10 Calculator Tricks YOU NEED Before your Maths Exam | Save your Grades (AQA, Edexcel, OCR)

10 Calculator Tricks YOU NEED Before your Maths Exam | Save your Grades (AQA, Edexcel, OCR)
In this video I show you 10 of the best ways to use your calculator to take the stress off in exams. In most cases it is still important to show your working on questions, but most of these area good way to double check your workings!
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:14 - Product of Prime Factors
0:46 - Plotting Graphs
1:54 - Standard Form Conversions
3:08 - Simplify Fractions
3:24 - Mixed Numbers & Improper Fractions
3:52 - Time into Minutes and Hours
4:26 - The Digit Separator
4:57 - Simplifying Ratios 1:n
5:35 - Using Brackets for Fractions
6:30 - Storing Values in your Calculator
7:52 - DON'T CHEAT
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[@xero9300]

I thought i was a master at using calculators. BRO OPENED UP A WHOLE DIMENSION OF CALCULATORS IN 8 MINUTES THANKS SO MUCH MAN

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome!!! Glad i could help. Good luck in your exams!

[@pawxgamingmario9813]

No1 trick is to get a casio A-Level calculator

[@StarGirl-my30]

true

[@edwincollison9317]

There's more to learn too. But yeah, these tricks are amazing

[@myreenn]

@@pawxgamingmario9813 those aren't allowed in most board exams

[@dawitbrhanealem-ys7vn]

You change my way from grade 4 to 9 literally. Man hats off.

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you!! Means alot. Best of luck to you🙏🏼🤞🏽

[@husaamasam5827]

@@brainstormmath he’s obviously capping

[@Mzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

@@brainstormmath he’s being sarcastic😂

[@terrainaheadpullup3092]

The purpose of the function used for the hours to minutes conversion is actually used for converting decimal degrees into latitude and longitude in degrees and minutes and seconds of arc, but using it to convert time is a good way to use it as well.

[@brainstormmath]

Oh i never knew that! Thats interesting. Thank you!

[@A-uj3bl]

Oh my god I've always been a victim of forgetting to put that fraction in for the quadratic formula and then having to start again. You absolute legend!

[@solo3976]

as someone who knew most of these it's 100% the most precious information for the maths gcse

[@solo3976]

well aside from the content lmao

[@brainstormmath]

Haha yes good point😂

[@lesyeuxdeniiniii]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU. The time into minutes and hours and storing values into a calculator actually saved my life. You're a legend, schools don't even teach us this

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome!! Glad they helped. Best of luck to you🙏🏼

[@lesyeuxdeniiniii]

@@brainstormmath Thank you!

[@jujuk8132]

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[@lesyeuxdeniiniii]

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[@dnabate08]

Out of topic but you’re majestic as hell 🥲

[@dogmuncher_69]

Clicked on this expecting to know all 10 and ended up knowing like 2 😂 Great vid, this will actually help me in my exams 👍

[@brainstormmath]

Thats great to hear! Glad they were useful! Good luck in exams

[@ishaqahmed._]

completely opposite for me XD only found 2 new ones, STO and product of prime factors

[@wardz21]

ive got my drama exam tomorrow but im watching calculator tricks 💀🙏. thank youuu!!

[@brainstormmath]

Hope it went well!!

[@larawabsie]

The standard form conversions do work with negative powers - you just need to use the (-) button (under the red Alpha A) between the x10 and the power and it should work.

[@brainstormmath]

Oh thank you! Didnt know that

[@amnatahir9224]

forget calculators, BRO'S FINEEEEE

[@craz5326]

Already knew these, but I'm glad there's someone out there sharing the knowledge

[@zaynabmohammed4943]

all AQA Maths 2023 exam students have a paper 2 calculator exam and thanks to you, out of all of the youtube maths tutors, you have literally helped me the most :)

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much!🙏🏼 good luck to you

[@snflz]

@@brainstormmath thank you for this!!! it has really helped me. my exam is tomorrow

[@AG-ql1sy]

top G. number separation and decimal to time were really helpful

[@brainstormmath]

Thanks! They are very useful, good luck in your exams!

