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AS Levels vs A Levels

How difficult are the individual questions in AS levels compared to those in A levels for Maths/Phys/Chem?
Are they similar difficulty or are A-levels harder for the same topics?

(This is just so I can gauge which papers I do for revision for Y12 EOYs as I am not sure if teachers will take questions from AS mocks or A Level papers 1, 2 or 3.)
Original post by Jam.123
How difficult are the individual questions in AS levels compared to those in A levels for Maths/Phys/Chem?
Are they similar difficulty or are A-levels harder for the same topics?

(This is just so I can gauge which papers I do for revision for Y12 EOYs as I am not sure if teachers will take questions from AS mocks or A Level papers 1, 2 or 3.)


a level/year 2 content is much harder for maths because its either different topics or building on the year 1 topics like integration in year 1 is easy but in year 2 there is so much more to know like integration with trig or by substitution etc. revise from websites like madasmaths his stuff is challenging but really helpful
Original post by Jam.123
How difficult are the individual questions in AS levels compared to those in A levels for Maths/Phys/Chem?
Are they similar difficulty or are A-levels harder for the same topics?

(This is just so I can gauge which papers I do for revision for Y12 EOYs as I am not sure if teachers will take questions from AS mocks or A Level papers 1, 2 or 3.)

I find a level questions much more difficult. As level questions seem kinda easy. Even with physics a level paper 1 - it’s just as content but I find the a level paper 1s are harder than the as papers
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I found the chem AS and A2 questions about the same but I really didn't enjoy chemistry in Y12 and really started to enjoy and undertstand it more in Y13 so it could just be based on that

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