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Additional VS AS-Level Maths

Hello, just wondering - if you study Additional Maths, what grade would you be likely to get on an AS-Level Maths paper? Is most of the content covered?
Quite a lot of the content is covered by some exam boards but really its going to depend quite a bit on what additional maths qualification youre going and which as level exam board you progress to. I did ocr fsmq and now do ocr a level maths and thus far the vast majority of the year 1 topics we’ve done i have studied before. There’s sometimes an additional application or a section of content which isnt really harder but it’s just not something we did on fsmq. Also in my experience, fsmq doesn’t cover much of the applied maths sections of the a level curriculum but does cover quite a lot of as level pure. There’s not really a straight answer- ive looked! But hopefully this helps a bit 🙂

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Original post by Sichwünschen
Hello, just wondering - if you study Additional Maths, what grade would you be likely to get on an AS-Level Maths paper? Is most of the content covered?

If you studied the OCR FSMQ and passed with a grade A then roughly a C/D in AS maths if you didn't study any more of the content.
Original post by gdunne42
If you studied the OCR FSMQ and passed with a grade A then roughly a C/D in AS maths if you didn't study any more of the content.

Hey just curious what evidence do you have for this? I was unable to find any certain comments on this topic in the past 🙂
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Original post by DerDracologe
Hey just curious what evidence do you have for this? I was unable to find any certain comments on this topic in the past 🙂

Just a guesstimate based on experience of teaching and tutoring A level maths to students who have and who have not done the FSMQ. Other teachers might have a different experience. FSMQ was commonly taken in grammar schools in my area, though increasingly the AQA level 2 certificate is the option on offer. The grade boundaries for FSMQ are such that an A grade covers quite a wide range in performance and so some candidates are more ready than others. Although the FSMQ touches on a lot of topics from the Year 12/AS syllabus, it doesn't mean they are instantly ready to tackle AS questions and they still have quite a lot of content to learn and a lot of exam practice to do.
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Original post by gdunne42
Just a guesstimate based on experience of teaching and tutoring A level maths to students who have and who have not done the FSMQ. Other teachers might have a different experience. FSMQ was commonly taken in grammar schools in my area, though increasingly the AQA level 2 certificate is the option on offer. The grade boundaries for FSMQ are such that an A grade covers quite a wide range in performance and so some candidates are more ready than others. Although the FSMQ touches on a lot of topics from the Year 12/AS syllabus, it doesn't mean they are instantly ready to tackle AS questions and they still have quite a lot of content to learn and a lot of exam practice to do.

Okay, thanks!

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