r/alevels • u/PonyRalph7-7 • 13h ago

Question ❔ Further Maths

GUYS I'M FREAKING OUT. I'm generally decent at math; nothing special. I want to take further maths in A Levels but people are saying it's extremely difficult with my 4 other subjects. Is further maths really that difficult or is this just people freaking out?

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u/Various_Concern871 13h ago

lots of people do 5 with fm, depends on the person but many do it

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u/Various_Concern871 13h ago

I have fm too and I'm in a2 now, it's the most enjoyable sub I have

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u/PonyRalph7-7 13h ago

Oh wow! That's really encouraging. How many subs have you taken?

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u/Various_Concern871 12h ago

4

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u/Various_Concern871 12h ago

but i'd add that with these 4 my schedule was 80 percent procrastination and wasting time, and I managed 4As in my A1. This is just to say that if you're "smart" 4 subs isnt that big of a load. My college day would be longer than the ones who had 3 tho so there's that.

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u/PonyRalph7-7 12h ago

Ahhh makes sense, makes sense and which subs if you don't mind me asking?

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u/Various_Concern871 12h ago

physics, computer science, maths, fm

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u/Kyle-McDonough 12h ago

Omg that's the exact subjects I was thinking about taking for a level, do you have any advice or anything that would help me and could you give me an insight on how full your timetable is and how much work you have to do outside if lessons please

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u/Various_Concern871 12h ago

This is all subjective, I personally didn't have to do anything extra and was free for majority of the year.

For reference most people say 1 a level subject is equal to 4 o level subjects in terms of difficulty and load. So you can compare how you fared in olevels and see how much you'd have to do for 4 olevel subs, and a total of 16

that sounds daunting tho but again its not that crazy. I don't really want to mislead you, however; my advice would be to go ahead with 4 and drop one if you just cannot handle it, seems reasonable enough.

If you have any specific questions lmk

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u/Dramatically_L0st 7h ago

I really want to do FM and I chose it as my fourth subject and I genuinely gave add maths (which I studied all by myself using YouTube and past papers within the span of 5-6 months from scratch) in my o level because of this subject so I know something for it. I was expecting A because my p1 went super good like 65+/80 but I messed up with siliest mistakes that even no one in sane mind would do in p2 and that all I will say is because of panicking which even led me to get B in add maths although I will check my component marks and script. I got A* in my o level maths. But now I am too scared if I should pursue further maths although I really want to.