American Takes British A Level Maths Test

[@evan]

This video took ages to make! Hope you like it! Also big thanks to NordVPN for sponsoring the video and giving y'all 70% off a 3 year plan +1 month free with code Evan :D

[@callummoreton749]

You should try a new spec a level paper, they're a lot harder than old spec (which is the specification you've done)!

[@jonsey_2730]

Evan Edinger who saw his crisis on Instagram?? Just me. Gotcha. Great video as always Evan!!

[@cnutsiggardason2014]

pop a further pure paper

[@thesonofasniper]

Oe just means or equivalent. So if you did 5/4 or 10/8 you would get marks

[@Dan-ui5bm]

Do the further maths one next!

[@Jack-ji2kz]

There are only two comments in this comment section 1) “It’s an AS exam” 2) “Try further maths”

[@rooks4ever]

3) it's the old legacy system not the new one 4) C1 is just GCSE grade A/A*, you should get 90% at least it's a super easy paper

[@lrt_unimog8316]

5) Look at the other colonies

[@thellamabotherer7048]

6) try step lol

[@ST-gd4go]

Jack Willis also its core maths not full maths

[@yondabigman4668]

It honestly doesn't matter anymore.

[@xStarzx100]

Evan: Points Everyone else: MARKS !

[@zebedeesummers4413]

that pretty much Na: Even EU: this everyone you speak of

[@EmilyCheetham]

Vark Ster just because people can’t do this maths doesn’t mean they don’t have fun watching someone try to work it out.

[@reichtangle7734]

Vark Ster "maths"

[@Varksterable]

@@reichtangle7734 Mathematics. That's what my degree was in. But these days people get sloppy. If you're going to be a pendant then at least be right. And 'math' was ironically in quotes.

[@realStarTom]

Vark Ster wait are u still talking about the point/marks comment lol

[@canekis5151]

When Evan gives himself full marks for the correct answer 😭 I deffo don’t remember that being the case at A-Level, you gotta get all the working marks as well

[@mimikal7548]

ye sad times

[@f.p1758]

Yup

[@FlowersInThePot]

Lol true

[@LamLamthestoryteller]

Like

[@johnchilton3975]

Correct... sady

[@JeffreyLByrd]

I’m a math educator, and I can’t express how much I was yelling, “You already completed the square, you don’t need the quadratic formula!”.

[@jennifersalice6885]

me too!

[@johnnath4137]

The question stipulated “hence or otherwise”. He effectively opted for the “otherwise", though he seemed to be unaware that he was doing so. When the “hence or otherwise” wording is used, “hence” is usually the smart option, and this is what examiners prefer you to do. The “otherwise” here is using the formula, and is the dumb, pedestrian option. You won’t lose marks in an A level exam for this, but you would in eg Cambridge STEP, which is designed to probe potential as well as knowledge.

[@ulkaerg]

hi, I am foreigner and do not know where I can find c1 test , pdf s or etc. can you please help me? thanks in advance

[@belindacarpin9485]

Am actually doing quadratics

[@kjmerlinz]

They never really do any “hence or otherwise” questions in America lolz.

[@WrenJeger]

He was 1 mark away from an A. That my friend is the true British experience. You're one of us now.

[@xTwilightWolvesx]

Oh the days of getting your school to ring the exam office to do the re-marking in hopes of obtaining that one extra mark.

[@MegaTamer111]

pretty sure he would've got a lower mark as he always gave himself full marks whenever he got the answer which isn't how papers are marked. Real mark might've been closer to a B- (who knows)

[@StMargorach]

Myeah, he got a LOT lower His grading/marking is super duper unrealisticly lenient. You only get 1 point for a question where you got the answer right but your working out is not on paper or incorrect. He would have gotten closer to a C if he graded it properly

[@hereforthememes.8466]

@@StMargorach around which level of an examination is this? Like a highschool level or university?

[@OllieJsonable]

@@hereforthememes.8466 if it's anything like Sweden it should be highschool level honestly, but think like right at the end of highschool going into uni

[@aimeerichter6352]

hes so honest when marking I just go I meant that when its completely wrong lol

[@xnxcvroblox4594]

Same

[@ahmedali111]

Same

[@tiermax1629]

aimee richter mood

[@abdul-mosaweryasin3913]

Ahmed Ali you absolute loser

[@jasondeanart662]

me

[@MrBrandonHDGamer]

Next: FURTHER MATHS A LEVEL

[@eloisecrame-kermarrec346]

Further maths is gross🤮

[@MrBrandonHDGamer]

Eloise Crame-Kermarrec HELLO 😂 NICE TO SEE YOU HERE but yes definitely is gross

[@spaaxtheblackphoenix1304]

The once you know how little of the content you know, do STEP. Its so much fun.

[@lunaxzo2431]

I can’t believe I’m thinking about doing further maths for a level, I’m actually shitting myself

[@sophiehowarth8540]

lunaxzo I do FM and it’s really not that bad :)

[@IQ-Gameplay]

This is an AS Level exam, which is 1 year above GCSE, and 1 year below A Level. It counts towards the full A Level if you carry on studying Maths (or Math :P) in the second year. I did my C1 exam in January 2012, and I got 63 marks which is an A, so I have to say well done to you sir! I can't believe I watched the full video, you had me screaming at points "DUDE USE THE QUADRATIC FORMULA!" Hahaha, this was fun to watch though, thanks for putting yourself through that and uploading it for us all to see :) much love brother ❤️

[@jezza10181]

I did the first AS maths paper back in 1987. Got an A too :) Sadly though went on to flunk my A levels

[@ClassicRiki]

Yeahhh, it’s not the entire A-level. Good point

[@robbiejs1]

I really want him to do a history or English paper where you have to write absolutely loads 😂

[@harrypotteravenclaw]

He just did English

[@angelawat98]

Lol. My A Levels basically😂

[@longangrysausage3495]

Haha yea

[@christophermartin7927]

A French A level. Let's see how far he gets with that.

[@breezyyy4738]

Omd history is a FUCKING pain

[@randomstuff2438]

It’s sad to tell Evan this but that’s the old maths paper, the new ones harder. A friend showed and told me. I don’t even do maths but the new papers are worse.

[@gabriellelittle5030]

They aren’t worse, just more condensed, if you did the 6 papers and also the 3 new papers, you would get the same grade

[@bluebell2582]

They are harder as they've brought down some further maths a level into them, but also taken some of it up to further maths like volumes of revolution, it's swings and rounds. Now we just have two core papers and a stats and mechanics paper :(

[@elishalliday9987]

It was harder because you have two years of knowledge in 3 papers at the end of the two years instead of 6 spread out. You also have to do both stats and mechanics now and take myself for example who hates stats is negatively affected by that

[@piccamix9345]

@@elishalliday9987 Pure advice from a guy who got an A at A-Level and am writing this to you from uni. Revise Stats a lot over the course of maybe a week, just bang out past papers and any questions you can find until you get it, alot of the concepts link so thats what i did, and then i tutored my friend which also helped me consolidate that knowledge. Most people are afraid of stats because it looks scary and the grade boundaries reflect that, set a week aside for some hardcore stats revision and you won't regret it.

[@mattl1598]

Also it's an as paper not an a level

[@James66344]

"Oh god what have I done" I felt that.

[@raahimas2776]

James me in september when im gonna take a level maths

[@anantakabir8390]

@@raahimas2776 aka tomorrow, for me anyways

[@Joey-hs1lh]

@@anantakabir8390 how did it go

[@JaeyunYD05]

The thing about a British education is that in most cases, the exam board doesn't care about what you know. They care about how well you remember the mark scheme. I cannot count on my hands the number of times I have written a RIGHT answer, but since it wasn't worded like how it was in the mark scheme, I lost marks and got put down a whole grade. This is especially tough in questions where you have to apply answers since they change every year and makes it very hard to revise for them. This way of gaining qualifications also means that you not only have to learn the content (and might I say, there is a _lot_ of it), but you also need to practice exam questions from past papers so that you don't lose marks for missing words like "average" or "mean" or "via osmosis", etc. It's stupid. But I'm good at it, so I can't complain.

[@fionadp]

I can tell you, as a principal A Level examiner, that we spend a great deal of time considering alternative responses to those in the mark scheme, both at the development stage, and later when standardising actual scripts. In general, alternatives are rejected only if a specific one-word answer is required for a question worth one mark. In longer answers, candidates rarely write exactly what is written on the MS - it is part of our job to interpret a candidate response and decide if it is worthy of credit. If it answers the question and is correct, it is highly likely to be credited.

