10 realest shits we all hate about Maths in secondary school

Last Updated on 2016-05-19 , 1:37 pm

If you love Maths, you’re either a genius or there’s something wrong with you. To many (well, at least to me), Maths is the worst subject ever: you can spend hours on one question and still not get it right. Your friends can spend hours explaining to you but you’ll still have that blank expression.

If you’re still in secondary school and are struggling with Maths, here’re the shits we who have graduated have once faced before. If you’re no longer doing Maths now, why not just share this with someone who is still struggling with, erm, parabolas and circles (bet you’ve forgotten these!)?

You’re either an A or an F student
There’s no fifty shades of gray average Maths student: either you ace it or you flunk it.

You go for so many Maths extra lessons, you practically stay back in school for Maths
Because you need to practise for 1 million hours before you can understand it, you’ll spend lots of hours just doing Maths questions. Or figuring out what the heck the formula is.

You have to memorize formulas, solve questions and do calculations
Compare to, you know, History, whereby all you do it just to memorize.

You freak out when the answer is wrong
So, you think you know how to do the question and did it like a boss. And when the answer is wrong, you go apeshit, because you’ve got no idea where went wrong.

You can never get full marks because of careless mistakes
Those darn careless mistakes are just like cockroaches hiding somewhere in your room: you know they’re there, but you don’t know when they are. And when you spot them, it’s too late.

You’ll have to practise until perfect…but you’ll forget easily
I remember doing 100 circle questions in a day: from the morning all the way to the middle of the night. I was a circle expert for a whopping period of…one month. And then I forgot everything and had to do another 100 circle questions.

You’ve an insane Maths teacher
I don’t know about you, but in my secondary school then, the craziest best Maths teachers were sent to all graduating classes and helped out. They’ll even make surprise announcements for graduating students in the morning every now and then: “To all graduating classes, please stay back to…”
But of course, you’ll appreciate them when you graduate. Only when you graduate.

There’s a special camp called “Maths Boot Camp”
Is it just me, or all students have it, too? It’s a “camp” whereby students spent the whole day doing Maths questions, going home to sleep at night and coming to school again early next morning to do continue doing Maths questions.
You think I did the 100 circle questions at home?

You’ll never get enough time for your Maths paper
If you ever have enough time, you’ll most likely fail your paper.

You never seem to understand no matter how many times the teacher teaches
Either the teacher is too fast, or you’re too slow. But even during one-to-one consultation (remember Maths Boot Camp?), you spend hours to understand something.

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