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Reply 60

wrong....i'm not all that at maths...i only got 1 100% in my P1...didn't stop me getting an offer. Also, i'm finding A-levels very hard and stressful...so its obviously not easy for most of us...

sorry to break it...lol

PK

Reply 61

~Raphael~

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Phil23

wrong....i'm not all that at maths...i only got 1 100% in my P1...didn't stop me getting an offer. Also, i'm finding A-levels very hard and stressful...so its obviously not easy for most of us...

sorry to break it...lol

PK

Dude, I actually think you're the exception...Well, I've never met or spoken to an Oxbridge mathmo who found maths or other A Levels 'very hard'! :rolleyes:

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~Raphael~

Dude, I actually think you're the exception...Well, I've never met or spoken to an Oxbridge mathmo who found maths or other A Levels 'very hard'! :rolleyes:

AS's were fine (ish), and so to normal maths, but further maths is a bit weird...all the stuff that we did in normal maths...they sort of assume you can do and remember all that off the top of your head, and where you probs would get 5-6 marks for a similar step in normal maths, its only worth like 1-2 marks in F-maths! that is what is weird, and maths F-maths tricky...in my opinion

Reply 63

fishpaste

just about everybody finds what they're currently doing 'hard.'

Reply 64

mctcdc0710

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fishpaste

just about everybody finds what they're currently doing 'hard.'

words of wisdom...

Reply 65

RichE

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fishpaste

just about everybody finds what they're currently doing 'hard.'

Maybe the majority but I'm convinced most Oxbridge mathematicians find A-level maths easy - almost mind-numbingly so - as Raphael said.

Some mathmos take ages before they actually hit their "wall" - maybe not even at undergrad level.

Reply 66

mctcdc0710

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RichE

Maybe the majority but I'm not convinced Oxbridge mathematicians find A-level maths easy - almost mind-numbingly so - as Raphael said.

Some mathmos take ages before they actually hit their "wall" - maybe not even at undergrad level.

I think what he suggested had a deeper meaning. If you are at pre - university level and find A level easy, a thing common among the cambridge mathmos, then you find yourself something more advanced to do. I never found myself settling for something that was not hard enough. Mathematics is all about challange. Of course for my age and intelligence something considered "hard enough" for me may be trivial for someone of higher intelligence and/or greater age.

Reply 67

RichE

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Michael Mourao

I think what he suggested had a deeper meaning. If you are at pre - university level and find A level easy, a thing common among the cambridge mathmos, then you find yourself something more advanced to do. I never found myself settling for something that was not hard enough. Mathematics is all about challange. Of course for my age and intelligence something considered "hard enough" for me may be trivial for someone of higher intelligence and/or greater age.

Well yes you can find something else, something harder to do - but only for whatever time is your own. It doesn't change the fact that for quite a few school work equals drudgery because of the lack of challenge, and if you're at a school or with a teacher who can't/won't find the time to give you extra stuff then there's not a lot you can do about it.

Perhaps I'm straying from the point a little there, but I do know of schools which put ALL their maths pupils in for the GCSE papers where the highest they can attain is a C grade - just so that this way the school can maximise their A-C percentage. Imagine being a bright kid in the face of that.

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