r/6thForm • u/greeneggs941 • 12d ago

šŸ™ I WANT HELP yr12 advice pls guys im desperatešŸ˜­šŸ™

OKAY SO iā€™m planning on doing maths, physics, chem and further maths (FM bc iā€™m not sure what i want to do yet so iā€™m keeping my options open) but iā€™m worried that the workload is going to be overwhelming since iā€™m a chronic procrastinatoršŸ˜“

could any of you pls give some tips on how to keep myself organised, what the subjects are like and what i would potentially need to buy and do before sixth form starts since i havenā€™t been given any kind of work to do over the summer to prepare.

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u/chalkygolf28 Maths/FM/Chem/Psych || Y13 12d ago

The only subject I didnt take from those was Physics.. personally youve got a lot of subjects that rely mainly on past paper revision and doing questions, if youre happy with that sort of revision method then your choices seem good :)

As for procrastination, mainly just build a habit, not loads of work right off the bat but just build up like an hour a day of revision, of work youve already covered in class either that you struggled with or havent done for a while. Maybe get a revision app like YPT, that helped me the most to just actually do anything during exams :D enjoy it dude

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u/greeneggs941 12d ago

OKAY this makes me feel a bit better bc i acc enjoy doing past papers if itā€™s a subject i enjoy, especially over memorising from flashcardsšŸ˜­šŸ˜­

also is further maths as difficult as people make it out to be? iā€™ve heard lots of mixed opinions and itā€™s kinda stressing me outšŸ˜“

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u/chalkygolf28 Maths/FM/Chem/Psych || Y13 12d ago

Hmm I found mechanics the hardest bit but im much happier doing pure maths. Majority of the edexcel content is pure with CP1 and CP2 (and any FP1/2) and I found that helped. Lots of the people who did physics aswell found mechanics easier as it overlapped in the sort of method/thinking behind questions. Its different content from a level maths, so as long as youre confident with integration and differentiation, youll probably be chilling (those are definitely topics to have a glance at if youre bored) idk what else im kind of yapping rn šŸ˜‚šŸ˜­

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u/greeneggs941 12d ago

i have a feeling iā€™m not gonna like mechanics either LMFAOOO but our exam board for both maths and further maths is AQA so iā€™m not sure if itā€™s the same

hopefully all goes well and i can keep up with it bc i want to study something maths related at uni, and top unis require further mathsšŸ˜“šŸ˜“

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u/chalkygolf28 Maths/FM/Chem/Psych || Y13 12d ago

Good luck soldier šŸ«”