Any advice for aqa physics a2 ISA/practical?

Hi! Not sure if you've taken the exam yet, but assuming you're doing the EMPA, the main points which come up every year are:
-Write units for anything you write down as you'll lose all your marks for taking readings otherwise
- Graphs can be worth a lot of marks- double check your plotted points, label axes with variable and unit, use a scale so that your points cover at least half the graph paper (as big a scale as possible really!), draw a line of best fit with equal number of points above/below it, if taking a gradient use as much of the line of best fit as possible (at least 8 big squares)
-make sure you have the right number of significant figures, especially in a table- each column needs the same number of decimal places
-If you're writing units, use a slash, not brackets
- Put your independent variable on the left hand column in a table

I think that's the main general points for the practical papers, good luck and hope this helps!

Thanks for the tips! Do you know if we get a formula sheet for those?

We didn't get formula sheets for the practical part of the exam, but you don't really need them as it's more questions about the actual experiment. I presume if there are any calculations which you need the formula for in the written section, you'd be given a formula sheet- I can let you know if I get one or not on friday when we do the written section :P