A level maths

Hi guys,
can anyone tell me their experience with a level maths i.e what grades were you on at the first couple of months and what were your final grades noting where you saw your biggest improvement in.

Thanks

Hi I'm in year 13 at the moment. For the first year we didn't do any proper pure papers they were a selection of questions picked by my teacher so my grades didn't really reflect the true difficulty of the exam yet simply because we hadn't learnt enough content. I remember trying isolated exam questions and getting them almost all wrong so honestly I'm not sure I really even had a grade for the first 2 months. Stats and Mechanics papers I remember getting As and Bs on throughout but that fluctuated. I personally found for the AS papers a sudden shoot up in confidence once we had completed all the content because you were able to attempt all the questions properly. I did mocks just before Xmas consisting on AS mechs, AS stats + A2 probability and AS pure + A2 trig and algebra. It was honestly the hardest set of papers I'd done and I lost all my confidence. I think I got a B in stats, and A* in mechs and an A* in pure which somehow gave me a A* overall (I think it had a lower grade boundary due to the question difficulty). Mechs is the only one I have found a fairly linear progression for but that has only come from tonnes of practice as I struggle with it.

Hi I'm in year 13 at the moment. For the first year we didn't do any proper pure papers they were a selection of questions picked by my teacher so my grades didn't really reflect the true difficulty of the exam yet simply because we hadn't learnt enough content. I remember trying isolated exam questions and getting them almost all wrong so honestly I'm not sure I really even had a grade for the first 2 months. Stats and Mechanics papers I remember getting As and Bs on throughout but that fluctuated. I personally found for the AS papers a sudden shoot up in confidence once we had completed all the content because you were able to attempt all the questions properly. I did mocks just before Xmas consisting on AS mechs, AS stats + A2 probability and AS pure + A2 trig and algebra. It was honestly the hardest set of papers I'd done and I lost all my confidence. I think I got a B in stats, and A* in mechs and an A* in pure which somehow gave me a A* overall (I think it had a lower grade boundary due to the question difficulty). Mechs is the only one I have found a fairly linear progression for but that has only come from tonnes of practice as I struggle with it.

Any advice for improving my maths grade? I'm finding most of the past papers I'm doing hard or not doing so well in them. I don't know where to go from there?

What year are you in??? Honestly I don't think I could have even attempted a paper at this point in year 12. Dr Frost is really good because you can select a specific topic and get lots of exam question for that area only (note: it doesn't always filter properly and you may end up with some you can't answer). Textbook questions are really good whilst you're still improving in a topic as they allow you to practice the skill usually in a slightly easier question. Me and my sister ended up buying a textbook like we had at school to share at home. Perhaps you could ask your school if you could borrow a textbook over a weekend (once we go back lol!). sites like mathsmadeeasy and solution bank are good (solution bank shows you worked through solutions). Another thing I forgot to say about Dr Frost is that it has powerpoint going through every topic which are really good to look back on.

same statistics and mechanics is long-winded.Pure maths is nice, straight to the question, you know what I mean

I loved AS pure but sorry to say but pure becomes more long-winded at A2 in parts. Stats isn't too bad from what I've done and I only started A2 mechs today so I can't really comment. Honestly, the more AS mechs I do the better they seem and I now feel quite confident answering them except for the 1 mark assumptions I always get them wrong

Ahh shame

Hi guys,
can anyone tell me their experience with a level maths i.e what grades were you on at the first couple of months and what were your final grades noting where you saw your biggest improvement in.

Thanks

Its just domain and range (sorry for the A2 spoiler). You may love it but I loathe it. Oh and exponentials but I can't remember what's AS and what is A2

I'm scraping past statistics and mechanics, to be honest

What year are you in??? Honestly I don't think I could have even attempted a paper at this point in year 12. Dr Frost is really good because you can select a specific topic and get lots of exam question for that area only (note: it doesn't always filter properly and you may end up with some you can't answer). Textbook questions are really good whilst you're still improving in a topic as they allow you to practice the skill usually in a slightly easier question. Me and my sister ended up buying a textbook like we had at school to share at home. Perhaps you could ask your school if you could borrow a textbook over a weekend (once we go back lol!). sites like mathsmadeeasy and solution bank are good (solution bank shows you worked through solutions). Another thing I forgot to say about Dr Frost is that it has powerpoint going through every topic which are really good to look back on.

Its just domain and range (sorry for the A2 spoiler). You may love it but I loathe it. Oh and exponentials but I can't remember what's AS and what is A2

Honestly I was the same trust me it gets better with time. Have you done hypothesis tests in stats yet? If not they're a game changer as they're worth 5 marks and are basically the same every time. Don't get me wrong, the first lesson I was baffled by them but if you can get your head around it you'll be fine. Another encouraging thing about mechs is the second half is very pure based which if that's something you like then you'll probably enjoy more. I'm guessing you haven't done AS integration and differentiation yet but correct me if I'm wrong. Again a baffling topic in the first lesson but you'll get really confident with it on no time and then all of the last topic of mechs is on it

Yes, I have done differentiation and integration which I really enjoy. But not yet started on hypothesis testing, I might start it next week actually. Good to hear the second half of mechanics is pure based as well. For me statistical distribution is pain

Oh sounds like you're further ahead than I was. Yh mechanics has a whole topic on it. I agree about stats

Hi guys,
can anyone tell me their experience with a level maths i.e what grades were you on at the first couple of months and what were your final grades noting where you saw your biggest improvement in.

Thanks

im not even half way done with the AS syllabus.Hopefully i can finish the AS syllabus by April.But that is a big ask