Is it too late to start Applied Maths now?

Mcd2812

Would it be too late to start Applied Maths at this point in 5th year? And would it be difficult to teach it to yourself even if you were good at maths?

Nappy

If your only in 5th year you could still go for it. But you'd probably need to go to a grinds school. A friend of mine was good at maths and he did applied maths for his leaving cert year only in a grind school and did very well.

Best of Luck!

aimzLc2

No ,i don't think it is too late! i haven't done applied maths before but from friends/people in my year doing it would be very difficult to do it yourself , i would ask the teacher who takes it or if there isn't one just the maths teacher, they might have stories of previous pupils who took it themselves.

Eathrin

Absolutely not.
It would take a good deal of work but it is essentially a one year course.
Work on it a good deal during the summer to save yourself the stress in 6th year.

EoghanIRL

I do ap maths. You would need a teacher to help . The concepts don't all come naturally and their are tricky sections even if you are good at maths . I'm in fifth year and my class is ready to sit the paper . We have 6 questions ready. It is possible but you would want to start sooner rather than later . Hope this is to some help.

Mcd2812

Thanks everyone for your replies if I was to try learning it myself, would an Applied Maths textbook be all I need?

Eathrin

Mcd2812 wrote: »

Thanks everyone for your replies if I was to try learning it myself, would an Applied Maths textbook be all I need?

Yes, you need a textbook or a teacher to get the grips with the concepts.
I think the most valuable thing to you, however, will be a set of exam papers.
There's no way better of perfecting a question than going through the exam papers and doing each question year by year. You'll find the questions can be broken into several categories but are still somewhat predictable.
Despite the predictability they will always throw in a screwball question to knock you, so make sure to have 7 or 8 questions prepared.
Good luck!

Monsieur Folie

You have loads of time to get really good at this so you're lucky! If you're interested in it and good at maths you should be fine. And if I were you I'd tackle it over Summer when you've got so much free time!

I am getting by okay teaching myself with just exam papers, Fundamental Applied Maths, and with notes from http://thephysicsteacher.ie/

If you can afford it, a grind or two wouldn't go astray if you're having trouble with any area in particular..

sganyfx

You could learn enough to get a C or higher in Applied Maths in a few hours if you had a good enough teacher or such. Very doable for you

ahmdoda

applied maths is a very easy A1 if you have a good teacher as its just methods you learn for tackling differenet questions my freind was a complete waster during 5th got 16% in his summer test but did grinds end up with an A2 in the lc

Prodigious

Definitely not too late. Don't know about the easy A1, but if you work hard you're grand.

Mcd2812

Thanks very much for all your replies!

0mega

I had to give up Applied Maths before Christmas because of the workload. Depends on the amount of HL subjects you're doing and if you're going to try put in equal effort to all of them. I did have the HPAT on top of that though, so maybe you'd manage better.

Eathrin

0mega wrote: »

I had to give up Applied Maths before Christmas because of the workload. Depends on the amount of HL subjects you're doing and if you're going to try put in equal effort to all of them. I did have the HPAT on top of that though, so maybe you'd manage better.

You're right, it is a huge amount to be doing on your own so I think getting a core amount done during summer is essential.

Mcd2812

0mega wrote: »

I had to give up Applied Maths before Christmas because of the workload. Depends on the amount of HL subjects you're doing and if you're going to try put in equal effort to all of them. I did have the HPAT on top of that though, so maybe you'd manage better.

Yeah I know what you mean, I'm doing 7 higher level subjects already so I'm still a bit unsure whether or not I'll take up Applied Maths because of the amount of extra time I would need to dedicate to it.

Tweej

0mega wrote: »

I had to give up Applied Maths before Christmas because of the workload. Depends on the amount of HL subjects you're doing and if you're going to try put in equal effort to all of them. I did have the HPAT on top of that though, so maybe you'd manage better.

If you're good at applied maths, why give it up? Applied maths has the most A1s out of any subject (bar language subjects) because if you know the stuff, you'll get the A1.

0mega

Tweej wrote: »

If you're good at applied maths, why give it up? Applied maths has the most A1s out of any subject (bar language subjects) because if you know the stuff, you'll get the A1.

I didn't enjoy it really. It was the subject I never wanted to study or do homework for.