[@cez_is_typing]

As a biology a level student this is what I struggle with the most Half the time I know the content but don’t understand what exactly they want me to say because the question is too vague Or I get the answer right but I haven’t worded it in a specific way so I lose easy marks Sometimes when I do past papers I feel confident about it and then I mark it and I get low marks For example in a past paper on the brain it had some brain scans and asked you to identify what area of the brain it is I got the area correct but lost all of the marks because I didn’t put that it was on the left side despite the fact that the question didn’t imply that it wanted you to specify that at all so you wouldn’t know that unless you’d looked at past papers with similar questions (and that’s just one question never mind the rest of the topic, and the five other topics, and the two other subjects you do) It’s BRUTAL man

[@Cam.2.]

@@fionadp I find that if the questions, particularly for biology are too open ended for students to be able to know what exact answer the mark scheme is looking for. I've been taught to just write down any potential correct answers, even if the marks available don't require that level of detail, because there's no realistic way to know the super specific word required from such open ended questions.

[@fionadp]

@@cez_is_typing my advice would be to look at past papers along with the mark schemes which the Board will publish soon after the examination is taken. This will give you a good idea of the level of detail required, and will help to sharpen your examination technique. Ask your teacher if there are marked examples of scripts on the teacher bit of the relevant website - this will help you to see what is NOT creditable, as well as what is acceptable, because the examples chosen will probably highlight specific grade boundaries. Good luck with your exams!

[@fionadp]

@@Cam.2.in my subject - depending on the type of question - we would read all your response to work out what was creditable. However, writing down everything you know is not necessarily a good examination technique, as takes up too much of your valuable time. If you do this for several questions, you may run out of time later on. Never forget that there is thinking time built into the examination, and you do NOT need to be writing all the time (even if the person in front of you is furiously scribbling!). 20 years of exam marking, half of it as a Principal, has taught me that very long and wordy responses rarely gain the highest marks. Good luck!

[@dannygames1136]

Americans:*why are British kids so depressed? The British education system: let me introduce myself

[@FinlaySG]

@@jr5925 What makes you say that?

[@jamrah8713]

James Robinson nahh a levels are definately harder (at least now they are) you can easily fluke GCSEs and pass with ease (I barely revised and got 5s and 6s) but with A levels I fucked my mocks. A levels is stuffed with so much content that you can’t just leave last minute. I do a level history aswell which is one of the hardest a levels you can do

[@callumosullivan7546]

James Robinson that sounds easier to me. Doing it in small increments is much bettter than Doing it in one large lot

[@kiyoko2525]

@@jr5925 I have at least two deadlines each week

[@SG-we9gq]

OfficialistNormie trust me further maths gcse is fine, in fact it’s enjoyable because it’s mostly maths that doesn’t involve learning loads of equations or what not, it is just problem solving involving algebraic equations and a lot of trigonometry and geometry which are the nicest topics imo it’s just that those topics involve actual brains which most people don’t have, did my GCSE’s last year.

[@yungmodulus7926]

Extremely lenient in the marking tbh 😂 you can’t just get the answer in a levels it needs to be clear working

[@dasy2k1]

Yep according to most mark schemes correct final answer with no method is 1 point only...

[@miaclarke6859]

Yeah he Deffo wouldnt get full marks for these questions

[@achyuththouta6957]

@@dasy2k1 How would you even arrive at the answer just like that without a method,😂😂 it either shows that the exam and the curriculum are ridiculously easy or the person taking the exam is a genius

[@dasy2k1]

@@achyuththouta6957 supprisingly this varies around the world. For example in Russia you have to get the final answer correct to gain any marks whatsoever. They have no concept of error carried forward. Often this means however that 100% or 0% of the marks are the 2 most common scores per question. Now if you make a complete hash of the method and still get the final answer correctly then you may well get less than full marks for the question. But if you don't get that final answer the only score you can get is zero, even if you got every step right but made a simple arithmetical error on the way.

[@giladkay3761]

In israel if you don't show the method you get I "suspect of cheating " and get 0 on the whole exam

[@colinmurray2976]

Thats an AS exam... Also try doing a-level further maths... that shit will make you cry

[@lacari0805]

It’s the old spec. The 2019 maths one is harder

[@salmanrazak8339]

@@lacari0805 yeah you're right, it's the old spec that's much easier than the new one. New spec since 2018 exams (started teaching 2017)

[@lacari0805]

Salman Razak I was the first year doing new spec. It started teaching 2017 first new exam 2019

[@salmanrazak8339]

@@lacari0805 no it isn't.I took it in 2019 and the first lot had finished it in 2018. Maybe it's just your exam board. We did the generic Edexcel and I know for certain the first papers were sat in 2018

[@lacari0805]

Salman Razak Pretty sure I did edexcel but I thought I remembered my teacher having to check over some things while teaching us since he “hadn’t taught this syllabus before”, because it was all new and we had no past papers to use either, but maybe it was just my college’s first year doing it and some colleges had already changed to the new stuff

[@deckearns]

Well done. I really enjoyed this (I teach A Level mathematics). Granted, to get a full A Level you need C1, C2, C3, Ç4 (core), M1 (mechanics) and S1 (statistics) which are 6 different exams over 2 years (this has even since changed where Core is now called Pure... and there are other choices with D1 (decision)... whatever!). C1 is the easiest. But still, you did well for having had no revision. (Then there's FP1, FP2 and FP3 (further pure) which give you another A Level. These are even harder again, usually done along with the above in the same two years... Leaving less time to study).

[@borisweyson1618]

Ya see now FP1 FP2 and FP3 stand for Free practice in formula 1 xD

[@baldoggie]

Yikes I’m doing maths, further maths, physics, computer science + epq + engineering + landa 💀

[@HMPGENERAL]

This hasn't been the case since 2018 when alevels became linear - papers are split into pure (which would be the old C1, C2, C3, C4), stats and mechanics. FP3 is no longer a module and has instead but most of the content has been moved into FP2.

[@xrlveloce7990]

Yeah as someone studying both A-Level Mathematics and A-Level Further Mathematics this year, the difference between Regular Maths and Further is Huge! They ease you in at the beginning with Discrete and Matricies but by the end of the first year you're doing 3D Vectors (The bain of my existace btw) and Confidence Intervals which just blows my mind... NOw if you don't mind I need to go and revise Kuratowski's theorem because I've just remembered it and have no Ideas what it is

[@wy_doe2320]

Now you just need Pure 1 and Pure 2 and one of mechanics or statistics

[@sarahrigg569]

AS and A level aren't the same, AS is taken only a year after GCSE, A level is two years after. You're also taking the old spec so it's easier.

[@LP-xj7pm]

That’s a core maths test it’s basically a gcse paper

[@tararenning5436]

Wait,a levels is a two year course.Meaning that as is first year and a level is second year.Its not 3 years

[@Spyaboo]

@@tararenning5436 after GCSE's you do 1 year for AS level which is a stepping stone for A-levels and the content of AS will also be on the A-level papers the year after

[@nd7289]

Spyabo when I did my A levels AS counted for a percentage of your final A level grade, possibly 40%

[@jeffrey8770]

AS levels are a subset of A levels, hence any AS level paper is also an A level paper. Boom get rekt by math.

[@qnicole1679]

I'm not British, have a full time job where I never do math, and absolutely hate math. Why did I watch this entire thing.

[@midnightmoonlight8612]

Same, person, same

[@atomic4650]

@Sathursan Sharvaswaran Why England specifically?

[@miaswfi]

Atomic probably cause he lives in England and knows what job specifications you need...

[@almostanengineer]

Sathursan Sharvaswaran except for working tax out on purchases, unlike America

[@atomic4650]

@@miaswfi So do I. I don't think Maths is needed that much.

[@lewisbotterill4948]

You don’t get all the marks for the answer, you get marks for stages in your working out

[@paulstelian97]

I legit cringed when he said that. Few exams give the marks for the answer alone in Europe (Romania in my case)

[@nszxvz]

In some cases you do

[@hungryleolord6043]

@@nszxvz yeah in one mark questions

[@baileyharrison1030]

With AQA A level papers they usually award full marks if you get the correct answer and showed some working out, which this guy clearly did. If you were more verbose than this Yank you’d end up spending more time writing than thinking.

[@estheryeung5748]

@@baileyharrison1030 Well, not so true when you are doing an Edexcel paper. Painful times

[@John-996]

I'm from the UK and have lived in Florida did most of my school years there and my last two in the UK. The teaching is completely different and learning different methods was interesting.

