My GYG journal: Aspiring Mathematician

For some context, I have done my A levels this year and hope to study at Warwick. My offer(Maths) requires me to get A*A*AA. I will share my daily routine which is 5.5 hrs of further reading every day. But this is subject to change.

Good luck for year 13 right? Wish you all the best <3

I wanted to let you know that I've finished Y13, just in case that's what you were asking about 😄
I got offers for Warwick(firm) and Durham(insurance)
My parents really encouraged me to apply ICL and UCL, but honestly, I'm not too keen on studying in London. 🙃

Oh so you just finished oops mb😅
Fair enough is it bc the city is too much e.g crowded smth like that?

Yeah mainly that .
I suppose you're in Y13? What a levels are you doing?

I wanted to let you know that I've finished Y13, just in case that's what you were asking about 😄
I got offers for Warwick(firm) and Durham(insurance)
My parents really encouraged me to apply ICL and UCL, but honestly, I'm not too keen on studying in London. 🙃

My summer plans: Finish Part IA Groups with all the example sheets .This will enable me to be acquired well before the actual term starts. I'm already halfway down.

Finish 5 Step 2 & 3 Papers: STEP is my weakness. I am terrible at solving STEP style problems. Currently I get 1 1 , sometimes 1 2. But this has to change!

Read the official Foundations notes (Warwick Uni official notes): They are incredibly well written imo. Though, I can't say the same for the example sheets - I found them kinda boring.

Make ANKI flashcards that will cover everything I have done up to now.

Oh sorry to disappoint but I have yet to do my gcses💀
I'm going into Yr 11 this new school year and I have done 1/10 gcses

Saul's part of the foundation notes(roughly the first 6 weeks of content, up to chapter 17 I believe) is probably the best notes you'll get for any of first year maths module imo, only Keiths analysis 2 comes close.
Allegedly the foundations notes quality dips once you get to Daves part for the last 4 weeks but as I didn't take this part of the course I can't really say.

Haha! I totally agree with you- the examples provided are great also great remarks on history of mathematics! I especially liked the part on WOP, but I’m not really enjoying the logic sections at the moment. I know that logic is a big part of proofs in pure maths, but all those tables (especially for 3+ statements) are so long to fill. I haven’t started looking at Keith’s notes yet, but I downloaded them and have some prelim work to do before learning about diff + integration.

By the way, are you a student at Warwick?😊

I felt the same way about the logic part, it gets tedious and repetitive fast. But come exam time you'll be hoping it comes up because it's basically free marks if you've prepared decently.

Yh I'm at Warwick, going into second year maths&physics( I've requested a transfer to the standalone maths course but Dave hasn't made a decision yet).

Haha, I would assume that'll be the case as logic is not hard just computation-heavy.

How is Warwick for physics? I am planning to take first year Mech&Relativity module; and maybe the second term Electricity module. From the lecture notes and exercises, it didn't seem like a big jump from A Level Physics and Further Mechanics. Would you recommend taking it?

Good luck with gcses xx
Year 11 year was one of my worst years tbh, cuz of COVID but hope you'll smash yours!!