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I was wondering If anyone could tell me these questions to the Maths A level (AQA)

-How hard is it from GCSE?
-If I take it, will it keep my options more open?
-If so, could I just drop at AS, will this still keep my options open?

I didn't take A Level maths so I couldn't say what It's like, however I obviously did GCSE maths. If you get your head down and work, an A* is very achievable for anyone. If you get over confident in your abilities, you'll fail. As for AS, it's not really essential to take it. Obviously if you want to go into something Maths based you need to take it, but most jobs don't need it. Take me for example, I work for a Uni doing community research and I've only got GCSE Maths. I work with numbers all day long and I'm fine with just my GCSE.

I got an A in my maths GCSE. I took it up for AS level at my first year in college. I dropped it after 7 months. During this 7 months, I lost all self-confindence since I was failing at it so badly, even though I was doing so much work for it. Since I lost all self-confidence in my ability to learn, purely from that, I have dropped multiple grades in all my other subjects and am now failing the year. Also, because I was doing so much work for maths while I still had it as a subject, I was spending all my time revising for it, making SURE I passed it. I didn't have time to revise ANY other subjects. This meant I failed the majority of my subjects and I only got 9% in my AS examination. Now, because of the confidence thing and the fact that I have so many new exams coming up, (including the re-takes that I have to do because of maths) I am having talks with the head-teacher about whether I will be able to come back to college next year.

Worst decision of my ****ing life.
I am now showing signs of the early stages of depression.

I PROMISE you that this is all true.
Maths has potentially ruined all chances of me getting into another college, which has pretty much ruined my life.....

The gap is ****ing ridiculous, you can not even BEGIN to realise how much it is. You get told the gap is huge, but you can NOT prepare yourself

Yes, you could drop it at the end of AS, and continue with your other subjects to A level.

HOWEVER, maths will open up ridiculous amounts of oppurtunities for you in the future, job-wise.

Would I have to continue it on to A level though? or just AS>

Thanks also for your personal story, rep+thanks for being honest.

You don't HAVE to do anything, you can choose what you do. Drop it at the end of AS or continue to A2. It would look better on your CV if you kept it on to A2, but only about 0,1% of people can get an A or above in A2 level maths in the whole of the UK, according to my ex-maths teacher

Thanks very much! I would give you rep, but it wont let me, just get an error saying "you cannot give rep to the same post twice" :confused:

Moved to the school section.

A level maths is apparently considerably more difficult than GCSE. I applied for it, and will be going to college in September. But if you listen to the teacher and revise, you should do well.

I hate Maths, but I took my GCSE a year early and got an easy A*. I'm now doing my Maths AS a year early, and it's ****ing difficult. I'm definitely not continuing it to A2, I'm just going to take the AS, and do some subjects that I actually enjoy. Unless you're really good at it, you love Maths, or you're looking for a career which requires Maths, I'd avoid it at all costs.

well last year 5 of my mates did as maths and all of them failed except 2 they both got b. the jump between gcse and A-level is huge. one of my friends did revise after he failed. he revised non-stop but still failed it mainly depends if you can take everything in and practice.