How to get an a* in A-Level maths?

A normal calculator will more than suffice if you do maths not further maths.

The calculator you described is useful for checking answers at the end of an exam and speeding up the process.

What I forgot to mention is that exams are all about speed. It is possible to finish C1 exams in under 30mins and 50mins for C4.

What I did the night before the exam is do all the recent past papers as fast as I could so my brain would go mad with maths.

Giving you the rest of the exam to chill and quadtruple check your answers and do the questions you missed out.

No mistakes tho. Do not make any.

Should I purchase a calculator that can integrate and differentiate, or will a normal calculator be fine?

Get this if you wanna be the coolest kid in class

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I know he's havin a laugh but just buy one of the mainstream ones even a TI

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151799655888

A TI is not worth it for normal maths.

With a TI you'll be cooler than the coolest kid in class.

Would you say I should retake C3 if i got 83 UMS?

Its all about organisation...

Keep an Excel record of all the exercises in the book (Edexcel), green them off as you do them and write a useful reminder/note next to them.

Do all of the exercises in the book throughout the year, and make use of the mixed exercises, review exercises and past papers for revision closer to the time.

This strategy got me good marks in FP2, FP3 and M3, I only dropped 2 marks in M3 and I'm sure all of the practice in the book helped me loads, and I was panicking for FP3 revision because I left it alone with 20 days to go but managed to get a solid mark while genuinely not being able to do a single question at the beginning.

This is what I did:

Cool dude. I wondering how much UMS did you get?

Its all about organisation...

Keep an Excel record of all the exercises in the book (Edexcel), green them off as you do them and write a useful reminder/note next to them.

Do all of the exercises in the book throughout the year, and make use of the mixed exercises, review exercises and past papers for revision closer to the time.

This strategy got me good marks in FP2, FP3 and M3, I only dropped 2 marks in M3 and I'm sure all of the practice in the book helped me loads, and I was panicking for FP3 revision because I left it alone with 20 days to go but managed to get a solid mark while genuinely not being able to do a single question at the beginning.

This is what I did:

More like richer than the coolest guy in class. A TI is pointless for normal maths; price and functionality wise.

I never got an A* but i was 2 Ums marks off an A* haha id say past papers is key

that's so close, I feel your pain. but A is still an amazing achievement, well done

Ah, A Level Maths. It's one of those A level where the content is easy to learn but harder to apply. First things first, you need to make sure you understand all the fundamentals and then do as much practice as you possibly can. That means, do as many of the past papers as you can do, even going back and doing the ones from 2005 or something; one of the questions this year was essentially a copy of one they gave to the students back in 2007 (Or some year close to that). So yeah, to keep it short: Learn it and then practice it and you'll do fine