Further Maths

Student entry into our Sixth Form requires 5 grade 4 GCSE's or above including English and Maths.

If you studied the applied subject at GCSE we are asking for a grade 5 in that subjects (Grade 6 in Maths)

Further Maths is offered for the more able student. If you are intending to do a Maths or Maths rich university degree, this qualification should be seriously considered. It significantly broadens your mathematical experience, preparing you more thoroughly for such degrees as it is a highly respected qualification. There are two compulsory pure maths modules and two optional modules.

Students will have the opportunity to enter the UKMT senior challenge, a national individual challenge which will help students develop their problem solving skills. The school may also enter a team into the local senior team challenge.

Pure Maths: Complex numbers, Series, Polynomials, Volume, Matrices, Proof, Vectors.

Mechanics: Moment and impulse, Work, energy and power, Elastic strings and collisions.

Statistics: Poisson, Geometric and Negative distributions, Hypothesis testing, Chi-squared, Probability generating functions.

Possibility of being entered for Y12 AS exam.

Main assessment is 4 exams at the end of Y13

Student entry into our Sixth Form requires 5 grade 4 GCSE's or above including English and Maths.

This subject requires GCSE Maths grade 7