[@elitemeemoosood9869]

W video you just saved me deadass two hours of revision and possibly a grade bump. Much appreciated

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Glad it helped. Good luck in your exams!🤞🏽

[@elitemeemoosood9869]

@@brainstormmath thanks.

[@ksumar]

Casio is the King 👑 in calculator! 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@brainstormmath]

100%! Nothing beats it

[@haydenbaldock]

Holy cow this is useful! I'm gonna share this with my class because this can save minutes in the actual exam~! Thanks alot~

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much!

[@brainstormmath]

They do it if lots of people score high, as only a certain proportion of people get each grade

[@Anky07]

@@brainstormmath thx it’s a good video. Just subbed

[@brainstormmath]

Thanks so much!

[@hwgoblin]

i thought i'd know all of these but i only knew the improper/mixed fractions and the simplifying fractions so thank you!!

[@eleni_05]

Thank you sooo much!!! I have my maths exam this week, this is so helpful. Your a lifesaver 🙏🙏🙏

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome!! Good luck to you🙏🏼

[@RandomBusNerd]

Absolutely brilliant video which shows a lot of things that don't automatically get taught to you, speeds up a lot of questions

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much! Glad i could help🙏🏼

[@onyedikachigerraldirokwe2538]

I wish I knew this earlier but im so happy im still in high school to use these tricks, thanks man for opening everyone's eyes. God bless you.

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Best of luck to you🙏🏼

[@xyfuh]

you did not need to spill all the tea

[@brainstormmath]

Haha

[@mathewm3073]

Selfish

[@xyfuh]

@@mathewm3073 if wanting the highest grade possible makes me selfish so be it

[@D_Owo]

@@xyfuh it does but I would say the same thing 😂

[@ckfloss]

💀😆

[@michaeltraynor4825]

Thank you, that was so helpful. I will need to spend some time working it all out, your tips are excellent.

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much! Glad i could help! Let me know if you have any questions

[@sde078]

omg that last one was amazing you’re a life saver tysm!!

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome! Good luck in exams!

[@Viciously79]

this is actually gonna save me soo much time, tyy

[@user-xl8mf2iw2b]

Im literally watching this before my exam and you helped so much

[@rheashah9814]

Thank you so much, literally gonna save me so much time

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome! Glad it helped, good luck with your exams!

[@TamashiAdithya]

Thanks man you're literally saving lives!

[@harry_stw7424]

Wow that plotting graph one is amazing I’ll be doing that in paper 2 and 3

[@brainstormmath]

Sounds good! Its a very useful one yes!! Good luck to you

[@ProGamer-li1zm]

to be honest its not that hard to do it mentally anyways but yeah saves time

[@brainstormmath]

@@ProGamer-li1zm yeah sometimes with simpler functions i agree with you

[@StacyGarrouchGiron-yt8en]

You saved my life thank you so much your the best ❤

[@jakesimcard3398]

this was really helpful, i have mocks coming up and this will defo help thank u so much

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Good luck with them!

[@saujanyapoudel8910]

2:16 it does also work for negative exponents you need to press [Shift] +[ENG] repeatedly until the exponent of 10 becomes zero.

[@carcrusher1387]

Bro thx for all that - Iv just learnt sooooo many trick for my calculater 👍👍

[@brainstormmath]

Thats great to hear! Good luck in exams!

[@pricey._]

I used to be in set 9 and was predicted a grade 2 for maths, but then I saw this video and now I am doing my Further Maths a-level course. Thank you so much

[@brainstormmath]

Glad i could help!!

[@rainbowchap6973]

When I got my A level maths calculator (as a maths lover) my goodness it was like a new phone...

[@brainstormmath]

Haha, so many new things to try out! I do the same dont you worry

[@somerandomguyplayingwithtoys]

Mate, that time one legit saved my life. thanks bro

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome! Good luck to you🙏🏼

[@Katie-ew2db]

Absolute life saver school only told me like 2 of these things

[@brainstormmath]

Glad it helped! Good luck in exams!

