There can’t possibly be another maths teacher as dedicated to helping his students as you are!! This video, and the channel as a whole, is incredible! You make everyone doing A level maths’s lives so much easier.

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😃

@ronex8315

3 жыл бұрын

yes sir thats true

@empty3293

2 жыл бұрын

clearly you have not met mr Husain

@adamlabnaki9216

11 ай бұрын

If only all teachers had Mr bicen attitude

Seriously, if I had a maths teacher like you, A Levels would’ve been a breeze. I only made it through because of your videos. Keep up the good work 👍🏽🙏🏽

I don't know how you make A level Maths seem so easy. Honestly, the best ever maths teacher!!!!!!!

@zohaibgulawan9070

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

The best maths teacher on this planet. Legend.

@muhiminurrahman9689

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@ruhan1500

3 жыл бұрын

I must agree with this statement as well!

@saraha7617

3 жыл бұрын

facts

@nydiarivera8488

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine of drinking Pink Liquor 🍹 picnaaplp

@nydiarivera8488

3 жыл бұрын

@@saraha7617 know

As a GCSE student its astonishing to see how a 4 marker is turned into this monstrosity

@alejandrorey7410

Жыл бұрын

ye i got clickbaited in yr 12 thinking yr 13 was easier

@rubinaakther9188

Жыл бұрын

@@alejandrorey7410 Same for me in yr 10

pls never stop making maths videos you're genuinely the BEST maths youtuber out there!! thank you !!

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏼

Legend!!, Boosting my maths grade with these videos, keep up the amazing work!!

hope this channel blows up! discovered your channel today and already loving it

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words 🙌🏼

Nearly 600 subs...... And youve had what, like 150 students since the start of this channel..... Mad how even people beyond Morpeth are even here, shows how good (understatement) you are 👏🏽👏🏽

Carrying my maths grade with the vids 😭 💪 thanks for the help 💯

I have my first A Level Maths paper in 14 days, so I'm binging these videos to get a sense of how to approach terrifying questions like these ones. I need an A for university and am on the cusp of one, I just hope my revision pays off and the exam papers aren't too impossible. Thank you for posting, you're really saving students like myself!!

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck 🤞🏼

@adhirox3635

2 жыл бұрын

What's your country rippla?

@katozrippla1497

2 жыл бұрын

@@adhirox3635 UK

@exteriorarchives

Жыл бұрын

howd it go?

@katozrippla1497

Жыл бұрын

@@exteriorarchives Maths was great. My second best A Level in terms of grade, and it helped me get into UCL. I study Natural Sciences there now.

This is the best maths teacher you can Hope to Have.

Really well explained! Thank you :)

Best maths KZread channel that there ever is💯

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

🙌🏼

@hamzahmohamed7087

3 жыл бұрын

Thought you'd use this opportunity to shout out RuhanPlayz

With a teacher like you, the hardest questions become easy💪🏽 great video👏🏽

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

🙌🏼 Thank you 🙏🏼

@Dark_kittens123

2 жыл бұрын

They’re not even close to the hardest a level Questions

Exam tomorrow, amazing video and nice to see you're still answering comments and helping people 2 years later :)

@Hannah-qt4hn

Жыл бұрын

SAME GOOD LUCK 😭

@BicenMaths

Жыл бұрын

Good luck for tomorrow! I can’t wait to hear how it goes 🍀

@flawless4770

Жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths Think it went really well. d/dx sinx from first principles was a beautiful question. Revised all the hard bits and ending up messing up on the trapezium rule question 😅. First question was an easy definite integral and that was all the integration in the whole paper, do you think that means there will be more in the second?

Great video! This would have been really useful for my A-Level exams, IF I had them...

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Super video!!! I'd be here every upload had I still been doing A Level Maths

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😃

I started watching your further mechanics video they are very useful, hope you get recognition

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Very kind of you to say so - thank you! Pleased they’re useful 👍🏼

thanks for the help i have my mocks tommorow this really helped a lot ! :)

@maykalu4554

2 жыл бұрын

Really good luck

Thanks helped me with my uni work!

Bicen Maths out here saving my further maths grade #BicenArmy

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

🙌🏼 😃 I’m aiming to complete all chapters for Core Pure 1 and 2... hopefully in the next couple of months 👍🏼

THANKS! These are amazing

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! 👍🏼

Genuinely the best maths youtuber out there. #BicenArmy

Great video sir 👍

Great content sir 📈

LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My maths teachers don't even respond to emails when you ask for help, your students are so lucky to have you!!!!!!!!!!!

