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Further Maths A level for economics at Uni?

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Original post by Aristotle's' Disciple

5 Subjects is favourable, if you're good enough to get top grades in them. I'm only doing tbh to try and make up for my poor GCSE grades. But 5 always looks better than 4, assuming you're good enough.

No it doesn't, it really doesn't.
5 only looks better if you are 15 years old and don't know very much about how things work.

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jd123

Original post by H.C. Chinaski

No it doesn't, it really doesn't.
5 only looks better if you are 15 years old and don't know very much about how things work.

Believe me, I wouldn't pick an extra subject unless had to - FM being the exception. I have to do a 5th subject to make a full timetable, it's just how it is at my school.

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cambo211

Original post by H.C. Chinaski

You are simply supplying more evidence that they clearly do not know what they are doing!
Why don't they give it proper respect!! Why don't they give it the proper allowance that other A-level subjects seem to enjoy!!
As said .... I would find another school !!!

Doing FM like that is very common. At my school you could only do FM if you opted to do the entire Maths A-Level in one year and then did the FM in the second year and that's certainly not an uncommon way of running the course.

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H.C. Chinaski

Original post by cambo211

The approach that your school employed is nothing like the afore mentioned system.

The approach employed by your school is the best way of offering Further maths and is indeed common.