my HONEST experience of A LEVEL Further MATHS !! (including mock results)

[@gddanielk8491]

Further maths has started rly hard but it’s just the speed. I feel like I don’t get it but when I get time to learn it myself again and have more practice I find it gets much much easier over time

[@HarrySurplus]

I know how you feel, just keep on top of everything and work hard!

[@gddanielk8491]

@Harry Surplus going well now haha test on core pure 1 tomorrow

[@ImogenWhite]

So much respect for anyone doing further maths! I attempted further maths and dropped down to single maths after six weeks because the pace was just TOOOO fast for me ahaha 😂... loved this video though harry 👌

[@lunaxzo2431]

What did you get in your maths gcse?

[@jakazen]

I realise we are in the same institution :) I did maths and further maths for GCSEs and A Level and acheived 9, A^, A*, A* respectively in the end. It was tough but it's all about the exercises

[@JudeKennedyATCL]

So I had 3 different teachers for AS further maths: (I did CCEA Pure, Mechanics 1 and Statistics) Pure teacher: we (the 7 people in my class) walk into the classroom, pure teacher is already writing on the board. Chaotic. Fast paced, exciting. Mechanics: A NIGHTMARE I hated it, I couldn't mechanics. Statistics teacher: chill, laid back, fun, removed the boringness out of stats

[@jt4225]

YES!!! Mechanics is just straight up hell.

[@blackoutemzz2674]

Oh lord mechanics was the hardest. Imagine how hard general relativity will be, let alone mechanics.

[@yondabigman4668]

Bruh, I find statistics the hardest

[@anish7183]

Yeah further maths is one of those subjects that no one actually understand it’s or know where it comes fr9m and why it’s used but as long as you know how you do it it’s fine lol

[@angkur1]

Thank you so much for making this video! It was really interesting and useful for me! I think scoring good marks in A level maths and A level Further maths has a really big difference and still you did great, Harry!

[@HarrySurplus]

Thank you 😁

[@sciencewithsoph3620]

I loved A level FM. I was really nervous that I wouldn’t be good enough to take it but I’m so glad I did

[@HarrySurplus]

anyone can be good enough if they put the work in and try! glad you enjoy it 🥳

[@keelanadams6948]

I'm doing AQA and annoyingly they don't do a further pure option 😢 so I'm stuck doing discrete (decision) and mechanics. Pure is definitely the best so far, I love complex numbers and matrices, but polar coordinates are quite confusing. Discrete is weird with all the algorithms but game theory was quite interesting. Not looking forward to doing the mechanics next year! Anyway thank you for the video and good luck on your results!

[@HarrySurplus]

more decision and mechanics would be my NIGHTMARE lol. thank you so much ☺️

[@yondabigman4668]

Further maths gcse is basically maths with a bit of AS maths. Nothing much

[@anish7183]

Polar coordinates and complex numbers are deffo the hardest topics.

[@HarrySurplus]

polar coordinates 🤯

[@OfficialKorSide]

Omg I found inequalities really difficult lol, the sketching graphs was hard to understand for me.

[@Emily-fl6fs]

I was feeling very uncertain about doing further maths, now I’m definitely going to try it out because it sounds really interesting, although I do aqa and we have to do mechanics and discrete instead of further pure but I’m sure it’ll still be interesting 😊

[@HarrySurplus]

Best of luck with it! 🥳

[@anish7183]

CP2 is completely different to CP1. CP1 builds on AS maths whereas CP2 builds on A2 maths. The only topics in CP1 that come up again in CP2 are complex numbers volumes of rev and series

[@shehz]

So no roots of polynomials?

[@shehz]

and Matrices

[@shehz]

and Vectors

[@yondabigman4668]

@@shehz depending on your choices. Yes

[@EccentricGuineaPig]

Hi Harry, please can you make more videos on Further Maths as I have been self teaching the subject? :)

[@taylormcgrath]

I’ve added you to my prayers ahha. How tf you doing that?

[@randd257]

Hey, i'm planning to self study it too, was it manageable?

[@IshtiHD]

@@randd257Hi, any updates on this? How did you find it?

[@randd257]

@@IshtiHD i'm actually planning to move schools and the new school offers it

[@oliviamoynihan3185]

I'm so excited to start fm in september now!

[@HarrySurplus]

Amazing! Best of luck with it 🥳

[@harleesmith5615]

I’ve got 2 years to teach myself further maths, along with a-level maths. It’s annoying because I can’t do 90% of the content because I need to do year 2 😂

[@anish7183]

Hmmm I actually found vectors easier than the other topics because it was just algebra but a lot of people did find it hard

[@HarrySurplus]

There is just a lot to remember isn’t there!

