Hi everyone my name is Sany and welcome back to My Maths Adventure in this video
I'll be talking about self-studying the hardest A Level in the UK so hope you
can join me so in my last video I talked about whether I'll be self studying the
hardest A Level in the UK which is Further Maths after much deliberation
because you know I need expert advice sometimes I decided to go for it so you
maybe wondering why I'm self studying A Level Further Maths if you stick around
I'll give you my top five reasons
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first top reason is university requirement Further Maths is an important
A Level subject to take if you're considering going to top UK university
not only just to study mathematics but other subjects as well now Further Maths
is considered a facilitating subject which means that some the top UK
universities require you to have it now some of the universities require only
A Level Further Maths to AS level however the vast majority of them require the
full A Level some universities like Cambridge University, University College London
Warwick University, Imperial College London, Durham University just to
name a few however I will say that most UK
universities don't require you to have A Level Further Maths one notable exception
is Oxford University now Oxford University recommends that you have A
Level Further Maths however it's not essential for me personally if I want to
stand a good chance of getting into a top UK university then A Level Further
Mathematics is an essential qualification to have now my second
reason is the first-year advantage at university now some universities don't
actually require you to have A Level Further Maths however they do recommend
that you study if it's available to you evidence from other YouTubers who did a
Maths degree have said that A Level Further Maths is
like the first year of a maths degree at university so if you studied Further
Maths before starting a maths degree at university you would have already had
the opportunity to increase your overall mathematics knowledge experience in
dealing with complicated maths concepts and also just increase your confidence
in mathematics overall so by studying Further Maths you would have a
distinct advantage compared to other students who didn't take it now my third
reason is that it will increase my overall maths skills now I will learn the
bulk of my mathematics knowledge from my A Level Mathematics however if I was to
study Further Mathematics I'll learn other subjects that aren't covered by
the normal A Level Maths syllabus these subjects I like complex numbers, matrices
hyperbolic functions, chi-squared distribution, work energy power and the
physics of circular motion so not only I'll be learning new subjects that I've
just mentioned but also I'll get an opportunity to broaden my skills and
consolidate my mathematical knowledge in the standard A Level Mathematics
syllabus as well now my fourth reason is being in a small minority of students
who actually had the opportunity to study A Level Further Mathematics now a
report published by the Joint Council for Qualifications showed that in 2019
over 91,000 students in the UK sat the A Level Mathematics exam now that's
compared to only over 14,000 students who sat the A Level Further
Mathematics exam another interesting statistic from the 2019 report is that
approximately over half the students who sat at A Level Further Mathematics exam
obtained A* grade or an A grade now A Level Further Mathematics does
have an higher barrier to entry which means that you do need an A* or
8/9 in GCSE Mathematics however even if you did have the grades
fewer students even have the motivation to study it in the first place
theoretically I know that I will have a high chance of obtaining a great A Level
Further Maths grade at the end if I just work hard and apply myself
now if you want to check out the report by the Joint Council for Qualifications
I'll put a link in the description I think another important reason why I
want to actually do A Level Further Maths is, the actual challenge itself A Level Further
Maths is one of the hardest if not the hardest A Level in the UK so I wanted
the challenge of doing something difficult that also stretches my mathematical
ability you don't grow by doing easy things in life you grow by doing things
that are challenging that pushes your limits and sometimes doing things that
make you fail now I could be setting up myself for failure however if I do fail
I want to fail fast and fail forward so I can learn from those mistakes and use
those failures to propel myself forward for future success
Now in my last video
I talked about watching the launch of the SpaceX spacecraft now the next day I
got the opportunity to watch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docking with the
International Space Station and what a historic moment that was just seeing the
experience live on TV as the spacecraft approached the ISS and slowly maneuvered
into position and started its docking procedures once docking was completed
the two astronauts came inside the ISS.
There we go guys they're coming through
"We have Bob Behnken from SpaceX Demo-2 mission entering the International Space Station"
"history being made"
"followed by Doug Hurley"
One of the American astronauts Doug Hurley said something very inspirational and I
think it will stick with me for the rest of my life
"folks in SpaceX folks at NASA the Commercial Crew program put their heads
together and worked diligently year after year making sacrifices working
hard and then nine years later American launch capability was restored and this
is just one one effort that we can show for the ages in this dark time that
we've had over the past several months to kind of inspire especially the young
people in the United States to to reach for these lofty goals and work hard and
look what you can accomplish"
so if you enjoy the process of working hard
reaching for higher goals and applying yourself to a worthwhile endeavor
there's nothing that you can't achieve in your life no matter how difficult so
that's it for me today I really hoped you enjoyed this video and got some
value out of it if you did I would appreciate if you can hit that like
button now in my next video I'll be talking about books and giving you a
tour of my bookshelf now as you can tell from behind me I've managed to actually
recover most of all my books that were in storage so I've just got to sort all these
out and get it into some sort of order and may need a second bookshelf actually
but in my part of the world in Wales IKEA is still closed
so hopefully you can join me for that bookshelf tour so don't forget to hit that subscribe
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wherever you are in the world stay safe take care and I'll see you next week
so here's my Amazon package with my first two Further Mathematics textbooks
so I'm just going to do an unwrapping
There you have
So there you have it Book 1 and Book 2
complex numbers
argand diagrams
roots of polynomials
matrices
Book 2
More complex numbers
polar coordinates hyperbolic functions