[OT] Maths GCE O-Level text books from 70s-80s ?

[John Rumm]

as is AEB IIUC

[Rob Morley]

Was that not just additional syllabus at the ordinary level?

[John Rumm]

Which would make it more difficult (advanced) would it not? ;-)

[Fredxx]

It was regarded as a intermediate qualification between 'O' and 'A' level.

I thought they were more like the current 'AS' level? Except harder of course! :-)

[pamela]

'Elementary Analysis' by Dakin & Porter for O-Level maths?

[Tim Watts]

I did the AO Maths - it was mostly additional material (IIRC stuff like more probability, matrices, calculus) - some would have given a softer start to A Level.

Next time I'm up at ULCC, I'll nip into Senate House (Uni London) Library and see if I can access the past papers from O and AO level - a chap at Edexcel/Pearson tells me Senate have all the pre 1990 past papers.

[Robin]

Possibly different terms used by different boards. With Oxford Local it was "Additional Mathematics"; but I like to think it was harder than "Mathematics" ;)

[Tim Streater]

We did O-level Maths at 15 and then prepared for the Additional Maths O-level (Oxford Board) at 16. That included calculus and probably other stuff that it's too long ago for me to remember what it was.

[Bob Eager]

Same here. We did most of our O-levels at 15, then bummed around for a year (only did two the following year as I recall, one being Additional Maths).

That subsequent year we did a lot of interesting, off-curriculum stuff (e.g. in chemistry, made a fuel cell).

[dennis]

Maybe but it may just be the same level but covering additional stuff. I expect that some pupils found it to be advanced and some didn't.