OCR A A-level Physics Unified Physics (H556/03) - 17th June 2024 [Exam Chat]

Original post by internetmosquito

Does anyone have any predictions for this paper? Are there any patterns for paper 3 (eg stuff that came up in paper 1 and 2 won't come up for paper 3?)

No. The worst thing you can do if assume topics on p1 and p2 won't come up in p3. just because there was loads of astrophys in p1 doesn't mean p3 won't have any astro, it could be full of astro or full of medical or spread out between loads of topics. revise everything and know how to relate different topics together, e.g capacitors + electric fields

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Original post by crazyhuman007

No. The worst thing you can do if assume topics on p1 and p2 won't come up in p3. just because there was loads of astrophys in p1 doesn't mean p3 won't have any astro, it could be full of astro or full of medical or spread out between loads of topics. revise everything and know how to relate different topics together, e.g capacitors + electric fields

it didnt have loads of astro the topic of the 6 marker and the prior questions were on gravitational fields, or am i misremembering some other questions?

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Original post by efsfsf\\eeeeeee

it didnt have loads of astro the topic of the 6 marker and the prior questions were on gravitational fields, or am i misremembering some other questions?

ehmm, i could be wrong, but even the gravitiational fields had astrophysics related stuff in it i think

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Original post by crazyhuman007

ehmm, i could be wrong, but even the gravitiational fields had astrophysics related stuff in it i think

Maybe, but what makes you think predictions dont really work, dont the previous paper 3s follow that trend of having the left out topics come up?

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Original post by efsfsf\\eeeeeee

Maybe, but what makes you think predictions dont really work, dont the previous paper 3s follow that trend of having the left out topics come up?

I don't really see an exact trend. There has been years where a topic didn't come up at all(or barely) don't ask me which cus i cant remember, but my teacher was mentioning it as well, and secondly this year has already been weird, they could throw anything at us.

In the end, revise the topics you are weakest at, not the topics you believe are going to come up, because if they don't what then? you're done for? Also, we have 1 and a half weeks before our next exam, it's a decent enough time to revise.
Of course, predictions are useful, but my main point is: Don't rely on them

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Original post by crazyhuman007

I don't really see an exact trend. There has been years where a topic didn't come up at all(or barely) don't ask me which cus i cant remember, but my teacher was mentioning it as well, and secondly this year has already been weird, they could throw anything at us.
In the end, revise the topics you are weakest at, not the topics you believe are going to come up, because if they don't what then? you're done for? Also, we have 1 and a half weeks before our next exam, it's a decent enough time to revise.
Of course, predictions are useful, but my main point is: Don't rely on them

Fair, I get your point, what are your weakest topics btw?

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LotusDancer

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But if you were to make predictions, what would they be (Please I'm desperate)

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Original post by LotusDancer

But if you were to make predictions, what would they be (Please I'm desperate)

Medical physics has a lot of potential to be synoptic and they barely did any for paper 2. SHM and general oscillations stuff also weren't included much in paper 1, so they might come up too. Honestly, everything's up in the air and ocr are feeling a bit experimental this year, so cover all your bases regardless

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LotusDancer

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Original post by uytgfbvhj

Medical physics has a lot of potential to be synoptic and they barely did any for paper 2. SHM and general oscillations stuff also weren't included much in paper 1, so they might come up too. Honestly, everything's up in the air and ocr are feeling a bit experimental this year, so cover all your bases regardless

Thanks so much, also by medical being synoptic are you talking about acoustic impendence, doppler effect or something else.

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Original post by efsfsf\\eeeeeee

Fair, I get your point, what are your weakest topics btw?

electrical circuits and capacitors probably, 6 markers on electrical circuits kill me and i just waffle my way through them🤦

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Original post by LotusDancer

Thanks so much, also by medical being synoptic are you talking about acoustic impendence, doppler effect or something else.

Acoustic impedence and doppler effect are directly included in medical physics - I meant more niche questions on nuclear physics, momentum, etc can come up (eg in x ray attenuation mechanisms). Honestly, they might throw curveballs and mix fairly unexpected topics together - what I would strongly recommend is to look at the specification and make links between each topics and how they may relate to each other in a question. Going through all the past paper 3s should help with this too

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Original post by uytgfbvhj

Medical physics has a lot of potential to be synoptic and they barely did any for paper 2. SHM and general oscillations stuff also weren't included much in paper 1, so they might come up too. Honestly, everything's up in the air and ocr are feeling a bit experimental this year, so cover all your bases regardless

spoke to my teacher today apparently they've had a reshuffle of exam writers so it tracks that the style of questions are a bit different because they're different physicists writing the paper. I've found the same for chemistry
ironically enough, head of modelling for ocr applied for physics teacher at a local sixth form and completely flunked the year 12 trial lesson - he was waggling rulers around and thought that would perfectly explain SHM.
good to know our paper was written by real pros

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Original post by RedBullSmellBull

spoke to my teacher today apparently they've had a reshuffle of exam writers so it tracks that the style of questions are a bit different because they're different physicists writing the paper. I've found the same for chemistry
ironically enough, head of modelling for ocr applied for physics teacher at a local sixth form and completely flunked the year 12 trial lesson - he was waggling rulers around and thought that would perfectly explain SHM.
good to know our paper was written by real pros

no. way. seriously??!? nah, pros or not, we weren't prepared for dat like wtf. but i get that fair enough, it's good to have proper ppl wriitng it

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are there any like sample papers or resources you guys have found and don't mind sharing? thanks xx

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Buddingstudent

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How difficult do people think paper 3 is going to be compared to papers 1 and 2?

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Original post by Buddingstudent

How difficult do people think paper 3 is going to be compared to papers 1 and 2?

Maybe a difficulty between paper 1 and 2 to balance things out. If it's anything like paper 1, send your condolences my way 💀

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Original post by uytgfbvhj

Maybe a difficulty between paper 1 and 2 to balance things out. If it's anything like paper 1, send your condolences my way 💀

If it is like P1 aside from papers the best way to do well would be to go over all the content again to make sure there are no gaps, no?

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