{"id":6167,"date":"2013-05-24T19:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T11:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2013-05-24T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T11:38:23","slug":"links-useful-to-me-when-studying-as-a-private-a-level-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2013\/05\/24\/links-useful-to-me-when-studying-as-a-private-a-level-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Links useful to me when studying as a Private A Level Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This post is incomplete but I just gotta put it out there)<\/em><\/p>\n

Once you’ve picked your subjects, I think the most important thing you should do is to familiarize yourself with the syllabus.<\/strong> You want to know the syllabus inside out. You want to know exactly what you’re tested on, what the examiners are looking for, how to please them.<\/p>\n

So head over to the SEAB website and save all the syllabuses of the subjects you’re doing. Print them out and look through them carefully.<\/p>\n

Getting passionate about stuff:<\/p>\n

Neil Tyson, on Issac Newton<\/a>\u00a0(2 mins)<\/p>\n

Richard Feynman, on the inconceivable nature of nature<\/a>\u00a0(5 mins)<\/p>\n

To Understand is to Perceive Patterns<\/a>, by Jason Silva (1:45)<\/p>\n

H2 Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Level Syllabus<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(from the SEAB website)<\/p>\n

Calculus in 20 minutes<\/a><\/em>, by Edward Burger. This guy is amazing. He’s incredibly passionate about his subject matter, he knows his stuff inside out, and he’s an incredible educator, too. Here’s him describing how<\/em> to do mathematics<\/a>\u00a0(2 mins). I’ve been checking him out outside of Mathematics, and he’s a phenomenal voice that needs to be shared. I recommend this video even to people who don’t do Calculus.<\/p>\n

Richard Delaware<\/a><\/em>\u00a0from UKMC has an amazing video series on pre-Calculus<\/strong> and Calculus.<\/strong> He helped me understand functions better than I ever did in school.<\/p>\n

IntegralCalc<\/a><\/em>\u00a0– the tutor is really pretty!<\/p>\n

Statistics<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and Calculus<\/a><\/em> on Wikipedia. I find it easier, more interesting and compelling to learn something when you know about the history of it, as well as its importance and relevance to humanity.<\/p>\n

Introductory Statistics<\/a><\/em>\u00a0– on YouTube. 8 Videos. Watch everything once to get a rough idea of the whole subject.<\/p>\n

Mastering Mathematics Smartly<\/a><\/em>, by Wee Wen Shih. This is the guy that writes the Ten Year Series books for Dyna Publisher.<\/p>\n

H2 Economics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/a><\/p>\n

H2 Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first thing I did was to read the Wikipedia pages of my respective texts- Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, The Importance of Being Earnest. I did this to get familiar with the plot. I then torrented the respective movies- Kenneth Branagh’s version of Hamlet. (I got a modern version of Wuthering Heights that was weird and hipster-ish.)<\/p>\n

H2 English Language & Linguistics<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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