my HONEST experience of A LEVEL Further MATHS !! (including mock results)
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00:00 - Introduction
02:06 - Section 1: The course I did (modules & exam board)
03:34 - Section 2: Why I chose to do Further Maths
04:12 - Section 3: Course Content (modules & exam results)
14:15 - Section 4: Exams
15:43 - Section 5: Overall opinion
16:41 - Outro
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So much respect for anyone doing further maths! I attempted further maths and dropped down to single maths after six weeks because the pace was just TOOOO fast for me ahaha 😂... loved this video though harry 👌
@lunaxzo2431
3 жыл бұрын
What did you get in your maths gcse?
@jakazen
3 жыл бұрын
I realise we are in the same institution :) I did maths and further maths for GCSEs and A Level and acheived 9, A^, A*, A* respectively in the end. It was tough but it's all about the exercises
Further maths has started rly hard but it’s just the speed. I feel like I don’t get it but when I get time to learn it myself again and have more practice I find it gets much much easier over time
@HarrySurplus
2 жыл бұрын
I know how you feel, just keep on top of everything and work hard!
@gddanielk8491
2 жыл бұрын
@Harry Surplus going well now haha test on core pure 1 tomorrow
So I had 3 different teachers for AS further maths: (I did CCEA Pure, Mechanics 1 and Statistics) Pure teacher: we (the 7 people in my class) walk into the classroom, pure teacher is already writing on the board. Chaotic. Fast paced, exciting. Mechanics: A NIGHTMARE I hated it, I couldn't mechanics. Statistics teacher: chill, laid back, fun, removed the boringness out of stats
@jt4225
3 жыл бұрын
YES!!! Mechanics is just straight up hell.
@blackoutemzz2674
3 жыл бұрын
Oh lord mechanics was the hardest. Imagine how hard general relativity will be, let alone mechanics.
@yondabigman4668
3 жыл бұрын
Bruh, I find statistics the hardest
Thank you so much for making this video! It was really interesting and useful for me! I think scoring good marks in A level maths and A level Further maths has a really big difference and still you did great, Harry!
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😁
Yeah further maths is one of those subjects that no one actually understand it’s or know where it comes fr9m and why it’s used but as long as you know how you do it it’s fine lol
I was feeling very uncertain about doing further maths, now I’m definitely going to try it out because it sounds really interesting, although I do aqa and we have to do mechanics and discrete instead of further pure but I’m sure it’ll still be interesting 😊
@HarrySurplus
3 жыл бұрын
Best of luck with it! 🥳
Omg I found inequalities really difficult lol, the sketching graphs was hard to understand for me.
I loved A level FM. I was really nervous that I wouldn’t be good enough to take it but I’m so glad I did
@HarrySurplus
3 жыл бұрын
anyone can be good enough if they put the work in and try! glad you enjoy it 🥳
Polar coordinates and complex numbers are deffo the hardest topics.
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
polar coordinates 🤯
I'm doing AQA and annoyingly they don't do a further pure option 😢 so I'm stuck doing discrete (decision) and mechanics. Pure is definitely the best so far, I love complex numbers and matrices, but polar coordinates are quite confusing. Discrete is weird with all the algorithms but game theory was quite interesting. Not looking forward to doing the mechanics next year! Anyway thank you for the video and good luck on your results!
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
more decision and mechanics would be my NIGHTMARE lol. thank you so much ☺️
thank you, im studying myself and was confused by the modules😵
I love these review videos! I hope you can do a Collab with Jude Kennedy ATCL, I'm pretty sure he did further maths too!
I'm so excited to start fm in september now!
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Best of luck with it 🥳
Can anyone explain how the differsnt further ( fp1 ect ) vary as i cannot decide between furtther mechanics, decison and stats. I know i want to do fp
I’ve got 2 years to teach myself further maths, along with a-level maths. It’s annoying because I can’t do 90% of the content because I need to do year 2 😂
Can I please ask that in Maths, do u guys think that our genetic smartness is more important than hard-working? I really like Maths and I would consider myself to be quite hard-working as many of my friends said but tbh I don't think I'm any smart at all, it's just more about me practicing it a lot I really want to do Further Maths and I did a lot of research about it but I'm really worried that I wouldn't be able to catch up with everyone Pls give me some advice, tysm
I enjoyed the video lots! Should be starting CP1, CP2, FP1 (hopefully) and M1 next year. My teachers better not pick D1 over FP1 hahaha
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! That’s the combination some people did in my class. I did D1 instead of your M1 ..... you might like D1! Don’t let me put you off it lol ☺️
i havent studied add maths in my olevels. what do you sugges Harry? should i take FM in AL?
