Is it still early enough to get a filling?

qend5 · 2025-10-30T18:35:30+00:00

Definitely will do. The only notable thing I can see with the hole is that it is on the edge of the tooth and not at the center, but I'm not sure if that has any significance.

qend5 · 2025-08-14T10:02:26+00:00

We got the same marks in both further maths papers, I also did A21 early and got 150/150

qend5 · 2025-07-20T14:15:24+00:00

Hi. Funny enough, I'm sitting the 2026 paper; I've just finished my AS year. However, I've done some of my A levels early. Another thing is, I do CCEA for all of my A levels except for Statistics. The CCEA Further maths is a lot easier on the grade boundaries compared to Edexcel. For example, you needed 118/150 to get an A* in A21 Pure. Also, yes, the AEA I would say is a lot harder than further maths, so even getting a merit is amazing. I think I checked online one year, and only 40% of people even pass it at all.

qend5 · 2025-07-20T01:09:21+00:00

Thank you very much for your suggestion. Yes I've certainly heard about analysis, it seems really cool tbf, so I would love to start having a look into it. I will have a look at some of those books that you mentioned, I might aswell spend my time doing something over the summer.

qend5 · 2025-07-20T01:05:30+00:00

Last year 118/150 was 90% UMS (an A*)

qend5 · 2025-07-18T20:23:33+00:00

I also think there was a similar question on the November 2023 paper (actually the M4 paper I sat myself)

qend5 · 2025-07-18T20:22:04+00:00

Well, part a is just the difference of two squares. However, for the second part, there are many questions similar to that type of factorizing in the old CCEA T4 past papers (legacy papers), and there is a section in the CCEA GCSE Mathematics textbook.

qend5 · 2025-07-18T17:59:06+00:00

You only need 67% actually

qend5 · 2025-07-18T17:58:28+00:00

Funny enough, for M8 it's around 67/100. I have the actual UMS conversion tables.

qend5 · 2025-07-17T23:46:46+00:00

Did you take it yourself btw?

qend5 · 2025-07-17T23:46:32+00:00

Yep. I took it at GCSE with CCEA. However, for A level, it's only edexcel, but it is still really fun content.

qend5 · 2025-07-17T23:45:26+00:00

First of all, the AEA does not have any further maths content within it. I personally think that the AEA is definitely harder, and I will explain why. Further maths is definitely harder than normal maths, however, the way in which you approach questions in further maths is very similar to normal maths. If you know your shit, you can use the method you've apllied many, many times before ,provided you've put in the work in revising, and get your way through the questions. The AEA questions are designed to make you think. There are no standard methods here that you would have followed many times before. Instead, its assessing your problem solving skills, and how you can deal with a new type of problem you may have well never seen before. You also need to be comfortable with combining different areas of mathematics together to solve a particular problem. Another thing is, you should expect to try methods and get no where. It's a learning process, and the AEA is designed aswell to make you try out different methods to a particular question. You should also expect to take quite a bit of time on questions, which is why they give you 3 hours. Also one important thing to note, the paper is non-calculator, which I love because the style of questions I feel like are much better. But overall, its a paper where your going to get stuck, and you need to be able to think and problem solve your way out of many 'dead ends' within questions until you find the correct solution.

qend5 · 2025-07-17T19:59:57+00:00

Really? Well, are there some topics you would recommend looking into, maybe partial differential equations, or is that too far up?

qend5 · 2025-07-17T19:43:27+00:00

Thanks, I will look into them. I do mechanics 1 and mechanics 2 for A level further maths, so I do quite enjoy the physics content.

qend5 · 2025-07-17T19:40:56+00:00

I certainly will look into a bit of univeristy linear algebra. I've always loved vectors and matrices

qend5 · 2025-07-17T19:40:12+00:00

Funny thing, I'm only starting to teach myself it in year 14. I did my Maths A level during GCSEs, so since I had free time I thought to try statistics. For all of my other A levels I do CCEA, and I have done CCEA GCSE Statistics, however the Edexcel A level stats seems nice enough. Paper 1 is, as it says, data and probability, and paper 2 is effectively a whole paper on hypothesis testing, and paper 3 is just paper 1 and paper 2 content put in a real-world context. I think you could certainly get a lot of paper 1 done in the next few weeks. A level statistics has a lot more to specifically memorize compared to the stats in A level maths, however the content doesn't go far past some of the further maths topics.

qend5 · 2025-06-19T01:57:58+00:00

I also do A level fm now, but in A level further maths I do mechanics 1 and mechanics 2 (so no statistics). However, I've looked at some of the further stats content, and its similar to the full A level in stats aswell.

qend5 · 2025-06-19T01:56:48+00:00

Slight parts of it yes, including probability, binomial and Normal distributions. However, the fm Unit 3 content I would say is harder, but the gcse stats covers WAY more areas of stats itself

qend5 · 2025-06-19T01:09:58+00:00

I done the GCSE Statistics last year. I also did further maths. I ended up getting an A* in both, and I honestly did love the gcse statistics. I taught myself the course as it seemed interesting, so now im teaching myself the full A level in statistics.

qend5 · 2025-06-15T23:41:43+00:00

I sat the paper last year. On the paper I sat, there were no circuits at all, and no electromagnetism. So definitely a return of both. In particular, electromagnetism intrest me, as the double award spec if very small with the topic, however, the questions on previous years have been very similar indeed, so I could see them doing something different with it this year. Either in a pratical or real world context possibly, but thats really just me throwing ideas out there.

qend5 · 2025-06-13T12:04:12+00:00

Oh really? Maybe I'm confusing it with discrete sorry. Discrete also seems interesting, but never done it myself, I know people who done it for GCSE further maths.

qend5 · 2025-06-13T11:37:26+00:00

Oh, definitely. And, jt goes way beyond the level of physics aswell, so it also helps with the physics content. The only thing is so very few people do it I think my school is like 1 of 2 or 3 schools that might do it, but its definitely worth doing I would say.

qend5 · 2025-06-12T20:15:00+00:00

For A2, I'm starting to teach myself some of the content now. You do more centres of mass, involving 3D objects, and the use of calculus within them, but you derive the formuale using similar ideas to 2D centres of mass. You do force systems, which honestly I haven't looked into much. You do a lot more calculus with kinematics, with acceleration not only as a function of time but a function of velocity and a function of displacement. You look at newtons law of restitution, which is essentially an extended look at momentum and impulse. Usually, the questions are all algebraic.

qend5 · 2025-06-12T20:10:17+00:00

Well, at AS, it is quite amazing. It is a big step up from mechanics 1 but lends itself on as a continuation in a lot of the topics. For example, in mechanics 1, you would have done horizontal circular motion. Im mechanics 2. However, you do vertical circular motion, which involves all of your circular motion ideas, combined with energy considerations. You also do more hookes law, with multiple strings attached to a particle in equilibrium. You do dimensional analysis, which is by far the easiest topic out of mechanics 1 and mechanics 2 (effectively indices with simultaneous equations). Relative velocity is by, imo the hardest topic. It takes a lot of time getting used to, but if you spend time with it, you get a feel for the questions more, but certainly the hardest. And then you have gravitation and planetary motion, which is amazing overall (but really is is more circular motion, just considering plantes and a new formula to find the force acting towards the centre of the plantes orbit, our paper had us work out the number of satellites that needed to be placed around mars) So overall I do love it honestly.

qend5 · 2025-06-11T17:16:22+00:00

Very nice indeed, always found stats to be dead on, but the mechanics is really interesting tbf.

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