AQA A Level Maths - FP2 vs FP3

All about FP4 ;P

I much preferred FP3 over FP2 though and did better in it as well. Also if you do maths or physics at uni everything in FP2 and FP3 will be likely to come up again tbh. But differential equations are everywhere in physics.

Aha okay, thanks. I'm applying for physics so that might be good to bear in mind. We've asked about FP4 out of curiosity but they said it's really horrible and they don't want to teach it XD

Which other modules are you doing then? I did M2, S2, FP2, FP3 and FP4 (the school made us do an extra one). I'm going in to my third year of a maths and physics joint honours degree and can't really remember the a level content that well but the stuff that will come up in physics:
FP2: polar coordinates - you'll use 3D ones for integration especially for stuff like electricity and magnetism
Complex numbers for waves and stuff

FP3: differential equations in mechanics and then PDEs which are a generalisation of ODEs in just about everything (waves, fluid flow, quantum mechanics etc)

FP4: vectors for some of the integration a few modules will use matrices, this is probably used the least bit will still come up.

Definitely do mechanics modules over stats/decision I probably should have done another M modules instead of S2

Which other modules are you doing then? I did M2, S2, FP2, FP3 and FP4 (the school made us do an extra one). I'm going in to my third year of a maths and physics joint honours degree and can't really remember the a level content that well but the stuff that will come up in physics:
FP2: polar coordinates - you'll use 3D ones for integration especially for stuff like electricity and magnetism
Complex numbers for waves and stuff

FP3: differential equations in mechanics and then PDEs which are a generalisation of ODEs in just about everything (waves, fluid flow, quantum mechanics etc)

FP4: vectors for some of the integration a few modules will use matrices, this is probably used the least bit will still come up.

Definitely do mechanics modules over stats/decision I probably should have done another M modules instead of S2