Who did Maths at A-Level?

Doing Maths A level at the moment.

Can I just say that Decision 1 isn't maths at all, and to all of those that say decision is extremely easy, I find C2/C3 (Caculus, natural logs and trig identities) easier.
 
Did maths and physics at A-level and faired well in both but haven't used a single thing I learnt since then which was about 10 years ago.

Actually I would say I have learnt a lot more and much more relevant knowledge since leaving school, hell youtubing carl sagan videos were a 1000 fold more useful and interesting.
 
Did Maths A-Level, wanted to do Further Maths as well, but school wouldn't offer it as only me and one other person chose to do it, so I ended up doing Electronics instead.

Got an A in my A-Level, then went on to do a degree in Mathematical Physics.
Did no work at uni and ended up with a 2.2.

Now I write software putting lots of numbers in grids for investment banks.
 
I did A level maths to get into my uni course, came out with an E but still got in the course. Turned out i didnt need it in the end, i was the only one in the course who did it.

Maths module first year of uni was basically an open book version of the A level, came out with 100% in it :D

edit: course is computer and network technology
 
Haircut said:
Did Maths A-Level, wanted to do Further Maths as well, but school wouldn't offer it as only me and one other person chose to do it, so I ended up doing Electronics instead.

Got an A in my A-Level, then went on to do a degree in Mathematical Physics.
Did no work at uni and ended up with a 2.2.

Now I write software putting lots of numbers in grids for investment banks.
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You got a 2:2 and now you do work for investment banks.

Nice :cool:
 
I did A level maths and it was the hardest thing I've ever done. But then again, I didn't really try and gave up too easily if I couldn't see the answer by looking at the question.

First year I got an E for AS. I retook the exams while doing A2 and only doing revision the night before and bumped it up to a B for AS. At A2, I really didn't understand much of C3 (think I got 40% in the exam?) and next to nothing of C4. In the C4 exam I actually didn't have a clue how to go about answering a single question on the paper (and they didn't even include the exam result so I think I got 0?). I finished with a D overall.


With all that said, I'd love to do a maths degree with the open university if I had the time.
 
I did maths (but not further) and got a B at a-level. I went on to do a masters in aeronautical engineering and got a 1st. Now I'm working as a graduate engineer for a large aerospace company.
 
Did maths at A Level, bagged an N grade for that one... Got A grades for gcse maths and additional maths, our teacher was a shambles though, changed our course over halfway through the year from Core 1, 2 and 3, to Statistics 1 and 2, Mechanics 1 and 2 and I forget the other 2 modules now.

Went to uni for 2 years to do Mechanical Engineering, but dropped out when I started my own business.
 
flibbage0 said:
You got a 2:2 and now you do work for investment banks.

Nice :cool:
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To be honest once you have experience they barely look at the fact that you have a degree at all. Doing what I do they care much more about whether you can do the job rather than what you got in your degree.
 
I'm doing it now (A2). Got an A in the first year, somewhere around 90%. Predicted an A/A* this year. Also on for an A* in core maths. I find the core maths ridiculously easy, but the further maths is a challenge once you get to some of the more difficult questions, especially on the FP2 paper. I'd say it's worth doing if you found GCSE maths really easy, and did well effortlessly. If you had to put a bit of work into that, then maybe it's not for you, but it's worth a try either way.

I've applied for maths at Cambridge, Warwick, Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham, Warwick, Manchester and Nottingham, and an interview at Cambridge early next week. Still waiting on Bristol, but it's not going to be one of my choices anyway.
 
Dasheh said:
I'm doing it now (A2). Got an A in the first year, somewhere around 90%. Predicted an A/A* this year. Also on for an A* in core maths. I find the core maths ridiculously easy, but the further maths is a challenge once you get to some of the more difficult questions, especially on the FP2 paper. I'd say it's worth doing if you found GCSE maths really easy, and did well effortlessly. If you had to put a bit of work into that, then maybe it's not for you, but it's worth a try either way.

I've applied for maths at Cambridge, Warwick, Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham, Warwick, Manchester and Nottingham, and an interview at Cambridge early next week. Still waiting on Bristol, but it's not going to be one of my choices anyway.
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Why hello :) Read this post and thought, "wow, that's just like me!" before reading the username and realising this is my further maths classmate :D

I'm basically identical to this, my university choices are the same (with the exception my cambridge interview was on friday :D).
 
Redoing AS after getting a D at AS last year and a U in Further Maths. I find AS Maths is variable but almost everyone seems to either fail Further Maths or get an A. It's very much the person I think.
 
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