WHAT IS A-LEVEL MATHS REALLY LIKE? - how hard, how to revise, jump, my experience 

Omg you dont understand , I have only had 2 lessons of maths so far and I already feel behind everyone else

I am doing a level maths. I just started and I am pretty bad at maths but I am gonna try to work as hard as possible. Maths is smth I like though.

Hey! Engineering student here that LOVES MATH... I enjoy your videos but I quite disagree with the advice that you give here... You see, there's a piece of the puzzle that is FUNDAMENTAL, yet I think most people miss when it comes to approaching math, physics or really any other subject that has to do with problem solving. It's not about how many practice questions do you do, it's about understanding fundamentally the why behind every step in the problem solving... I've gotten straight A's on all of my college math classes so far (I'm currently taking series and transforms, my last math class) and in most of them I didn't solve most of the problem sets that we were given, I only focused on a few key problems, but I FOCUSED A LOT IN UNDERSTANDING THE WHY BEHIND EVERYTHING. I used THE FEYNMAN TECHNIQUE and tried to explain all of the concepts on my notes as if I was a professor, tried to go through every derivation for every formula I encountered, tried to ask DOES IT MAKE SENSE? for everything that I was learning... Let me give you a concrete example: let's talk about the 2nd derivative test to determine the nature of a local extreme point. What if instead of memorizing the rules you thought a little bit about why they work the way they do: a derivative indicates the rate of change of a function in a given point (think of a downward facing parabola for a simple example), i.e. how it behaves near the surrounding points. If you take the slope of the tangent line at any of the extreme points and their surroundings, you see that for a local maximum it starts positive, decreases to zero and then becomes negative. If you plot the derivative at this surrounding points, you will notice it resembles a line of negative slope (again, taking the parabola as an example) and so if you were to take the derivative of this derivate (i.e. the second derivative), you'd end up with a NEGATIVE VALUE, indicating that the rate of change of the rate of change is decreasing. And that's how you can intuitively remember and understand these important math concepts FOREVER, without having to write flashcards or do a ton of problems in an attempt to become a problem solving robot. Math is all about intuition, and once we understand that, I think that we'll open a whole lot of possibilities for everyone to learn math better. Thank you

I'm not even doing A-Level Maths, why am I here?

Speaking from experience,if You're not willing to work extremely hard and if you're not passionate about maths plz do not take it because A-level maths is just another level hard and you will struggle with it.This is not a joke.

I find A-Level Maths the most independent subject - I love it! Loved this too! 💗✨

Thank you for sharing your experience, love :) I've been noticing more and more girls like me going for maths and it's really encouraging. I'd never really had any role models before. Keep up the good work - fight for that grade!!

Im doing alevel maths, i chose it to prove my highschool maths teacher wrong because he told me i couldnt do it. Im kinda terrified but im already making progress 😂😁

Love this legit can relate. I thought I was alone but this has made me feel so much better

I really enjoyed Maths at GCSE but never pursued it for A Levels so it was interesting to hear about your experience x

i don’t even do maths lol but honestly this is so true from what my friends say! great vid xx

Thank you for this video!! 💛🌻 I’m doing bio/chem/maths and maths is definitely my weakest subject (specifically mechanics! never liked physics) ughh, I went from a 7 at GCSE to a D at the beginning of A-Levels ... I’ve gone up to B/A atm but I’m definitely gonna use these revision tips :) Practice makes perfect

the best way i think is actualy to get a work book write a presentation about each topic under it make 5 examples and theen 30 quistions and then 2 past papers and u got it

I have always clicked with maths, but trust me this a level oh boy - i am strugglingggg - if you put in the work, it's fine a B at maths a level is amazing like I'd never thought i'd say that

It's so interesting to see how different your experiences are in maths! Unfortunately I'm on OCR but I'm sure they're similar. Integral and mymaths are godsends in my opinion😂 Do you have any maths summer hw? X

