AS Level Results Day Thread - 14/08/14

M1 is a really hard module, especially since you haven't done Physics,it took a lot of time for me to get my head around it because the Maths is so much different to Statistics and Pure because its all really applied you have to do most of those Pure Maths skills(Calculus is M2 though) and then understand a tonne of Physics or your won't understand the problem very much.

I found Mechanics modules are modules where I could imagine you learning all the content and then getting an E in the exam because the content isn't that hard, its the odd problems they throw at you.Mechanics 2 is a lot harder too but I got my head round both of them in the end but I messed up M1 quite a bit in the exam, hoping for low grade boundaries.

Genuinely, I found statistics harder... I loved M1

I can't really understand that most of it is just putting numbers into calculations, the interpretation questions can catch you out but I would say Statistics is pretty much Pure Maths-on Edexcel you have got to love the Normal Distribution(simultaneous equations to find mean and standard deviation) and Probability sections AQA might be different though.I would say S1 is like D1 very easy based on TSR's opinions and the very little I have seen of it but easy to make silly mistakes/lose marks on harsh marking of interpretation questions.

We do them simultaneous equations etc. As well on AQA...
Mechanics just makes so much more sense... It's so logical. When I specialise in my later years of my degree, I'm definitely going to go down a mathematical physics/mechanics etc. Route. I would do a Maths and Physics degree if there wasn't words or experiments in physics :L

I loved it! Alothough A2 looks horrible

Well, I've done C1, C2, S1, D2, FP1, M1 this year and will be doing C3, C4, D1, FP3, FP4 and M2 next year... The main issue is doing some more mechanics and possibly learning some FP2

I doubt you'd only focus on Mechanics on a Maths/Physics degree You'd get some relativity and electromagnetism up in there almost certainly

We do them simultaneous equations etc. As well on AQA...
Mechanics just makes so much more sense... It's so logical. When I specialise in my later years of my degree, I'm definitely going to go down a mathematical physics/mechanics etc. Route. I would do a Maths and Physics degree if there wasn't words or experiments in physics :L

Well, anything to do with physics that involves maths is the best. I just love the whole thing. I would love do them

Practicals completely put you off Physics and I think they are assessed at university-I think that BTEC/Apprentice students should do them and A Level Physics should be 100% theoretical exams.

I know what you mean with Statistics because it is very opinionated there isn't even a consensus on what the upper and lower quartiles are apparently never mind skew.I think I am going down a Statistics route because I want to be a Meteorologist so probability and significance levels will be very important-I will solve some juicy differential equations though.

For AQA A2 FMs do you have to do two of FP2-4 and one applied module? Or could I do something like FP2 and two applied modules?

I can't really think of an area of physics that doesn't involve maths