Edexcel A-level Further Statistics 2 - 25th June 2019 [Exam Discussion]

Edexcel A level Further Statistics 2

Here is the exam discussion for this exam. Talk anything from how to revise for it, specific questions or time management :ahee:

Date: 25th June
AM/PM:AM
Length:1h30
Specification:https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/A%20Level/Mathematics/2017/specification-and-sample-assesment/a-level-l3-further-mathematics-specification.pdf

Other Resources:
Formula Booklet: https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/A%20Level/Mathematics/2017/specification-and-sample-assesment/Pearson_Edexcel_A_Level_GCE_in_Mathematics_Formulae_Book.pdf
Sample Assessment Materials: https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/A%20Level/Mathematics/2017/specification-and-sample-assesment/a-level-l3-further-mathematics-sams.pdf
Maths Study Group (including many resources): https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5747896
How to revise for the new specification: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/a-level/exams/how-to-revise-a-level-maths-new-spec
Maths Exam Thread Directory: To be added

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Reply 2

Knucklecut

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Anyone else sitting this exam?

Reply 3

JJStyles12

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I am! We are a rare species tbf
I don't know of anyone else who is

Original post by Knucklecut

Anyone else sitting this exam?

Original post by JJStyles12

I am! We are a rare species tbf
I don't know of anyone else who is

Not sitting the exam but I know a fair proportion from further reading, so will help when I can. (plan on producing some question banks which I can post here)

Reply 5

Knucklecut

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Awesome. How have you been finding FS2 in comparison to FS1?

Original post by JJStyles12

I am! We are a rare species tbf
I don't know of anyone else who is

Reply 6

JJStyles12

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Oh wow that's great thanks!

Original post by _gcx

Not sitting the exam but I know a fair proportion from further reading, so will help when I can. (plan on producing some question banks which I can post here)

Reply 7

JJStyles12

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I feel like I prefer the content of FS2 because the hypothesis tests are better for FS2 IMO but Ive self thought FS2 but with FS1 I've gotten taught through school so I'm definitely more practiced at FS1.

What about yourself ?

Original post by Knucklecut

Awesome. How have you been finding FS2 in comparison to FS1?

Reply 8

Knucklecut

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I also prefer FS2 although the first three chapters are extremely dull. Feel like it's a fair bit harder than FS1. What made you pick it?

Original post by JJStyles12

I feel like I prefer the content of FS2 because the hypothesis tests are better for FS2 IMO but Ive self thought FS2 but with FS1 I've gotten taught through school so I'm definitely more practiced at FS1.

What about yourself ?

Original post by JJStyles12

Oh wow that's great thanks!

how does this look? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-L19yLxCw5DnZM09uwnN3Lw4WlCzq8da - 2 questions are essentially old spec but the other 3 incorporate new stuff. Made one for continuous probability distributions too.

Reply 10

JJStyles12

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Thats seems useful there's some good AS content there, would be good to find some A2 topics as those are the ones I find more challengingwhere did you find that resource or was it self made ?

Original post by _gcx

how does this look? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-L19yLxCw5DnZM09uwnN3Lw4WlCzq8da - 2 questions are essentially old spec but the other 3 incorporate new stuff. Made one for continuous probability distributions too.

Original post by JJStyles12

Thats seems useful there's some good AS content there, would be good to find some A2 topics as those are the ones I find more challengingwhere did you find that resource or was it self made ?

made it myself. Busy at the moment but should be able to some time next week. :smile:

Reply 12

JJStyles12

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Did you get some spare time to do some A2 ones in the end ?

Original post by _gcx

made it myself. Busy at the moment but should be able to some time next week. :smile:

Reply 13

ChristophMario

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What's everyone doing to revise for this final exam?
I'm basically doing the S3 and S4 papers from 2014-2018 and then stuff from the book

Reply 14

JJStyles12

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Yea similarly, there's not many resources so it seems that that is all you can do really, How are you feeling for the exam then ?

Original post by ChristophMario

What's everyone doing to revise for this final exam?
I'm basically doing the S3 and S4 papers from 2014-2018 and then stuff from the book

Reply 15

ChristophMario

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Original post by JJStyles12

Yea similarly, there's not many resources so it seems that that is all you can do really, How are you feeling for the exam then ?

Yeah, barely anything, just gotta hope the book and S3/4 are sufficient. I'm feeling excited and ready for the exam, stats is my favourite (otherwise why would I do FS2 😂) so I'm hoping for a good result to pull back my paper 2! How are you feeling about it? (and how did you find FS1?)

Reply 16

JJStyles12

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Original post by ChristophMario

Yeah, barely anything, just gotta hope the book and S3/4 are sufficient. I'm feeling excited and ready for the exam, stats is my favourite (otherwise why would I do FS2 😂) so I'm hoping for a good result to pull back my paper 2! How are you feeling about it? (and how did you find FS

FS1 was decent made some silly errors though, I feel alright for it, I do like the topics so doing the exam should be alright

Reply 17

ChristophMario

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Original post by JJStyles12

FS1 was decent made some silly errors though, I feel alright for it, I do like the topics so doing the exam should be alright

Yeah same, I differentiated the PGF incorrectly the second time (accidentally got a coefficient of 2 instead of 1) which was annoying, but the topics in this are really nice, so just hoping Tuesdays exam is nice too