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help! Wishing you the best of luck with your studies!

Your the best of the maths

Could you do a video on the top 5 or even 10 questions that you personally think are the hardest? I would find it really helpful to see before we do our actual A-levels this year.

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

@user-bd2pk5de9c

Жыл бұрын

Has this video been made yet ? ( just curious )

Hello, thank you for the great video! For the mechanics question why do you not resolve diagonally and only vertically or horizontally, ie Ncos(theta) + Y = 20g rather than N + Ycos(theta) = 20gcos(theta) + Xsin(theta) where you split the friction force as in other inclined planes questions?

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

So you could do it that way if you wanted to, but you’d find your calculations becoming very complicated as there are many more resolved forces. In general in these types of equations, up and down tends to give the simplest calculations! Hope that makes sense

Thanks really helped

The mechanics question was not too bad in my opinion. I think the main reason why mechanics can be so difficult is because it’s a bit more ‘practical’ compared to pure maths. The math is easy (apart from the math in FM2 lol) but it requires a lot of visualisation of the question i.e where all the forces are acting, how far is the particle going to travel up the slope etc.

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! Once you nail the visualisation, it all falls into place - I like your take on this!

please do another one these!

I’m sure question number 3 doesn’t make any sense. Summing from x=4 to x=9 suggest there are only 6 terms in the sum meaning that the sum should be 0 as it’s a finite sum and each term goes to zero. Obviously this is meant to be Riemann sum which converges to the integral but the formulation of the question is shocking

Number 3 is actually an entire topic in the Edexcel A Level Maths textbook. It's the last section in year 2 Integration, named "Integration as the limit of the sum"

@fatmabatmaz2

Жыл бұрын

I think they added that to the new version of the textbook after everyone complained about it being on the exam and not on the spec

Gl to everyone doing A level maths tmr

Sir, for the mechanics question, last question, wouldn't the N increase because the distance increases? greater than 5

AMAZING!!!

And the king of maths

You should make one of these for Further Maths A-Level! The textbook questions simply do not match what they ask in exams and it would be nice to see your thought process. For example, in the 2020 A-Level Edexcel FP1 paper, "no-one got full marks" (from examiner's report) on the last part of the last Q!

@BicenMaths

Жыл бұрын

I am hoping to make one for FM in the near future!

Look quite shocked there in the thumbnail

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

So would you be if you had to do these questions 😂 😳

23:35 Why would the normal reaction force be acting in a different direction if there was friction? I was under the impression it was always perpendicular to the point of contact.

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Good question! You are correct that the NORMAL reaction is always perpendicular to the surface - this is the surface “pushing back”. But the reaction force here is the combination of this normal force, and a frictional force which will be perpendicular. “Angled” reaction forces only come up in moments in mechanics as previously our forces have been points, not lines, or rods. Rather than thinking of the reaction in the question, instead consider the reaction of the end of the rod on the floor. It experiences two things - 1) the floor pushing up 2) the friction pulling along parallel to the floor. It is the combination of these (through Pythagoras and trig) that means the reaction will be at an angle. This is partly why I think this question appears in the Top 5. Many people think reactions can only be normal - but sometimes they will be angled. Hope that helps, let me know if not and I can try and explain more 👍🏼

That integral using the Sigma notation, upset all the candidates where one of mine went, though the FM people knew what it meant. However, from what I was told, the Chemistry paper reduced several students to tears, while less was said about the Maths.

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

It seemed unkind to do something they knew would be unfamiliar - it throws students off so much! And if you know... then it suddenly becomes so easy. Tears after exams - a teacher’s worst nightmare!

@MichaelHenderson1948

3 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths Yes, she said that no-one in her class had known what to make of it. The sad thing was that the most experienced science teacher had left during the year, and my g'daughter had to learn some of her chemistry by herself, just missing by 3/400 that all-important A*, which cost her her place at Cambridge. The maths was all right thank goodness. Now the younger sister has to self-isolate for 2 weeks because of someone in her class. And this is Yr13.

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

That’s awful, and so frustrating. Things are tough at the moment - hoping my video tutorials will help some students who are isolating at home 👍🏼

@MichaelHenderson1948

3 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths Thank you. I do appreciate it, and we will be glad of your videos. My Yr13 girl has been told to self-isolate now, because of others in the class testing positive, so we will use the videos.

Hey Mr Bicen, may I know what cameras/set up you are using to record?

