I'm looking for advice on what I should learn about / study before doing my gases / functional skills maths and English. I am VERY behind and feel hopeless :/ I barely know basic math!

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I have not been in education for a couple of years (I stopped going to school at 13 I was going through a hard time and just stopped and other reasons) I am now 19.

But, I always planned or had it in mind that I'll go back into education in a few years or so. I was a child and didn't really realise what I was doing - but I was also suffering mentally alot so I didn't think much of these things most of the time.

Now I am going back into education, I went to a community college recently but they recommended me to do functional skills instead of gases as my levels are too low on the test they gave me. And I understand why, I didn't understand anything, even I knew the questions were basic maths but because I am so bad at math I really struggled. These are things I probably would have been better at years ago but with most no, I never learned much.

I struggled to answer the questions because I don't know my full times tables (but I'm learning now) I and adding up large numbers is hard for me I kept getting confused and stuck so I just didn't answer.

• I've made a few posts and have written a list on what to learn about, but I plan to do my functional skills in college in a few months (not the actual test I think it's just a few hours per week of them teaching the class for a year or so and the actual test Is next year.) But I'm still unsure on what to learn about, I've been trying to learn basic maths because I don't even understand decimal points fully or percentages etc etc. For example I know 6.4+2.2=8.6 (?) But when does the decimal numbers stop counting? After ten? No, I want to understand it fully and have watched one video explaining which has helped me alot but I'm not quite there yet.

I want to know any recommendations on what I should learn about now before I go into college and what I should learn about that will be related to the functional skills. I am 19 now and feel down about my situation and sometimes very hopeless but I don't want to keep losing hope and letting it get the better of me... I also enjoy learning like I look forward to it now so.. I just feel so overwhelmed because I'm really starting from 0..:/

I don't exactly want to be "smart" I just want to atleast be decent and pass any important exams :/ I want to be able to have a normal life.

Submitted June 17, 2024 at 09:55AM by pinkflowerprincessx https://ift.tt/4DNFZRC