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No you won’t lose marks, it’s just my preference. I explain in more detail in some of the other comments!

Yes, you would - I think I included it, though?

Yes, correct, my mistake! I will change it on the original question and this PDF so that it is a value that actually works!

You don't need to know it! It is just background knowledge :)

This is so nice to hear! I'm pleased you enjoyed it, it's one of the best parts of the A-Level, I think!

Ahhhh amazing - do you speak Japanese? Was it accurate?! I have listened in French which is strange, as I can understand French.

Ahh you are so welcome. Good luck in your first year!

Hope the test went well!

Yes, it can be left like that! :)

Thank you :)

I mean, I love FM2, I think it's a great module. You could possibly 3 all three, which then gives you the chance of your highest pairing between FM1/FP1 and FM1/FM2, which could take some pressure off. FM2 is challenging in places, but there is much less content than FP1!

Pearson Edexcel A-Level Maths textbooks :)

You are so welcome - thanks for returning to watch this and leave a comment - I hope your current studies are going well! :)

They are almost redundant, yes - you should always use the calculator, as this is how the questions are designed. It is useful to know those facts about the sd's of the normal distribution as it gives you a quick sense of the distribution, though!

@@BicenMaths Ohhh I see! Thanks for the help 🙏

Oh yes, that is interesting! It's because it was so close to 166.

Because B feels A pushing down on it - we might think that it feels A's weight, but it actually feels the equal and opposite of the reaction force on A, which is why it is the 4.12 from earlier in the question! Really weird to think about, this is a challenging area of mechanics!

Ahh good luck! I hope it's gone well today!

Hmmm I am not sure that model can do this, although I am not 100% sure on this, I'm sorry!

Yes!

Question 15*

@@jefking2158 No, dy/dx is not part of the argument, and is just being multiplied by secy. Remember how the chain rule works - differentiate as you expect, multiply by the derivative of the inside function. So when you differentiated sin(x^2), you get 2xsin(x^2) not sin(2x). That should help you!

I'm not sure what you mean by your question - do you mean how much spare time I had in the exam hall after finishing the paper?

@BicenMaths yes!

It depended on the exam! For Pure in normal maths, around 50 minutes I think? I was going pretty fast! But for D1 and D2, I had no spare time at all! On average I finished the exams in about 75% of the time limit, and used the remaining 25% to do a lot of double checking.

@@BicenMaths thank you so much for telling me this, though i want to be better at maths than you one day (hehe)

@MathsAvocate You can definitely do that!

Thank you so much! :)

Hi there. Fantastic idea and great suggestion. As someone who is interested in higher level Maths, this is something I was actually working on 8 months ago. Thomas Calculus is an excellent book that focuses on this type of area. Check it out.

I like this suggestion! Graph sketching is a really interesting and challenging area of maths. I will add it to my list for the future, right now I'm gonna try and get these chapter summaries done and out the way! :)

Yes! :)

Oh that must be so challenging for you! It might be a good idea to speak to the exam centre about it, perhaps being in a smaller/ventilated room is good? I've heard that trying different anti allergy tablets to see which work best for you can be good, I know that some are more effective for different people! (And don't get the drowsy ones, that'd be a nightmare when sitting an A-Level paper!).

Not really, as there isn't a simple identity that turns 7cosx into sinx, but there is a simple identity that goes from sin^2 to cos^2!

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help :)

What would be a cool idea imo would be going through some of the mid/harder madas questions. That would definitely be cool.

Could you please tell what you did to get an A*?

​@Thesassy-q9u watch tlmaths or bicenmaths explain the content and use the textbook and answer questions until u get them consistently right. Do this until u reach the mixed excersize questions and do all of them. If there's any questions ur still unconfident about then rehash those types of questions. Try to aim for perhaps half a chapter a day. Also do ur research and don't just take my advice alone. Do whatever makes u get over 90% in past papers. That's all that matters

