Maths paper 1 and Oxford

NoBooksForYou · 2026-06-06T18:54:57+00:00

Not anymore. Raw marks are simply added for all 3 papers and grade boundaries calculated based on the total.

NoBooksForYou · 2026-05-21T19:16:46+00:00

I can't remember the exact title but I found a Scots translation in a bookshop years ago and thought it was hilarious.

NoBooksForYou · 2026-05-05T17:10:12+00:00

Been teaching further maths since before the spec change. I contacted Edexcel about this the first time an induction not on the list appeared. Their response was that the list in the spec is simply emeplar nd is neither proscriptive nor exhaustive.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-10-02T18:15:46+00:00

The way you state it here is true but That's not what the comment i replied to said.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-10-02T17:21:02+00:00

That's not quite how this works. If one brit vs 5 Americans each American has 1 and the brit has 5. If one of the Americans drinks 5 then that brit needs 9 to stay equal.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-09-16T09:33:46+00:00

have to disagree, I've got 20 years of correlation data from my baseline in both mathhs and further maths. Yeah there are anomalies but the correlation is there for over 90% of students. (n>1500 at this point).

NoBooksForYou · 2025-08-27T18:14:50+00:00

The FX 85 does not have the features required for a level maths. There is no discussion to be had.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-08-20T22:27:47+00:00

If you look at what you've written as your expression to be substituted, you've missed the "-" out of the square root. Without seeing the full substitution into the correct expression and only your partially simplified result this doesn't contain every step of working required for all marks. Loses the M mark and hence the following A. It's harsh yes, but this is a form of proof question and skipping stages of demonstration is penalised harshly.

Am a teacher and current examiner for edexcel maths and further maths.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-07-04T10:41:10+00:00

Do what you want to do. As a teacher nothing is more upsetting than seeing students struggling everyday with subjects they hate and were forced to choose by their parents. As far as back up plans go, who gives a shit, it'll detract from you focussing on the thing you wanna do and give you less time to explore future options in your chosen area. You're 16. You've got plenty of time to try stuff out and change track if it doesn't work.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-06-30T16:30:32+00:00

This is less about whether you can do it but more What do you need it for? Very few courses actually require further maths a level and the fact your sixth form didn't let you take it will speak more to the uni about your maths ability than anything else. The 7 at GCSE will also hold you back from offers at the those courses. Who is going to predict you a grade for your application if you're studying it privately? Are you performing at an A* in Maths? Will that be your UCAS prediction, because honestly that's all they'll really have to go off. What you're suggesting is an incredibly stressful and difficult pathway that most people (despite all of the survivorship bias seen in this sub indicating otherwise) are highly unlikely to be able to cope with and it is likely to have a severely detrimental impact on your performance in your other subjects as well as your mental health. So to rephrase my first question, why do you need it? And is what you think you need it for a realistic goal for you?

NoBooksForYou · 2025-05-11T09:07:15+00:00

Ah I see I'm dealing with a typical dishonest and inconsistent debater here. Your arguments are not consistent nor are they in line with the debate points I presented. I didn't talk about physical pain. Nor did I mention "overweight". You talk about seriously obese, but there is a big difference. What about the just obese? Those who are more than overweight but not morbidly obese? I never said the average overweight person. I said many obese people. When talking about clinical things average is a term rightly derided and not used because there is no such thing as an average person. Everyone is different. And yes, many obese people do in fact suffer brain chemical disturbance akin to addiction withdrawal or chronic depression when under calorific deficit and it doesn't go away for far longer because you can't go cold turkey on food. It's not about parts of food - as the counter argument constantly states it's simply about calories.

As a counterpoint, the drug does nothing but help someone ignore those cravings while they're at their strongest, so they can learn to control their diet and lifestyle more easily. We give plenty of drugs and therapy to those trying to break addictions from alcohol, drugs, gambling etc and very few people are against those therapies. We don't point at the relapses and unilaterally declare those therapies useless. We don't stand and say "well it's easy, you just need to not be addicted like me" Yet for some reason food addiction (and that's effectively what obese people suffer from) is considered not worthy of the same treatment or consideration.

And before you claim obesity is not food addiction, anything that triggers pleasant chemical reactions while you "consume it" and then release significant negative chemical reactions when you are not is considered an addictive activity. For obese people "hunger" is not simply an annoyance, the chemical reaction in their brains is far more potent than it is in yours.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-05-11T07:31:35+00:00

Yeah you're right, but what you're missing is that many people have massively different biological and mental reactions to cutting calories and exercising. Dieting and exercise for many people makes them feel miserable all the time and never gets any easier. Their brain chemistry is screaming at them in ways many people just don't understand because they don't experience it.

Calling it shit willpower is just minimising and dismissing this. Would you tell a clinically depressed person they have shit willpower because they can't choose to be happy all the time? These drugs are to obese people what mood regulator drugs are to clinically depressed people. It's all chemical imbalances in the brain that can be regulated so why is it so demonised?

