Dusting off the ol' brain cells

Just took a look at the specification of the BMAT, "scientific knowledge students should know" , and it consists of about 2 and a half pages of science and maths topics I should already know from GCSE's. My first thought was , okay I can handle this, but really looking in detail I now realise that I'll have to go back to square one and re-learn all my GCSE and some A-level knowledge. The A-level knowledge is going to be fairly straightforward to polish up , but it's just the GCSE maths I'm a bit unsure of.

I was never a math whiz or completely unable, just the clumsy in between. Like, I managed to get a B at GCSE  but was very bad at AS level maths, so I really don't know how I'm going to get along with re-learning everything. I think a lot of my issues with maths is the anxiety I always used to get when coming to a final answer. I was never usually correct in my answers , so whenever I did come up with the right one , I used to dismiss it because it came from me (I also experienced these issues during the majority of my A-levels.)

But I guess ,like with most things, there is a silver lining in that I have an opportunity to learn without the imminent pressures of exams, and can just take this as a chance to gain my own confidence with subjects that have held me back for a while. Plus, I've always found that in order for myself to really master and enjoy a skill, I actually have some understanding , which is not what I always had with maths. So hopefully with these few months off for my gap year, I can really get these skills underwraps and polished off. So I can hopefully use these skills to the best of my advantage when needed at Bradford university one day...

Or even a passing grade at AS-Level maths...