Award: AS, A-Level
Awarding Body: OCR
Specification Code:
A-Level: H240
Specification Website: OCR A-Level Mathematics
Institution: Bayside, Westisde
Students wishing to follow the Mathematics course will need to have passed GCSE Maths with a level 6 or higher. The course is very demanding and students who are not really confident with Maths often find it hard to cope. Mathematics at A level is worth studying not only as a supporting subject for the physical and social sciences, but in its own right. It is challenging but interesting. The course builds on the work the student will have met at GCSE (9-1) Mathematics, but also involves new ideas that some of the greatest minds of the millennium have produced. It provides a broad and widely applicable base of mathematical knowledge, including rigorous treatment of calculus and proof alongside statistics and mechanics, preparing learners for a wide range of destinations in Higher Education and employment.
Students following this course will be expected to:
use and extend their mathematical skills and techniques to solve quite complicated and challenging problems by using mathematical arguments and logic;
use large data sets. Large data set is a pre-released set or sets of data that will be used throughout the course. The purpose is that learners experience and become familiar working with real data in the classroom and explore this data using appropriate technology.
understand calculator limitations when it is inappropriate to use such technology,
use their mathematical knowledge to make logical and reasoned decisions in solving problems both within pure mathematics and in a variety of context and communicate the mathematical rationale for these decisions clearly.
construct mathematical proofs;
simplify real-life situations so that they can use mathematics to show what is happening and what might happen in different circumstances;
take increasing responsibility for their own learning and the evaluation of their own mathematical development.
50% of AS Grade
75 marks
1 hour 30 min
50% of AS Grade
75 marks
1 hour 30 min
Advanced level mathematics is a much sought-after qualification for entry to a variety of full-time courses in higher education. There are also many areas of employment that see a mathematics qualification as important and it is often a requirement for the vocational qualifications related to these areas. OCR A Level in Mathematics A is a coherent course of study that supports the development of mathematically informed individuals. It encourages learners to think and act mathematically, using mathematical skills and forms of communication to analyse situations within mathematics and elsewhere.
Advance level GCE mathematics is useful in a number of Higher Education courses including:
Economics,
Medicine,
Architecture & Engineering,
Accountancy,
Teaching,
Psychology,
Environmental Studies,
Computing,
Sciences