to get second chances there.

>>8987387
this m8
>>8987096
Don't fret, assesment test placed me in college algebra even though i knew more than college algebra and learned up to calculus 1 in highschool, now in junior year i'm doing PDE's and complex analysis, yes it took me longer (got associates at CC in 3 years, now transfered as junior for 4th year and 2 years to go till i get bachelors), point is m8 that you gotta roll with it, also retaking classes reinforces the concepts behind them, you may leanr something you didn't know back then now

>>8987096
I was in your situation OP my school put everyone on foundation tier including myself. I was stuck with C in Maths for whole entire life.

If your tutor is not listening to you, don't put up with her bullshit. Go find a different tutor! Whoever is your tutor just wants you to pass they're lazy fuck and are avoiding extra teaching.

>fails at algebra
>want to do higher maths

>>8987690
They do this because the government tells them that all they need to get each kid is a C so why risk putting too many kids in the higher tier? It's pretty criminal really.

Also thanks for the memories
>Be in GCSE year 10
>Bad at maths for as long as I can remember
>Thre were 5 sets, bottom 3 was foundation, top 2 was higher
>Got put in 3rd set
>Kids just threw paper planes, quadratics were declared too difficult to bother teaching us
>Threw planes until one day read that trigonometry can be used to measure distances without leaving your position
>Read more about all the useful applications of maths
>Before this point just felt like maths was wasting time on pointless puzzles
>Study hard and kill next algebra exam
>Teachers are so stunned they move me right up to top set
>Was too fast for me and students there were a bunch of elitist dicks who bullied me for coming from foundation tier
>Moved down to 2nd set, still higher but slower
>By Year 11 was confident enough to move back to top set
>Get A in GCSE Maths
>Wanted to do A level maths
>Teacher obviously saw my rise in GCSE as a fluke and told me I'd fail it.
>One older dude told me it was nothing and I should ignore them and do it
>Signed up
>C1 struggled primarily because no calculator, teacher tried to kick me out
>Stayed in and got a B on that module
>After they gave us calculators I just went Super Saiyan
>80-90% on every unit
>All those kids who bullied me in GCSE for being dumb I was blowing them out of the water
>Even after all this the school still blocked me from A Level further maths
>Only had money to teach like 2 kids the subject and I was still seen as a fluke kid
>Eventually left with an A in A-Level maths, missed out on A* because goofed up an integration in C4
>Went to do STEM at university, dropped out after a few months because too autistic to function
>While there I got introduced to those further maths topics that they said was too hard for me in sixth form
>It's fucking nothing

>>8987096
OP, another britfag here.

Do a shit ton of past papers, timed conditions and all.

git gud.

show results to tutor.

22% is fucking awful and this is more accurate to ur skill than you want to hear most likely so just bang out some past papers until you have the marks u want to get in the exam to show ur tutor

http://www.examsolutions.net/gcse-maths/

British state education is awful but you can teach yourself everything from the internet now.

Sorry your parents didn't love you enough to send you to a private school neither did mine.

>>8987749
Nice story

I'll share mine:
> be me doing GCSE year 10
> Teachers decide we are ready to sit GCSE Maths Foundation level
> few months later sit exam
> I found it piss easy
> Wait results
> Get my grade I passed as expected.
> The majority of the class pass as well.
> Headteacher congratulates us and tells us that we don't have to do Maths anymore and decides to move everyone who passed to extra GCSE English classes.
> Some people as well I ask that they want to continue Maths
> They refuse and make us do English no matter how much we argue.

> After all of this now I'm year 11
> Finish all other GCSEs
> I decide I want to go on to Sixth Form and do A-levels
> Find out I can't do the subjects I want like A level Computer Science since I need Grade B or higher in Maths
> Forced to choose A level ICT which was complete shit, Biology, Business and Psychology

After all of this here I am at uni studying Computer Science on my final year.

>>8987096
Study more and ask to retake the test. You shouldn't sweet talk your way in.