@Thesassy-q9u if you really want the honest answer, I don’t mean to glaze here I really don’t but to learn lots of the content I genuinely watched most of his videos, they really walk you through most of the a level like how a GOOD teacher would. Also because they’re condensed into videos, I could watch and learn at a faster pace than what I did in lessons. So step 1 was absorbing all content. Idk if others would or wouldn’t recommend this but I solely sat and learned content for the first few months of yr 13 I didn’t really do as many questions from the textbook (i still recommend you do tho) also whilst learning the content I actually made the mistake of doing entire past papers whilst only knowing like half the a level. Please do NOT do past papers until you’re confident fully that you know all the content, that way when you do the past paper you can do it at your best. (A perfect substitution here would be topic specific questions from the textbook rather than exam questions) As when I did past paper questions before fully knowing all content , all it did was make maths a level seem a lot harder than what it actually was when all that was happening was that I just didn’t know all the content yet. Step 2 after I was done learning all the content was literally pure exam questions (not actual pure maths just straight exam questions) I used madas (more on this later) I used all the past papers, mock sets as well as pmt mocks, papers a - k on pmt and IAlevel. Now lemme tell you, IAlevel is damn good cuz the questions are ever so slightly harder but follow the same spec as we do, there are also WAY more of them. Reason I did straight exam questions is because there are a lot of special nuances and cases that simply just aren’t explained in the book due to how obscure it is (ie on my alevel they wanted us to integrate sin^2 2x. The only way you could do this really that I knew of was by rewriting sin^2 2x in terms of cos4x using trig identities, then you get a reverse chain rule type integral. Now integrating sin^2 2x was never mentioned at all in the book however it’s still possible to figure out if you understand rather than just simply remember the content. For me, I spotted that integral instantly due to all the exam questions I had done at that point, I’d done so many hard ones and learned why each step was taken in answering the super hard questions to the point that I learned techniques that the book simply couldn’t show me) so that is my second tip straight exam questions after content. Don’t do exam questions too fast or else you run out, so take your time in learning and assimilating the content, a lot of people overlook this and end up struggling on questions not because they can’t figure it out biut simply because they don’t know how/ why to do a certain thing ie flipping the limits on an integral will change the overall sign of the thing you’re integrating. You may or may not know this already but it’s small things like that that you need to remember for the whole of the a level. Now mr Bicen may or may not like this too much but since I’m giving you an objective method on how I got my A* ima say it anyways, the day before my maths exams I invested into the Neil does maths cram course, he makes his own exclusive questions which cover almost all the bases, he does like an 8 hour livestream going through all of them and it’s the final but perfect layer to make you feel confident the day before. That’s virtually it, much of this you may consider waffle, which is understandable (I love maths not English 💀) but these are the general steps I took and by the end of it, come the exams in which I just felt prepared and calm. This is the feeling you want before each exam. Any other questions I’m free to answer 😁

Just to add asw, I also did partially use uplearn. Now lemme say this, for bio and chem sure it was pretty decent. However, for maths ibr I found Biden maths videos on each part of each topic more easy to digest. Also the practice questions on uplearn were WAY TOO EASY for regular/somewhat hard a level questions. The uplearn ALEVEL questions were honestly at AS level difficulty. So my one tip, I wouldn’t really invest into uplearn edexcel maths to much. You have everything you need with the public Bicen maths videos, past papers of all sorts and the textbook. Uhhh about madas asw, madas is good up to certain echelons of difficulty. A good way to scope this is that the average questions may be 3 star difficulty and harder ones more so 4star. Never on the papers have I seen anything 5* level difficulty and 5* madas questions I think target fm more than regular maths, I saw one girl using it the day of the exam and she was doing volumes of revolution 😭😭😭 just to clarify we did NOT at all need to know that for regular maths. Also the pmt a-z papers are good for learning the little obscure tricks I told you about earlier. I think it was in one of those papers that I saw how you can rewrite trig functions as not just 2x -> x but the other way so from 2x -> 4x. About paper a-k I found useful. The ones beyond that were a lil too much for regular a level imo. Two other tips, although I did some old spec questions, these are the ones I did the least on only because a lot of the methods or even questions themselves are outdated to the spec and require you to do things that you aren’t always found on the spec as then you get confused and tip no 2 is invest in a graphics calculator if you can. They don’t just make life easier but when you learn how to use it to its fullest potential it’s borderline just a cheat code (not an actual cheat code obvs) but pretty much becomes so so op. In one question, I can’t remember now but it was in a mock, were to do with graphs. I decided to input my final function in the graphics calculator just to double check and the power of seeing the graph visually showed me logically that my answer was actually wrong and I went and checked and actually found a mistake in my working which saved me an extra 3 marks. So graphics calculator if you can. I will say there are a couple drawbacks to it, one being that you can become reliant on the graphics calculator especially for stuff like graph transformations and binomial distribution so beware of that.

Thank you! :)

Hmmm no, not for c - why do you think that is required?

Exactly that!

No, you don't need to!

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Not necessarily, it means to find the gradient when x=0, and then find the tangent at that point. It would only be parallel to the x-axis if the gradient at x=0 was 0.

@@BicenMaths ohh ok thank you