MATHEMATICS

This is a highly respected qualification requiring hard work and determination to succeed.  Pupils are required to work independently and be tenacious. Maths is essential for studying  Maths, Physics or Engineering at University. Other courses which benefit from Maths A level are medicine, economics, accounting and other sciences such as sports science.

During this course, you will learn new topics, all of which are highly algebraic and are an  excellent introduction to maths at a higher level. 

• Branching further into core maths with topics such as logarithms and exponentials,  radian measures and higher level trigonometry 
• More complex pure maths including trigonometric proofs, further differentiation and  integration as well as numerical methods for finding solutions 
• Further and more complex work on coordinate geometry as well as vectors in 3D
• Mechanics: Kinematics, Forces and Newton Law, Moments – this applied module introduces students to mathematical modelling of everyday experiences, like driving a  car, throwing a ball up in the air, walking across a bridge and playing snooker
• Statistics: Statistical sampling, presenting data and interpretation, distributions,  hypothesis testing & probability. 

Over the two years students cover two pure units and one applied unit (statistics and  mechanics). The are 3 exams equally weighted at the end of year 13. Each exam is two  hours in length. 

• Papers 1 & 2: Pure Mathematics 
• Paper 3: Mechanics & Statistics