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I put Year 8 in quote-and-un-quote marks because I know the English secondary school system isn’t tabulated by year in the same way as it is in, say, Scotland or Ireland (or is it?). But it’s the academic year where you turn 13 anyway. That was when I first-started going to Kumon (an extra-curricular maths programme) and no-doubt it helped tremendously but I was already sort of half-good at number-maths in the first place. Kind of anyway. There might’ve been some lows with arithmetic along the way but for the most-part I wasn’t too bad up until that point. But (Pythagorean theorem aside) my geometry was never good, not for a split second. During my better maths years I was B+ to A* quality in the algebraic/numerical side of maths but a straight D for geometry, basically.