[@seanlau2165]

i just want to say to you keep going don't give up on those videos👍 Keep up the good work!

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much! Much appreciated🙏🏼

[@gxgxs_dx959]

i have a a maths paper 2 mock exam tmrw, (Im in yr10) and this video helped me so much, i honestly thought i was the master with calculator tricks, this video really humbled me haha! Thank you for the tricks, theyre really useful and will save me alot of time in my exam! (:

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Glad it helped, good luck to you!

[@aliciakaur7556]

Sameee

[@syedhashim5301]

That was really helpful, thankyou!

[@ruoedaalamo7332]

so helpful didnt know alot of these tricks will definitely help me on my exams tysm

[@brainstormmath]

Thanks! Glad it helped, good luck!

[@user-ij5sr2yb3w]

3 of these tricks came up in my final maths GCSE exam yesterday, so thankful i clicked on this video

[@brainstormmath]

Glad to hear it!!🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@maheswarkk1034]

How did your exam go?

[@ehrhgk]

Rn im in grade 7 and close to my 'exams' and in my calculator test, some of these will be in the paper, so thank you for this infomation!

[@turkdramahouse9307]

I knew most of them, but how you explained them helped me understanding how can I do a 15 to 20 min question in 5 mins.

[@brainstormmath]

Amazing! Glad i could help!!

[@Grace-eo8pu]

Ty for this,they should rlly teach this in schl lol,only knew like 2 🤣

[@brainstormmath]

They definitely should! Youre welcome!

[@jk47richdish48]

Thanks so much helped alot for my mocks shifted my grades from 6 - 8

[@mahirkhan7395]

Thank you brother this was very handy!

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome! Good luck for your exams!

[@HayilCrowz]

resitting my maths for the 2nd time, hopefully this gives me the extra marks I'll need to pass this time 🙏

[@Nathan-cc2on]

No way this is actually amazing! Thanks so much

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much!

[@princesskeeleyrosalina]

Holy cow, this is actually so damn useful! Thank you for this.

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome! Good luck in exams!

[@princesskeeleyrosalina]

@@brainstormmath Thanks again!

[@ramshazeba8509]

My gawd! Bro, you are a god sent angel....fr...thanksss so much❤

[@jadalsaleh5337]

This has probably just saved me thanks man! 😅🙌

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome! Good luck🙏🏼

[@matthewrodrigo336]

ik i have O levels next year, buts its always good to get ready LOL. thx for the video

[@brainstormmath]

Of course! You’ll be thanking yourself next year!

[@pukhtooneditz123]

Absolutely Amazing. Thanks bro

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Best of luck to you🙏🏼

[@Lfc406]

Love man thxs I have test tomorrow wish me goodluck ❤

[@brainstormmath]

Good luck!🙏🏼you got this

[@2tpr1808]

Thanks brother. This will ensure that I finish my questions

[@brainstormmath]

That sounds great! Glad it helped! Good luck

[@ellio.t]

i love how youtube recommended me this video after my mock exams

[@Eesa-dk1wu]

icl this guy is litterally a genius if i saw this video after the exam i would be vexed. thank you

[@brainstormmath]

Lots of practice! Thank you, good luck in your exams!

[@thegamingpunk6117]

For the quadratic equation one, you could just divide by the number after by clicking =, then ans / 2a

[@brainstormmath]

Thats true yes, i usually do this myself too thinking about it. Thank you!

[@Palash-kp3ny]

Bro, The video is damn helpful thanks, and plus I love your hair!!!

[@brainstormmath]

Glad i could help!🙏🏼

[@far8796]

wow. im at a loss for words. i only knew one of them 😭😭. a million thank yous from me

[@sarmedshujaat]

you only knew S into D ,Right ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[@far8796]

yes@@sarmedshujaat

[@Alpha-hg5es]

Keep going Man ,you helped me a lot .

[@brainstormmath]

Best of luck to you🙏🏼

[@Alpha-hg5es]

@@brainstormmath Thank you 🙏

[@ivailovalevski]

this video got recommended to me right after maths paper 2 but i hope i will be able to make use of it in paper 3

[@brainstormmath]

Hope paper 2 went okay!

