Struggling with WJEC Further Maths A Level

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I'm in year 12 and trying to study further maths through online lessons as my sixth form won't do it.

I really want to get an A* in the end of year 13. My AS exams with a maximum grade of A will be coming up in may and it feels like time is running out.

No matter how hard I try (further maths is taking up a good 70% of my revision right now), I can only get an average of 60 ish percent on my homeworks.

Although, I've not attempted any past papers yet as the WJEC exam board have a very limited amount available and I'd prefer to save them for maybe february-march time. But looking at them now they seem to be really complicated.

Has anyone had any past experience with the WJEC further maths exams and got any advice? Will everything start to come together when the exam nears?

Thanks in advance. :smile:

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TSR Jessica

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Sorry you've not had any responses about this. :frown:

Are you sure you've posted in the right place? :smile:

Here's a link to our subject forum which should help get you more responses if you post there. :redface:

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mqb2766

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Original post by licensed_moron

I'm in year 12 and trying to study further maths through online lessons as my sixth form won't do it.

I really want to get an A* in the end of year 13. My AS exams with a maximum grade of A will be coming up in may and it feels like time is running out.

No matter how hard I try (further maths is taking up a good 70% of my revision right now), I can only get an average of 60 ish percent on my homeworks.

Although, I've not attempted any past papers yet as the WJEC exam board have a very limited amount available and I'd prefer to save them for maybe february-march time. But looking at them now they seem to be really complicated.

Has anyone had any past experience with the WJEC further maths exams and got any advice? Will everything start to come together when the exam nears?

Thanks in advance. :smile:

Cant give specific advice about wjec, though there are generally not major differences between AQA and edexcel so under the broad assumption theyre "similar"

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Theres the further maths support programme (in wales). Are you on this or where does your homework come from?

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There are excellent videos https://sites.google.com/view/tlmaths/home and https://www.youtube.com/@BicenMaths, amongst others. Similarly, you must have a textbook and be working through that?

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If the exam papers are "similar" you could work through previous aqa and edexcel ones and save the wjec ones for more focussed practice. https://www.drfrostmaths.com/ has a large question bank and courses freely available.

If youre getting ~60% on your homework it shows youve got a "basic" understanding though its hard to be more specific without seeing the questions. Assuming theyre simpler than exam questions and if its taking up 70% of your time, then it doesnt sound right. For the questions you cant do/get wrong, do you get feedback about it / do you feel you can do them afterwards? Its not bad practice to come back to a sheet after a couple of weeks and reattempt the questions you got wrong/had difficulty with. If youre having difficulty getting started with a question or a topic, you could ask here for some hints so https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=38 or https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7394791

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licensed_moron

OP

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Original post by mqb2766

Cant give specific advice about wjec, though there are generally not major differences between AQA and edexcel so under the broad assumption theyre "similar"

•

Theres the further maths support programme (in wales). Are you on this or where does your homework come from?

•

There are excellent videos https://sites.google.com/view/tlmaths/home and https://www.youtube.com/@BicenMaths, amongst others. Similarly, you must have a textbook and be working through that?

•

If the exam papers are "similar" you could work through previous aqa and edexcel ones and save the wjec ones for more focussed practice. https://www.drfrostmaths.com/ has a large question bank and courses freely available.

If youre getting ~60% on your homework it shows youve got a "basic" understanding though its hard to be more specific without seeing the questions. Assuming theyre simpler than exam questions and if its taking up 70% of your time, then it doesnt sound right. For the questions you cant do/get wrong, do you get feedback about it / do you feel you can do them afterwards? Its not bad practice to come back to a sheet after a couple of weeks and reattempt the questions you got wrong/had difficulty with. If youre having difficulty getting started with a question or a topic, you could ask here for some hints so https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=38 or https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7394791

Thanks for the reply. I will use these resources :smile:

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study23!

Study Forum Helper

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Original post by licensed_moron

I'm in year 12 and trying to study further maths through online lessons as my sixth form won't do it.

I really want to get an A* in the end of year 13. My AS exams with a maximum grade of A will be coming up in may and it feels like time is running out.

No matter how hard I try (further maths is taking up a good 70% of my revision right now), I can only get an average of 60 ish percent on my homeworks.

Although, I've not attempted any past papers yet as the WJEC exam board have a very limited amount available and I'd prefer to save them for maybe february-march time. But looking at them now they seem to be really complicated.

Has anyone had any past experience with the WJEC further maths exams and got any advice? Will everything start to come together when the exam nears?

Thanks in advance. :smile:

Hi I’m also Year 12 WJEC, and I’d say FM is my hardest subject. There aren’t any official WJEC books for it so you’ll have to buy the Pearson Edexcel ones instead, which all of my teachers use whilst teaching me.

Mathemateg.com Has topic questions which are amazing if you want to go through one thing specifically. It’s also in welsh and English.

And I think our teacher recommended us a website called TLMaths - which I think another post included. It’s again not WJEC so there are some extra videos but the guy is helpful at explaining.

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