SQA Advanced Higher Physics - 25th April 2024 [Exam Chat]

I felt great and so prepared going in but it was disastrous I've literally never seen ferromagnetism on a paper before and the first knowledge of physics questions was great but the second made 0 sense

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gurlypops

Original post by Hyacinth*

I felt great and so prepared going in but it was disastrous I've literally never seen ferromagnetism on a paper before and the first knowledge of physics questions was great but the second made 0 sense

Actually worst thing I've ever experienced

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rosewallsxx

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Original post by Hyacinth*

I felt great and so prepared going in but it was disastrous I've literally never seen ferromagnetism on a paper before and the first knowledge of physics questions was great but the second made 0 sense

SAME wtf is ferromagnetism??? Do you reckon they'll lower the grade boundaries? Everyone in my class was freaking out.

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emkelt

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same here 😭 everyone was absolutely mortified after seeing the paper, one guy i know who usually gets full marks didn’t even answer all the questions

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gurlypops

Does anyone know someone who's gonna be doing answers for it

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zay225

what in the world was that paper

Reply 8

AspiringPilot06

Original post by rosewallsxx

SAME wtf is ferromagnetism??? Do you reckon they'll lower the grade boundaries? Everyone in my class was freaking out.

Hopefully they will lower the grade boundaries. 42% for a pass in 2023 and that was actually a nice paper

Reply 9

coaterson

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was honestly just making stuff up by the end

Reply 10

fspene06

Has anyone found a marking scheme yet?

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emkelt

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no, I don't think they get released until august unless some teacher gets the paper?? not sure

Reply 12

Zackcrowlz06

Does anyone know when there will be question papers released, they came out quite early last year

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Zackcrowlz06

Original post by Hyacinth*

I felt great and so prepared going in but it was disastrous I've literally never seen ferromagnetism on a paper before and the first knowledge of physics questions was great but the second made 0 sense

some ferromagnetism stuff was in the course notes, I was taught ferromagnetism, the second open ended question was about solar rays from the sun, the charged particles then being stored in the van Allen belts, then the inner van Allen belt interacts with the the atmosphere to produce the northern lights.

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Hey uh for the second OEQ I talked about cosmic rays, centripetal force by the perpendicular velocity to the magnetic field of earth, and how particles loose energy as it spirals inwards towards the north pole, energy is dissipated as radiation. Anything? ANY marks? I spent legit 15 minutes on that Q.

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Zackcrowlz06

Original post by DevilRJ

Hey uh for the second OEQ I talked about cosmic rays, centripetal force by the perpendicular velocity to the magnetic field of earth, and how particles loose energy as it spirals inwards towards the north pole, energy is dissipated as radiation. Anything? ANY marks? I spent legit 15 minutes on that Q.

You’ll get something from that, can’t remember exactly what it needed you to talk about, but cosmic rays is the same as solar rays. Probs 1 or 2 marks out of 3 from what you’ve said

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Original post by Zackcrowlz06

You’ll get something from that, can’t remember exactly what it needed you to talk about, but cosmic rays is the same as solar rays. Probs 1 or 2 marks out of 3 from what you’ve said

For ferromagnetism, that was one heck of a question, I wrote self inducing current. On a scale of 1-10 how wrong is that answer

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I am gonna miss AH and any level of Physics from secondary school. Especially as Uni will shape-shift us into further independent and self-disciplined physicists (despite doing an engineering course in the near future). I quote fondly enjoy the SQA theory when it comes to the gravitation questions, I didn't realise NASA already launched objects at asteriods, never heard of this like come on I would have known! Was this before I was born even??!? Was it last week?!?! The whole orbital asteriod question thing.

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zay225

Original post by Zackcrowlz06

Does anyone know when there will be question papers released, they came out quite early last year

Mrs physics’ website usually has them under the past paper section in a few days

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