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Hello /sci/

I will be taking the A level exams in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Math this year and I would like some opinions of the best textbooks to get in these respective subjects. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

>> No.5718219

If you are on OCR just use the normal OCR ones. The revision guides are also alright.

In any case they are all piss easy. They are basically a memory exercise (possible exception of Maths).

Also, since you are doing A levels, it is called "Maths".

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5718234

> A levels
nobody cares

>> No.5718247

>>5718234
>us universities
nobody cares

>> No.5718257

read sticky

>> No.5718300

>>5718247
Rest of the world cares. There's a reason all scientific papers are published in English, and the reason isn't the UK.

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>>5718247
Whatever helps you sleep at night snaggle-tooth.

>> No.5718317

Can anyone recommend the best textbooks in the these subjects for entry level college study? I already have some a level books but want to supplement them with college level textbooks.

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>>5718303
>Whatever helps you sleep at night snaggle-tooth.

my job prospects

>> No.5718356

>>5718300
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society

Seems to me we were publishing before America even existed

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>>5718341
>>5718356
I could find more pictures for you, if you'd like.

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>>5718341
>>5718356

>> No.5718388

>>5718377
>what is per capita

back to community college

>> No.5718407

>>5718388
It's okay babby, keep clinging to your delusions of relevance as your entire continent crumbles into poverty around you.

>> No.5719420

>>5718367
>>5718377
'merica in misleading data representation shocker

>> No.5719444

>>5718367
How about scaling that to the population, eh? Not exactly surprising that a bigger country has "more" universities in the top X...

>> No.5719445

>>5718210
>A Levels
>Math

>> No.5719448

>>5718300
Because Murrica initiated a shift from Latin

>> No.5719451

>>5718377
>London>Cambridge
Totally believe how meaningful that graph is. Clearly wasn't made by a self respecting academic.

>> No.5719452

>>5718210
>Best textbooks
Past papers.

>> No.5719462

>>5718219
>Possible exception of Maths.
When did you do A levels? They actually started putting some half decent problems in Chemistry in 2010.
Physics is piss easy though.

>> No.5719497

Richard Parson's books were really handy for revision.

I managed an AAB for Additional Math, Physics and Chemistry respectively despite slacking off most of the time.

>> No.5719515

>>5719451
Perhaps volume of publications is also considered.

>> No.5719525

Past papers and standard textbooks. A*A*A*A*

>> No.5719542

>>5719462
2010. Did Phys, Chem, Bio, Maths and Further Maths.

Ironically Physics was the only (science) exam I dropped marks in.

>> No.5719546

>>5719542
I dropped marks in Maths and Further maths because high grade boundaries.
A level Physics has ridiculous bookwork. Often the questions are badly written, and they only accept very specific points/phrasing for full marks. I do physics at university and the bookwork questions are far clearer.

>> No.5719588

>>5719546
>I dropped marks in Maths and Further maths because high grade boundaries.

Non-UK here: how does the position of the grade boundaries effect whether you get questions right/wrong?

>> No.5719597

>>5719588
Raw marks get converted to UMS marks, which is what you receive on your results sheet. On some papers you can get 100% UMS with about 90% raw marks

>> No.5720270

>>5718341
>university of cambridge
lel

The university education system is so fucked up that graduate schemes don't give a shit about what university you went to as long as you get a 2:1. A guy from london met with 2:1 will have better job prospects than the guy from oxford with 2:2

>> No.5720324

>>5718234
my word, how I did ROFL at this.

>> No.5720346

>>5719444
You're right man. The best universities in the world are obviously in India and China.

>> No.5720408

>>5720270
Any source on that?

>> No.5720474

>>5720408
No but it's just pretty much how graduate schemes works, they don't know which universities are good, all they care about is that you get 2:1. They don't take infact how prestigious a university is or the face they all have different syllabus.

Maybe I'm over-reacting a bit but possibly outside of the top 5 universities, graduate schemes don't know how good a university is, so you could go to an ex-poly university and if you got a better grade than the guy who went to durham. You'll be more likely to get on a graduate scheme.

>> No.5720591

>>5718210
I recommend the textbooks for your exam boards, otherwise CGP.
Since I can only speak from experience on this, if you plan on doing Physics at uni, it may also be worthwhile buying the Yound and Freedman 'University Physics' book, since it'll start from a really simple level (showing you some simple maths involved in university physics) and teach you everything you need to know in A level Physics, and will be useful to you throughout your degree (mostly first and second year).

>> No.5720602

>>5720591
*Young and Freedman 'University Physics', sorry.