A-level Mathematics Study Group 2023-2024

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I'm in year 13 now. Haven't gone back to school yet though so I'm not sure what to think of year 13 content. I do AQA. The area I most enjoy is definitely statistics! I know most people usually don't like it but I think its fun and so I easily get 90% minimum for the stats part of exams. The area I hate though is definitely mechanics!!!! It's too much physics vibe for me and I can easily get 0% in exams- this is not an exaggeration. Pure maths is alright. definitely doable. but u need to put the work in, which i didnt
here are my honest ratings for each section:
pure: 6.8/10
stats: 10/10
mechanics: 1/10
all of this is my opinion on year 12 content only though!! I heard it gets much harder in year 13

I honestly couldn't agree more, I hate mechanics. I'm looking to do a course at uni that's largely based around statistics, do you know what you want to do after year 13?

Hi I'm study23! I've just started year 12!

My exam board is WJEC.
I really enjoy algebra, and the really long questions in exams where you have to do loads of steps to get the answers, I find those really fun to figure out!
Probability tended to confuse me in GCSE so I need to get better at this.

Does anyone have any tips for further reading/work experience? Or Maths competitions?

Also if anyone has got any tips that'd be appreciated 😁

If you want further reading etc, I remember there was a series of lectures recorded by an Oxford maths lecturer targeted at a-level students - I watched them maybe 2 years ago??
also STEP foundation courses are a great way to push yourself a little bit for fun - its the Cambridge entrance exam course, but its just a bit of fun if youre a maths nerd!
I also participated in the Cambridge Women In Maths programme, which I think happened early in year 13, but applications were definitely in year 12!
Also AMSP may run courses in your area, in person or online, that you might be able to sign up for - very interactive, team work, problem solving skills using STEP and MAT past papers. nrich also have some problems under post-16 on their website!

A lot of these definitely seem very oxbridge centred, but it was my experience that they were an interesting way to push yourself, and were great to put on a personal statement, and you dont have to take them too seriously at all if you dont want to go to oxbridge! honestly the AMSP classes in particular were just fun and chatty whilst also getting through some maths also kind of like revision without the boring repetitiveness of textbook questions!!!

This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams

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Hello,

I am in year 13 doing edexcel maths.

I loveee the pure part and mechanics is fine too. Statistics is just not really my thing although I wanna do an econ degree so... but I'm just telling the truth.

I struggle with stats probability distributions.

good luck with mechanics year 2 lol ladders questions gonna make you regret saying that

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im gia, and im in year 12 - we do edexcel maths tbh, i felt like i was never really that passionate about maths until year 10, where a combination of an amazing teacher and motivation made me an absolute maths nerd. i love stats, and questions that seem super complicated but allow you to strtetch yourself and when you finally understand them- they're so fun to do! a bit scared for year 2 pure and mechanics but we'll cross that bridge when we get there haha. i don't understand the large data set in terms of how they'll ask us about it, but we have only started learning it. also if anyone could give a list of some good online revision resources i would highly appreciate it - something like how corbettmaths had the 5-a-day for gcses, but an alevel equivalent, just so i can do bits of maths daily?