[@mrdefaultynoob]

Which worked better for you??

[@John-996]

@@mrdefaultynoob Both were good but I prefer the Uk Bit more things are not as spread out over here

[@jogs16]

AS maths is so not A-level maths. There's levels to this Evan. Serious damn levels

[@doctorsafraid]

Jack Smith ikr c1 is literally the easiest core paper lol

[@thisismychannel6091]

@@doctorsafraid he should do last years edexcel exam lmao

[@jcdranzer25]

I did MEI OCR (I know it was MEI but can't remember if it was OCR or not) A-level Maths, got an A back in 2006. Got 100% on a few of the papers, at the time it was considered to be the hardest A-level Maths exams in the UK at the time. Considering he has a masters, he should be able to ace the exams but who knows.

[@paddythebartender3361]

@@jcdranzer25 Wow....do you hear that? It almost sounds like.... No one asked 🤔

[@losasakarosa9050]

He did say he’s only gonna do C1 and then maybe the others in other videos

[@AK-ei7iy]

this is the easiest paper you'll do in the A-level maths course. You aim for 100% on this paper bc C3 and C4 will screw you over

[@svenshipton5132]

@@jamesmccaghrey738 I found D1 was easy to understand, but incredibly difficult to do quickly without making stupid mistakes.

[@eleanor1660]

Azim Kader c3 and c4 were just as easy as c1 and c2

[@meganod279]

That paper was extremely easy guys. I'm shocked that he butchered such easy questions, that stuff we learn it here in Greece in 9th grade seriously. I can't believe he is a mathematician and is butchering such questions, maybe it's because I'm an engineer but even then , I haven't done that stuff for 7-8 years now and I still knew how to solve them. You have no idea how hard it is to solve our college entry exams here.

[@nmz3450]

Hehe I did better in C3(97) and C4(94) than C1(85) and C2(84), maybe cos I took it more seriously

[@warrensmith8606]

@@nmz3450 i was the same. I think its cause by then, things have clicked. c1 i got like 72 first time i took it which is b but then retook it to 96 or something later but you come up from gcse to as level and youre like, wtf is all this shit, it takes a bit of time to settle into it. c4 was my best and got 98 or something like that first time. this was 14 years ago so these numbers arent exact

[@jadelemarquand4218]

How should we split the bill? Evan: QUADRATIC EQUATION

[@bemfawkes3214]

You pay for your massive bill and I will pay for my modest bill because I'm not a sponge trying to rinse money from "friends".........

[@kjpcgaming9296]

All these people saying "take this test, take that test" I only read one person say - OH Btw, you get months of study and prep for these exams and Evan just did them off the top of his head without the required papers - statistics and such, AND he managed to get 81. AND its been years since he finished his masters degree!!!!! I don't think I was out uni for a week before I couldn't do calculus LMAO

[@swand1383]

When c1 doesn’t exist anymore lol

[@evan]

since WHEN

[@amyboo2765]

What?!

[@Allymai_]

@@evan last year was the first year of the new A level exams, the year before was the first for AS.

[@swand1383]

Evan Edinger I think there were reforms in 2015/16? Now the papers are split between pure, stats and mechanics with different exam boards arranging the papers differently lol, I think the last c1 type exams were 2018

[@AndieBVlogs]

swan D As a Maths AS student, I can confirm this is right...

[@tomschofield2036]

That is an AS paper not an A level paper, unfortunately, a lot less hard.

[@shirleykarrutheos7392]

Need a good grounding in Maths before you can get to this standard.

[@ExtrusionXDesigns]

@@shirleykarrutheos7392 u dont sound like u knowe what ur talking about

[@dresdi]

And it's also an old as level

[@SG-we9gq]

No mate, that’s the old spec, in the new spec a level does not contain sequence and a few other topics that were in this paper, this is an a level paper in terms of the new spec

[@Spyaboo]

@@SG-we9gq it does contain arithmetic sequences and geometric sequences...

[@PirateDogAMV]

A levels come after AS level. AS is a year after GCSE and A levels a year later.

[@CFMichael]

Wrong. An A-Level is split over 2 years. The first half is an AS-Level, then then 2nd half is an A2-Level. Added together for the complete A-Level.

[@sponge260]

@@CFMichael so what he said but a small bit more particular

[@emersonblancaaraman8373]

CFMichael actually AS doesnt count towards A level anymore, as is now completely separate

[@ElitezBN]

Emerson Blanca Araman it is still count as A level

[@emersonblancaaraman8373]

Nabil Na'im no because in get tested on year 12 content for as exams but for a levels you now get tested on both year 12 and 13 instead of just year 13 like it was before

[@zannahmartell9813]

I wish the matrix was an actual thing where you could simply download maths skills, and have instant proficiency.

[@paulm2467]

As someone who took Maths, Further Maths and Physics 'A' levels back in the seventies, this isn't even comparable to the real thing, it would also have been nice to have such a generous examiner doing the marking!

[@paulm2467]

@G Mc C you are correct, that's one of the reasons that I said that it wasn't even comparable to the real thing, he should try the full A level paper and then he'll know the difference. I have no idea if it's harder or easier now, I took A levels when I took them and they were hard.

[@johnnath4137]

@G Mc C Yes, it is an observed fact that people have a tendency to suppose that the standard of the exams taken in their time is higher than that of later years. But there are objective criteria in guiding such judgments. I took A levels in the early 1960s and at the time the pure maths and applied maths (separate subjects) were each examined by two 3 hour papers in each of which full marks were obtainable by correct answers to 8 questions. The exams in later years tended to be examined by 1½ hours and 2 hours papers, in which full marks were obtainable by correct answers to a dozen or more questions. Evidently, 8 questions in 3 hours (early ‘60s A levels) imply harder questions than 12 or more questions in 2 hours (later eras). Just look at the IMO exams, the hardest maths exams worldwide for school age kids. There you are set 6 questions to be done in 9 hours (spread over 2 days), each day’s exam lasting for 4½ hours during which 3 questions are to be answered. This allows the examiners to set really hard questions. So there are objective tests one can use to compare the difficulty of the same exam from different eras and to take at any rate some of the subjectivity out of the judgments.

[@Amy-zq5kn]

@G Mc C C1 is hardly revision of GCSE... there is no Calculus in GCSE and half of C1 is calculus. I remember learning to differentiate for the first time in Year 12. GCSE to AS was the hardest jump in my academic career by farrrrr and I went on to an MSc Update: turns out Gen Z now learn calculus in GCSE... guess I'm old now

[@hereforthememes.8466]

@G Mc C Curious about what is the age group of candidates who give this examination? Cuz here in India the entrance tests we give after the completion of our highschool (on the basis of which we get qualified into an University) are waaay tougher, and we are bound to study physics and chemistry at an equivalent level at the same time.

[@AcryllixGD]

@@Amy-zq5kn uh I did my GCSE’s earlier this year and there was no Calculus lmao, no idea who told you that but they’re lying (I did the higher paper too so I’m confident there was no calculus)

[@rachjade8785]

I’m doing an English degree, trying to write an assignment due tomorrow. I haven’t done maths since GCSEs 5 years ago. Am I procrastinating? Yes. Am I still watching? Yes.

[@audreygilmore7408]

Same

[@Skizzap]

Same I’m doing a geology degree and I’m still watching

[@jordanhowe1899]

People who know maths: “Evan you fool that’s wrong!” Or “Yes that’s it you got this!” Me: Sure. Yep that sounds good.

[@irrelevant_noob]

And a good helping of "argh, you're so close, how can you NOT get this, please let him have that epiphany soon" ;-)

[@itsmemiranda954]

I just think he talks A LOT. I'm getting coffee! Or should I stay? 🤔 I'm so glad knowing the answer to 1 + 1 😇

[@RandomPerson-sh9tu]

Fun fact: You have to label which part of the question you're doing in the exam, if you don't, you get no marks, so even though your answers were right for a lot of things you didn't always label the parts so you would've failed, which is slightly unfair because you'd think examiners could tell what parts you're doing, but I get that some parts are hard to tell.

[@NtokozoMoyo]

Lmao, There are marking hundreds of papers. They don't have time

[@RandomPerson-sh9tu]

@@NtokozoMoyo Exactly, but what almost all exams/exam boards do (some exceptions like English and maybe some non-core ones too) is just give you a space to work on for the question, you don't normally have to label anything because they just make the exam papers so you don't have to, so the papers could just be written in a way that you don't need to label which part of the question you're doing because they already have dedicated space for it, which is probably one of the reasons it's so common for people to lose marks because the examiner doesn't know where you are since almost everyone does OTHER exams where you don't have to do that

[@iitz_kingkongxx9038]

@@NtokozoMoyo my tutor told me if this is the case, they'll just mark it wrong. so if it isn't totally clear what you're doing. They'll just ignore it and move on to the next question, literally he always nags me to make sure my working out is neat and clear.