[@lol-nd5it]

@@HarrySurplus ye the content itself is pretty easy, but there's just so much to learn.

[@Hateem_Shahid]

i havent studied add maths in my olevels. what do you sugges Harry? should i take FM in AL?

[@Luke_S162]

Will we be getting a video on Drama? Why you chose Drama as your third alongside Maths and Further Maths?

[@HarrySurplus]

possibly!

[@conongbengianmuopdang]

Can I please ask that in Maths, do u guys think that our genetic smartness is more important than hard-working? I really like Maths and I would consider myself to be quite hard-working as many of my friends said but tbh I don't think I'm any smart at all, it's just more about me practicing it a lot I really want to do Further Maths and I did a lot of research about it but I'm really worried that I wouldn't be able to catch up with everyone Pls give me some advice, tysm

[@geomlouis7365]

I love these review videos! I hope you can do a Collab with Jude Kennedy ATCL, I'm pretty sure he did further maths too!

[@idrk1507]

You have the most British accent I've seen someone have and I'm British myself just wanted to point it out :D

[@HarrySurplus]

hehe thank u

[@taylormcgrath]

@@HarrySurplus bold of you to assume that was a compliment hahs

[@user-km5lt9kg7p]

thank you, im studying myself and was confused by the modules😵

[@harryt5878]

I think I’m going to take computer science, maths, further maths and maybe physics for alevels I’m hoping all the links help! (Each maths for 2 years so should be doable)

[@HarrySurplus]

sounds like a good combo!!

[@yondabigman4668]

100% identical to my choices

[@yeet1532]

Identical to mine bro

[@auuughhhbygarrison3920]

thats literally mine as well gl mate

[@b1rito]

My school or any in my area didnt offer FM. Wish I took it cause I want to go to uni in theoretical physics and i think it wouldve helped me lol.

[@mahfoozmiah2008]

Am going to do maths and further maths and 3 equivalent alevel in engineering

[@giftbahati7683]

What did you get in you maths gcse

[@mahfoozmiah2008]

@@giftbahati7683 9. My friend is doing it aswell but he got a grade 5 so he is doing it privately

[@richardstone5096]

I enjoyed the video lots! Should be starting CP1, CP2, FP1 (hopefully) and M1 next year. My teachers better not pick D1 over FP1 hahaha

[@HarrySurplus]

Thank you so much! That’s the combination some people did in my class. I did D1 instead of your M1 ..... you might like D1! Don’t let me put you off it lol ☺️

[@blackoutemzz2674]

Pure maths is the best. Stats is the second best. Mechanics is the worst, unless you understand the whole concept.

[@animalpalace3750]

I live further mechanics 🙈

[@blackoutemzz2674]

OCR Mei B is so hard.

[@charlottesigrist]

I still haven’t got my head around vectors I just find it so hard because I don’t understand why I’m using certain methods

[@HarrySurplus]

me too, so many methods and so little marks lol

[@idfksssd1089]

You should only do further maths if you get a level 9 , or 8 but u have to be revising a lot with a 8

[@yondabigman4668]

Good problem solving skills is probably the most important

[@jimmelton]

I got a 7 in Maths at GCSE, joined the FM course 2 months after it had begun and i'm working at an A. Anyone can pick it up if they put in the labour.

[@turbiyo4026]

@@jimmelton damn how did ur schl allow u to do it with a 7 i thought the requirement was an 8 for most schools

[@jimmelton]

@@turbiyo4026 I didn’t apply for it at first, but I just went into one of the lessons once and expressed how I wanted to study computer science - and my teacher enrolled me onto the course lmao

[@gutso5749]

I am doing it with a 6

[@joshuaelias.caswell5003]

I have a dilemma! I love maths and want to do both maths and further maths along with psychology for a level. However I want to go onto do psychology at university and although I can get into quite a lot of university with these a levels there are more universities that I could get into if I do a science and I would do this as opposed to further maths. I would do physics most likely. It’s really annoying because I want to do further maths but I don’t want to narrow my options. Got any advice?

[@icequeen2778]

You could try doing 4 a levels or maybe have the further maths as an AS level instead. I’d also recommend contacting the admissions office of the unis you’d like to go to and asking if they’d accept further maths instead of a science. Also I’ve heard that in some cases further maths can be counted as a science but I’m not sure if that’s true so make sure to check with the uni first!