Further maths gcse is basically maths with a bit of AS maths. Nothing much
Hi Harry, please can you make more videos on Further Maths as I have been self teaching the subject? :)
@taylormcgrath
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve added you to my prayers ahha. How tf you doing that?
@randd257
Жыл бұрын
Hey, i'm planning to self study it too, was it manageable?
@IshtiHD
11 ай бұрын
@@randd257Hi, any updates on this? How did you find it?
@randd257
11 ай бұрын
@@IshtiHD i'm actually planning to move schools and the new school offers it
I still haven’t got my head around vectors I just find it so hard because I don’t understand why I’m using certain methods
@HarrySurplus
3 жыл бұрын
me too, so many methods and so little marks lol
I have the same problem with vectors😂. Just always found it difficult.
for fm do you get to choose modules or do teachers choose them
Great video Harry, very helpful! I have a question: I thinking of doing A level maths and I was just wondering what calculator did you use ? Have a great end to the week!
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
thank you! I had two calculators, the Casio classwiz & the Casio FxCG50 Graphical! The classwiz I had to have for a level and the graphical calculator was optional ☺️
@zoeevans946
4 жыл бұрын
Harry Surplus thank you !
Will we be getting a video on Drama? Why you chose Drama as your third alongside Maths and Further Maths?
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
possibly!
My school or any in my area didnt offer FM. Wish I took it cause I want to go to uni in theoretical physics and i think it wouldve helped me lol.
OCR Mei B is so hard.
I have a dilemma! I love maths and want to do both maths and further maths along with psychology for a level. However I want to go onto do psychology at university and although I can get into quite a lot of university with these a levels there are more universities that I could get into if I do a science and I would do this as opposed to further maths. I would do physics most likely. It’s really annoying because I want to do further maths but I don’t want to narrow my options. Got any advice?
@icequeen2778
2 жыл бұрын
You could try doing 4 a levels or maybe have the further maths as an AS level instead. I’d also recommend contacting the admissions office of the unis you’d like to go to and asking if they’d accept further maths instead of a science. Also I’ve heard that in some cases further maths can be counted as a science but I’m not sure if that’s true so make sure to check with the uni first!
So in vectors, did it offer the geometrical/agebraic aspect of vectors ( cross product/dot product/triple product/projection of any vector on other vector) or it also offers vector calculus? P.S.: I'm really sorry if this was too long, and thank you again!
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
Yeh! In Core Pure 1 we did dot product. & the cross product was in Further Pure 1 (but we didn’t get to that because of coronavirus 😭)
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
... and I think vector calculus is covered at degree level?
@angkur1
4 жыл бұрын
Oh ! Maybe vector calculus is at degree level, I was actually trying to learn partial differential equations and multiple integrals part of the calculus this summer and i saw the topic vector calculus at last, which was really interesting and so I thought, if it was in A levels, I would go through it. Thanks for the info though!
@angkur1
4 жыл бұрын
@@HarrySurplus Coronavirus really halted so many good things ! I found vectors at first extremely clumsy and confusing but later it was so so interesting! The geometrical aspect of vector(area of triangle using cross product, volume of parallelopied using scalar triple product , projections) is really interesting! You could go through them in your free time, it's worth it!:D
CP2 is completely different to CP1. CP1 builds on AS maths whereas CP2 builds on A2 maths. The only topics in CP1 that come up again in CP2 are complex numbers volumes of rev and series
@shehz
3 жыл бұрын
So no roots of polynomials?
@shehz
3 жыл бұрын
and Matrices
@shehz
3 жыл бұрын
and Vectors
@yondabigman4668
3 жыл бұрын
@@shehz depending on your choices. Yes
Hi Harry, do you offer 1to1 tutoring?
Yesss I love proof by induction
@yondabigman4668
3 жыл бұрын
Divisabitlity and matrix proof. Right? Right?
Pure maths is the best. Stats is the second best. Mechanics is the worst, unless you understand the whole concept.
