Exam thread for OCR A Physics- Exploring Physics 8/6/18

Hiya guys, what's peoples predictions for tomorrow? Thinking could use this as a thread before and after the exam. How did everyone find Modelling Physics too?

Reply 1

Kppppp

11

ohhh jeez im nervous
im not as confident in the exploring paper, and i have no idea what they will bring up

hopefully the six markers are kind - i quite liked the 6 markers in the exploring paper from 2017!! honestly, ill be incredibly happy if one six marker asks us to evaluate some data, its easy marks if you waffle long enough

i wonder if they'll have some good marks for medical physics

Reply 2

Kppppp

11

Original post by 23Student23

Hiya guys, what's peoples predictions for tomorrow? Thinking could use this as a thread before and after the exam. How did everyone find Modelling Physics too?

also, modelling physics wasnt too bad, but i messed up one of the six markers sadly

Reply 3

23Student23

OP

4

Original post by Kppppp

also, modelling physics wasnt too bad, but i messed up one of the six markers sadly

The escape velocity of helium question?

yup lol

Modelling physics went badly for me, especially the 6 markers. So expecting a slightly easier paper this time. Could've been first exam nerves though.

Not sure how they could make medical physics hard so I'm sure that's free marks. Also the 6 markers should be alright as in modelling it's mostly just using a proportionality relationship.

Not looking forward to magnetic fields as they could ask a strange question there. Also waves... a 6 marker on resonance tube wouldn't be nice.

Expecting a multiple EMF circuit to come up.

Reply 6

Abdulahi Yusuf

4

There's no hope for me I'm gonna fail, unless a miracle happens

Reply 7

Ihatescales

10

I thought it was very easy

Reply 8

Jadejay

8

I thought it was better than modelling paper

Reply 9

Bulletzone

22

That was A lot better than the modelling paper. I've started an unofficial mark scheme check it out!

Reply 10

Bulletzone

22

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5420034

Reply 11

zeldor711

18

90/100 grade boundaries for an A* likely after that piss-easy paper.

Reply 12

bobtheblob123

6

Waheyyyy I found it hard time to get the rope

Reply 13

Doc Dave

7

Found it quite good but hope for low grade boundaries coz YOLO

Reply 14

Invective

13

6 markers weren't awful, capacitance one was a blessing. Other one wasn't so bad. I **** the bed in the Magnetic fields Qs & explained PET scans for the CAT scans Q despite telling myself I'm 100% explaining the wrong thing. Waffled through out most of the explaining Qs.

Hello there C grade, if grade boundaries are lowered which they won't be, overall!

Reply 15

Bulbasaur10

12

Original post by Invective

6 markers weren't awful, capacitance one was a blessing. Other one wasn't so bad. I **** the bed in the Magnetic fields Qs & explained PET scans for the CAT scans Q despite telling myself I'm 100% explaining the wrong thing. Waffled through out most of the explaining Qs.

Hello there C grade, if grade boundaries are lowered which they won't be, overall!

I wouldn't worry too much. Personally I think it went quite well but I don't see how it was apparently so much easier than paper 1. It really wasn't. There were a lot of traps so I feel like the grade boundaries will not be too bad :smile:

Good luck with all of the rest of your exams anyway!

Reply 16

Bulbasaur10

12

Original post by bobtheblob123

Waheyyyy I found it hard time to get the rope

I thought it went alright but I don't understand how people think it was so much easier than paper 1. I feel like they were quite similar in difficulty. People have different opinions I guess but I don't like it when people go around saying papers were easy even if I didn't struggle myself. Don't worry :smile:

Reply 17

United2810

13

Was a bit easier than Paper 1, but still had some difficult maths questions in it so it wasn't much easier. I explained gamma camera for CAT scan and forgot that joule wasn't an SI base unit lol. Also did the internal resistance one wrong bc I got 20 but hopefully picked up method marks. Think it was a similar paper to last year so grade boundaries won't change much. Overall I think it'll be around 65 for an A in paper 1, and around 70 for paper 2. Hopefully they don't completely **** us over with paper 3 next Thursday.

Reply 18

Invective

13

Original post by Bulbasaur10

I wouldn't worry too much. Personally I think it went quite well but I don't see how it was apparently so much easier than paper 1. It really wasn't. There were a lot of traps so I feel like the grade boundaries will not be too bad :smile:

Good luck with all of the rest of your exams anyway!

Thank you for the reassuring words, I don't actually think I got a C, but it's nice to see someone actually looking out for others who may be down!

(edited 5 years ago)

Reply 19

bobtheblob123

6

Original post by Bulbasaur10

I thought it went alright but I don't understand how people think it was so much easier than paper 1. I feel like they were quite similar in difficulty. People have different opinions I guess but I don't like it when people go around saying papers were easy even if I didn't struggle myself. Don't worry :smile:

Thanks, but I sort of have no hope of passing now 😂😂😂 I messed up big on both papers lol x

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