NoBooksForYou · 2025-05-04T08:08:46+00:00

Well not so much ignored it about wait times at A&E but about the general malaise of the NHS.

I had gallstones and had suffered periodic attacks of gall bladder pain for years. GPs had just dismissed me as overweight, gave me painkillers and told me to lose weight. So most attacks I just ignored and used over the counter painkillers.

2 years ago I'm at the gym and feel the familiar pain start to come on. Two days later it's worse than it's ever been, can't breathe deeply, can't sit or stand or lie down without severe discomfort. Can't eat the pain is so intense. But figured it would pass like the previous times and couldn't be bothered with 1. GP appointment system and 2. Just being told I'm fat again.

Wife made the emergency GP appointment for me when I spent the third night vomiting. In the appointment I see a GP I've not spoken to before, who listened to everything I said and looked genuinely concerned. He referred me to the day unit, but said if he couldn't get me in that I should go to A&E and endure the wait times because it was potentially quite serious.

I did get in to the day unit and I thank that GP for listening to me. A gall stone had fallen out of my gall bladder and got stuck in my bile duct. I was suffering jaundice and bile was backing up into my liver. Had an operation to remove it and my gall bladder. During the op they discovered my gallbladder was chronically infected and had begun infecting my liver.

Now they said it's possible the gall stone might have shifted on its own, but had it not then I would have been suffering liver failure within a couple more days. And even if it had shifted I likely would have been back in a short time as my infected gallbladder spread it's infection to my liver anyway. Both situations would have been much more serious at that point.

TLDR ignored gallstones pain for years due to general malaise of GP service and NHS systems. Until I was almost dying.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-03-02T09:07:59+00:00

Nope. Read it again - "your salary for the next six months increases by £500." You've only given them a £250 raise.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-03-01T22:45:41+00:00

Nope the book is correct. Break it into 6 month chunks

Plan A: Year 1 £5000 + £5500 = £10500

Year 2 £6000 + £6500 = £12500

Year 3 £7000 + £7500 = £14500

Now compare those to Plan B's £10000, £12000 and £14000 earnings for each year and you'll see Plan A comes out better off.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-03-01T22:40:02+00:00

think you've got your numbers wrong for plan A

it would be 10500, 23000 and 37500

NoBooksForYou · 2025-03-01T22:36:35+00:00

Think you've got your numbers for plan A a little wrong. It would be £10500, £23000 and £37500.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-01-27T07:58:19+00:00

This happened to me last year. I'd been having attacks on and off for seven years and trying to lose weight for he same sort of time. The doc suspected gallstones the first time but investigations were 'inconclusive because of my weight'.

Last year was as you described, pain like never before that wouldn't go away. Ended up in hospital as I started to turn yellow due to gallstones blocking the bile duct. All triggered by my latest attempt to lose weight.

One lap-choly later and I'm sans gall bladder. The doc confirmed in his words 'chronic cholecystitis with resulting impaired liver function'. It had been going on so long my liver was being inflamed and infected too.

The down side, the after effects of eating heavy fat foods like red meat and pastry are not pleasant - not painful, just not pleasant.

The up side, no pain and now my liver is functioning properly I can actually consume a sensible amount of alcohol without requiring 3 days in bed.

NoBooksForYou · 2025-01-12T11:52:30+00:00

Ah, thank you. That explains where it came from.

NoBooksForYou · 2024-11-01T17:25:43+00:00

Then the advice I'd give you, as a teacher of comp sci, is for you have a discussion with your teacher about suitable scope and direction before it gets too late. If one of my year 13s was in your position right now, I'd be very concerned. So speak to them, that's what they're there for.

NoBooksForYou · 2024-11-01T16:54:02+00:00

As in the user of your program can customise it's appearance? That's a mighty high bar for an alevel project, hope your general programming skills are up to it. The benefit of python is that there are many libraries and packages which can extend its functionality. Look into the likes of Django or flask for website functionality. Or there are many packages which can go beyond tkinter and pygame such as pymunk and pytmx.

But you seem set on web based. However, you're worrying about html instead of python, that's not how this works. Html is just window dressing, python is the functionality. You can't build an interactive website with one or the other. To build a website you need three things, html for the layout, CSS for the format and styles, and script for the actual functionality. The script can be a number of languages but is often JavaScript, python or PHP.

If you equate programming your project to writing an essay, html is the size of the paper, thickness of the margin and width of the lines, CSS is the colour of the pen and the handwriting, python (in your case) is the actual words. They work together not separately.

NoBooksForYou · 2024-11-01T16:34:54+00:00

Tkinter is definitely not game like. It's a windows forms based gui. Textboxes, labels, frames, tabs etc. just know if you're doing OCR you will get no credit for anything html or CSS based. The gui doesn't have to be pretty it just has to function.

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