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School forces EPQ? Worth it for Maths?

I'm looking at Maths for uni, maybe Comp Sci for the career prospects but I prefer Maths so not sure about that.
In short, my school forces all of us to do an EPQ: even if we do 4 A levels, the most they do is allow you not to do work experience. I know EPQs are valued slightly by some universities, but I'm still not sure whether it's worth it for Maths? Thanks

(edited 6 months ago)

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Fibonacci28

Have your school spoken to you about the artifact style EPQ?
The idea is a smaller report with a project style thing, in your case if you're looking for a compsci or maths degree, a piece of programming would be a good artifact. And this would allow you to do a more relevant bit of independent production while keeping to your school's requirements.

https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/Project-Qualification/Level-3/2010/Teaching-and-learning-materials/Artefact_Student_Guide.pdf

https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-PROJECTS-TG-PPROD-5.PDF

Here is the guides to this style of EPQ if you're interested in this kind of thing. I had a friend do this with a program based around finding perfect numbers