A-level Maths Study Group

hi , mind if i join the group ? i'm in year 12 doing maths,fm , goal is lse economics

can o=someone tell me how to think radians! i can only do questions is i turn them to degrees which wastes a lot of time !

Yeah, I did I was set on medicine all through my childhood, but it was my mum's dream and by the time I was 13, I realised that I personally didn't have a good reason to do medicine and it seemed like a LOT of work and I didn't think I could put in that work, so that 'dream' ended At the time, I was kinda into maths and so, I was like yes! I'll do maths but as I said, I didn't like stats and the thought of having to do more stats at uni just doesn't appeal to me and at the same time, chemistry was becoming increasingly interesting and that's how I got hooked on natsci
(oops, talked a bit much )
for me, stats feels very subjective.. it's a bit more open to interpretation compared to mechanics, which is more of a 'use this equation' sort of thing i'm sure you'll be fine
and thank you for creating this thread!





Thank you good luck to you too

Hi there,
I'm doing edexcel maths only so not further maths and I'm in year 12.

I quite like most of pure, I don't like stats cause I find it quite long and boring, and too repetitive in some ways.
I've been going to some problem solving sessions which isn't all aimed at a level as some of the content is more difficult, as some questions are taken from univeristy admissions test for example, and ohters from step and ukmt etc. The sessions have been difficult but interesting and even though I haven't understood a lot, it's still helped me and gave a head start on some topics, as some of the stuff you still do in a level.
I understand things like binomial expansion which I only knew a bit by myself a while ago, and after the session I had a look at it again and we done it today in maths so I understood it all so far which was quite satisfying, a relief and made it more fun

If you don't already, learn off-by-heart that $\pi$ radians and $\frac{\pi}{2}$ radians are a half circle (180 degrees) and quarter circle (90 degrees) respectively.

Then if you were given e.g. $\frac{\pi}{6}$ you can quickly imagine in your mind that this is a third of a quarter circle and e.g. $\frac{11\pi}{10}$ is a bit more than $\pi$ so it's a bit more than half a circle.

If you have an example question where you normally convert to degrees first, please post it. Really the best way to get used to radians is to do loads of questions with radians, making sure you don't convert to degrees!

the more of the problem solving stuff you do, the better at maths you get there was some math problem solving thing at my local uni on saturdays but couldn't attend as i have volunteering that day
binomial expansion i do find writing it out gets a bit long winded though

Indeed ☺️, the sessions are also at the nearest uni to me which is sussex, but I don't think it's staff from there though. Thee first few weeks were at a college as they were waiting for the response from the uni.
Oh that's a shame but it's good you're doing volunteering, feels good to help, and it'll look good on your cv.
Yeah I agree, the actual calculation doesn't take that long, once you get used to it, just writing it out, but usually they won't expect you to expand a huge power but just find the first 4 terms or the 10th term or something like that if it was to the power 15 for example

Indeed ☺️, the sessions are also at the nearest uni to me which is sussex, but I don't think it's staff from there though. Thee first few weeks were at a college as they were waiting for the response from the uni.
Oh that's a shame but it's good you're doing volunteering, feels good to help, and it'll look good on your cv.
Yeah I agree, the actual calculation doesn't take that long, once you get used to it, just writing it out, but usually they won't expect you to expand a huge power but just find the first 4 terms or the 10th term or something like that if it was to the power 15 for example

yeah, hoping it'll give me something to talk about on my ps too
i always have the tendency to make silly mistakes in maths so i have to be super careful with binomial expansion

Staff for those are usually from local schools I'm doing the same course but at the other uni and my teacher from last year usually does it
Glad you're finding them useful

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Yeah it is, cause it's the same people and not university staff. Oh cool, Indeed and it s quite interesting in a way a level question aren't sometimes even when I don't always understand it ☺️

Hi
I'm in year 12 doing Edexcel Maths. I mainly chose maths because it's the subject that I have the most motivation to improve in (even though I don't want to study STEM at uni); I was in Set 2 during GCSEs so I had to push myself to improve and I ended up getting a 7. This was my lowest grade so I probably shouldn't have chosen it for A Level but I reallyyyy didn't want to do 3 essay subjects (I also do English Literature and History), but I'm very surprised my maths grades are as good as my English and History ones so far. I've enjoyed inequalities because I sort of skipped over it at GCSE but I actually understand it now. Stats is a bit dull and I was a little behind at first because the majority of my class were in Set 1 last year so they had the option to do the Stats GCSE so we went through the content quite quickly which was kind of stressful :/

Heyo everyone!

I'm in Y12, doing Maths and Further Maths (Both MEI) My FM modules are Algorithms, Numerical Methods, and Further Pure with Technology.
I chose maths because I'm generally pretty good with numbers, and I want to do computer science at uni.
Favourite bit is probably calculus in normal maths, and in FM Dijkstras or Pams algorithms. Least favourite has gotta be Proof by Induction, just cause it takes like a whole page to do one question haha. And stats. Screw stats.

Hi, I'm in Year 12 doing maths, and I will take the a level at the end of this academic year before studying all of further maths in Year 13. Currently quite enjoying the A2 integration stuff, especially with partial fractions!

how has the a2 stuff compared to as?

Its not that bad to be honest! I found it much more enjoyable