@animalpalace3750
2 жыл бұрын
I live further mechanics 🙈
You have the most British accent I've seen someone have and I'm British myself just wanted to point it out :D
@HarrySurplus
3 жыл бұрын
hehe thank u
@taylormcgrath
3 жыл бұрын
@@HarrySurplus bold of you to assume that was a compliment hahs
Lucky I'm doing fm1 and fs1. Ideally I would do fp1 and fm1 .stats suck...
Hmmm I actually found vectors easier than the other topics because it was just algebra but a lot of people did find it hard
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
There is just a lot to remember isn’t there!
@lol-nd5it
4 жыл бұрын
@@HarrySurplus ye the content itself is pretty easy, but there's just so much to learn.
As someone who's just finished CP1 CP2 FM1 D1 and FS1 as an additional module - I really wish my teachers offered FP1. It's by far the most interesting looking
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
Yes! FP1 was interesting ☺️ I would say my favourite
I think I’m going to take computer science, maths, further maths and maybe physics for alevels I’m hoping all the links help! (Each maths for 2 years so should be doable)
@HarrySurplus
3 жыл бұрын
sounds like a good combo!!
@yondabigman4668
3 жыл бұрын
100% identical to my choices
@yeet1532
2 жыл бұрын
Identical to mine bro
@auuughhhbygarrison3920
Жыл бұрын
thats literally mine as well gl mate
this is the tiktok guy who taught me quadratic graphs omg!
it’s nice to see someone with more average grades! not like that evie bennett girl who gets all a+
Am going to do maths and further maths and 3 equivalent alevel in engineering
@giftbahati7683
3 жыл бұрын
What did you get in you maths gcse
@mahfoozmiah2008
3 жыл бұрын
@@giftbahati7683 9. My friend is doing it aswell but he got a grade 5 so he is doing it privately
does everyone who takes further maths complete a level maths within a year? or can you do both courses for 2 years? :)
@HarrySurplus
3 жыл бұрын
No, my college decided to do a level maths in a year! Most colleges do it over two years
@ashleemccann2597
3 жыл бұрын
Harry Surplus oh right awesome haha, thank you!
Differential equations is actually applied maths so you might be more of an applied mathematician than you think 😅 Enjoyed watching this - it's interesting to see how the syllabus has changed compared to years ago when I did them!
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
Yes! At a level it’s under ‘pure’ maths but at university it’s applied! Confusing lol
You should only do further maths if you get a level 9 , or 8 but u have to be revising a lot with a 8
@yondabigman4668
3 жыл бұрын
Good problem solving skills is probably the most important
@jimmelton
2 жыл бұрын
I got a 7 in Maths at GCSE, joined the FM course 2 months after it had begun and i'm working at an A. Anyone can pick it up if they put in the labour.
@turbiyo4026
Жыл бұрын
@@jimmelton damn how did ur schl allow u to do it with a 7 i thought the requirement was an 8 for most schools
@jimmelton
Жыл бұрын
@@turbiyo4026 I didn’t apply for it at first, but I just went into one of the lessons once and expressed how I wanted to study computer science - and my teacher enrolled me onto the course lmao
@gutso5749
Жыл бұрын
I am doing it with a 6
What grade did you get?
@HarrySurplus
2 жыл бұрын
A :)
@Voltanaut
2 жыл бұрын
@@HarrySurplus Congrats!
WAIT A MINUTE, VOLUMES OF REVOLUTION IS FURTHER MATHS? IT'S A2 MATHS HERE NO WAY
@JudeKennedyATCL
4 жыл бұрын
Update: differential equations are also CCEA A2
@HarrySurplus
4 жыл бұрын
Yes! It used to be normal A Level but it got moved to further maths. And differential equations are also in a level maths, just harder ones in Further Maths that require a different solving method 😁
@JudeKennedyATCL
4 жыл бұрын
@@HarrySurplus that's fair enough. With the recent spec change in CCEA we had a lot of jumping about. Differential equations came onto A2 and some mEcHaNiCs topics moved about too
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@lol-nd5it
4 жыл бұрын
Well shit, guess I'm second 😔
@robbiehicks7960
4 жыл бұрын
Guess I'm third :(
don’t even know why I’m here, I’m borderline failing my maths gcse haha
@HarrySurplus
2 жыл бұрын
ahh noo, stay positive!
@Kyulnjir
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know why I'm here either. I've already done my A-levels and I didn't even do further maths
good video but visuals made me sea sick lol
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