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

I just use an iPad for screen recording, and my iPhone for the video of me talking. Then just edited together with LumaFusion on my iPad!

sir, whenever they say resultant do youstart thinking of splitting it into 2 components? like you did x and y (number 2)

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s a good starting point!

Is it possible to revise applied maths from pretty much scratch (last time I did it was Christmas) in six days. It’s my only exam left.

could you specify which questions are year 1 and year 2?

You should add Q.3b from the AS stats paper sat this year. Average mark was 2% lmao. It was a histogram and a line was used to model the freq. dens. You had to integrate the line and find some unknown in the line (it was like y=x(kx-8) or something similar to that). I was lost and 98% of people were. I repeat, the average was 2%, 0.06 out of 3. WILD QUESTION

@BicenMaths

Жыл бұрын

I think I’ll have to update this video including some of the newer years… this question is crazy and totally unusual from anything they’ve asked before!

@jasthfc352

Жыл бұрын

blame this question for this reason i was 2 marks off an A

I just wanna ask is the aqa can they give the same papers and would you make a video on 5 hardest questions in aqa maths a level? And is your videos cover all topics for aqa as well? Thanks😅

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

AQA make all their own papers, but the content is nearly identical - there are a few small additions though! My videos cover all the pure content for sure - I think there’s some extra stats AQA do but I’m not sure.

Hey Bicen, what calculator did you used it in the video?

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

It’s the NCalc Fx from the App Store. I think maybe £2.99? But well worth it - slides in and out of the screen nicely, lots of good features.

can you also make something like this for international alevel as i am going to take the ial next month and i want to focus on the harder questions from past papers instead of doing whole papers, thanks!!

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I am primarily focused on the non-international A-Level as this is what I teach my students, I’m sorry!

Nice video sir 👑

@Reunited_nations

3 жыл бұрын

It’s ronnie btw

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

👋🏼 Thanks, Ronnie!

Legend

Hi sir! Where did you get this data from? Was it from the official exam board website? Just curious if there is a more up to date version accounting for new exams

@BicenMaths

Жыл бұрын

I am planning to update with the new exam series soon - an updated set of evil questions!

@hvh6368

Жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths will this be available before the 2023 papers sir? Thanks for your help

@BicenMaths

Жыл бұрын

@@hvh6368 Maaaaaybe. I have so many things I'm trying to do right now 😵‍💫

In q10, the mod graph has its minimum point to the right of the y axis. In what way is q4 difficult?!!

Hi, I am having a bit of trouble with the integration as limit of a sum question. The way I am imagining is there is every y value from 4 to 5 multiplied by a very small width delta x creating rectangles, but I thought sigma goes up in 1s each time so there will only be a tiny rectangle at 4.0,5.0,6.0,7.0.8.0,9.0 and no decimal value between which will be a small part of the area, so how does that notation show that there are infinite strips. Thanks!

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

So you’re right that sigma goes up in 1s, but this is a discrete measure. As we move from discrete sigma to continuous sigma, all the values in between are included. If you want to know more, check out 3blue1brown’s playlist on the essence of calculus, it’s amazing and explains it all in much more depth!

@joeclayton6973

2 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths Hi, thanks for recommending those videos they were very useful! So am I right in thinking that sigma goes up in 1s for sequences/series because it can only work for increments of 1 but when using sigma for integration it covers all decimal values in between.

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, in a nutshell!

@JohncTrumpet

2 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths The notation is simply wrong though. The index of the sum is always "discrete" - maybe better though of as indexed by some subset of the natural numbers. Otherwise what does it even mean to sum over an uncountable set? Summing over infinities larger than Aleph null can be defined but certainly not for A - level! This question (qu 5) is very badly poised at best. The integral symbol should be equal to the infimum of upper Riemann sums and the supremum of lower Riemann sums where one considers all partitions of the interval into n subintervals... I don't understand what you mean by discrete measure? Are you referring to measure theory?!

at 26:39, why can you not draw the force to the left and then upwards of N?

@BicenMaths

12 күн бұрын

You could do that, I just did up then left, but left then up also works!

Sir, I did the proof question (question no.4) by proof by contradiction saying there is atleast 1 n that belongs to natural numbers that is divisible by 4, and I contradicted myself, Will I get the marks? And for the second part sir, I drew a graph of the 2 equations and said at these points they will be greater or less to each other. Thank you for your time Sir!

