AS Physics practicals 2016 spec

Are the required practicals going to appear in both paper 1 and 2 or just paper 2. the spec says they will only come up in the second paper but my teacher said they could potientially come up in both

Any clarification?

The application such as the explanation of the photoelectric effect and exploring youngs modulus, diffraction, double slits will come up in paper 1, but not the experiment side, more calculation and explaining how. The actual experiments (i.e a 6 marker explaining a setup will be in paper 2). Hope that makes sense.

Thanks! Although how do you know that explaining photoelectric effect, young modulus, diffraction and double slits are coming up in the first paper?

I don't, just examples of topics that could come up .

I don't, just examples of topics that could come up .

Ah thank you! How is revision for the papers going?
In all honesty its a struggle

Ah thank you! How is revision for the papers going?
In all honesty its a struggle

what exam board do you do?, I do AQA and the wording is hard!

Hard is an understatement... :/ I think my main fear is not being able to answer questions and the perhaps running out of time how are you finding it?

well, in the sense that the mark scheme answers are too specific. I have done most past papers and content revision, my main focus now is to make sure I do most of the practicals so that I understand the procedure well.

Well .. Could you possibly go into more detail with as to what will appear in Paper 2? I basically have no practical knowledge and i have no idea what will come up.

Ah thank you! How is revision for the papers going?
In all honesty its a struggle

Any idea of what practical will be coming for this time's physics unit 3 paper?

Paper 2 will be spilt into 3 sections:

QuestionsSection A: 20 marks of short and long answer questions on practical skills and data analysis
Section B: 20 marks of short and long answer questions from across all areas of AS contentSection
C: 30 multiple choice questions

The multiple choice and section B will be like paper 1 in that they can come up with anything really, though the multiple choice is typically more maths based.



It's going okay at the moment, got 42 and 47 in the specimen papers which I wasn't too pleased about, but I have room for improvement! It is a struggle especially as we're the first year soo annoying, hopefully they'll compensate that with lower grade boundaries, how's your papers going? If you need help I might be able to just shoot me a PM .



Physics unit 3? Sorry I only do AS physics, not sure what unit 3 is .

My bad for not giving the full description. I meant the edexcel AS physics practical paper (paper 3/unit 3). Not familiar?

Any idea of what practical will be coming for this time's physics unit 3 paper?

do practicals come up on paper 1??
I was going to revise practicals after the first exam because we have a few days till the 2nd exam?
just great

what exam board do you do?, I do AQA and the wording is hard!