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My maths has got a lot better I think. STEP is getting easier (less than impossible) so it can't be too bad. I'm self teaching M4 at the minute for funsies.

How have you managed to finish M1-3 already?! I too have found that compared to just a few months ago, STEP I questions seem very approachable, even easy (dare I say it!), though I can't say the same about STEP II. I wish you good luck for results day.

Well I already new a lot of M1 and M2. M3 I did odd questions in each chapters and now I'm doing M4..surprisingly well. Honestly a lot of the stuff is intuition with a bit of knowledge....

I agree that it's mainly intuition: I find the hardest part of Mechanics questions to be writing down my working rather than a couple of numbers followed by the answer, or even just the answer on its own if a question is particularly easy. Having said that I know seven people in the year above with Cambridge offers and even they're not finding some parts of M4 that easy. Which topic are you up to so far?

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Wcp, How independant of M2 is M3? I'm asking whether I'd be allowed to self teach M3 to replace D2 next year, however my college, being geniuses and all, have decided that M2 will be the last Applied module we will do next year, in the second term.
If M3 relies on M2, this would mean I wouldn't be able to start M3 until possibly easter unless I self taught M2 early.

I'd ask about M4/FP4 instead of S2, but I don't think they like people self teaching more than 1 module.

Wcp, How independant of M2 is M3? I'm asking whether I'd be allowed to self teach M3 to replace D2 next year, however my college, being geniuses and all, have decided that M2 will be the last Applied module we will do next year, in the second term.
If M3 relies on M2, this would mean I wouldn't be able to start M3 until possibly easter unless I self taught M2 early.

I'd ask about M4/FP4 instead of S2, but I don't think they like people self teaching more than 1 module.

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Relatively independent. There isn't anything in M3 that you couldn't pick up quickly. Next year I "officially" do M2 and M3 at the same time so it is possible. Ultimately though, if you don't find it intuitive then it might be slightly difficult. If you are worried I recommend reading ahead about: calculus in kinematics I.e none constant acceleration and center of mass.

They largely independent though.

Am I correct, or am I seeing things? On the Edexcel boundaries, it says it's 69 for an A?!

Thats good then, I guess I'll be going ahead with it. I think my teacher said something about me still having to do D2 in lesson as a back up, which although isn't great, at least I'll get to do M3.
I'm slightly worried, but at least I will have a back up unit. I intend to do some reading ahead over the summer, so I can start on STEP II and III earlier, so I will remember that, thank you.

Hoping to attempt some STEP I questions soon, once I've finished off C3 and got some of C4 under my belt.

M3 is loosely based upon M2 (I assume that is also true for AQA). I'd say almost 1/2 is just expanding on differential equations, rectilinear motion, the other good stuff. You will do a few new topics (statics, maybe impulsive tensions), but that's more board dependent and as I'm not doing AQA I can't help too much. If you were ok with M2 I don't foresee any problems with M3, although self-teaching can be dangerous...

Mechanics is lovely maths. But having said that Statistics modules really are free UMS marks most of the time, and although I respect people trying to learn helpful/ useful modules for university, if you ever have an option of easy module vs. hard module then take the easier one.