The downside of doing Further Maths in 1 year

So I received my exam timetable today and holy **** I have D1/M2 at the same time, S2/FP3 at the same time and FP2/S1 at the same time.

I don't mind S1 and D1, but FP3/S2 is a killer.

If anyone has experienced anything like this before at A levels, how did you manage to cope with it?

Also nearly all the Tripos exams were scheduled as two 3-hour exams, usually 4 exams over 2 days.

That sounds draining... Is it still a thing?

I think they're now usually one exam per day (don't know about part III).

At the time, I didn't think it was really a big deal - but in hindsight I did noticably worse in afternoon papers than morning ones - could have just been the questions though.

I actually got a fairly detailed breakdown in IA, and I got 7 alphas in each of the morning papers (with max possible being 7), 5 and 4 in the 2 afternoon papers. But my worst topics were in the afternoon... even so, 5 and 4 was maybe a little worse than I might have hoped for. Other years would be more my own estimates than actual marks from the examiners, so more guesswork there.

Ah, that's good. Cheers.



How come you only got breakdowns for IA? Those are incredible results though... 7 alphas on both morning papers?!

It's not that big of a deal?

S-level M + FM on same day. Two 3 hour exams at near-STEP levels of difficulty.

Also nearly all the Tripos exams were scheduled as two 3-hour exams, usually 4 exams over 2 days. But TBH that wasn't as stressful as those S-levels...