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Hello.

Here's some unsolicited advice (sorry!) regarding the mental arithmetic thing, if you need any.
I think this guy covers most of the strategy fairly well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-UiMYQYV4g
However, in my opinion, he emphasizes proper notation slightly more than necessary - don't really need to write the pound sign or operators throughout the calc draft for the brief memorisation period.

- The instructions point out you can write at any time - so pay full heed at the first reading to transcription of the major details, in order to gain the extra 20s of the reread, especially long questions.
- If you can spare a bit of attention at the reread to confirm details without losing focus, that'll help prevent a few mishaps of mishearing or comprehension; personally I couldn't.
- By major details, referring to these: Numbers, operators (eg when given cost per student & students, I mark -c/s & s respectively, but most importantly recall or write how they interact), unusual notices (usually of the variety of two way travel, breaks between multiple classes), and what is required (often request the number / % of not-people, or time at start rather than end of lesson) + in what form (percentage, fraction, unit of measurement = pence / pound / km / mile).
- Percentage, decimal & fractional conversion comes up frequently and is targeted specifically, this should be close to intuitive.
- Usually, the "square metres from m x m" questions have the most difficult multiplication, being short to read; not quite enough to necessitate memorising 2 digit multiplication table, but pay attention to tricks like moving the dot, multiplying by 10 and dividing by 2 rather than multiplying 5, and such; personally, indented representation felt best.
- Division usually deals with multi factor simple common denominators, probably easier to split it in writing but try do it quickly (thinking whilst writing). Sometimes there aren't cd but close to a simpler number, so you can use it and either subtract or add the difference later.
- In currency conversion important to remember the base & target for choosing either multiplication or division.
- A kilometer = ~5/8 mile, not sure they always state it.
- Timetable (traveling from a->b, lesson time) questions tend to have several factors & unusual details. There was one cruel and unusual rule, "no overlap at the end of the lesson", which meant each period could only be split to a whole number.
- There's not a whole lot of variety in the types of questions, if you're struggling with comprehending the operator part.

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