[@1violalass]

This is nonsense. In maths, you are given space immediately after the question for your answer. The only reason you would need to label your answer is if you decided to answer a different question in that space. Source: I've been a marker for Edexcel.

[@1violalass]

@@iitz_kingkongxx9038 Untrue, they will curse you and then spend time looking at the mark scheme working out what they can give you. Your tutor is telling you this to encourage you to write more clearly. They're not wrong in that, it's a good idea to lay your work out clearly.

[@Georgexb]

The way he butchered that surds question scares me

[@user-hh3go9po3v]

That’s absurd. Sorry I had to 😂

[@emilyobrien4086]

The way I butchered my gcses scared me

[@melisa6609]

@@emilyobrien4086 Girl don't say that I still haven't done my gcses and that scares me

[@joe.h1390]

@@emilyobrien4086 ooooo sorry

[@brandonbrando75]

@@emilyobrien4086 they are easy, A levels are what you should be scared of

[@dragonadampick1]

Hi Evan just a quick comment on explaining exam grading in the UK - All UK exams including GCSE’s and A-levels (excluding university exams which aren’t standardised) are graded on a curve (it’s a bit more complicated, but that’s the gist). Which is why 80% isn’t automatically any particular grade. If the paper’s easy and more people score highly, it becomes harder to get a top grade, and vice versa. Theoretically you could have a paper that’s super hard and everyone does poorly in which case 55% might be an A.

[@saraaa357]

grade boundaries basically isn’t it?

[@amcheli]

That's crazy. If you tell me you got an A I should think you did really well. Not you did better than most. Sounds deceitful to me to get an A from 55% score.

[@dragonadampick1]

@@amcheli less deceitful and more of a way of managing papers. So in case they release a paper that is unreasonably difficult they don’t punish the students for that. Also remember it works the other way too, so you could get 90% which sounds a good score but maybe would not translate to a good grade? The percentages I’ve used here are a little extreme so it would be an exceptional paper where people got 55% and an A. As the whole country takes the same papers the sample sizes are huge so the shifting of the curve is generally only a few percentage points either way each year

[@amcheli]

@@dragonadampick1 thanks for elaborating!

[@nasaaraabdi9462]

Same in Kenya 😂 the colonial roots are too deep

[@braidij7598]

"Multiplication is a dot so it doesnt get confused with x" Thats why you do a curly x

[@GonzoTehGreat]

I never liked the dot. X is better but I also prefer using brackets wherever possible. Regardless, using a Curly x is a common sense.

[@eddypdeb]

In Romania it's also a dot.

[@irrelevant_noob]

ain't nobody got time for curlies... dots and short crossed lines all the way xD

[@Helgacabbage]

A dot can get confused with a decimal point and make you think a number has decimal places when it is actually being multiplied. Makes no sense to use a dot, imo.

[@heyho4488]

it just trickles down from mathematicians since they are all lazy and can't be bothered to write things clearly

[@RichWoods23]

I don't remember being quite so rushed or panicked during my Maths A-level, but then the passage of forty years is almost enough to bury the worst of the memories. What really surprises me is that I can pause the video and do all the algebra and calculus with a fair degree of confidence; it's like a muscle memory that I haven't exercised for a few decades.

[@AliyahIqbal]

Evan’s lack of understanding for the UK grading system is hilarious 😂 because the US really have it easy in comparison the UK 😂

[@musa_x1691]

Liyah xxx Hahahaahaha so true

[@AikiraBeats]

Yes we do everything is easy over here 👍

[@NippleTechnology-cc8bg]

i think the US can have it harder though. we A level kids were cruising compared to our IB brethren who were dying each day

[@Anonymous25012]

@@NippleTechnology-cc8bg Yeah, you can choose Lower, Maths studies (slightly harder than Lower) or Higher Maths. I've heard that Higher Maths is pure hell in the IB. The school I went to until Year 11 had the IB program going for them in Sixth Form and I decided it was best to go to a Sixth Form college where I could be free of that hell hole of exams. You have to choose 3 Lowers and 3 Highers, so six subjects. A lot of people could do it but it just wasn't for me. Yes, I know that nobody asked but I'm bringing it up anyways.

[@Matthew-ux7pj]

@@Anonymous25012 IB difficulty is overblown, imo its a matter of quantity or quality. unless youre taking HL physics or maths then its not much harder than A levels. imo it swaps depth for breadth which is always a tradeoff. the part of the IB thats better than A level is the Extended Essay we do, which is 3,500 word min. thesis we come up with and the IA which are large projects you complete in every subject you do. Overall tho, IB definitely prepares you for American Unis (and Unis in general) better than any system. pretty much everyone i know who took the IB thought Uni wasn't harder until 2nd or 3rd year (depending on the subject).

[@FionaMu]

Why am I watching this? I am 30, got a C in GCSE maths over 12 years ago and maths make me scream, lol. I guess I just love Evan.

[@mollyiscool5008]

I’m a 14 year old and haven’t done my GCSEs yet. I haven’t even started my mocks yet. Though that’s later on this year. Yaaaay. Sarcasm.

[@TwitchTheLizardx]

I’m 27 and watching this gave me the same dread, fear and anxiety as when I did my GCSE’s. Help.

[@Charlotte-wx4jz]

Fiona has stuff here, I only got my GCSE C when I was 21 on my third try. I’m now 29 and maths also makes me want to scream yet I am also here. We can scream together! 🤣

[@Rhianalanthula]

Having been the guinea pig year for GCSEs starting in sep 86 and taking exams in 88, the highest grade was A not A* and AS levels hadn't been thought of. Not surprising they've now got rid of AS levels (as told by me children's school during options eve).

[@jmurray1110]

yeah i did my a levels last year and got a U in maths if it wasn't for evan i would be watching this

[@cigmorfil4101]

14:00 Sum arithmetic progression: with: a = first term d = constant difference between terms n = number of terms last term = a + (n-1)d S = (n/2)(first + last) = (n/2)(2a + (n-1)d) The second form is the useful one here - in simplifying write out all the elements as given and see what cancels at each stage before doing things like distributing into brackets.

[@Ojisgay]

Thats year 2 stuff right

[@cblastonyt]

@@Ojisgayye

[@paigemclachlan2189]

Everyone’s arguing about the type of test but I’m still trying to figure out how he did the first three problems in four and a half minutes 😂

[@davidwillis7991]

yeah I guess it doesn't help that he had to remember that an expression isn't an equation but that is extremely slow. (actually I'm impressed by his ability to think at all clearly while narrating)

[@adelyaakhatova8228]

he did the whole test withtout the pink grid thing and other equipment. that's pretty good.

[@Nick-bh5vf]

Lmao only 10 sec ques for indian students

[@teatime9198]

MOOD LMAO

[@classiccomedy74]

I’m so happy the world 🌎 has people like all you, I’m just stupid ( x=y.(.)(.)y~^)

[@smumtazz1444]

I’m currently taking A Level maths and if I was taking this paper I’d cry happy tears. The new papers are soo hard 😩😣😣. I want to see Evan tackle the new spec papers

[@ThePedrodude]

This is just C1, the first, and easiest, out of 6 papers that made up the old A level Maths.

[@stevieinselby]

One thing to remember is that in the UK, we really specialise after GCSEs - so for the last two years of school/college* before going to university*, you'll typically only study 3 or 4 subjects if you're following an academic route, which means that you learn those subjects in more depth than in countries where you might still be taking 6 subjects at that point. * UK terminology. I'm talking about the school years where you turn 17 and 18.

[@mrcuddles7917]

try doing singapore o or a levels extremely hard

[@bananagamer8185]

@@mrcuddles7917 singaporean tries not to flex how hard singaporean education is (extremly hard, fails) im singaporean but lets just not ruin others fun yeah

[@daubner1]

@@anoobis260 god ain't that true , I'm romanian and I still can't believe how shitty the system is , we learn EVERYTHING about the most useless subjects even when most are never going to touch them after finishing school

[@oisinnoonan3349]

In Ireland we do 6 subjects and this would be below standard of our Higher Maths exam

[@environm3ntalist549]

@@oisinnoonan3349 dont even pretend the Irish system is better. Having spent 6 months at uni in Ireland I found it incredibly low level

[@theboiii8775]

Man, I ain’t got a clue what’s going on but I still enjoyed it

[@rhys1819]

Same here I’m only in yr 9:lol

[@fryhyh]

Lol it looks like another language and im in year 11 getting grade 7's

[@Aima952]

Am I the only person who freaked out that you basically wasted 3 minutes trying to remember the quadratic formula for q3 despite having already completed the square!