[@karolinabarszczewska4097]

Thanks, very useful! 😁

[@brainstormmath]

Thanks! Glad it helps!

[@Luver2196]

Very useful!! Thank you!!

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Good luck to you

[@N____er]

Here's a cool thing you can do if you have extra time on your exam: Using the variable assignment function, you can actually record down your answers for MCQ questions by using A, B, C, D, for the various options. Here's my system for doing it, although you can come up with your own. For all questions in MCQ, if the answer is X, store the question number into X. For question numbers over 10, use a decimal mark to seperate them from those lower than 10. For example, suppose questions 1, 4, 7, 12, and 23 have the answer A. I would form the number 147.1223 and store that as A. After the exam, you can compare your answers with others for fun.

[@jayyhansuleman2886]

can you tell me how to use that function?

[@Jamesdavey358]

Don't do that it's a waste of time very bad advice. Just wait until you get the results back because its not like you can change your answers after

[@mimimano3424]

Thanks a lot this is useful!

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you!! Good luck in exams!

[@saifhussain8333]

Hi I’m Saif, thank you so much brother this will help me so much tomorrow. You’re such an amazing and such a live saver bro. Thank you and love you so much for sharing this. You’re doing amazingly well keep up the hard work ❤❤❤

[@brainstormmath]

Hi Saif. Thank you so much, it means alot. Best of luck to you and I am glad i could help🙏🏼comments like these make me love making these videos

[@saifhussain8333]

@@brainstormmath Hi again bro. I feel that I’ve done alright in my exam because of your methods. You’re my superhero as you saved me from hard problems! Love you so much bro 💙💙

[@meerubamad4036]

Thank you so much.... helped me a lot

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Glad i could help

[@CashMalo]

Holy crap bro your about to give me 10 free marks thank you so much bro I actually never knew how to do these questions you just made my life so easy bro u don’t even know I love you bro

[@brainstormmath]

Now go smash the exams! Thank you! Glad it helped!🙏🏼

[@idc._jellal130]

how did u do

[@CashMalo]

@@idc._jellal130 I was on a grade 2 got a grade 4 few marks off a 5

[@AbbieB2009]

Lifesaver! Thank youuu!

[@brainstormmath]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@SharkyShocker]

Just finished up Calc 3 and doing Differential Equations currently. Only got a Graphing Calculator because my Mechanical Engineering class required it... I feel like an old man putting my Ti-30x away and trying to work this newfangled device.

[@freddieminnaar7633]

Thanks man, helps a TON.

[@brainstormmath]

Best of luck to you🙏🏼

[@nevanashad6654]

Last one is really valuable! Thank you!

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much!

[@nevanashad6654]

@@brainstormmath I think this will help me in my widrawals.... Thank you so much!

[@brainstormmath]

Youre welcome!

[@toasttyperspectives]

THE TIME ONE IS A LIFESAVER THANK UUU :D

[@brainstormmath]

Good luck to you🙏🏼

[@ProGamer-li1zm]

thanks dude I gGenuinely required such information

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Glad it helped

[@Mysterye]

why did this get recommended to me I'm indian lmao

[@thanos77777]

Yeah lol we aren't even allowed to use calculator

[@raj18x]

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[@LordEucalyptus]

SAME LOL

[@0rion]

😂

[@Ayush-yj5qv]

Calcuation are like 0.4 cube root and we have to do it manually

[@shafinbepary2000]

i've done my gcse already but didn't know most of these NICE

[@brainstormmath]

I didnt know them for mine either! Would’ve been useful

[@farhankhalil7208]

Thx bro these were well useful 😊

[@brainstormmath]

Glad it helped!! Good luck in your exams!

[@hania7639]

I was just taking lecture on yt and your video poped up so i opened. and I was like wth I never knew bout em btw thanksss. Its my maths exam tmrw.

[@brainstormmath]

Good luck! Glad i could help!

