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Further Mathematics
Course Breakdown
Course Summary
• Exam board is Edexcel
Paper Content Marks Duration Weighting
Paper 1 Pure Mathematics 75 1 hour
30 minutes 25%
Paper 2 Pure Mathematics 75 1 hour
30 minutes 25%
Paper 3 Statistics 75 1 hour
30 minutes 25%
Paper 4 Mechanics 75 1 hour
30 minutes 25%
Summary of Content
Pure Mathematics (Half of the Content)
Proof; Complex Numbers; Matrices; Algebra and
Functions; Further Calculus; Vectors; Polar Coordinates;
Hyperbolic Functions; Differential Equations.
Statistics (Quarter of the Content)
Discrete Probability Distributions; Poisson and Binomial
Distributions; Geometric and Negative Binomial
Distribution; Hypothesis Testing; Central Limit Theorem;
Chi Squared Test; Probability Generating Function;
Quality of Tests.
Students should review these topics and practise
questions on them using GCSE revision guides/the
internet.
Students will need to purchase a CASIO fx-991 EX
(ClassWiz) scientific calculator. Other calculators are
unfortunately not suitable. This is a new calculator
designed for the new specification and includes
statistical functions that are not present on other
scientific calculators.
Mechanics (Quarter of the Content)
Momentum and Impulse; Work, Energy and Power;
Elastic Strings, Springs and Elastic Energy; Elastic
Collisions in one Dimension; Elastic Collisions in two
Dimensions;
Suggested Preparation for September
Students need to be confident in applying Higher Level
GCSE techniques, in particular:
• Manipulating surds and indices.
• Solving linear equations.
• Solving quadratic equations: by factorising, using the
formula and completing the square.
• Solving simultaneous equations by elimination and
substitution.
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