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

Both sound good to me! Seems like you’re doing well 👍🏼

hi sir, for (12:19) question 10. i. Can't we say z is any number and then say (n^2+2)/4 =z, now we make n the subject, n=√(4z-2), this is equivalent to n=√(2) * √(2z-1) when factorised. And since √2 is an irrational number we can say multiplication of an irrational number to another number would give a real number in fractional form thus it cannot be a natural number.

@BicenMaths

9 ай бұрын

But if 2z-1 was equal to 2, then you would have that n = root2 x root2 and so is 2, which is a natural number! So this proof doesn't quite work.

Hi, would you be credited for using proof by induction for n4?

@BicenMaths

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure we can use proof by induction to show that something is NOT divisible by 4. Only to show it IS divisible by 4.

what application are you using for the notes?

@BicenMaths

Ай бұрын

GoodNotes on iPad

Could you do the proof question by setting 4m, 4m+1, 4m+2, 4m+3 equal to n?

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

That should also work I believe! Haven’t tried it, so give it a go and see if you come to similar conclusions.

JEE and Gaokao kids: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!

For part a, can u write as -3a+b instead of -3/2a+1/2b?

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

Actually no, you can’t: the question wants the vector CM, which is half the length of -3a+b. Whilst -3a+b is in the same direction as CM, it is actually double its length.

you should do this video but for further maths

@BicenMaths

Жыл бұрын

Definitely on my to-do list - currently trying to put some time into my GCSE channel to offer more online to students!

Hello Mr bicen, within the pure maths exams for Edexcel.. the textbooks don't have the topics of mechanics and statistics. Would I be right in saying that pure maths exam papers do not test students on mechanics and statistics for Edexcel.

@BicenMaths

11 ай бұрын

That’s correct - they are totally separate for Edexcel. There are also separate textbooks for these applied sections!

@adamlabnaki9216

11 ай бұрын

@@BicenMaths so does that mean I can do an A level of Pure Maths that is valid without the mechanics and statistics part. When you say Applied Maths, do you mean.. statistics and mechanics is part of further Maths subject at A level Edexcel?

@BicenMaths

11 ай бұрын

@adamlabnaki9216 check out these two videos - explains everything about both A Levels! kzread.info/dash/bejne/a3-No5SoiaeWlNo.html and kzread.info/dash/bejne/naWso8F9mq-1idY.html

@adamlabnaki9216

11 ай бұрын

@@BicenMaths I watched the video, sorry I didn't find the answer to the question I'm asking. Is it possible to study A level Pure Maths without statistics and mechanics and achieve a full A level that is recognised by the Universities?

@BicenMaths

11 ай бұрын

@adamlabnaki9216 sorry I didn’t realise that was your question. Maths A level is what universities will all want, and they all have stats and mech including in that. Apologies!

I’m doing gcse maths at the moment and I’m taking maths for A-levels. Should I be worried I have no idea on how to approach these ?

@lvrm6

2 жыл бұрын

not at all! i am too and i’m literally just watch these videos to help put gcse into context. we will have teachers who will ease and help the transition from gcse to a-level but if you want to do something extra, you can revise over the summer holidays. he said these were the hardest maths a-level question so i bet there are some upper sixth students who may not understand this, don’t worry!

@emmyyooo5760

2 жыл бұрын

@@lvrm6 awh god this made me feel so much better, thank you so much. Did you say you were doing maths gcse at the moment? If so good luck on your last exam! And good luck for A-levels too!

@lvrm6

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmyyooo5760 thank you so much!! you too!!!!!!

@JO06

Жыл бұрын

how are u going to approach these questions when you haven't even learnt a level maths lol. dont be worried

@emmyyooo5760

11 ай бұрын

@@JO06update finished year 1 and I know how to go about most of these 🤣 I thought maths was going to be awful after seeing this but wasn’t as bad as I thought

Can you also add a pdf in description so that we can access the questions and save it for future revision

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Done! ✅ In the Bicen Maths Google Drive here drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-5B8xrBackQk5caMMTYi7LWfmaQvHEtG

@loneranger4282

3 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths Thanks so much!

@26:39 how do both thetas equal each other?

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

If you draw a line vertically down from C, you have a large triangle. The angle at the top is 90-theta. Using more angle properties, and this angle, you soon work out that angle is also theta! It’s because of breaking things down into vertical and horizontal components. Try drawing it out and filling in missing angles - it should make more sense!

For question 4b isn't it a simpler way to use that 3x-28=0, and solve for x?

