Maths Year 11 GCSE to A-Level Holiday Learning

OP

Ok so a Mod got rid of the links to the text book and the links to the Ebooks :frown:

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BP_Tranquility

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I just flicked through the textbook, but a lot of it just seems like things we've learned at GCSE (maybe I haven't looked through it enough lol :tongue:

)...Is it supposed to be like this? I'm assuming the module is supposed to give you the basics for the rest of the course...? :smile:

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OP

Original post by BP_Tranquility

I just flicked through the textbook, but a lot of it just seems like things we've learned at GCSE (maybe I haven't looked through it enough lol :tongue:

)...Is it supposed to be like this? I'm assuming the module is supposed to give you the basics for the rest of the course...? :smile:

Basically yeah..there are only 2 new topics in it..Intergration and diffrenetiation .... but those are failry basic as well

it took me around 2 weeks to get to a solid B stage on C1....but that was a few years back :colondollar:

have a go at it...it is alright...i might upload the C2 stuffif there is enough demand ....

try the individual review exercises...some might catch you out..some just have the wrong answer lol :biggrin:

Ryan

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Unknown505

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By the way are the resources for the Edexcel specification?

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OP

Original post by Unknown505

By the way are the resources for the Edexcel specification?

Yep .... edexcel specific but could be used for other exam boards...

Ryan

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Dylann

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Ryan put this in your original post:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLA334220A97FE4988

It's a playlist which helps people "bridge the gap" from gcse to a-level.

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Nice thread. I'm going to be learning some A-Level Maths in the holidays, because I'm doing the full A-Level in one year, my school doesn't spend a lot of time on the early units (C1 and C2), so I'll learn them myself.

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OP

Original post by Dylann

Ryan put this in your original post:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLA334220A97FE4988

It's a playlist which helps people "bridge the gap" from gcse to a-level.

Oh yeah.. i forgot about that guy.... the playlist is always in the wrong order though lol :biggrin:

i will do now...

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OP

Original post by ThatPerson

Nice thread. I'm going to be learning some A-Level Maths in the holidays, because I'm doing the full A-Level in one year, my school doesn't spend a lot of time on the early units (C1 and C2), so I'll learn them myself.

It will take some time mate...

C2 is a bit of a jump...but not as big as C2 to C3....although i didint feel like it was much...most people say it is quite big

Ryan

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NikolaT

Thanks for this Ryan! :biggrin:

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OP

Original post by NikolaT

Thanks for this Ryan! :biggrin:

Np

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Original post by ryanb97

It will take some time mate...

C2 is a bit of a jump...but not as big as C2 to C3....although i didint feel like it was much...most people say it is quite big

Ryan

I did Further Maths GCSE, which pretty much covered most of C1 and about a third of C2.

Although I've still got a lot to learn, but I think if I start now I will have a lot of time to manage the C1 to C2 jump.

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OP

Original post by ThatPerson

I did Further Maths GCSE, which pretty much covered most of C1 and about a third of C2.

Although I've still got a lot to learn, but I think if I start now I will have a lot of time to manage the C1 to C2 jump.

The Aqa one is sort of crap in comparison to the edexcel one..... the edexcel one is harder than AS -level Maths,,, grr

i would recomend one subsection a night...which should take no longer than 30/40 mins tbh

Ryan

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Original post by ryanb97

The Aqa one is sort of crap in comparison to the edexcel one..... the edexcel one is harder than AS -level Maths,,, grr

i would recomend one subsection a night...which should take no longer than 30/40 mins tbh

Ryan

Yeah, It's stupid how simple GCSE Maths is compared to A-Level.

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BP_Tranquility

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Original post by ryanb97

Basically yeah..there are only 2 new topics in it..Intergration and diffrenetiation .... but those are failry basic as well

it took me around 2 weeks to get to a solid B stage on C1....but that was a few years back :colondollar:

have a go at it...it is alright...i might upload the C2 stuffif there is enough demand ....

try the individual review exercises...some might catch you out..some just have the wrong answer lol :biggrin:

Ryan

I'll have a go at the review exercises, although I've covered differentiation/integration during additional maths so C1 shouldn't be too difficult :biggrin:

...how can you tell whether you've made a mistake or whether it'a the textbook? :tongue:

Do you know whether we actually have to know the proofs for any of the concepts (e.g. Differentiation) for maths/further maths? We spent a lesson in school going through it and it was fairly long, and looked difficult to remember, thankfully we didn't need to know for our exam lol :redface:

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Original post by BP_Tranquility

I'll have a go at the review exercises, although I've covered differentiation/integration during additional maths so C1 shouldn't be too difficult :biggrin:

...how can you tell whether you've made a mistake or whether it'a the textbook? :tongue:

Do you know whether we actually have to know the proofs for any of the concepts (e.g. Differentiation) for maths/further maths? We spent a lesson in school going through it and it was fairly long, and looked difficult to remember, thankfully we didn't need to know for our exam lol :redface:

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the only proof you need for EDEXCEL C1 is the one for arithmetic sequences..which is fairly short

ermm....the answers are in the back...it is literally like a text book

I will upload the C2 stuff tomorrow.... that might be better for a lot of people that have done additional maths ....how did you find arithmetic sequeances? - thats the only new topic tbh ... try a paper ???? -

Ryan

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