Anyone starting MST124 this October?

MST124 and 125 here.

Are you doing a maths degree?

Hi all - I'm coming to the end of MST124 now (my exam is in a month) - if you have any questions about the module i'd be happy to answer them! I've really enjoyed studying it and I'm looking forward to MST125 (hopefully!)

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What degree are you doing? Are you doing 60 or 120 credits? Have you done A-level maths before?

I'm doing an open certificate of higher education - which is 120 credits overall. MST124 has been my only module this year, so i've done 30 credits.

I wouldn't want to have done more than that this year - I was studying at Birkbeck in London too. I hadn't done a level maths - my only experience was GCSE a few years ago. It jumps well beyond that in the first unit. I think the last couple of units on complex numbers and Taylor polynomials are beyond the a level curriculum, but I would guess having a level would be an advantage for the first half or so. It hasn't stopped me getting distinctions on assignments though, but I had to work hard for them!

That's great. How many hours did you put in weekly?

It varied a lot. In the beginning it was probably a max of three or four. Assignments I would easily put in a couple of six hour days at the weekend and do some more in the evenings too - but I didn't work every week as sometimes I had other deadlines that took priority. The difficulty really jumps between units 6 and 7 - once I started differentiation I was putting an extra two or three hours in every week. Units 10 to 12 take a bit longer again.

I would strongly recommend keeping up with it and putting in a couple of hours every week as I now have masses to revise, and the later units take a while to get your head around. I didn't bother much with the computer maths bit, only for assignments, and it's not necessary to spend much time on it at all really.

In terms of differentiation did you learn stuff like the product rule? That came up in maths a-level. I think me personally I should find the module ok as I did well in maths a levels 2 years ago and I remember most of it.

Starting MST124 as a part of my first year of the Natural Sciences BSe. I'm taking the full course load (S104, S141). I am not sure which science I wanted to focus on, so taking this course keeps my options open.

So are you doing 120 credits? Are you working at the same time?

No, full time student for now.

How's the workload?

Another new Mathematics student here. Will be doing MST124 & MST125, as well as Stats and German, starting in October.

I checked out their sample content and module descriptions for the two modules, and I would say that most of MST124 is A-Level Maths revision, while MST125 goes into Further Maths, which I took at A-Level as well.