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Students react after A-level Physics Paper 3 on 17 June 2025

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Fission impossible

A-level Physics reached its conclusion today…and you had better believe there were some fireworks.

In particular, anyone who sat today’s OCR paper has earned themselves a bit of a lie down. One hour after that exam ended, The Student Room’s poll shows a mammoth 75% of people giving it a negative confidence rating. Those grade boundaries are going to be v-e-r-y interesting…

Scroll down for our pick of the post-exam reactions, and check the links for The Student Room’s exam chat and latest unofficial markschemes.

Exam discussion on The Student Room

Someone was having a bad day when they wrote that OCR paper…

@adiismadsus Bro tried sneaking Kepler in #physics #alevels #ocr #gcse #studytok #mathstok #maths #furthermaths #mathsalevel #physicsalevel #fyp ♬ Lifestyle - Rich Gang
@nikola.pt2 #ocr #alevelphysics #paper3 ♬ Work - songs10s
@fd.zzz atleast I ain’t gotta touch physics EVER again 😣 #fyp #alevels #exam #alevels2025 #uktiktok #gradeboundaries #ocra #alevelphysics #physics #foryoupage #alevelphysicspaper3 ♬ oh my god bruh oh hell na man - ok9172917

And safe to say it was not popular...

@aryaaskmaths #alevelphysics #alevel #alevels #alevelfurthermaths #year13 #sixthform #fyp #taha ♬ oh my god bruh oh hell na man - ok9172917
@linaoclock OCR count your days #alevel #physics #ocr ♬ original sound - alina
@dami.quadri A level physics paper 3 Ocr, bro that paper was created by some wicked man #alevels #alevelphysics #revision #exams ♬ original sound - Aura

The other exam boards were being a little more calm

@a_level_cumback We may have lost, but l never have to do it again (doing engineering in uni😭)#alevels #viral #edexcel #year13 #studytok #revision #relatable #viral_video #alevel #football #gcse #physicsalevel #fyp #exams #aqa #physics ♬ som original - prodyunmaho
@nazovlogz Physics Paper 3 AQA#alevels #alevel #physics #studytok ♬ original sound - Nazo

But back to the bigger picture...physics is done!

@omarithegoat3 #school #alevels #gcse #maths #physics #2025 #leavers #exam ♬ Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
@changeinhearrt IM FRRE #alevels #alevels2025 #aqaalevelphysics #alevelphysics ♬ original sound - ౨ৎ

What people are saying about A-level Physics Paper 3 on The Student Room

you know its bad when the smartest people in your group say that was horrible

OCR A-level Physics Paper 3

JjWong

Why the **** was there a mating question, does ocr think charles darwin was sitting that paper

OCR A-level Physics Paper 3

OttoSkarratt2025

For the last Astro question on Star intensity sounds like a lot of people got different answers. I used proportionality to find the changes in distance and radius needed to change intensity by 1.15x, and found that group X was not correct but group Y was.

AQA A-level Physics Paper 3

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Article by Nik Taylor on Tuesday 17 June 2025