A Level Maths advice

I’ve been looking through the textbook for year 2 pure maths and it looks very challenging. Can anyone please give me any advice on how to do well in A Level Maths? And does anyone know good tutors for maths?
Thanks

I’ve been looking through the textbook for year 2 pure maths and it looks very challenging. Can anyone please give me any advice on how to do well in A Level Maths? And does anyone know good tutors for maths?
Thanks

Nothing new to you I’m sure, but going through every single example and doing every question in the exercises is probably all you’ll need. If you’re still a bit stuck, BicenMaths and TLMaths are great (you can find them on YouTube). After that, I’d do every past paper known to man - what’s important is that you give the questions a proper go before looking at the mark scheme.
Also, try to really intuitively understand where things come from. For example, understand the proofs for arithmetic and geometric series (which I’m sure is in the specification anyway), understanding what an integral actually is (think of the trapezium rule, but the width gets smaller and smaller), etc. I say this because it helped me tackle harder problems more logically, rather than me trying to recall some rule that doesn’t make sense.

hey i did maths a level! what exam board are you doing? if you are doing edexcel, that is one of the hardest exam boards for a levels like it is ROUGH. i got a C but tbh this was due to personal issues in my life, before that I was working at a B. anyways, for me i would ask your teachers lots and lots of questions and if they have a study drop in session during lunches you can go to, GO TO THEM!! maths a level is very application and problem solving based so the questions are not super straight forward and are NOTHING like the ones in the textbook, in fact the ones in the textbook are easier than the actual exam which gave me a false sense of hope. you will get super frustrated, you will be surronded by people who find the subject easy and it may be disheartening for you if you did well at maths in GCSE - like i did - and then do not understand a level maths as well. but dont worry, this happens to a lot of people and if you put the effort in and ask for help when you need it, you will do super well!! also, for revision dont even bother with the textbook unless you need help understanding basic concepts. once you have, do a million past paper questions, and preferably from pre-covid years or before 2016 which is when the maths curriculum changed - i say this because 2020 - 2022 papers are a lot easier and can make you feel like you understand what is going on when in reality they are nothing like the real exams. and do all the papers timed and once you've done a paper, i would take it to you teacher, talk through points of concern and then do another. best of luck!!!!

Nothing new to you I’m sure, but going through every single example and doing every question in the exercises is probably all you’ll need. If you’re still a bit stuck, BicenMaths and TLMaths are great (you can find them on YouTube). After that, I’d do every past paper known to man - what’s important is that you give the questions a proper go before looking at the mark scheme.
Also, try to really intuitively understand where things come from. For example, understand the proofs for arithmetic and geometric series (which I’m sure is in the specification anyway), understanding what an integral actually is (think of the trapezium rule, but the width gets smaller and smaller), etc. I say this because it helped me tackle harder problems more logically, rather than me trying to recall some rule that doesn’t make sense.

hey i did maths a level! what exam board are you doing? if you are doing edexcel, that is one of the hardest exam boards for a levels like it is ROUGH. i got a C but tbh this was due to personal issues in my life, before that I was working at a B. anyways, for me i would ask your teachers lots and lots of questions and if they have a study drop in session during lunches you can go to, GO TO THEM!! maths a level is very application and problem solving based so the questions are not super straight forward and are NOTHING like the ones in the textbook, in fact the ones in the textbook are easier than the actual exam which gave me a false sense of hope. you will get super frustrated, you will be surronded by people who find the subject easy and it may be disheartening for you if you did well at maths in GCSE - like i did - and then do not understand a level maths as well. but dont worry, this happens to a lot of people and if you put the effort in and ask for help when you need it, you will do super well!! also, for revision dont even bother with the textbook unless you need help understanding basic concepts. once you have, do a million past paper questions, and preferably from pre-covid years or before 2016 which is when the maths curriculum changed - i say this because 2020 - 2022 papers are a lot easier and can make you feel like you understand what is going on when in reality they are nothing like the real exams. and do all the papers timed and once you've done a paper, i would take it to you teacher, talk through points of concern and then do another. best of luck!!!!

Thank you so much for the advice! Yes I will definitely combine youtube videos with practice on topics I don’t understand. Yes, I will try to do all the past papers because they’re really good practice! That’s true I will try memorising proof of some topics because you’re right it helps a lot to know the proofs when doing questions! Once again, thanks so much for the advice!

Which board?

Edexcel!

Presumably youv'e found Dr Frost?
https://www.drfrost.org/courses.php?coid=12814
https://www.drfrost.org/courses.php?coid=12815