AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012

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  1. tintin330's Avatar
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    AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    How did everyone find it?
  2. AdamZ1's Avatar
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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    How long was your paper and did you do a higher/foundation paper?
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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    Absoloutley flaming easy
    u thought it was a really fair paper
    should be on course for my A*

    how did u find it?
    btw this is AQA?
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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    (Original post by AdamZ1)
    How long was your paper and did you do a higher/foundation paper?
    Paper was an hour, higher tier
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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
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    Absoloutley flaming easy
    u thought it was a really fair paper
    should be on course for my A*

    how did u find it?
    btw this is AQA?
    ah you must have done pretty well then, i thought it was a little tricky in some places. what did you put for the question about not using electric scales after drinking lots of water?

    and yes, this is AQA
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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    Why are people posting about momentum questions and components in a cirucit, unless they're talking about foundation tier? Also what did you put for the maximum speed the person can travel and what equation did you use?
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    I heard the grade boundaries will be low because that exam was hard because of the lack of equations and the large quantity of written answers.


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    I put for the water one it conducts electricity , I wasn't sure about that one but I think I did better than my friend who put 'it makes you want to pee' :') I'm also confused about the maximum speed question, anybody do it?
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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    Lack of equations? There were atleast 4 questions on the equations but you had to find out which one to use yourself(with the equation sheet provided)
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    There was another 45 minute exam I think, at first I thought I'd missed out a page:')
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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    I found it really hard! Annoyed as I was expecting it to be good. For the water one I wrote that water creates lower resistance so he'd be more likely to get electrocuted.
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    (Original post by AdamZ1)
    Lack of equations? There were atleast 4 questions on the equations but you had to find out which one to use yourself(with the equation sheet provided)
    Compared to previous tests - if you read the specimen paper half the marks are from equations.
    On this there was 10 marks.


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    what did everyone put for calculating the maximum speed of the miner? What equation?
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    (Original post by ladygabriela97)
    what did everyone put for calculating the maximum speed of the miner? What equation?
    I think I put 17.3? That one was hard haha


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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    How did you come to that answer, what equation did you use?
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    The kinetic energy equation, I think it's wrong though, as I ended up rearranging the equation to be like v = square root of (2Ek/m)


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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    I used the kinetic energy equation aswell but I didn't square root it.
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    I think you had to otherwise the answer would have been v squared


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    Re: AQA GCSE Physics P2 Exam - 30th May 2012
    The max speed was 17.something, the test was so easy! A here I come!!! Maybe A*...
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    (Original post by grammar12)
    The max speed was 17.something, the test was so easy! A here I come!!! Maybe A*...
    I had to laugh when I saw your name is grammar and you used more than one '!' in a row. No hate though, just made me laugh


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