Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2016 Entry

Hi 2016 applicants! I'm Schools Liaison Officer at Fitzwilliam College and have opened a thread: 'Cambridge 2016 entry - is there anything you'd like to know?' Head on over if you've got any Cambridge questions!

All the applied ones? so S1, D1 and M1?
Thats cool, Im doing C3, C4, FP2, FP3, FP4, M2, M3 and D1 so quite the handful, how are you finding FP1?

All the applied ones? so S1, D1 and M1?
Thats cool, Im doing C3, C4, FP2, FP3, FP4, M2, M3 and D1 so quite the handful, how are you finding FP1?

Im year 12, so I self taught all 9 (forgot to put FP1 as well)... I guess transformation matrices are pretty nasty if you haven't done much matrix work. You can pretty much rely on the formula book though, which helps.

Oh right, did you do AS maths in year 11?
I can do them, but it's boring to me Only topic I like in FP1 is trig rofl

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I guess, I don't find FP1 that exciting but mostly because it's just a simplified version of the other FPs. How come you like the trig so much, it's just general solutions of sin cos and tan...

Biggest reason I took FM was because I wanted to do complex number, but turns out it was just an introduction and nothing exciting. Same with every other topic I guess, just an introduction to complex ideas.
General solutions made my life easier, got to love it. I forgot to mention Linear Law, I love that too, it's so clever and useful lol
Also forgot to mention series, the algebra is so satisfying

I had B in physics dream and I revised physics all day!

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Yeah, you learn so much more about complex numbers in FP2 (for AQA)... and matrices get so much better in FP4. linear laws are pretty clever and also not too difficult so it's a win win. A lot of FP1 is just a precursor to doing further maths, so it's dull but it gives you a lot of essential skills, and it makes C3 and C4 a dream.

OMG geography THEN driving test

I had a really weird dream last night... straight out of Kafka. Some details were interpolated to make a coherent narrative

I went into school for my S1 exam; alas, my train was late. Just as I arrived the caretaker told me to bring take the school bins down to the road, which I did, and I thus only just managed to get into the exam on time. I sat down in a random seat, only to realise that I'd been given a Geography AS exam. Strangely (or perhaps not so strangely considering S1) I only realised halfway through my essay on urban development.

I asked for an S1 paper as soon as I realised; however, the questions were odd to say the least. Question 1 was 'State the general format of a British number plate', followed by 'Hence deduce the number plate of Al Capone's car'. After some minutes of toil, I got the answer 1337. I worked on through the paper, which was equally strange.

I went back down to the station, and discussed the paper with my friends. They all agreed that it was quite odd. Apparently, my dream self then had a sudden realisation - they'd given us the wrong paper! (Dream me is a bit slow sometimes.) I then ran back up to the school (noticing that some idiot had brought the bins back up), took a wrong turn and ended up in a board meeting for a local business. I apologised and left. I just got the invigilator before the next exam started, and asked to check my paper. "Sorry, we can't give you your paper back," they said, "but I can check the exam code if you want." She came back a few seconds later... "Sorry, we accidentally gave your year a driving theory test. Would you like to do the actual S1 paper?"

I sat down to get going... and then I woke up.

That sounds more like extrapolation rather than interpolation to me. Didn't you learn that extrapolation is notoriously unreliable?

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I'm actually planning to self teach FP4 during the summer, do you think I can do it with only C1 C2 and FP1 knowledge?

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It depends.For OCR,after fp1,Fp3 can be taken before fp2 and vice versa.They only require fp1 knowledge.Not sure about aqa though.

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It depends.For OCR,after fp1,Fp3 can be taken before fp2 and vice versa.They only require fp1 knowledge.Not sure about aqa though.

I'm asking about FP4 and the module is unique to AQA so I know it depends.

I'm doing D1 (OCR), and if I did right now I would be screwed. D2 went horribly for me, so i was hoping that FP1, which was alright, and D1 save my further maths UMS. I've got 12 past papers scheduled to do over the next 6ish days (I don't actually know when it is?) so hopefully my cramming will save me

Seeing as all of the papers are similar as there's not much content, I'm hoping doing a ton of past papers will work