Shout out for Noble....

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AS level Maths resources needed, especially good sources of question papers!!

If you may remember, DS was an on-again off-again A-level maths person -. he got a 8 in his GCSE, and is now doing ASs (school still chooses that route).

He is finding it really hard to 'match the maths to the question' and confidence is ebbing away (this is a child who again got a Gold and got on to Kangaroo for the Maths challenge earlier in the year, so a good 'from first principles' mathematican, just not so good at 'what does this question need me to demonstrate').

Any ideas for good sources for new spec Edexcel parctice papers? Edexcel site itself, Pearson and crashmaths found so far...

Sorry, have seen this, will get back to you later!

Without stating the obvious, I presume you've seen the standard books
drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5ZFx4FSj9D2OUtWdXVXclRDS1U
and done the exercises they contain. Obviously, not as focussed as doing exam questions, ...

There are 5 trillion papers for the old spec here: www.physicsandmathstutor.com/a-level-maths-papers/, obviously there isn’t an exact match but he could try some old C1/C2 papers? I think he’d need to avoid trig involving radians and sectors, the trapezium rule and sequences and series because they’re now not on AS but the rest should be doable?

Thanks. I think what I will do is scroll with him through lots of those old papers, and get him to tell me what is needed to solve each question (except radians, sectors, trapezium rule and sequences / series), as that's what he finds really tricky. Anything specific that is now on AS but wasn't, and clues where I would find it in old structure?

What’s in and out are here: furthermaths.org.uk/files/2017-a-level-maths-fm-content.pdf so the stuff that is ‘in’ for AS is new to AS

Vectors came from C4. E^x and lnx graphs plus differentiating, and differentiating trig came from C3.

M1 is mostly the same except kinematics is new.
S1 is a mess of the old stats modules so not worth looking at the old papers I think.

By M1 and S1 I mean AS mechanics and statistics!