The Physics PHYA2 thread! 5th June 2013

1) waves, 2) spring constant(Hooke's law), 3) young's modulus, 4) Work done and energy, 5) velocity and graph. I thing young modulus and diffraction grating is more likely to come.

Oh thanks! Do you know where i can find how to answer those type of questions? As in what to include.

I guess I'm not 'most people' then

The main issue for me is I have biology tomorrow and chemistry on tuesday so revision time for physics is hard to find!

Well... You do not really need a structure to answer. My teacher told me to give 1 bullet point for 1 mark. Look at the mark scheme, the have answers as bullet points.

Thanks! So, how is physics going at the moment? How confident are you feeling? What is the minimum grade you are aiming for? For me it is an A.

I thought you weren't allowed to bullet point?

Oh wait. You're not allowed to bullet point when it says it's looking for QWC, right?

Oh wait. You're not allowed to bullet point when it says it's looking for QWC, right?

QWC? What is that?

They want to access your written communication, so no you can't do bullet points.

But if you did, I think you'd only lose 1 mark

No it always says on the mark scheme it has to be well structured continuous prose blah blah blah

You can do written communications with even a bullet point. My teacher told me to do a bit of intro at the start to tell the examiner what you are going to write about. Then, do bullet points. Just like in the mark scheme.

Is that all the time for a 6 mark? I thought usually it says after the question that the examiners are judging your QWC for a specific question

It's going alright I think

I'm aiming for a B, coz that's the highest I'm realistically going to get now, not impossible for me to get an A, but not exactly realistic.


I got an A in unit 1, a high B in 3X, a C in 4, and I think 6X has gone alright I've resat 3X as my teacher told me to, no extra revision really with doing 6X too, but idk how well that went, felt it went better than the first time though

To get a B with no resits I need 111 UMS, and hopefully I've got at least 30 from 6X, otherwise I'd be well gutted with that one, like I say idk about 3X so I'm just gonna assume I did worse aha and that mark stays the same, and I can pick up 29 from unit 2, hoping to get at least 25. Leaving me with needing 56/120 on unit 5 for a B, which ill be gutted if I didn't get (or needing 116/120 for an A aha, which won't happen )

I like the unit 2 paper, I think it's just the first time I did it it was one of my first a level exams and I just didnt put the effort into revision.


Sorry for my rambling :') how's everything going for you?


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It's the big question that's often experimental, it always says something to do with writing it logically and in order or something. I think all other questions are normal and you can use bullet points if you want

Oh, didn't know that. I thought you always had to use proper sentences for every question lol. Thanks though! You've just saved me a lot of time in that exam

Oh, didn't know that. I thought you always had to use proper sentences for every question lol. Thanks though! You've just saved me a lot of time in that exam

You can use bullet points because it is a physics exam. Not English HAHA. Anyways, Good luck to you!

I've always known you can but never actually done it...don't know why I might from now on, especially in biology tomorrow