[@hellothere488]

Yeah ik it stressed me out

[@Anastasia-ls8dd]

I was literally yelling at the screen lol

[@aspenmorsley9874]

Sadie Fahey YES i literally went and ranted about it to all my maths class

[@jackconnor1865]

on a level i’m there like mate set part a = 0 then solve it, these americans jheee

[@fplaysdm74]

Polite Gordon Ramsay I just think of Boyinaband (Negative B plus or minus the Square Root of B Squared minus 4AC over 2A)

[@Lucy-yx9io]

He does his 'x's like a multiplication sign and not in cursive whatttt

[@Rafa-mv4nn]

Well since the multipilcation symbol should just be a dot in the middle of the line I think it's alright to just write an x without cursive. At least I know my teacher wouldn't mind ^_^

[@Subarashii_Nem]

Yeah.. I always did my x's like ↄc in class and 𝓍 on an exam. ↄc because it was mainly just scribbles in class and I knew what it meant but the whole fancy 𝓍 on exams because when I did my exams, they were real shitty with everything being 'properly' done and I lost marks on mocks for doing my quick scribbles. I don't know how it is now, I've been out of school for 10years but 10years ago, they were super anal about everything being all proper and pleasing to the eye as well as getting the right answers.

[@azuregriffin1116]

@@Subarashii_Nem I still do it. It's become my default. It's probably one of the three biggest quurks of my handwriting, the others being: Lower F and capital L look the same, pretty much. The bottom of my lower Zs are joined, like you get on fancy menus. I do small lines instead of dots above i and j, so it's like í almost.

[@Subarashii_Nem]

@@azuregriffin1116 Yeah, when I actually write by hand my x's default to ↄc because that's just how I've always done it. I don't know why though. My handwriting is more curvy than straight lined so my capital E's are curved and not like 'E'. Same as my A's are arched. I think it's all due to algebra to be honest. Since maths was my best and favourite subject along with physics. The letters use in equations are all curvy and stylish looking compared to standard Times New Roman style, that's just my default. Makes filling out important documents by hand a bit of a hassle because I have to write like a real human and not in my own made up font that no one can read x)

[@azuregriffin1116]

@@Subarashii_Nem I felt that.

[@legless2053]

Seems like you will be the only person taking these tests this year !!

[@evan]

Hahahaha

[@ricochet4674]

That's some cruel irony right there.

[@moony6169]

@@ricochet4674 im currently taking the exam this year 💀

[@pizza619]

@@moony6169 what GCSE grade in maths did you get

[@afriend5107]

I am taking it this year....

[@drankursinha]

Jee adv maths laughing in the corner 💀

[@lottiemills5237]

He’s not even doing an A level though, that’s an AS 😂😂

[@expired4607]

what's an AS

[@lottiemills5237]

potato uwu it’s an advanced subsidiary level, in the UK you can take it after GCSEs but before your A level (aka it’s an optional level lower than A level standard)

[@Jack10016]

potato uwu You do AS levels earlier on in the course. So they’re easier than A Levels. (I could be wrong)

[@Vandel96]

@@expired4607 When i did them about 5 years ago, an AS was done in 1st year of 6th form, (which is 2 years in total) and contributed half towards a full a level. I think i heard they changed since then tho.

[@svenshipton5132]

@@Vandel96 yeah, you're right. The new system is that AS levels are a separate qualification entirely, so you sit separate exams for AS levels and A levels. As far as I'm aware, the content for AS levels matches the first half of A levels still. Most schools don't bother entering students into AS levels anymore because they'll be re-tested on all the content at the end of year 13 anyway.

[@cookiemichelangelo]

This is why "keep calm and carry on" is the common denominator amongst us brits

[@Joey-hs1lh]

Fr hahaha

[@myjamz4279]

CHANGE THE TITLE TO AS MATHS lol give a level some respect 😂😪

[@yungmodulus7926]

Nhật Nam Trần I think the main thing he’s pointing out is that this is AS level, not A level, a hell of a lot easier

[@Zen_Zen_Zense]

C1 aswell 😂😂😂

[@trainerzard7]

A level is IAS+IA2. So IAS is A level and IA2 is A level as well

[@jdot6823]

There are no AS papers anymore. These questions are just integrated into the final exam

[@DuncanEllis]

as a proud A level D haver in Maths, it's a tough exam. I salute your efforts, however generous the marking might have been.

[@paddyl0]

Why does failure make you proud?

[@DuncanEllis]

@@paddyl0 D isn't a failing grade at A level. It's not an awesome grade, but it is still a pass.

[@someoneyk6165]

@@paddyl0D in A level is an A* in gcse and American systems and probably most educational systems since British is the top strongest curriculum

[@slipperylordtouchme7921]

Yeah good on you I'm trying to get a C

[@bhg582]

@@someoneyk6165 what does a D in a level have to do with a* in gcse😂

[@captainjacksparrow1518]

The only thing missing is the pressure. And the fact you're not allowed to think out aloud.. lol

[@borgoat1220]

No, that's actually a huge handicap for him to take the exam while having to explain everything out loud because that takes much longer to solve each problem. And isn't the exam timed?

[@adminbob_]

borgoat12 I can’t tell you how much you end up wanting to talk to yourself in exams. Although that’s just me, maybe you have it differently, but you didn’t think about that which could be taken as rather stupid.

[@ZoeGarcia-vl9ex]

[Text Here] Everyone is different we get it. He was just voicing an opinion.

[@davidwillis7991]

It is a huge handicap to narrate and do something else at the same time. There might be people who enjoy talking their way through tasks but narrating is completely different

[@jessicataylor7174]

@@ZoeGarcia-vl9ex Eeek, no smilies...was that an intentional joke or a happy coincidence? Either way, thanks for the chuckle! 😀

[@ricochet4674]

Why am I watching an hour-long video of a man taking a math test? It's Evan that's why. Also, I'm procrastinating.

[@OrlaRodgers]

Literally using this as a level maths revision haahaha (Ps C1, M1 etc doesn’t exist any more it’s jusy paper 1&2 pure maths and paper 3 is stats/mechanics)

[@richardjoicey4430]

For my exam board, paper 1 is just pure, paper 2 is pure and stats, and paper 3 is pure and mechanics.

[@hattie_burns]

You're kidding me! I had to do C1 C2 S1 M1 C3 and C4 and you have 3 papers?! I'm very happy for you

[@richardjoicey4430]

@@hattie_burns How long were each of your papers? Each of ours are ~2h30mins.

[@hattie_burns]

@@richardjoicey4430 Oh fair that's intense, ours were 1h30m

[@faust7756]

@@hattie_burns new ones are harder too, they took down some further maths content

[@michaeldavison9808]

I did A level maths 40 years ago and it included some Calculus but it was mesmerizing watching the first few minutes of this. I belittle current A level grading systems because of the horrendous grade in exams - but that performance was worthy of an A in the olden days. :) By the way, congratulations on calling is a 'maths' test, not a math test. Much appreciated by your UK viewers I'm sure.

[@semiperfekt]

American school system: Do we need to teach them how to hold a pen? Naaaah.

[@rov7704]

They actually do now! For a day... and then most just hold it like him. We spent two days on how to dot glue.

[@kayelle8005]

Well they don’t teach them how to hold a knife and fork either.

[@ZoeGarcia-vl9ex]

Kerryn Simmons What? Sorry I never knew I umm held a fork and knife incorrectly?

[@kayelle8005]

Izzy all my American friends seem to use their fork in their right hand and use it more like a knife (side edge to cut) or spoon (scooping food up rather than using the tines). Its weird. I’ve not seen it in other countries, although my Israeli friend holds a fork weirder than anyone I’ve ever seen.

[@ZoeGarcia-vl9ex]

Kerryn Simmons Oh, I never thought that was the wrong way to do hold a fork. I guess now I know lol

[@xzonia1]

You did great, especially considering you didn't bother to study and have been out of school for a while now. Fun video, Evan! I love watching you solve the math problems. :)

[@capitalb5889]

Well, he did actually graduate in mathematics, so you'd think that a high school exam shouldn't be too hard a challenge.

