OCR Physics G485 - June 2013 Unit 5 (OFFICIAL THREAD)

Hello people! This shall be an interesting exam. There's a lot to cover but with enough time and quality revision we can get the grades we want

Gonna' make a start on this today and try to cover most of electric and magnetic fields.

Hey mate,

Surprisingly takes longer than I thought to do the questions, (errr well I have taken a large number of breaks today...)

Make sure to do all the Practice Questions and Exam Questions. I still have 5 more questions to do from Mod 1 - the exam questions 2.... Great practice though I guess. So glad people told me to stop reading and start doing questions.

I realized I did no Exam Style Questions from the book for Physics Unit 4 even though there are loads... 0_o

Argh I was supposed to go through all the Capacitors questions today too.... oh well

Yeah it's best to do a wide range of question styles!

With physics it definitely is better to practice than just 'revise'. Although don't worry about getting all of these questions done straight away, it's best to do them over a longer period of time so they stay fresh in your head during the exam period

There are past OCR papers called 'Nuclear and Particle Physics', 'Health Physics' and 'Cosmology' that seem to have a lot of questions relevant to the last 3 topics in the G485 exam (i've only flicked through them briefly though) so have a look for those

Let me know if you need them, i've got quite a few but no idea where on my computer they are so it'll take a bit of hunting around

Ooh okay thank you so much.

AS I was able to get away with such poor Exam Technique, but A2 builds on AS so much that my poor exam technique was exposed this January!!

Lol my problem exactly, i'm fine with all my other subjects (chem, maths, further maths) but physics i just don't get ....i bluffed an A at AS but got a D in this exam in jan....it was awkward though because i totally came out of the exam thinking i'd get a B

I dunno about doing the exam questions in the book though, the unit 4 ones seem relevant but the unit 5 ones have all these answers that i don't think you need to know for the exam ... or maybe i should know them? ...that would explain why i failed

Yeah it's best to do a wide range of question styles!

With physics it definitely is better to practice than just 'revise'. Although don't worry about getting all of these questions done straight away, it's best to do them over a longer period of time so they stay fresh in your head during the exam period

Haha, we are doing the same subjects except you are superior as you are doing further maths.

It seems like we have offers from the same Uni's too :/ :/ Crazy

I'll drop you a note on your wall

I dunno about doing the exam questions in the book though, the unit 4 ones seem relevant but the unit 5 ones have all these answers that i don't think you need to know for the exam ... or maybe i should know them? ...that would explain why i failed

Nah trust me go through them all. My Teacher just set a Unit 5 Mod 1 and Mod 2 Test which I got a D in on Wednesday - it was only based on the current Spec Questions.

If I had done these Exam Style questions from the book I literally would have killed it, the same questions come up over and over -

its not hard when you know that if you have Electric/Magnetic Fields Question you will probably end up having to look at something to do with Circular motion / Resultant Forces / Work Done to move a particle.

Hopefully I will feel this same way about all the Topics by the end of Unit 5

I am making Question Sheets as I go along which I can share with you later on

I think the problem was that i only looked at them about a week before the exam so panicked and just convinced myself i shouldn't know stuff

I'm doing all the questions in the book this time so will hopefully be super prepared by the exam

Question sheets sound good, let me know when you're done, i'm always up for extra practice btw have you checked out the worksheets linked in the first post in this thread? i think they're great for practicing as well

Could someone please help me with question 5. I missed the lesson on this module and I just can't get the same answer as the book.

The answer for question two is 0.66N.

Thank you so much.

Ironically I made the thread but I haven't looked at everything on it, basically copied and pasted it from last year thanks for the heads up

I'm so confused, your school must have different books to
me

Could someone please help me with question 5. I missed the lesson on this module and I just can't get the same answer as the book.

The answer for question two is 0.66N.

Thank you so much.

My school doesn't use any textbooks lol. That question is just from a revision guide I got from Amazon.

Hi guys,

Thanks for making the thread, I think the G484 thread on here was the only reason I managed to get an A (only just, 72UMS!) Will have a look through the resources tomorrow

Question for people doing this exam for the first time, how far through the content are you? We've done most of module 1 (or possibly all of it, I've missed a few lessons), about half of module 2, all of module 3 and that's it. None of 4 or 5. Just wanted to see if we're behind?

Thanks

All of Module 3................... Wow. I have catch up to do. Don't worry Module 2 is like the thinnest one.

We've done 1 and 2...... I need to step my game up. I'll aim to have Module 1---4 and Questions done by end of Sunday or so next week

A in G484... Great work mate! I thought I did okay, that exam actually slapped me across the face.