maths

just wondering how hard is as level maths, as i took a year out and need some info on what you do in it and any good revison sites

Reply 1

maxhk

It's not that hard. As long as you revise thorouhgly before exams, I'm sure you can get a high A for that.. Ahh one more thing do AS MANY exercises as u can!! That will help tremendously..

Reply 2

Excalibur

There were already a few threads about the difficulty of AS Maths lying around somewhere; if you do a search you'd be able to find a lot of useful advice.

AS Maths wasn't that bad, really. You'd need a bit of perserverence, if Maths doesn't come to you naturally & instictinvely, but if you practice enough it's definitely doable. Maths is about practice, practice, practice!

Reply 3

James

Lots of practice is all it takes. And whenever you get completely confused (which happens to me every now and then), we'll be happy to help you out in the Maths forum :smile:

Reply 4

mikeski

Excalibur

There were already a few threads about the difficulty of AS Maths lying around somewhere; if you do a search you'd be able to find a lot of useful advice.

AS Maths wasn't that bad, really. You'd need a bit of perserverence, if Maths doesn't come to you naturally & instinctively, but if you practice enough it's definitely doable. Maths is about practice, practice, practice!

Yeah I made a thread on it. Look for it, as it helped my in picking it!

Reply 5

silent ninja

Dude, I had a 6 year gap and did the AS and A2 in one year. Had to go through some GCSE stuff though, but the AS was pretty straightforward especially because the Heinemann books are so comprehensively written.

Strange how these threads appear every few weeks.

Reply 6

~NC~

Its not that hard atall :smile:

Providing you put the effort in! And as for revision sites, just search around on the net, there should be plenty :smile:

Reply 7

-G-a-v-

You asked what you do in AS Maths aswell:

It's three modules: C1, C2 and then one from M1, S1 or D1

C1 is an introductory module, revising some stuff from GCSE. Most of this should be pretty straighforward and old work really. The only difference is that you start to look at sequences and series more than you did at GCSE. You'll also do some introductory work on differentiation and integration - which you definitely won't have done at GCSE

C2 - most of this will be new work. The only bits of this I knew from GCSE were the sine and cosine rules. You do quite a bit on trig and the style of trig changes somewhat from GCSE, with it being more like what you think of as algebra i.e. solving equations and proving identities and such. It takes a little getting used to, but is reasonably straighforward. You do more on sequences and series, you start work on the binomial expansion and the idea of exponentials and logarithms is also introduced. You also do a bit more on differentiation and integration.

S1 - Mostly revision of GCSE work, with a few new topics that aren't that hard. S1 is a very easy module to do well on if you do things carefully.

M1 - Very similar to the mechanics work in AS Physics, just a bit more mathematical than it is in Physics, as you;d expect with this being a maths exam not a physics one! :p:

All straightforward stuff - helps if you're good at algebra more so with this one than with S1 or D1.

D1 - The root of all evil. I can't really describe this one without mentioning how much I hate it, so I'll let someone else describe D1 :p:

Reply 8

Excalibur

_-Arctic-Monkey-_

D1 - The root of all evil. I can't really describe this one without mentioning how much I hate it, so I'll let someone else describe D1 :p:

Tell me about it... we've just started D1 and it really insults your intelligence. :p:

Reply 9

James

Hey, decision maths isn't that easy. I got a C in D2 :frown:

- it was actually quite tricky. I guess D1 is a bit of a joke though.

Reply 10

free_the_mind

Hi I'm probably going to be repeating some of what has already been said...but i'll go on anyway. Malths Alevel isn't too hard if your willing to put in the work. At the moment i'm doing the AS and i've found as long as you keep up with the work from the start and practice you cant go too wrong.
good luk