[@Varksterable]

​@@capitalb5889 I disagree. I watched Blackadder in 1986, and honestly can't quote all of the most funny scenes since then. I've heard/watched the Wonders of the Solar System about 50 times since then, but haven't made any significant progress (or understanding) in astronomy. My point is; learning a subject for an exam is so much NOT the same as understanding it in the medium/long term. What was the last book you read in 2018? Describe it in detail. Thks.

[@capitalb5889]

@@Varksterable - if you graduate from university in a subject, particularly mathematics, it is far more than learning for an exam. The deep understanding you would have would take you far above the AS-Level maths of this course and returning to it less than a decade after graduation should not be that great a challenge. Your Blackadder analogy is not good - firstly it was over 30 years ago. You never had to learn it off by heart and even if you did, it does not really equivalent to this particular case. If I asked you to do some mathematics of the type you did at primary school, that would be better. The truth is that he has an American mathematics degree, and given the differences in the UK and US education systems, his knowledge of the subject at graduation would have been well below that of a British equivalent.

[@Varksterable]

@@capitalb5889 Quite possibly threads got crossed there. All I can really cling onto is that I don't feel mathematics is a very memorable subject unless you keep it refreshed. Maybe I'll get back to this later, when I've sorted out what's going on. Sorry!

[@capitalb5889]

@@Varksterable - there is a difference between most of us who never study maths as anything more than a set of rules to scrape by in an exam, versus those who take it to degree level and develop a far greater fundamental understanding of the subject, whereby it is knowledge that would be hard to unlearn. In that sense it would be more like learning to ride a bike.

[@TheGreatYean]

instead of actually doing past papers, watching this video counts as revision right?

[@jun_kage]

Yes. Yes it does

[@cabbageman2184]

Yes bc that’s what I’m doing

[@daistoke1314]

I counted watching Coronation Street as revision, so yeah this is totally ok.

[@liza4757]

@@daistoke1314 🤣🤣

[@kaithlyn-in5es]

i mean...yeah technically 😇🥲

[@Greebstreebling]

Just as a matter of interest, I asked the local exam board here in U.K. for the A level Physics paper I sat in 1972. It was very interesting and although I obtained a degree in Physical Sciences and Maths in 1979, the A level Physics paper of 1972 is unachievable for me in 2023. Probably my 70 year old brain.

[@emma-jogilbert6531]

Now they don't do C1, the new a level is harder, have fun trying that 😂

[@GCOSBenbow]

New a level is definitely not harder than the c4 paper.

[@lacari0805]

GCOS Benbow It’s harder because you don’t have an easy C1 then an easy C2 and a slightly harder C3 and a hard C4, you just have hard exam

[@hawkeyedsentinel4648]

@@GCOSBenbow I did both A2 old spec and new spec in the span of 2 years, trust me, new spec is on a whole another level

[@hawkeyedsentinel4648]

@@GCOSBenbow in C4, you know exactly the topics that will come up. New spec is having to revise all of C1,C2,C3 and C4 in two papers which are 100 marks. It's absolutely mad. New spec for maths and science is fucked.

[@kiwikiwi7375]

lacari0 except grade boundaries are adjusted to account for the easier papers and overall higher percentages through the UMS scores. Eg in some C1/2 in order to get A* which is 90ums, you would need 98% of the marks.

[@EASYTIGER10]

This was like listening to Italian for me. Every so often I heard little bits I understood, but overall it was just pretty noises.

[@Silver0Tree]

I understood most of the words individually, that's the best I can say lol

[@kaibest6560]

Oh god I've never related to any comment more 🤣

[@sprout8426]

LMAO same 😭😭

[@samcarsonx]

0:34 “or uni as they say” Colleges in england are where we take our A levels, then university is after

[@Alan_Mac]

"Colleges in the UK are where we take our A levels,"? Are you serious? You clearly know nothing about the different education systems in the UK.

[@samcarsonx]

Alan Mac I’m going to college next year. Some colleges offer A levels, some offer BTECs.

[@Alan_Mac]

@@samcarsonx Maybe but A Levels are not UK-wide exams. We have three different education systems.

[@banan7308]

you mean colleges in ENGLAND is where u take a levels

[@samcarsonx]

Nasra ...yes

[@CloudslnMyCoffee]

I love that you call factoring “unfoiling” since the amount of annoyance of my teachers for me forever calling it “defoiling” knew no bounds

[@michealpok3701]

I don’t know about yall but, he should take the Singapore A level math exams. :)

[@nikoong7937]

Yes!! Oh my Lord ;-; fuck A levels man

[@hamzakhan-wo1xv]

CIE international A level you mean

[@oliviadiva9042]

@@hamzakhan-wo1xv Singapore’s A level papers are different from the CIE international A level papers

[@alvinmath]

Yeah i dun mind sending him the paper.

[@hamzakhan-wo1xv]

@@oliviadiva9042 Singapore has its own A level board?

[@WerewolfMG]

I did Maths, Physics and Further Maths. I wonder why I had a severe mental breakdown in Sixth Form and failed everything. Hmm.

[@jonathanlam4994]

Bless ya had to drop further, maths physics and chem was already a ball ache.

[@Malarjnat]

Megan Grieve omg me too- just passed enough to get into uni

[@xylema.]

Megan Grieve currently doing maths, chem, bio and finished further maths as On top of that, I’m also a dent applicant where I require to have AAA in my actual a levels hehhe 😬😬😬😬😭

[@ducktape5819]

I'm doing the same + biology, haven't died yet, wish me luck

[@GCOSBenbow]

I did Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Biology for AS. Left school for 3 years after that and only went back so I could finally go to uni.

[@jvd0665]

He used the quadratic formula instead of just completing the square. Could have saved so much time, but he got it in the end I guess

[@AndrewSmall963]

It's a matter of risk. If you get the completed square form correct in part a, and remember how to convert it to the solutions, it's quick marks. Get either wrong and you lose the lot. In some ways it's better to use the quadratic formula (as the question gives that get out clause "or otherwise") as this also cross checks part a.

[@DualWieldin]

@@AndrewSmall963 not true as you would get follow through marks for using the correct method

[@diyatripathi6994]

I hate completing the squares...quadratic formula is easier in my opinion

[@davidwillis7991]

completing the square might be faster in this case but even if b was odd I'd say quadratic formula is faster and because of that very few people get so much practice at completing the square that they're good at it. Of course anyone who hasn't done maths for a while will do whichever they can actually remember

[@dawaiira4512]

The guy did +b instead of -b lmao

[@eigerview1]

Evan, you are so entertaining. Was way above my head but loved it. Thank you.

[@WelshMan22]

C1 C2 C3 and C4 are your core mathematics and then S1 and S2 are statistics and M1 and M2 are mechanics. In my comprehensive at least, the system used to be in the first year you took AS which consisted of C1,C2 and either M1 or S1 and then in the second year you finished the A Level with C3, C4 and then either M1 or S1 depending on what you took in the first year. If you took M1 in the first year you would do S1 in the second year and vice versa.

[@georgiahanson5105]

you could also take decision too, instead of stats or mechanism from when I did it about 3/4 years ago

[@ChaosXLR]

So you always had to do both stats and mechanics? When I did my AS maths I failed both core maths modules, but easily passed my mechanics module. According to my core maths teacher "that should be impossible", but what can I say, mechanics was interesting and useful so it stuck. When I was an Uni I had to do a Mathematics for Computing module... which was just AS-level mechanics again :)

[@damilola6407]

TalkiToaster no it depends what your school offers, for example I never took a statistics paper, I opted for M1 and M2 instead of M1 and S1 x

[@peterstuart2501]

@@georgiahanson5105 yeah decision was the shit. Just looking at tables and routes

[@niamhcostello4766]

Exactly same as me

[@grumpy989]

Hey evan you dingus, good attempt but you took the wrong spec. Thats the old spec, we all have to take the new (post 2015 spec) which is even harder :) Btw OE means Or Equivilent. CSO is correct solution only

[@the_maybe]

This is the 2018 paper, some schools (including mine) still took the AS for a few years after the spec changed, in fact I don't know anyone who didn't do it, although to be fair ours was the last year I think

[@grumpy989]

@@the_maybe True, but the number of ppl doing these papers is decreasing, most people are on the new spec. In fact AQA don't even let you access the C1/2/3/4M1/2/S1/2etc papers since they're "out of date" It would be more representitive to do the new paper, especially since it also has the A* grade

[@the_maybe]

@@grumpy989 that's wild, i knew they changed it but i didn't know they had a*s now. i dont see the point in them not being accessible now though since there can't be much in terms of past paper material now and maths can't change much besides get harder

[@Ben-ew3hv]

@@the_maybe No more non calc paper, nice

[@MonkiFish69]

Me understanding none of this and reading comments saying ‘this is so easy’, cry.

