Mathematics
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ViewingAQA A-Level Mathematics (7357) covers the content prescribed by the Department for Education, so the syllabus itself is common to every board: roughly two thirds Pure Mathematics, with Statistics and Mechanics making up the rest. AQA assesses it across three equally weighted two-hour papers: Paper 1 is Pure only, Paper 2 combines Pure with Mechanics, and Paper 3 combines Pure with Statistics.
The jump from GCSE is the largest of any A-Level subject and it catches out students who arrived with a grade 7 or 8. The difficulty is not new topics so much as the expectation of sustained algebraic manipulation without prompting, and of setting out a proof or a modelling argument in full. Students are also assessed on a large statistical data set, which AQA expects them to have handled themselves rather than merely read about.
Important Topics
- ProofDeduction, exhaustion, counter-example and proof by contradiction.
- Algebra & FunctionsSurds, indices, partial fractions, transformations and modulus functions.
- DifferentiationFirst principles, chain, product and quotient rules, implicit and parametric.
- IntegrationStandard integrals, substitution, by parts, and differential equations.
- Sequences, Series & TrigonometryBinomial expansion, arithmetic and geometric series, identities and radians.
- StatisticsSampling, the large data set, probability distributions and hypothesis testing.
- MechanicsKinematics, forces, Newton's laws, moments and projectile motion.
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