[@gowblin7409]

1 - Product Of Prime Factors = 550, =, shift, fact. 2 - Plotting Graphs = menu, 3(table), 2x - 3, =, start, end and step (incriments). 3 - Standard Form Conversions = 3.26, times 10x, 9, = button 4 - Numbers into SF = 6.500000, =, eng, 5 - Simplifying Fractions = 90/160, press = 6 - Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions = 54/5, =, shift and s to d, 7 - Time into Hours and Minutes = 6.55 hours, °' " button, and press =.

[@user-oo5um8ev5j]

i got a casio calculator model ''Fx-83GT CW ''and it does not show the same steps to get there. i had to find the steps in different ways.

[@fraserplaysyt488]

ty my g

[@ruoedaalamo7332]

This vid deserves a follow and a like ❤

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much!

[@activatewindows7415]

Hello Hong Konger here. DSE, our equivelent of IB students bring 50 calculators each with pre programmed functions to their math test. (I heard this from my math teacher, I go to international school) It's pretty funny lol.

[@felixarola2240]

Thanks man this is hella helpful

[@brainstormmath]

You’re welcome! Good luck in your exam

[@amirashahin167]

This is a very helpful/useful video 👍👍

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much!

[@fiqisalad6386]

this is amazing thank you sooo much

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Youre welcome🙏🏼

[@Hagurmert]

All of these also work on the model i have, the fx-991EX "CLASSWIZ" CASIO calculator. Our school allows this model (idk if its used in the UK) and it has way more functions, you have 12 different modes, all of the necessary functions and so on I do also use the stored values (I typically store physics constant values, such as mass of e- and p+, charge of e-, F (g) and so on. Its not that i dont remember, it just saves time :D No one typically does this i think so they dont have the feeling of needing to check everyone's calculator stored values. Although if there is and they check in an official exam, that is enough to get you disqualified so its a risk-risk situation. However I have done this in all of the exams with no problem. My exam center only checks for calculator cover, plastic strap around the plastic water bottles and pencil case (muat be transparent.) Keep in mind we have Pearson (edexcel) international system so it may not be the same

[@Omar-ph8wo]

COOOOOL thx man🤯

[@user-nz6oy5ge7m]

I usually do my calculations only on paper or head and I used to play the calculator game but bro never knew the calculator was so useful thanks bro helping me out in yr9

[@brainstormmath]

Best of luck in the future! Youre welcome!🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@tomadshead6133]

Thanks so much this is brilliant

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! Good luck!

[@Fillion1st]

could you do a vid on the new calculators ( there tips and trick) like the fx-991CW????? would be really helpful

[@TillieandMaisy]

Wow this helped so mutch! I'm doing GCSEs and They all were helpful ❤❤

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much! Glad i could help, good luck in your others!!

[@h1dd3n1d3nt1ty]

Thanks so much for telling me there’s history in my calculator! Now i can orderly arrange the answers to the questions and ace my exams!😅😂

[@lovelight7005]

Thanks. It was helpful.

[@brainstormmath]

Thanks! Glad you found it useful!

[@zynahzeeshanzafar1000]

you are amazing and it was very helpful

[@dinidudasanayaka]

this could help me in my resit to sixth form I'm going to fail but is not the end of the world, I still have a second chance. love this type of method on calculators, why don't the school teachers do this for us on a revision?

[@brainstormmath]

Best of luck to you🙏🏼

[@eleussrecords503]

My G! What a video!👏🙌

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you!🙏🏼best of luck to you

[@user-ot1hc8qo9t]

my whole life is waisted and theses 8 mintues took me to another level. good work.

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much! Glad i could help

[@lucadude4039]

All the topics have been struggling with has been solved with this one video. thank you so much :)

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you so much🙏🏼a few lifesavers in here , good luck to you

[@rcook2sc]

To convert to standard form as well as using the ENG you can also set the number format to be Scientific (Standard Form) via SHIFT SETUP then on the older style calculators SCI and on the newer ones Number Format and SCI then specify the number of digits you want. To return SHIFT SETUP then Norm or Number Format and Norm and option 1.

[@brainstormmath]

Thank you! I didnt know that