Picking up further maths in march of year 12

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I originally chose Bio Chem and Maths and picked up physics in Jan of year 12. I have caught up on the content and an doing exam questions to catch up on the content I missed. I emjoy this much more and want to pursue physics or maths at uni rather than something biology related. It would make me a better applicant if I had further maths so I was wondering if it was possible to self study the further maths content I had missed and take the FM a level at the end of year 13 and apply to university after taking a levels. I doubt my school will let me swap bio for FM as I have already picked up physics late in yr12.

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I originally chose Bio Chem and Maths and picked up physics in Jan of year 12. I have caught up on the content and an doing exam questions to catch up on the content I missed. I emjoy this much more and want to pursue physics or maths at uni rather than something biology related. It would make me a better applicant if I had further maths so I was wondering if it was possible to self study the further maths content I had missed and take the FM a level at the end of year 13 and apply to university after taking a levels. I doubt my school will let me swap bio for FM as I have already picked up physics late in yr12.

Hi @jdjdjdjejsjdhgrb

Hope you're well 🙂 I think it's defo worth a try talking to your teachers about this matter. I'd like to hope they'll be understanding of your thinking so long as you have a clear rationale for doing so - which you do.

However, it is quite late on in the academic year and an A-Level to self-study is very heavy content wise - are you sure it's the right choice to make at this moment? At the same time you don't want to pile on the pressure or maybe you could ask to swap the Biology out for Further Maths if it is something they can accommodate for? Always worth a try pursuing this option. Best of luck with whatever you do.

~Zaynab
University of Bradford

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Muttley79

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by jdjdjdjejsjdhgrb

I originally chose Bio Chem and Maths and picked up physics in Jan of year 12. I have caught up on the content and an doing exam questions to catch up on the content I missed. I emjoy this much more and want to pursue physics or maths at uni rather than something biology related. It would make me a better applicant if I had further maths so I was wondering if it was possible to self study the further maths content I had missed and take the FM a level at the end of year 13 and apply to university after taking a levels. I doubt my school will let me swap bio for FM as I have already picked up physics late in yr12.

Are you planning to drop Biology?

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by jdjdjdjejsjdhgrb

I originally chose Bio Chem and Maths and picked up physics in Jan of year 12. I have caught up on the content and an doing exam questions to catch up on the content I missed. I emjoy this much more and want to pursue physics or maths at uni rather than something biology related. It would make me a better applicant if I had further maths so I was wondering if it was possible to self study the further maths content I had missed and take the FM a level at the end of year 13 and apply to university after taking a levels. I doubt my school will let me swap bio for FM as I have already picked up physics late in yr12.

Hey !

I am an international A-level student who studied Math, F-Math and Physics At the end of Last year ( junior yr / yr-12 ) around in January 3 months before 2024 May/ June exam series I decided to drop Computer science and self-study FM and appeared for AS Modules. I earned a b grade in FM with aa in math and physics. Now I am in yr-13 and going to sit for Math, F-Math, Physics and Computer Science (again).

The reason I am telling you this is to state that it's possible to self-Study an A-level. But for F-Math. Following are two major parts you can divided F-Math into.

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Completing the Coursework ( Theory )

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Solving Past Papers ( Assessments )

Now based on your mathematical maturity, learning ability ( how good your are in grasping the concept ), and problem Solving skills you can do both parts in surprisingly short amount of time.
Now It may sound easy but the whole difficulty lies in maintaining the consistency and self-discipline when covering the syllabus content and practicing exam questions.

The main difference in self-studying and being taught by teacher is that under teacher's influence you don't need to worry about work momentum as you will be doing the both parts I mentioned at a steady rate but it's not same for self-learning where based on your learning abilities and work ethics you can maintain a significantly high or low work momentum.
You can also dm me to connect.

(edited 10 months ago)

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by jdjdjdjejsjdhgrb

I originally chose Bio Chem and Maths and picked up physics in Jan of year 12. I have caught up on the content and an doing exam questions to catch up on the content I missed. I emjoy this much more and want to pursue physics or maths at uni rather than something biology related. It would make me a better applicant if I had further maths so I was wondering if it was possible to self study the further maths content I had missed and take the FM a level at the end of year 13 and apply to university after taking a levels. I doubt my school will let me swap bio for FM as I have already picked up physics late in yr12.

Hi, two of the people in my current year 13 further maths class caught up on all of the AS content over the summer, and are now doing really well (predicted A/A*) so it Is definitely possible, but will require a lot of hard work, but I'm sure you can do it :smile:

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jdjdjdjejsjdhgrb

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by Muttley79

Are you planning to drop Biology?

yes sorry I thought I mentioned it

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yes sorry I thought I mentioned it

Which board FMaths will you do? Dr Frost has great content for Edexcel and I'll post a link if you are doing that.

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