AQA Physics GCSE P2 & P3 [OFFICIAL THREAD]

Literally same, I came out of the exam feeling relatively happy and sort of hyper and now I'm full of regret and stress in desperate hope I can get an A*, especially because I want to go on to do physics at higher


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hey guys what about the last question about the trajectory on the range and height?

i put 30 degrees and 45 degrees because they were the same shape and had twice the range or something like that. that was one weird question.

hey guys what about the last question about the trajectory on the range and height?

i put 30 degrees and 45 degrees because they were the same shape and had twice the range or something like that. that was one weird question.

Does AQA deduct marks from you for doing anything wrong in the exam?

Ahh thank god I was thinking I was the only one! Yeah, I think physics is my best science (im in year 10 so I haven't done most of chemistry and biology yet) so would really like an a* in it and was considering doing it at a level. I feel the same as you!

Sarcasm?

Yeah ahaha

Wow we are literally the same! Today we're my first actual GCSE exams because I'm in year 10 and I find biology the easiest but have gotten A*'s all year in physics so I'm hoping the mistakes I made will only be minor and my mind will have just exaggerated them 😅

Yeah somewhere but I have no idea how I got from 0.3 to 0.6 or how anyone got from 3.6 to 7.2, I've completely forgotten sorry :/

Just in case you're worrying...




@Jjohnson919 @docilechic

Yeah, at my school we all have to take short course rs so I have already done half of that, but this is my first one that I actually care about (other than English as we have done 25% of the grade) I prefer biology but I don't actually think im that good at it aha. Which questions do you think you got wrong? or what answers did you get?

Will I still get a mark for 3600 though? It wasn't really a calculation question?

kinetic energy= 1/2 x mass x velocity squared
So its 1/2 x 0.05 x 12^2= 3.6 J

Ek= Ep

Ep= mass x gravitational field strength x height
3.6= 0.05 x 10 x height
u needed to find the height so

Height= 3.6/(0.05x10)
= 7.2m

Hope that makes sense

Based on the ecf rule, you'll get the first bit wrong but not the 2nd time.

On the P2 paper I think I got the top speed thing wrong (I got 17m/s) and I got the kinetic energy one wrong, I've probably made a few mistakes with the whole how science works stuff ad also the last comparison question. On P3 there's nothing in particular that I think I've definitely got wrong but just a few uncertainties like with the power range thing I got 0.125 which I don't think is right and also the pendulum experiment improvement question was a bit sloppy as well as the bus question. I find P1 super easy so I'm hoping for a high A* in that, also got 48 on the thermistor ISA paper so I hope that those will bring up any mistakes. What do you think you got right/wrong?


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All of the answers you have put there are exactly what I put! I don't think I got full marks in p3 6 mark (even though I used all the space) I spent ages on that pendulum question for what conclusions could be made from the data an eventually ended up with answers that I think are right. I was unsure on loads of questions but tbh my memory is so bad that I cant remember half of them!