Is Maths a joke for Further Maths students?

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Reply 20

kkboyk

Original post by Alexion

No. C4 is still pretty hard tbh. Easier than the Further modules, but still no walk in the park.

Which further module in particular? I find C4 to be just about the same difficulty as C2.

Reply 21

user 42005

Depends on what modules you take. For example, doing stats 2 in FM is easier than doing core 4 in maths.

Reply 22

IrrationalRoot

Original post by Zacken

I think you have a few groups of people:

Those who find AFM/FM/M piss easy.
Those who find FM hard but M easy.
Those who find both FM and M hard.

Don't forget:

Those who find M/FM/AFM/STEP/IMO/ProvingTheRiemannHypothesis piss easy.

Reply 23

Alexion

Original post by kkboyk

Which further module in particular? I find C4 to be just about the same difficulty as C2.

Probably only feeling like C4 is hard because I pushed it to one side (and I'm feeling the pressure because I need to do well in C4 for an A* in Maths).

It's easier than FP1 tho tbf.

Reply 24

kkboyk

Original post by Alexion

Probably only feeling like C4 is hard because I pushed it to one side (and I'm feeling the pressure because I need to do well in C4 for an A* in Maths).

It's easier than FP1 tho tbf.

Same haha. I have never learnt the GCSE stuff like surface area and volume of shapes, so I struggle the wordy differential equation questions.

Reply 25

hellomynameisr

Original post by Alexion

Probably only feeling like C4 is hard because I pushed it to one side (and I'm feeling the pressure because I need to do well in C4 for an A* in Maths).

It's easier than FP1 tho tbf.

is c4 actually easier than fp1?

(im in year 12)

Reply 26

Zacken

Original post by IrrationalRoot

Don't forget:

Those who find M/FM/AFM/STEP/IMO/ProvingTheRiemannHypothesis piss easy.

Reply 27

Alexion

Original post by hellomynameisr

is c4 actually easier than fp1?

(im in year 12)

Really going to be subjective. Doing them in different years so it's difficult to compare them.

I struggled a lot with some of the complex numbers stuff in FP1 at first so I think that's the main thing that makes me feel like it was a hard module, wasn't that bad really tho :cute:

Reply 28

spaceman11

Original post by RoadtoSuccess

Basically Maths at A-level to me is SATs in Year 6
And Further maths at A-level is GCSE's
:tongue:

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Reply 29

xylas

Original post by spaceman11

Is A Level Maths considered piss-easy for Further Maths students?

Yeah it was quite easy for me and a lot of my class in FM.

If I would rank the modules from hardest to easiest:

FP3
FP2
D2
M2
C3
FP1
D1
C4
C2
M1
S1
C1

Reply 30

xylas

Original post by kkboyk

Which further module in particular? I find C4 to be just about the same difficulty as C2.

Agreed

Reply 31

username2471155

Original post by spaceman11

Is A Level Maths considered piss-easy for Further Maths students?

Depends how much knowledge a further maths student has of further maths

Reply 32

Glenis.k

I'm currently doing AS maths and Further maths and I'm not finding either terribly hard.
I guess maths does seem 'piss easy' to some extent because C1 and C2 are pretty straight forward, and compared to some of the stuff I'm doing in FP1 (parabolas/hyperbolas for example) it's a walk in the park.
Not to mention S1 and S2 are both a bit of a joke tbh. Most of the course is just repeating what I did in GCSE statistics.
The modules in Further maths, aren't as straight forward so they make the modules in maths seem so much simpler.

Reply 33

ArchmageRohan

Those in our FM class used to call normal A-Level maths, 'peasant maths'.

No offence intended, just harmless #TopMegaFMBantz

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Reply 34

Plagioclase

Original post by spaceman11

Is A Level Maths considered piss-easy for Further Maths students?

Not really, I definitely thought C3 and C4 were a lot less intimidating than they were before after getting through FP2 and FP3 but I definitely wouldn't call them "piss easy".

Reply 35

khaleesi98

I find maths pretty easy but I wouldn't call it a joke- all the content's necessary for other stuff even if you don't find it particularly challenging in itself.

Original post by Lucasium

People find AFM piss easy? I struggle to believe that

Nah I can believe it tbh. I'm not sure how much of it is natural talent and how much is work, but some people just get maths more than others lol.

Also, even if you don't find it easy at first (I certainly wouldn't), success at A Level maths basically = learning how to do past papers and relying on the fact that your exam will be exactly like those past papers. Not that I'm complaining!