Rhiannon you're the BEST! thank you soo much😘😘😘

I do maths A-level to on the exam board edexcel, and it’s fair to say I’m failing :((

I’m doing double maths Damn I’m finding the speed hard. We covered modulus functions in 3 lessons 😬

I’m terrified for maths at a level next year 😬😬😬😬

Finished single maths in a year and touched a bit of further. I found single maths rather straightforward if you did addmaths at GCSEs. Further maths, however, is hell (I'm getting a headstart on it). I would even say that the jump between single maths and further is larger than that of between GCSES and A-levels. Nevertheless, I'd suggest doing past questions by topic available on physicsandmathstutor each time you learn a new topic. That's the main reason I got 95+% on all of my tests :)

I wish I had books like these! I regret I was using only school textbooks and they were aweful :(

I’m also on a grade 8 for maths... what’s your current grade for A Levels and how much do you work at it? I’m aiming for an A but I don’t know if that’s achievable due to the difficulty of maths

I did the exact same situation with integration and I'm so happy about it!

I’ve just started and chose geography psychology biology but already hating geography- and I’m thinking of switching to geography but I just don’t think I’m good enough so I don’t know what to do

Teachers will give you a heavy workload but if you do the workload they set,granted its a lot for people our age due to social life work etc, you will get a good grade, from my experience. Most of the actual content is not too difficult, just applying it is the difficult but😊

I start sixth form tomorrow and I’m doing maths so this will be really useful, thank you🤞🏻🤞🏻

Hi,I’m wanting to do A level physics aswell as maths and geography. do you know the gap or jump I would have to make from gcse

I do similar subjects to you!! I do maths, psychology, and religious studies. and my birthday is on the 6th of April, a day after yours :)

Can you tell me names of 2 or 3 A level maths books which can explain in better way

I'm doing Maths and Further Maths at A-level and have done some revision on the newer topics and did Maths and Further Maths GCSEs so, hopefully, it won't be a drastic jump and I very much agree with the part about practicing. I think practice questions are the best method of revision to do and I highly doubt I would have gotten the 9s that I did if I didn't do a whole bunch of practice questions (for reference, I got a low 7 at the end of Year 10, in my mock, then got a 9 in both Maths and Further Maths in my actual GCSEs).While I think I do naturally enjoy Maths, I don't always understand it naturally so I think that making sure you understand a topic as well as doing a bunch of practice questions is probably a good move too. I am speaking as someone who hasn't even started Sixth Form or College yet so I might not actually have the best advice lol.

We will have two different teachers for our maths a level as well(as well as all our other a levels)

how do you do questions on stats because its not the same syllabus

Another question: what thickness of subject lever arch file should you get for sixth form? 70mm or 80mm?

I'm doing Maths, Physics and Economics. I'm like you, once I understand something I can master it quit quickly. Its that initial grasping of a topic that I sometimes struggle with. Although , I haven't found anything particularly hard so far. Other than maybe threshold frequency in physics and certain parts of coordinate geometry.

I want to do a level maths and my school requires a grade 6 for me to get on the course and i keep on worrying that i got a grade 5 cos i keep thinking the grade boundaries are gonna be very high and the exams didnt go very well. I keep stressing about it and im scared it will ruin my summer any advice?????

As maths is easy. BUT holy shit a2 is just a whole other beast

This is the biggest problem for me because I’m predicted an a* at gcse but that won’t mean shit when I start a level. The work isn’t comparable so being good at gcse won’t help you atall😂 I also think some people only choose like 3 subjects but I’m taking like 5 so that won’t work

I'm starting maths next year but also further maths which I'm really nervous about. Especially because my school makes it really difficult for people to drop A Levels.