@BicenMaths

Жыл бұрын

You could solve |3x-20| = x - 9 and use that to help you explain, yes. But not =0, as we're interested in whether it is bigger than x-9

I think the proof question gets low marks because students leave them till the end (rightly in my opinion) and dont have time to attempt them. You can spend 30 seconds on proof question or you can end up down a rabbit hole. Its low mark efficiency.

the large data set video needs to be recorded as soon as possible 😭😂

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

I’m dreading making that video 😭 I had to learn what oktas were to film this video 😂

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

☀️☁️☁️☀️☁️☁️☁️☁️ Now at least I know that this is 6 oktas

@martinstephens4633

2 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths This is a reasonable one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y4adraZmhJusfag.html

you started with the reaction force of acting perpendicular to the floor and labelled it y then later added another reaction force at a slant, why does the reaction force not act perpedicular, I though that was the whole point?

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

A reaction force at a peg will be perpendicular to the rod/beam. This is because the circular peg, when pushing “normally”, is perpendicular to its tangent, which is the same as the direction of the beam.

the vector question was on my gcse mock paper lmao

the sigma expression doesn't equal the integral in any way. you can't convert between discrete sums and continuous just by making each term smaller. is that sigma notation with the limit a standard notation for integration? if so why, it's just misleading and incorrect

Can you do one for mechanics and stats

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

This one is a mix of pure, mechanics and statistics - I just selected them according to how people did in the exams. I’m planning on doing more of these soon for other questions I think are tough 👍🏼

@leahlester2620

3 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths great thanks!

Where did you get the data for the hardest questions?

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

Teachers can access this data with an official login!

@fatpotato6855

2 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths would you be able to give us this data please?

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think I’m able to do this, as it’s not published for full access to the general public. Sorry!

i’m doing gcse foundation and i’m not even doing a levels why am i here

Didn’t know Bernardo silva taught maths

how does he get AB=b-a can't figure out

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Check out this explanation here at 7:45 kzread.info/dash/bejne/dGao09qzYqXRirQ.html

It wasn't stated that O, A, and C were collinear. That's why this was so poorly attempted.

The one today

@Dark_kittens123

2 жыл бұрын

Which one in particular

Yay maths with an s at the end.

i thought you was bernado silva

I’ve only just started my A-Level maths and all these questions seemed impossible 😭

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

You will be able to do all of these questions at the end of the two years - with a bit of hard work and perseverance! :)

@jaikattri9968

3 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths Thanks for the encouragement what would you say are the hardest topics on the course ?

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

I would say Year 2 Integration - not because it is hard as an actual topic, but because it relies on SO many other chapters. If you don’t understand all of the maths up until that point (especially trigonometry and differentiation) then integration becomes really tough. So it’s nothing to be scared of - just something to prepare for! I also think trigonometry is generally agreed to be a tough topic. Have you seen on my channel that I have videos for nearly every chapter, exercise by exercise? It contains all the lessons I teach my students, recorded live. And if you go to my About Me section, there’s a Google Drive link that has pdfs of the lesson notes that you can print off and fill in alongside me in the videos! Good luck!

@jaikattri9968

3 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths Thanks

is cbse hard

at 26:10 where did yoy get the 25 from for sin and cos

@BicenMaths

3 жыл бұрын

Because if tan is 7/24, you can draw a right angled triangle with opposite as 7 and adjacent as 24. This makes the hypotenuse 25 from Pythagoras, giving you sin and cos from their definitions 👍🏼

@ardencho662

3 жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths nice one, quick reply much appreciated xx

Bro, that first question wasn’t that hard, as a gcse student I thought that would be harder, maybe it’s something that dropped down into GCSEs from a level

Is this AS level?

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

It’s A-Level!

vector ez

The vector question was easy

Number 5 is seems like hard gcse problem

I gave up with maths when they started cheating by using letters as numbers. So unfair.

My EYES

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Arghhhhh maths. I feel like it's trying to yank out my brain. It's as bad as physics.

Bernado silva clickbait

@BicenMaths

2 жыл бұрын

😂 Brilliant

For the second question if you set it up as n=2k+1 for odd and n=2m for even does that still get marks? In the paper one I did different variables as I got confused🥲

@BicenMaths

Жыл бұрын

Yes it still should get all the marks as they together complete all the natural numbers.

@Polly2concentrated

Жыл бұрын

@@BicenMaths ok thank you 🙏🏻 thanks so much for all your help!!