Quote Originally Posted by anthonykay View Post
I actually have some relevant experience on this.

My brother went to St. Andrews to do Chemistry, and went straight into their second year (I think he had to do some of their First Year exams before they admitted him to the second year). He got on fine.

I was thinking of doing the same when I went to St. Andrews to do Maths and Physics, until I looked at their first-year syllabus, which especially in Maths included many areas of Maths that the A-Level syllabus didn't even touch on. So I went into the first year, and I suppose I did find it fairly easy; or what I really remember is that I found the second year a great deal harder!
Glad to hear it. If you had suggested that maths wasn't hard I would have to revise a lifetime's opinion on my hierarchy of awe for degree subjects.