Anyone planning to do Further Maths at AS?

Physics has a mechanics side and a theory side imo. The mechanics side is the SUVAT equations and the trig involved. This is what's needed for M1. You also do vectors, moments and modelling an object in a certain scenario.

My friend does bio, chem, french, physics, maths and further maths and he copes fine, although it does depend on how confident you are with German. I see you're not doing maths. If you dropped maths because you didn't enjoy it then I would say not to do further maths.

Some people will never be able to do A levels
Some do 5-6 and self teach part of it, some do them in year 11.

Most other 16-18 year olds fall somewhere in the middle. As soon as you use the words "Could I?" and "How hard?" you will just get anecdotal accounts based on peoples perceptions and experiences. This is not though anything to do with your ability to learn especially when you have not indicated your current level of attainment, your strategy to excecute your study and so on.

I laugh when people say "Its all hard" or "Thats simple" as it really is determined by your ability, support, time and work ethic

in your opinion, what's harder. A whole Maths A level in 1 year, or a further maths AS in 1 year? Should I go for it?

My two cents: I've done maths, further maths and two extra modules on OCR MEI. I've taken C1-4, S1-3, M1-3, D1-2, FP1-2.

My main suggestion is don't take extra modules, by having that much workload I am now convinced I have not got the two A-grades I deserved.

Further maths AS was the easiest subject I have ever done - although I do find the FP modules easier than the C modules.

I'd only have to do FP1 as well. . but i'm more wired about M1. I haven't heard anyone say that it's not hard. .

I have to ask. . why in the hell did you decide to randomly take two extra modules? :O you've done sooo many, it's scary! What's the benefit?

:\ To be honest M1 is so easy if you understand physics.

M1 is quite easy if you concentrate on harder questions. I got 97UMS for it. When I say modelling, I mean it will give you a diagram and so the particle p is held in equilibrium on the ramp 30 degrees to the horizontal. It is held by a force X which is applied parrallel to the base of the ramp. The particle has a mass of 2kg and the coefficient of friction on the surface is 0.5. Calculate the force X.

I may well be scuppered. I hated physics, it bored me to tears. I spent most of my lessons seeing how far I could flick a rubber across a classroom with one of those one meter rulers. . Mind you, I some how managed an A* in it, but i'm pretty certain that further maths mechanics will be a lot harder than gcse physics. .

Thanks for you help everyone

i'm hoping you didn't expect me to understand any of that last bit. .

I'm currently an A level student doing further maths and am just interested to see which current GCSE pupils will be doing further maths at A level. If there is anyone who has questions about further maths post here as I've received a few PMs.

If anyone doesn't know, maths at A Level is much more relavent to real world scenarios.

Hi i recently started sixth form doing history, classics, maths and chemistry, but i'm considering doing further maths instead of one of them, most likely chemistry. I got A* at gcse and an A* in additional maths gcse. I really enjoy the subject, but i'm not sure if i need it in the future, so it seems a bit pointless to just take it for the sake of it. I have no clue what i want to do in the future. So i'd end up taking maths, futher maths, history and classics. Is this a really weird combination? I'm open to any suggestions of what i could do in future with these aswell? Thanks