First year courses for Accounting/Fin advice

I understand that it is compulsory to take Econs 102 and AC100. But can someone give me some advice on the Math choices. I have taken A levels Math. I believe that we have to choose either probability /Statistics ( ST 108), Quantitative Mathe and Quantitative methods stats( MA107/ST107) or Elementary Statistical Theory ST102 . What is a popular choice and which one easiest to score.?

For the last option, we can either take Mathematical Methods or Quantitative Methods ( is this only for students with no A level Math or open to all?) and where do i find the outside options courses. Thanks

Yes.lse is my firm. Where are you from? I am from Thailand. Good to know a friend. Which hall are you staying? I am at Bankside. I am keen to know answers for your query too.
I heard though that Math at LSE is totally not the same as A levels ie practice may not be the key to scoring well.

Guys when do we get to pick our first year modules?

Of the choices you have, MA100 and ST102 are the more difficult options. MA100 is a fairly similar style of Maths to what you will have encountered at A Level, although obviously in a lot more detail, the same goes for ST102. If you enjoyed A Level Maths and/or plan on taking 2nd and 3rd year Maths or Statistics courses, or some of the more mathematical Economics courses then I'd definitely recommend MA100 and ST102. If Maths maybe wasn't your favourite subject and you don't plan to do any more after 1st year and want an "easier" option then maybe the Quantitative Methods courses would be best. Although speaking from personal experience, MA100 and ST102 are certainly very manageable as long as you put in a reasonable amount of work, so if I was in your shoes that's what I'd go for as it leaves more doors open for you with your 2nd and 3rd year choices.

Guys when do we get to pick our first year modules?

Are you doing accounting and finance too?

Yep

Incoming first year accounting student here! Planning to do ST102 and an outside option since I don't really like math, hence skipping MA100. The history courses are really interesting imo. How important is MA100 anyway? I mean it doesn't really seem to have an impact on other 2nd and 3rd year choices, plus the course structure is pretty rigid as it is.

What options are you thinking if taking?

Of the choices you have, MA100 and ST102 are the more difficult options. MA100 is a fairly similar style of Maths to what you will have encountered at A Level, although obviously in a lot more detail, the same goes for ST102. If you enjoyed A Level Maths and/or plan on taking 2nd and 3rd year Maths or Statistics courses, or some of the more mathematical Economics courses then I'd definitely recommend MA100 and ST102. If Maths maybe wasn't your favourite subject and you don't plan to do any more after 1st year and want an "easier" option then maybe the Quantitative Methods courses would be best. Although speaking from personal experience, MA100 and ST102 are certainly very manageable as long as you put in a reasonable amount of work, so if I was in your shoes that's what I'd go for as it leaves more doors open for you with your 2nd and 3rd year choices.

To be honest I don't really know. But taking a quick look through the options AC100, EC102, probably ST102 and MA100. I got A* in A level maths ( don't remember nothing), but never done further math, so will I struggle with MA100, it seems quite difficult? What's your opinion on other combinations?

For MA100 and ST102 what kind of mathematical ability do you need prior, as I'm okay at statistics, better with pure after some recapping! Thanks

MA100 assumes that you've got a good grasp of A Level Maths, which I'm assuming you do if you met the condition of your offer. It moves fairly quickly though and it can be easy to fall behind, so I'd recommend taking a couple of days to read through your A Level notes on differentiation, functions, vectors and matrices. You'd be surprised at how much you can forget in the space of a couple of months so it's definitely worth giving your memory a quick refresher on those topics, just to get yourself up to speed for the initial weeks.

As for ST102, I personally don't think it's necessary to prepare for it, as literally everything from GCSE level up is taught from scratch and the pace at the start of first term is fairly slow.

One bit of advice for both courses is to keep up with everything week by week. It sounds pretty obvious, but week 2 content builds on the stuff from week 1, then week 3 builds on weeks 1 and 2, week 4 builds on weeks 1,2 and 3 and so on. So if you miss a lecture and can't really be bothered to catch up, chances are you won't be able to do that week's excercise. Then in the next lecture you'll be lost and won't be able to do that week's exercise either, then before you know it you won't have a clue what's going on and it becomes almost impossible to catch up. The courses certainly aren't easy and you're going to have to do a reasonable amount of work, but you wouldn't have got an offer if LSE didn't think you were capable of doing well, so as long as you keep up with everything week by week then you'll be fine.

Yeah I was close to an A* but ended up with an A overall for maths, I've got notes on all of those except for matrices which we didn't do on my course, do you think I should try and go through this on my own (is it doable?) And I think for ST102 I might just go through probability if I have time as that's the one thing I kind of struggled with with statistics. Thanks for the advice, I'm really going to try and get organised during my first year and stick to a timetable for everything as I'm hoping for a first so I'll definetely be putting the work in!