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I’m planning on doing AS further maths but don’t know which exam board to do - I have cure early left school and im a private candidate so from thsi point onwards to 2025 exams i will study my 3 alvels on my own but don’t know if I have time to also do AS for the 2025 exams . Wondering if it’s possible to self teach AS further whist doing 3 other alevels as I will return back to school 2024 September for yr 13

Reply 1

TSR Jessica

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

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Reply 2

xbqvz

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Original post by high-fiber-organ

I’m planning on doing AS further maths but don’t know which exam board to do - I have cure early left school and im a private candidate so from thsi point onwards to 2025 exams i will study my 3 alvels on my own but don’t know if I have time to also do AS for the 2025 exams . Wondering if it’s possible to self teach AS further whist doing 3 other alevels as I will return back to school 2024 September for yr 13

Hello! I do Edexcel Further Maths, and I think the AS spec is pretty decent. We use OCR for exam practice, but I have no idea how their exam board works

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vnayak

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Original post by high-fiber-organ

I’m planning on doing AS further maths but don’t know which exam board to do - I have cure early left school and im a private candidate so from thsi point onwards to 2025 exams i will study my 3 alvels on my own but don’t know if I have time to also do AS for the 2025 exams . Wondering if it’s possible to self teach AS further whist doing 3 other alevels as I will return back to school 2024 September for yr 13

OK so we do Edexcel Further Maths. I genuinely thought that it was going to be much harder than it actually is, particularly AS level content. I would recommend doing the Edexcel courses because:

1) It's quite straightforward (though the vectors topic is one that causes problems for me and a few other people)

2) Widely available resources - Resources ranging from textbooks to exam questions and papers etc. are more widely available than any other exam board from what I see. You don't even have to buy the textbook. If you search up the component (i.e. Core Pure 1 or Further Stats 1) and then follow it up with ".pdf" you will find LOADS of websites from which you can download the textbook from.

I would say that if you can do Year 2 Maths, you can do AS level Further Maths without a doubt. It's really not that hard but I would say it does step up a bit towards the back end but that's true with any course.

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high-fiber-organ

OP

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Original post by vnayak

OK so we do Edexcel Further Maths. I genuinely thought that it was going to be much harder than it actually is, particularly AS level content. I would recommend doing the Edexcel courses because:
1) It's quite straightforward (though the vectors topic is one that causes problems for me and a few other people)
2) Widely available resources - Resources ranging from textbooks to exam questions and papers etc. are more widely available than any other exam board from what I see. You don't even have to buy the textbook. If you search up the component (i.e. Core Pure 1 or Further Stats 1) and then follow it up with ".pdf" you will find LOADS of websites from which you can download the textbook from.
I would say that if you can do Year 2 Maths, you can do AS level Further Maths without a doubt. It's really not that hard but I would say it does step up a bit towards the back end but that's true with any course.

I still haven’t started alevel further maths . I’m only doing AS but still do you think it’s too late

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high-fiber-organ

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Original post by xbqvz

Hello! I do Edexcel Further Maths, and I think the AS spec is pretty decent. We use OCR for exam practice, but I have no idea how their exam board works

Hi so u do Edexcel and u think AS so year 1 should be okay even if I still haven’t started and I’m doing exam next year

Reply 6

vnayak

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Original post by high-fiber-organ

I still haven’t started alevel further maths . I’m only doing AS but still do you think it’s too late

Yes, it's too late now if you are sitting exams this year. There is A LOT to do for A level Further Maths - content steps up quite a bit. It's not too hard but it's the amount of stuff there is.

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xbqvz

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Original post by vnayak

Yes, it's too late now if you are sitting exams this year. There is A LOT to do for A level Further Maths - content steps up quite a bit. It's not too hard but it's the amount of stuff there is.

they said for 2025 exams !

Reply 8

vnayak

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Original post by high-fiber-organ

I still haven’t started alevel further maths . I’m only doing AS but still do you think it’s too late

Original post by xbqvz

they said for 2025 exams !

Sorry OP, I was under the impression you meant it for 2024 exams. If you are going for 2025 exams, it's deffo possible. It's not too bad provided you have the time to work on stuff.