OCR M2 19th May 2014

Im worried they will make it hard as they did with FP1. Like the difficulty of it compared to the past papers was crazy, hope the M2 paper is a nice one, need an A* in it

I'd like an easy-ish one as I don't do Physics. Put the numbers in front of me and I can do it- but I sometimes struggle with actually visualising what is going on (like with the forces etc)- and this is a quite major part of mechanics :/

I've been averaging a good 80-90% on the past papers which I would definitely take considering I don't really understand much of M2 :P

You tried drawing diagrams for each question? I find that this really helped me with the forces and stuff....

I always draw diagrams and it really does help

But yeah, even so, I sometimes struggle because I don't really understand what is going on in many cases. Normally I can get by though!

I'm particularly worried about the work, energy and force questions, these can be relatively simple in comparison to the rest of the paper but they can be really hard if they put loads of different forces and resistances etc. Sometimes it's hard to get the right equations...

I think as long as you draw a clear diagram and focus hard on which forces assist/resist motion then these ones are ok.

Just remember the work-energy principle! Everything to do with work can be solved with this!

It can but they always confuse me. In the textbook in says work= change in kinetic energy but lots of the time in the exam it is total change in energy. Can you help me out on this. Other than this I am ready for the exam.

if the object is moving in a straight line on a horizontal plane with no resistance then the work done is equal to the change in KE yeah.

But if it moves up or down at all and if there's any resistance then you have to take those into account as well.

I think that's how it works anyway :P

Thanks very much. Is it the same for the extended work energy principle?

I'm particularly worried about the work, energy and force questions, these can be relatively simple in comparison to the rest of the paper but they can be really hard if they put loads of different forces and resistances etc. Sometimes it's hard to get the right equations...

go to examsolutions.net and watch the video tutorials for those.

I'm doing this exam too... Straight after C1 I believe (Why did OCR put them at the same time fgs). There's 7 of us in our (Further) Maths class doing this. Our Mock was as follows: U, U, U, E, E, D, C (I got an E and the C was someone who should be Y13, but stayed down a year, he had already done the June 2013 paper for real). Not looking forward to it. But then again, I have definitely improved since then. Getting constant B's only a couple of marks of an A everytime.



I use that site all the time too, but I can't get on it at the moment. Is it down for everyone or just me?

EDIT: Also, is there a C1 thread? I can only find MEI ones.

EDIT 2: Meh, I made one