Entry Requirements
Students who have achieved a Grade 8 from the Higher GCSE paper will be eligible to study mathematics at A-level.
Students who have achieved a high Grade 7 in mathematics may be allowed on the course after an interview with the Head of Department.
Why study Mathematics?
The new two year A-level course will build on the work you did at GCSE but will also involve new ideas that are both challenging and interesting. It serves as a useful support for many other qualifications. Importantly, it is a sought after qualification for the workplace and courses in higher education.
It is recognised that the mathematics skills learned at A-level, such as logical thinking, problem solving and statistical analysis, may be closer to those actually used in the workplace than skills learned in other subjects.
While studying mathematics you can expect to: use mathematical skills and knowledge to solve problems simplify
real use graphics solve quite life situations so that you
The knowledge required for Paper 1 is assumed knowledge for Paper 2 and may be tested within parts of questions.
can use
mathematics to show what is happening and what might happen in different circumstances
calculators and other resources effectively;
understand their limitations and when it is appropriate to use such technology
complicated problems by using mathematical arguments and logic What does the course involve?
This is a two year course and students will sit the whole assessment in May and June of 2019. The course is split into units, which cover three of the branches of mathematics.
Students will study: Pure Mathematics, Statistics and Mechanics
Course Content Papers 1 and 2 - Pure Mathematics.
The topics are:
proof, algebra and functions, coordinate geometry in the (x,y) plane, sequences and series, trigonometry, exponentials and logarithms, differentiation, integration, and vectors.
34 Paper 3 - Applied Elements. The topics are:
Section A - statistics including: statistical
sampling, data presentation
and interpretation, probability, statistical distributions, and statistical hypothesis testing.
Section B - mechanics including quantities
and units in mechanics,
kinematics, forces and Newton’s laws, and moments.
A-level Assessment There are three externally examined papers.
Each paper is 2 hours long and provides 33.33% of the qualification. Calculators can be used in all three papers.
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