How u can prepare over summer... summer is like over already

Loved the tea !! Haha 😂

I'm going into year 11 this September and I'm considering taking Biology, Chemistry, Physics and maybe Maths. I am homeschooled so I havent done any mocks to give me a grade. But i think I am working at at least a 7 in my sciences, though i fell behind for Maths (mostly my year 9 teacher). But i have worked at a grade 8-9 in Maths during himeschool. What are your opinions on this? I dont know if it’ll be too hard

i wanna learn this whole thing in 1 year ....any advice? i dunno where to start

I was doubting choosing maths as a level and as soon as you said physics. I know I did a mistake

i needed this!

I started a level maths this year and it honestly isn’t hard in the beginning. I’ve gotten all A’s so far (over 80%) but I’m sure it will get more difficult soon lol. I was afraid I was going to be really struggling but I was presently surprised because even though you do move along fast, it’s not immensely difficult

Dont even do maths But gotta watch since it's you

I’m really bad at all the English in subjects so idk if I’m better doing maths bc I’m better at maths then English 🤷🏼‍♀️

6:02 TEAAAAA

I’m doing a foundation year at university to go into science (I got AAB at A level but not in science subjects). Biology and chemistry make up most of the course, and I’m not worried about them because they were always my strongest subjects. But we have a module in maths 😭😭😭 I got a B at GCSE and I know I am competent at Maths cause my teacher said I could of got an A, and I got an A in GCSE statistics.... but I’m scared! But I wanna work for it! I’m looking through the a levels maths before I start :D

Im so scared because I am not doing the greatest at AS Level and I know Yr 2 is very hard

Which one Is harder among further math or computer??? Reply plzzzzz

Doing a degree mind map each topic so u have very condensed clear to point notes also annotated examples help That u makes

Our school had 2 teachers one teaching mechanics and the other doing the rest. This year our main teacher is off injured and our other left the country. So we’re basically working off of supply teachers. WJEC also hit us with a hefty change to the exams rendering all past papers useless, it’s a joke. All in all I should’ve picked sport.

Hello! I don't mean to spam your comments, buy I'm currently working through videos for the new a level maths which you may find useful! Feel free to shout for help on my Facebook page!

for GCSSE mathes I was on EDEXL

Bonjour , je suis en France et je ne comprend pas.ce.qu' est un a level qui pourrait m expliquer?

A Level Maths is fantastic - as well as being probably the most prestigious of A Levels. Which A Level is easy ?

do this for each topic

Why did your parents try to put you off doing alevel maths? It's a fantastic subject to choose

I really want to do physics, but I also have to do maths : (

physicsandmathstutor.com is great for practice questions and mark schemes

Is a-level maths strictly exams? Or is there any additional coursework or anything else?

Can you please give me advice? I am currently in year 10 and I'm doing decent (not amazing) in maths, around grade 6-7. I don't hate maths, but it takes me a bit of time to understand it-especially algebra. I am willing to do maths a level if there is not too much algebra.

im an international gcse student under the edexcel board. The syllabus for igcse is wayyyyyy harder than the gcse in uk. i was done with calculus, binomial expansion in my igcses and it surprised me when u said u never heard of it until you reached Alevels. now i feel smart xD

I’m doing aqa, and it’s hell

im scared

Maths is not a hard subject. Just requires you to follow logical instructions in a particular order. The difficulty comes when you don’t know the instructions in which allow you to solve any given problem

I’m early 🎉

I really should have done maths at A-level

I’m not gonna use everything in maths to live my life

Rhiannon if u see this please heart it

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is it just me or does she look so much like caspar lee

I got a B in maths gcse should i fake it for alevels? Also i took bio chem math psy , is it too much and what about chem and bio , is math really hard and worth taking ?

I start it Wednesday :(

Nah it is easy when your teacher is David goggins

You don't really need to revise maths. It's the only foreign language I can do. Just lots of rules.

There is only 3 people in are class lol 😂

Maths best subject.

I do alevel maths i hate it so much wish i never picked up

Maths is piss easy, the questions dont change. If you do eveey question in the text book your guaranteed an A star

Maths is ez x

lol anyone else doing maths in one year?

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