[@ButterflySimmer]

Can relate. I used to do higher but choose to do foundation at GCSE. Don't regret it one bit 😂😂👏

[@Penguin_of_Death]

Q1. Describe the interrelations between length, mass, volume and temperature in the metric system American: *faints*

[@brainer5457]

Now imagine doing this when you're 17 + 3 more A Levels that you selected (God forbid it was Physics) = Insanity Only at 17......then you got next year to worry about. Wanna know the best part though?? You're not even in Uni yet......

[@erpderp5294]

lmao true maths,physics and further maths is hard~ but itll look good to any person and that's my reason for doing them 3.

[@benrobinson940]

tom haagston maths, further maths, physics and chemistry for me hahahaiwannadiehaha

[@erpderp5294]

@@benrobinson940 I could never do chemistry nope. GCSE was hard enough even you have to teacher yourself the whole syllabus in 3 months. We had a swap of teachers and our teacher before just did rate of reactions and left the class. we never did anything else.

[@polyboy8177]

I'm not intending doing uni instead I'm doing plumbing certificate at 15 years old wth school

[@Alexisonfiresx]

I bombed my a levels so bad because my college fucked our year over, and I also severely underestimated how difficult it was going to be because of how much a cake walk GCSE was, literally finished all my GCSE a year early and finished all the exams half way through the year. The remaining rest of the year, we just fucked about, and the teachers just let us do whatever we wanted, like watching movies in class, playing video games on the digital white board, messing around with friends, literally treated school like a social club 😂 Almost the entire year came back for sixth form and over 40% of our year dropped out by the third month, and by the sixth month, 70% had dropped, and then at the end 90% was gone. The 10% remaining all had to resit year 12 again, I mean there was so few students left , there wouldn’t be a point for a year 13, some teachers literally had no students for their class and some class would only have 1 or 2 students, so there was no point for the school to have a year 13. I ended up doing whole lot better than before.. but still barely passed my A levels, I asked if I could resit year 12 again (making this the third time) cause I was unsatisfied with my results. Choose to just do all BTEC courses, cause I couldn’t do an exam to save my life (they stress me out too much, and I wouldn’t be able to concentrate to write down answers, plus I found out the teachers didn’t really teach us the method to/how to find an answer to the question, they just taught us the answer and expected us to understand it) by the end of it, I passed all my btec courses with flying colours I got 3 Distinction* and one Distinction ✌️ However despite getting really fantastic results even if they’re just BTEC grades, they’re still pretty much equivalent to having at least 3 grade A in A-levels I believe 🤔 but I choose not to go into University because the whole tuition fees had came into effect, 9k for 3 years worth of uni? Wow that was so cheap back then LOL and people rioted over the 9k for 3 years, now it’s at least 9k per year 😵 I got confused over how the student loans would work, if I qualified for it or not, my parents were also confused, as the whole process was such a head ache and complicated at the time. Took a gap year and the Tuition fees went up, but the government promised if we voted for them, they would scrap the fees or lower it drastically... never happened, by this point I just decided to get a normal job and work my way up from being a waiter to retail worker, to office worker, and now I work for a bank company, soon to be floor manager 🤓 The whole point of my lil story is to show that you don’t have to go through uni to get a good job 🙂 or if you do go to uni and bombed it, it’s not the end of the world, you can still work your way to a very good position ✌️ I might not have a degree, but at least I have working experience 😁 and common sense, which a lot of fresh graduated uni students don’t seem to have any of either 😂 going to uni only increase and broaden your ability to get a job, it’s not a 100% given, plus I’d rather not have a student debt 🙈

[@VeritasQuasitor]

13:12 "so it doesn't get confused with an X in algebra" That's what the curly X is for

[@servantofallah8029]

Dumbo

[@destinitra]

and the dots just kept making me think they were decimal points --__o__--

[@servantofallah8029]

@@destinitra gives real anxiety

[@johnlynch9940]

Its clearer using dot and x compared to x and curly x

[@VeritasQuasitor]

@@johnlynch9940 it's really not tho

[@kerk9795]

"I've written some stuff here...but I don't know if it's correct" mood

[@down_by_the_river]

Me during my maths tests😂

[@applesthehero]

saying that "A levels are the advanced exam to get into college" sounds really dumb as a brit, because you take your A levels... at College! Unless you're at a sixth form secondary, which has the A levels part integrated (and these are becoming increasingly rare), once you take your GCSE exams to finish Secondary school, you go to College to take your A levels, which are used to get you into University! So if you're an American and are wondering why a Brit is getting confused or annoyed when you're talking about "college", just remember that they probably think of "college" as the step below "university". (just imagine if Brits called university "high school" and you'll get the idea)

[@rruysch]

He means uni. Uni is college in USA.

[@applesthehero]

@@rruysch no shit

[@juliusklugi7430]

@@applesthehero you’re the one who felt it was necessary for that long arsed explanation that no one needed. We all know.

[@applesthehero]

@@juliusklugi7430 and you didn't need to read it :)

[@nataliatheweirdo]

@@juliusklugi7430 I litterally read it and now i finally understand how the uk education system works, so maybe if it doesnt work for you it can work for others :)

[@lansoprazole2481]

Me when I find how he calculated the area of parallelogram: ???? Just multiply the base and height

[@jenny-ei3bn]

Exactly I know that and I’m in year 7😂

[@xxxmaysilssss690]

@@jenny-ei3bn no one cares. Edit: warning, there salty, offended comments below me. Read at your own risk.

[@jenny-ei3bn]

@@xxxmaysilssss690 what

[@mollyiscool5008]

@@xxxmaysilssss690 don’t be rude

[@saritshull3909]

So stressful. Should have used the distance formula to find the base.

[@_zedz_]

4:46 *has literally written a fraction "oh my gosh which ones rational?"

[@Thomashorsman]

cao = correct answer only

[@KB42moomoo]

oe = or equivalent

[@chaostheory2077]

ecf = error carried forward

[@DarleneLesmana]

evan completing the square and then using the quadratic formula is hurting me deep within my soul

[@EmilyPayne]

Does this count as revision

[@abiwest2589]

Please say it does because I need it

[@alianaxo5013]

Emily Payne It pretty much is revision as it's basically a review of a past paper?🤷‍♀️🤣

[@bethisnotokay3746]

Mr edinger

[@hollylovegrove6929]

Watching this as a person who does foundation GCSE maths 😂

[@jackwardmma]

Force User sameeeee😂

[@Zaza-vc5th]

@Sathursan Sharvaswaran trust

[@jeweltrapmore4776]

Force User same 🥴

[@harvey8052]

Same

[@FootballFury]

Sathursan Sharvaswaran I did higher and FAILED

[@de4830]

Try a *Further Maths GCSE* not higher, *further* it’s separate. I’m doing it. why...

[@jennybrooks809]

Del im questioning why im doing gcse further maths as well... should be fun

[@katiefenton6840]

Del you think GCSE Further is harder A level is more difficult i do further at A level

[@psychoquinn2483]

Because they what us to die

[@joemartin6496]

Further GCSE isn't hard the only new thing you really need to know is matrices / identity matrices. Other than that you're fine.

[@joemartin6496]

oh and factor theorem

[@LouvreGlassFrance]

You did really well thinking that fast, I appreciate the effort. Some mistakes are accepted, but you're good.

[@JudeKennedyATCL]

Me doing A level maths and a level further maths😂🙄

[@emdjoyce]

Tbf further is sound cos you finish the content like 3 months before exams so you have way longer to revise

[@JudeKennedyATCL]

@@emdjoyce true! I'm on my last topic in each further maths class (pure, mechs and stats) for AS, but we're not even half way in ordinary maths😂😬

[@aksb2482]

Good luck lad, couldn't dream of doing further maths lol, normal maths is more than enough for me 😂

[@MisterAppleEsq]

Ayy, FM pals!

[@sadkingbaby]

lmao i just dropped further maths last week bc it was a fourth subject lmaoo

[@jackbrooking4754]

“It’s like unfoiling, a foilable.... thing” Well when you put it like that...

[@JoonasD6]

2:18 "What if we multiply both sides by..." As a mathematics teacher: what have they been teaching you there in the US? There *are no sides* in a simplification task to multiply in any meaningful way. This was not formulated (nor did you do it yourself) as an equation to manipulate.

