Pick your exam board. 122 papers with their mark schemes, straight from AQA, Edexcel, OCR A and OCR B.
Papers 1 and 2, then paper 3 split into section A and all five section B options. Seven complete series.
Three papers a series from June 2022, which is as far back as Pearson publishes.
Modelling physics, exploring physics, unified physics.
Advancing Physics. Fundamentals, scientific literacy, practical skills.
Not sure which board? It is on the front of any past paper your school has given you, or ask your teacher. See all 122 papers together.
A definition question wants the precise phrasing: rate of change of, per unit, at right angles to. Paraphrasing a definition you understand perfectly well will still miss the mark. These are worth learning verbatim because they repeat, year after year, in the same words.
Three marks are typically on offer and a bare correct answer takes one of them. Write the equation, put the numbers in, then give the answer with its unit. It is also the only way to keep marks when the arithmetic goes wrong.
Percentage uncertainty, combining uncertainties, and quoting an answer to the right number of figures for the data you were given. Students treat these as the fiddly bit at the end of a practical question; the examiner treats them as several marks every paper.
An explanation is cause, mechanism, consequence, linked. A graph question almost always wants you to notice what the gradient represents or what the area under it represents, and to say so before calculating anything.
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