I've just finished the first year, and i have to say, it is absolutely the worst board for physics. The content is quite irrelavent to traditional core physics, it focuses mainly on new tech e.g cameras and communicatations. The exam is very badly written, i was one of the few that managed to finish it. Exam is all maths, the math content is basic, no advance skills needed, just the application of the maths and way in which it is used is tricky. There are 3 courseworks, quite interesting, you must ensure you get the high marks for them as they are worth 30% of the AS grade. I used to absolutely love physics, and OCR caused me to completely hate it! It's so bad, i'm moving to edexcel for A2. My advice would be, check the course specification and familiarise yourself with the content, get a head start on the coursework with some background reading and looking at examplers, there are loads available online...finally, what you learn throughout the year, the theory accounts for about 20-30% of the exam, it's all practice, so make sure you do as many as possible to get the hang of their awful way of questioning. All the best dude!