[@Zen_Zen_Zense]

Yeah I found that hilarious 😂😂😂

[@barbaramiller17]

Very embarrassing, especially after his braggadocio about his marvelous math degrees. I tutor high school and university students in math and science. I am truly appalled at our end product here in the US. This is coming from someone who was an Assoc. Prof way back in saner times.

[@JoonasD6]

@@barbaramiller17 We can certainly be embarrassed by a system or be worried about it, but let's not personify that or make the whole "marvelous math degrees" something we'd only use to speak ill.

[@qdogg224]

Both sides of the fraction-- the numerator and the denominator-- the top side and the bottom side-- are being multiplied by the square root of three (in effect, multiplying that term by one) to rationalize the denominator

[@XGD5layer]

For someone who did not learn specifically for the test, he did pretty well.

[@cigmorfil4101]

8:00 _Hence_ or otherwise find f(x) = 0. When you see "hence" there is a clue that the result of what you've just done will be useful in finding the solution. Here: f(x) = x² - 10x + 23 = (x - 5)² - 2 = 0 Thus: (x - 5)² - 2 = 0 → (x - 5)² = 2 → (x - 5) = ±√2 → x = 5 ±√2 The quadratic formula is derived from completing the square, which the first part gets you to do: ax² + bx + c = 0 >> x² + (b/a)x + (c/a) = 0 > (x + (b/2a))² - (b/2a) + (c/a) = 0 > (x + (b/2a))² = b²/4a² - (c/a)x(4a/4a) >> (x + (b/2a))² = (² - 4ac)/(2a)² >> x + (b/2a) = ±√(b^2 - 4ac)/2a >> x = -b/2a ±√(b^2 - 4ac)/2a = (-b ±√(b^2 - 4ac))/2a

[@thomashart6166]

If you really want to torture yourself, you could try taking the MAT or STEP (Oxford & Cambridge entrance exams for maths)

[@sadkingbaby]

me, just screaming "THE DISCRIMINANT, EVAN" at 29:00

[@lakshmishivakumar6321]

Literally tho

[@JessPrincess02]

honestly i was like seriously? we covered that at the start of term

[@leonnn.05]

Ikrr

[@rosiepenguin]

The comment on using an x as multiplication sign. We write our algebraic x as two c back to front. Also that was an old AS paper not a new A level. I got a 9 (A*) at GCSE but barely scraped a D at A level because the new paper was impossible. If you look for the memes you will find a lot of crying 18 yos

[@rosiepenguin]

Honestly I think all these comments are coming from we want to see you crying like we were. Or are desperate for someone online to give us the validation of "Yeah okay this was too hard"

[@James_Haskell]

The reason a dot is better is because x can be confused with capital X. It’s also the same as the dot product symbol.

[@rosiepenguin]

@@funkyfranx Because the multiplication sign is an X in the UK, we have to distinguish the difference between that and an algebraic x so they are written as 2 cs like a curly x. Google English maths questions most (handwritten especially but sometimes typed too) will use this.

[@rosiepenguin]

Also Capital X is bigger than multiplication x so that's how you distinguish capital. Size of lettering is a massive factor in UK exams especially in chemistry and maths also you will lose marks if you mix up capitals and lowercase. Evan made that mistake once and corrected it but...

[@rosiepenguin]

Also half the time we don't put anything. So ax would mean a * x.

[@hannah3250]

Bravo for taking a test you didn’t even study for! You basically went in blind. I have a feeling most people taking this probably get practice tests, tutoring prior to actually taking the test. Most people wouldn’t have the guts to do what you did, and share the results with the whole world on top of it! I’m impressed.

[@Kait07_]

the paper is a practice paper for A-Level, not an actual A-Level. And it's an old paper

[@marco3391]

@@zoranivanovic8128 ???? 15? you mean 18

[@bolt6572]

@@zoranivanovic8128 A level maths is for 17-18 year olds

[@randomaccount3500]

@@bolt6572 Not really, it varies on which school you're in. For example, I have both A maths(A-level) And E maths (Extended), almost everyone taken it in my class and we are all 14-16 years of age, so 15 is a possibility too(which I am). Basically some schools like to start early on learning A level maths due to the rising difficulty of A level maths exams each and every year, questions are getting less and less clear of what you're even supposed to solve, and more and more materials are getting added to our upcoming exams. The exam he took in this video is an old one and is significantly way easier than papers nowadays, most of the materials he went through in this paper are already taught to us.(by around 4 and a half month period that includes holidays)

[@bolt6572]

@@randomaccount3500 The exam is easy af from Indian standards anyway. As someone who did school in India and then went to Oxford and Cambridge; the school is 'super ez' in the UK considering I knew more sciences and maths compared to my peers at Oxbridge. Infact, in retrospect, paying for the first two years of CompSci at Cambridge was a total waste of money because my School taught me that much computer science at 14.

[@psychoquinn2483]

I challenge you to try an english GCSE exam

[@xylema.]

Psycho Quinn easy. All you have to do is waffle. But English is 🤢

[@AdesewaAbioye]

Waffled both lit and language and got A*s. Easiest grades I ever got but apparently none of my mates got higher than A

[@francesivy6194]

Everyone saying they waffled it and got good grades are talented at English. So many thousands of people fail every year it doesn't matter how much waffle it has to be the right type of waffle

[@xylema.]

Frances Ivy yeah lol. It has to be actual quotes and real concepts that have to be waffled about.

[@vomitdev]

not a real subject waffle your way through PETE on each paragraph

[@cansuozdemir6274]

You should try the 2019 a level maths paper 😅 55% was an A

[@bethan5708]

Am I the only one who would get the “ universal multiplication dot “ confused with a decimal point??

[@evan]

you put your decimals real far out

[@Allymai_]

@@evan Sorry, I don't know what you mean? You just sound a bit like a hippy from the 60s/70s. 😂

[@archeopterixneuroza4715]

You use only decimal dot in my country, so nobody from my country would. Someone also could mistake the multiplication cross for x, so it doesn't help either. And I think Math is well known for its usage of "dislectic" symbols (m&n, p&w, u&v, i&j, ksí&zéta) together.

[@JudeKennedyATCL]

This is why we use curly x, it looks like a forwards and backwards c and so we don't confuse multiplication x and algebra curly x

[@RedhairedBallerina]

Where I live, the multiplication dot is in the middle of the letters (so 3·2=6) and we don't use a decimal dot, but a comma (so 1,5). Always thought that made more sense than putting an x in there :D

[@nicolefoss7913]

British A level exams are years ahead of North American standards. I tutored A levels after moving to the UK with a Canadian science degree. They were doing what would be second year university level chemistry in Canada.

[@Tangutica]

I've oft heard it said of British A levels that they are the hardest exams you will ever have to take.

[@geezer1024]

Students are of the exact same calibre, it's just that us in the UK get the opportunity to specialise in 3-4 subjects when we are 16 while I hear people across the pond do a whole range of classes in different topics. Same thing applies for our Universities, a Bachelors in the UK is 3 years and you only do work which is related to your course, likewise with a master being a year in the UK. Personally I prefer it, I could not even think about doing more English literature after my GCSE.

[@skyekilbury4810]

The chaotic energy in this video is overwhelming

[@glitch_animations7289]

Everyone: do A level further maths Me: *crying in no GCSE*

[@guser436]

GCSE is piss easy no point doing that for a video

[@glitch_animations7289]

@@guser436 ok calm down mate, I was just making a damn joke

[@cheddarcheeseisgood8030]

Shared pain

[@josiejackson8959]

Loll Evan ly Where did you pull this from we don’t even have noncalculator exams in A level maths anymore

[@callummoreton749]

It'll be old spec a level

[@swand1383]

Josie Jackson yeah the different modules don’t exist anymore

[@hannahcroft7708]

No noncalc in A Level? God damn the times are a-changing

[@ComWom]

@@hannahcroft7708 non calc is easier than calc tho

[@jay5391]

at least he was good at calculating

[@harrybarrow6222]

When I applied to get into a UK university (60 years ago), if you wanted a grant, you had to take S-level (Scholarship-level). S-level was SIGNIFICANTLY more advanced than A-level. In addition, to get into Oxford or Cambridge, you had to take their entrance exams as well. Actually, the Oxbridge questions were very interesting. They were not just regurgitating what you had memorised, or applying formulae to data. They required some real ingenuity and creativity. I recall one question on a physics paper, “Estimate the size of an animal that must eat its own weight of food every day”.