Isaac Senior Physics Challenge 2024

two will probably be fine, they'll probably pick like the top 3 from a school with highest numbers of questions done, I would probably just gatekeep from others in the same school (less competition). Issac physics probs just said it so its like equal opportunities for everyone or like to prevent ppl copying answers from others they know

Does attempts per question factor in? Just checked mine and it's looking like ~6 attempts per question. Looks pretty bad 😭

Does attempts per question factor in? Just checked mine and it's looking like ~6 attempts per question. Looks pretty bad 😭

I messed up early on and did way too much P-level questions. I'm on 80 C1, 42 C2 and 5C3, you lot reckon that's a good place to be at rn? (planning on doing one C3 question before going to sleep after sehri in Ramadan so that's when I'll properly deal with those ones)

There is so much ambiguity this year on what counts etc and how weighting works.

First Question:
What questions exactly does this exclude. On question finder there are no questions labelled 'master maths'. Furthermore, almost all the maths questions are from the 'pre-uni' mastery book. Does this count as mastery maths?

Quoted from the website
Please note that Master Maths and multiple choice questions are not taken into account.

Second Question:
I noticed some questions are graded both C3 A-level and C-1 at Further A-level. Will they take the C-3 label as a judgement or the C-1 label?

I think for your last question, the answer would be like a point system, eg if C1 Alevel would be 1 point, C2 AL 5points, C3 AL10points. So if a question is both alevel C3 and further A C1, they would count it as 10 points as they are equivalent

How's everyone getting on?

just tryna get from 630 to 680 then should be good

mhm i'm a no-life with too much free time and a love for physics: what did you expect was going to happen...

Someone emailed isaac in another thread and they said a further A C2 is about equivalent to an A level C3 but that questions rated as 2 difficulties count as 1 question

imo that sounds too high: further a c2's are preeeetty difficult while normal c3's are okay-ish if you get the trick

do you do stem smart? they go through some C2 and 3 questions

what's that? i've never heard of that...

its like Cambridge online tutoring and Mentoring, but applications closed now

600 questions?! im still stuck at 70...

1 more thing: you'll see it as a journey rather than an objective once you get to 300, 350 questions, and you'll want to keep going. In fact, you'll probably become quite partial and accelerate...

Did you find you got faster? I feel like my progress will slow when there are less questions I can comfortably complete.