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A level self study

Has anyone self-studied A level maths, physics and computer science? What are the best resources and how do I choose between AQA,OCR , Edexcel and CAIE? I did my IGSCE in my home country and came to the uk hoping to do my a levels in only a year

Reply 1

toothysmile

Wow thats ambitious planning to do a levels in a year. I don't do physics and comps sci but i do maths and further maths - my recommendation is to edexcel maths a level as they have a really good textbooks series (pearson they should have blue shell textbooks for pure and pink running man for applied) and there are a lot of resources - also grade boundary is really low, it's like 60% for an A and 75% for A*

CAIE has really high grade boundaries and is very complicated

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Reply 2

toothysmile

I don't do physics, comp sci but i do maths and further maths
For maths definitely do Edexcel - they have a very easy to use textbook series by pearson and have most resources around in general (e.g. on YouTube). Also grade boundaries are low (60% for A).

Also use Seneca for studying for all topics, for any course and its free.
CAIE is very hard and high grade boundaries, because a lot of private schools/ international schools use this course