Hi, I wanted to ask ex-A level students what books I should buy for the following subjects to get an A/A* for my A level results: Maths Further Maths Physics Chemistry
I would totally appreciate your response and advice on what I should buy for books, and if anyone has any advice on how to do the best possible at A level, please do reveal your secrets to success
Hi, I wanted to ask ex-A level students what books I should buy for the following subjects to get an A/A* for my A level results: Maths Further Maths Physics Chemistry
I would totally appreciate your response and advice on what I should buy for books, and if anyone has any advice on how to do the best possible at A level, please do reveal your secrets to success
Thanks soon much
For maths and further maths, the Edexcel textbooks were good enough for me, if you need extra resources there are plenty of sites for it
Do you know any specific sites, if you don't mind? And thanks
Examsolutions.net has a bunch of videos for each topic so is quite useful for quickly going over things. (his voice is so boring tho, 1.5x speed still makes me sleepy...)
Madasmaths.com has booklets for every topic as well as papers for each unit (no papers for further maths though )
Physicsandmathstutor.com has all the past papers for every maths and also has revision materials for the sciences.
Examsolutions.net has a bunch of videos for each topic so is quite useful for quickly going over things. (his voice is so boring tho, 1.5x speed still makes me sleepy...)
Madasmaths.com has booklets for every topic as well as papers for each unit (no papers for further maths though )
Physicsandmathstutor.com has all the past papers for every maths and also has revision materials for the sciences.
For the FP modules of further maths, Bostock & Chandler's "Further Pure Mathematics" is amazing. It was all I used.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention I also had the book "Core Maths for Advanced Level" by the same authors which was really good too, covers the whole A level course so it's worth the money.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention I also had the book "Core Maths for Advanced Level" by the same authors which was really good too, covers the whole A level course so it's worth the money.
Yeah their writing style really worked for me. Straight to the point with ample examples and great exercises.
Yeah their writing style really worked for me. Straight to the point with ample examples and great exercises.
It's a shame I don't hear enough people recommending them that much considering how good they are. I even have the pure mathematics book from the 70's lol. I like the older ones cos the question are harder Shows how much A level maths has changed over the years...
You should not need to buy any books. Your school will issue textbooks and the ones mentioned should be in the school/maths library.
Our school library is terrible, and is mainly for the secondary school, not for the sixth form and we aren't getting chemistry books- for some reason. We've got the maths ones, FM ones and physics ones, though
Our school library is terrible, and is mainly for the secondary school, not for the sixth form and we aren't getting chemistry books- for some reason. We've got the maths ones, FM ones and physics ones, though
Ask your maths teachers if they have books in a department library - we have one in our staff area and loan out texts like Bostock and Chandler [our personal copies] to keen students.
It's a shame I don't hear enough people recommending them that much considering how good they are. I even have the pure mathematics book from the 70's lol. I like the older ones cos the question are harder Shows how much A level maths has changed over the years...
Yeah I have the really old further mechanics one and it's way harder than anything I ever had to do at A Level, but at least it made M3 seem easy.
Yeah I have the really old further mechanics one and it's way harder than anything I ever had to do at A Level, but at least it made M3 seem easy.
You just reminded me I actually have that one too haha, I think I had a look at it last year and just thought it was too hard so abandoned it. I'm probably gonna use it this year to self study m3 so hopefully everything from it is in there
Ask your maths teachers if they have books in a department library - we have one in our staff area and loan out texts like Bostock and Chandler [our personal copies] to keen students.
It's a shame I don't hear enough people recommending them that much considering how good they are. I even have the pure mathematics book from the 70's lol. I like the older ones cos the question are harder Shows how much A level maths has changed over the years...
Anyone know of edexcel Maths books (c1-4, s1, m1) with hard and challenging questions whether they are exam style or not so much but useful questions. the ones in books that are most commonly used like this which is the most popular: https://www.biochemtuition.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/131310607-Edexcel-Maths-C1-2.pdf just don't cut it they are too straight forward and don't seem like enough.