[@robbiehicks7960]

As someone who's just finished CP1 CP2 FM1 D1 and FS1 as an additional module - I really wish my teachers offered FP1. It's by far the most interesting looking

[@HarrySurplus]

Yes! FP1 was interesting ☺️ I would say my favourite

[@angkur1]

So in vectors, did it offer the geometrical/agebraic aspect of vectors ( cross product/dot product/triple product/projection of any vector on other vector) or it also offers vector calculus? P.S.: I'm really sorry if this was too long, and thank you again!

[@HarrySurplus]

Yeh! In Core Pure 1 we did dot product. & the cross product was in Further Pure 1 (but we didn’t get to that because of coronavirus 😭)

[@HarrySurplus]

... and I think vector calculus is covered at degree level?

[@angkur1]

Oh ! Maybe vector calculus is at degree level, I was actually trying to learn partial differential equations and multiple integrals part of the calculus this summer and i saw the topic vector calculus at last, which was really interesting and so I thought, if it was in A levels, I would go through it. Thanks for the info though!

[@angkur1]

@@HarrySurplus Coronavirus really halted so many good things ! I found vectors at first extremely clumsy and confusing but later it was so so interesting! The geometrical aspect of vector(area of triangle using cross product, volume of parallelopied using scalar triple product , projections) is really interesting! You could go through them in your free time, it's worth it!:D

[@user-wl9gw7xe2q]

it’s nice to see someone with more average grades! not like that evie bennett girl who gets all a+

[@spark_2_motivation]

time at 1:05 ☠☠☠☠💀💀💀

[@Wan2003lolTTV]

I have the same problem with vectors😂. Just always found it difficult.

[@tomm8450]

Can anyone explain how the differsnt further ( fp1 ect ) vary as i cannot decide between furtther mechanics, decison and stats. I know i want to do fp

[@danianoman2041]

this is the tiktok guy who taught me quadratic graphs omg!

[@itachi6336]

Lucky I'm doing fm1 and fs1. Ideally I would do fp1 and fm1 .stats suck...

[@mathsical]

Differential equations is actually applied maths so you might be more of an applied mathematician than you think 😅 Enjoyed watching this - it's interesting to see how the syllabus has changed compared to years ago when I did them!

[@HarrySurplus]

Yes! At a level it’s under ‘pure’ maths but at university it’s applied! Confusing lol

[@idontknow1630]

for fm do you get to choose modules or do teachers choose them

[@charlottesigrist]

Yesss I love proof by induction

[@yondabigman4668]

Divisabitlity and matrix proof. Right? Right?

[@zoeevans946]

Great video Harry, very helpful! I have a question: I thinking of doing A level maths and I was just wondering what calculator did you use ? Have a great end to the week!

[@HarrySurplus]

thank you! I had two calculators, the Casio classwiz & the Casio FxCG50 Graphical! The classwiz I had to have for a level and the graphical calculator was optional ☺️

[@zoeevans946]

Harry Surplus thank you !

[@danielribeiro7126]

Hi Harry, do you offer 1to1 tutoring?

[@ashleemccann2597]

does everyone who takes further maths complete a level maths within a year? or can you do both courses for 2 years? :)

[@HarrySurplus]

No, my college decided to do a level maths in a year! Most colleges do it over two years

[@ashleemccann2597]

Harry Surplus oh right awesome haha, thank you!

[@Voltanaut]

What grade did you get?

[@HarrySurplus]

A :)

[@Voltanaut]

@@HarrySurplus Congrats!

[@JudeKennedyATCL]

WAIT A MINUTE, VOLUMES OF REVOLUTION IS FURTHER MATHS? IT'S A2 MATHS HERE NO WAY

[@JudeKennedyATCL]

Update: differential equations are also CCEA A2

[@HarrySurplus]

Yes! It used to be normal A Level but it got moved to further maths. And differential equations are also in a level maths, just harder ones in Further Maths that require a different solving method 😁

[@JudeKennedyATCL]

@@HarrySurplus that's fair enough. With the recent spec change in CCEA we had a lot of jumping about. Differential equations came onto A2 and some mEcHaNiCs topics moved about too

[@0x1F600]

don’t even know why I’m here, I’m borderline failing my maths gcse haha

[@HarrySurplus]

ahh noo, stay positive!

[@Kyulnjir]

I don't know why I'm here either. I've already done my A-levels and I didn't even do further maths

[@RBSMathletics]

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[@joker_otis2134]

good video but visuals made me sea sick lol

[@HarrySurplus]

FiRsT

[@lol-nd5it]

Well shit, guess I'm second 😔

[@robbiehicks7960]

Guess I'm third :(

[@Bruh-rj2so]

Follow Jesus Christ he loves us all repent of your sins amen 🙏🏾

[@sarian3759]

👏👏💐❣️🌷