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You can somewhat offset premature specialisation by doing a mad combination of A levels - e.g. I did Pure Maths, Applied Maths and (ancient) Greek (initially La
by tragomaskhalos 11y ago
You can somewhat offset premature specialisation by doing a mad combination of A levels - e.g. I did Pure Maths, Applied Maths and (ancient) Greek (initially Latin as well but gave it up as four was too much like hard work) :)
- davnicwil 11y agoThat's an impressive mix! There's a joke in there somewhere about maths and ancient greek complementing each other quite well ;-) Question for you - roughly when did you take those A levels? When I did my Maths A-level it was just one subject with 4 pure modules, and 2 applied modules (I did Decision Maths and Mechanics - again, another pointer to specialisation towards Physics/Computer Science). I'm not sure if there was such a thing as separate pure and applied maths A-levels (IIRC the body was AQA) - could be wrong of course, but would be interested to know if this was a thing before, or after, I did mine, as I think it's actually a pretty good idea.
- tragomaskhalos 11y agoThis was way back in I think 1983, since when successive governments have jiggered about with the system god knows how many times of course!