I think teachers try all kinds of tricks for overconfident students who have the ability but not enough focus, saying something like that could just shock him into giving the subject a little more attention.

I'm afraid I agree with your teacher. Maths and English are the only things that will hold you back in life

Let's put it this way, I'm awful at maths but I personally believe it is still important you get at least a C grade, even if it means resitting - I had to resit my math's exam.

Since you are doubting yourself, it's clear you don't want to be in a profession that uses a load of maths. Therefore, is it important you're amazing at it? Absolutely not. As long as you can do the basics, you will get by. The majority of the stuff they teach you at GCSE is a waste of time, depending on the profession you want to do. And, as I say, by all accounts it doesn't sound like you want to be a professor, or a physicist.

Good luck, mate! I'd have gotten a few of the mock tests and tried to pass them, and then see where I went wrong to get those examples correct.

Reducing fractions, and doing ratios and percentages will help you in life. Finding the angles of a particular shape will help you if you get into design or constructing buildings, or an angle of a shot you want to film.

Even video and arts need specific calculations to get them just right. Area = length x width, the simple one. Think about a television screen and pixels and what makes HD work! Math is important, try to catch as much of it as you can, and take from it what you will.

Again, good luck, and you can always go back and learn more, Patrick. You can produce and film much cleaner when you understand and completely know those ratios and percentages when using the cameras, especially the much more advanced ones that need programming.

Looking forward to your films. :hugesmile:

Not when you get into the work environment, no.

But, to get into Uni, it matters.

And, i remember sitting my GCSEs, time flies. :(

I know everyone has answered already, but as someone else from NI who hated maths and is now doing a media & production degree, I can probably help, and the answer is kinda that it depends on the situation. If you're going to BMC next year then if you fail maths, they will make you take an additional class alongside the production course until you get a maths certificate. I'm not sure what happens if you fail that as well.

O yea, I also really struggled with maths, but managed to scrape a C, and that was enough to get me into uni to do the course that I wanted (and that you will be basically doing next year) Theres no way around the fact tho that 99% of the time you'll have to pass english/maths eventually to get anywhere beyond cleaning or retail jobs.

For job application success yes, unless you climb further up the education ladder then no GCSE really matters, although you need to obtain a C to do that so yeah... try hard and good luck.