AS/A2 Additional Further Maths

Further maths doesn't really help for STEP 1 and 2, except for induction, because they are based on the single maths syllabus


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I don't think Further Add Maths will help much for STEP at all. STEP1 and STEP2 only require single maths and even for STEP 3 it is more that you need to learn to answer STEP-type questions rather than know more stuff. Your best prep for STEP is to practise STEP (and there is a fair amount of help online).

The problem with that is there isn't that many STEP papers I can and did during my A-Level Revision 30 papers in about 2 weeks STEP is much harder and longer but its not going to take you that long to get through them so you need something else to do before you do STEP.As I have said STEP I and II go up to S2 and I haven't done S2 and the problems are more complex so a deeper understanding of the subject area is helpful and if someone would post what the questions go up to in STEP III that would be helpful.To be able to answer the full range of questions on STEP I and II I must do S2 and I'm not sure what modules I must do for this to be the case for STEP III.You won't even be able to start until you know you are doing STEP when you have received an offer after interview.

The old style (pre-2000 but certainly 1980s) Maths A level papers are more similar to STEP if you can find any of those.

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It might be worth checking the syllabus for the STEP papers as on some exam boards you will need to go up to M3 to do the mechanics questions on STEP I and II.

For the mechanics questions on STEP I/II you needed up to M3 and STEP III you needed M4 and M5 for AQA.

Do you have this spec because the one I am reading doesn't very clearly show you what you need for each exam board for each section of STEP.

Link below:

http://www.admissionstestingservice.org/images/47831-step-specification-rebranded-.pdf

This shows what you need for each section but not from each exam board.

It shows in some of the sections what you but is very vague where did you get you needed M3 in AQA for STEP I and IIThat has me a bit worried because having looking at Edexcel and AQA's M2 AQA's seems a lot harder and more advanced EDEXCEL's M2 could be sat without second year knowledge(even though it says knowledge of C3 is needed it rarely is on Edexcel) and AQA does some of the hardest problems in M2 requiring advanced C4 knowledge as well as Mechanics knowledge.

I did AQA Maths and FM. You only do coefficient of restitution in M3 for AQA (this comes up in most of the collisions questions for STEP). Deriving the equation of motion for a projectile is also M3 for AQA. Everything else is M1/M2.

I have done that in Edexcel M2 but what about the advanced differential equations in AQA M2 do you need that?

How possible is it that you could study D2 before D1?because I don't think I'm going to manage to study M4 and M5 without M3 and FP2 and FP3 I know most of C3-C4 and I don't want to start Additional Further Maths with S2-S4 because then I will forget all my Statistics by the end of the course I will still have to manage studying M4 and M5 whilst possibly only knowing some of M3,FP2 and FP3.

Studying D2 before D1 is easy. There's is no pre requisite knowledge, other than possibly self teaching a bit of linear programming from D1 beforehand. At our school we do D2 for AS FM but D1 for A2 Maths.

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How easy is it to self study M4 with not all of M3,FP2 and FP3 knowledge? because I will have to start learning M4 before I have finished my Further Maths course and I don't know what order my modules will be taught in next year.There won't be time to study my 3 Further Maths modules early so I know them before the 6 Additional Further Maths and it would make the Further Maths lessons boring because I would have done all the exercises for the modules.