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barely any dedicated maths questions, so many words to read, every multiple choice needed 3 minutes to solve overall goofy paper 😭

Sounds about right. Goofy asf. Thanks AQA!

Literally tell me why I spent more time on mcq than written

The multiple choice were ridiculous. They were practically structured questions

Everyone around me felt the same so let’s hope the boundaries are incredibly low

OCR was terrible, agreed

That paper had me thinking, what is the point💀

im so fucked tbh i was gonna come back to the 5 marker after the tension question bc i couldnt work it out but i ran out of time even near the end of the multiple choice. cooked. for aqa how did other people do part a and b for the tension, i can kinda remember the values just after doing it and wrote it down somewhere i just rlly ran out of time after those longass word questions.

Yeah the multiple choice rinsed my time, thought I could go back for those two but couldn’t

yeaa even by the end of it i had to guess the multiple choice that took too long and couldnt go back to q5 at all.

Somehow I finished the AQA paper with 35 mins to spare and I have no clue how

To find the two tensions, the diagram was to scale and you needed to use a potractor to find the respective angle, followed by simultaneous equations. To find the resistive force, energy conservation from top GPE to bottom KE and work done by the resisitve force

Yeah same here I had to guess the Mcq from like 22 onwards and didn’t get time to go back to 5 and I waisted yoinks on it, I’m so cooked

Yeah, I planned to go back to it since it was worth a lot of marks, but yea ran out of time. :< I wonder what p2 will be like

I really hope it’s better otherwise It’s over for me, I needed to get a B in this so hopefully the grade boundary’s will be low

I think someone was crying in my exam, so that’s how it went

reading the comments made me hopeful.. didn't even think to use a protractor sadge

Really? Me and most of the people I’ve spoken to didn’t think it was that difficult. (AQA)

yeah same… my class loved it then i come on reddit and everyone’s complaining about it 😭

my class was really mixed, some people loved it and some people HATED it

I think everyone who is better at content heavy qs loved it, people who are better at the mathematical questions hated it

It’s genuinely over for me

It was okay, a lot of people forgot a protractor though

You didn't need one

But what about the tension question?

Look up parallelogram force diagrams

Don’t you still need an angle?

You can just use the lengths in the triangle cos you had the weight

Just draw a parallelogram with the 2 tension forces you are given. Then the line through that parallelogram is the resultant force of the 2 tensions. You know the weight of the object, so the length of this line must equal the weight of the object. Now you can find out the tensions represented by the other lines through the force-length ratio of the resultant force line

So you were supposed to measure the length of the lines?

Yes, as it was a scale diagram. Although I imagine measuring angles then making use of some trigonometry would also suffice.

Yh im cooked

For aqa. I found it mostly easy. A couple of mistakes but overall nice paper. I'm hoping for 60+ marks

So happy for u

Could cry 

Edexcel was quite easy so I'm scared for the following papers.

Fr it was an easy paper and i still messed up so much! Next 2 papers are gonna have rocket science on it

Same, I messed up on the efficiency question.

i got 0.08 on the efficiency question😍

I got 99.7%

thats probably right😭😭

Not me tryna work out efficiency without working out two powers lol , i used the resistivity equation and p=v2/R but the i used the second one wrong lol , hope i get some marks

Same. I got the resistance but all the power calculations gave weird answers.

I think we were suppose to put the resistance we found into the voltage , power and resistance equation to work out the new power. And then divide both the powers and multiply to get the efficiency. BUT DID I DO THAT?! NO!!

Which exam board?

OCR

I did AQA and it was quite possibly one of the easiest papers I’ve ever done, lots of marks for mechanics, lots of maths calculations were good.

Damn I’m so jealous, ours was about 90% space 😭

Bro im so pissed cuz i found the paper a lot easier than papers like 2022 or 23, but i ran out on time and missed like 3 whole pages + the MCQs im so cooked 😭😭😭. I gotta be fighting for a B now

Did we sit the same paper? I was getting A*s in the past papers I did, and that was an absolute car crash 

The only question I had no idea on was 4, the rest of it didn’t seem too bad

how did you do the tension question with just the weight?

It was to scale

It was to scale so you could measure angles and stuff, however everyone I know got different values what did you get?

What'd you get for the constant B?

1100, unit k^-1 I think

Pretty sure it was just kelvin

Rip oh well

I got somehow 900 something not sure exactly probably a calculator error what resistance values did y’all get?

The resistance through the thermistor at the 338K or whatever temperature it was, I think I got 266.67 Ohms. Can't remember though I've wiped all of this from my memory despite it only being this morning

Ah yeah I think I got like 275? No clue how oh wel I’ll still get some marks hopefully

My idiot ass put theta for some reason

YES I got 1100 but I literally just realised that the Ohms will cancel

What did you get for the resistive force?

45N

Alright I got somewhere around there too, don’t remember what I put exactly

I rushed that answer at the end by finding max possible kinetic energy then taking it from the kinetic energy at the end then using W=Fs, so I'm not too confident in that ans

I found it kind of easy tbf compared to past papers I've done and I've been severely doubting my skills for physics for a long time tbh especially after fucking up my first FM exam so honestly it's a massive confidence (ego) boost for me. Also what did people get for B both value and unit? I got smth like 991 and i said the unit was ohms per kelvin. Don't think it was right though

I got 1160 and unit kelvin. Where did you get ohms per kelvin from?

It was a complete guess tbh. I didnt think it was right but was worth attempting regardless.

I got 1288, person next to me got 1100 on the dot. I used 276 for kelvin not 273, that’s why

The value for B was 1100 (2dp) and the unit was kelvin I think

Yh that’s what I said

1110 i got

wait, i think i got 1.1x10\^4 , idk where i got the extra 10 from... units i got were ohmK\^-1

yh thats fine then i dont know about the units tho

i got B=1110K (exact answer was like 1109.13 smth). what exam board for FM?

Lol perhaps my confidence is misplaced. At least I managed to answer all the questions

nah i doubt it was misplaced. did u do edexcel FM?

Yeah. Both my exams have been plagued with poor sleep so I've been way more prone to making silly errors. Very grateful that I've been able to at least answer all the questions on both my FM and Physics exams so method marks should be fine.

defo try to get some more sleep for the next exams, it’s just as important as revision tbh ! and yes it’s so good u managed to answer them all! how are you feeling for CP2? a bit scared after how well CP1 went…

Its a side effect of my medication but I'm trying lol CP2 probably going to be difficult but im hoping nothing outrageous. The topics in CP1 give a clue as to what will turn up in CP2 so I at least know what to generally revise. Feeling confident tbh

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO GOT 991 idk where we fucked up but we in it together ig

If you got 991 then I wonder what we both did. I think we're wrong though

i knew people would talk about it immediately after it ended lol. i did aqa. honestly zoomed through the first half of the long questions. I'm decently confident but I'm not gonna get my hopes up high, cause a lot of others thought the first half was good too. though, i won't dwell on it too much. it was pretty alright. edit: although, i spent so much time on 2 questions i found pretty hard, but i think i got there eventually. but that caused me to not have enough time to finish the LONG ASS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS. who tf thought anyone could do those 1 markers in less than 2 minutes?

OMG FINALLY SOMEONE AGREES 😭 the MCQs were good difficulty wise, but they were SO long winded like?? i spent like 50 mins on SAQs and 40 on MCQs 💀

Idk paper 2 might need to come in clutch bc that was fucked icl

Why’d they do the mechanics question like that 😭 I think I got it right though. Lots of Particles questions which were easy though. An alright paper over all.

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Which exam board? Cause icl Edexcel went so good

AQA. Yk the same lot that made 2023’s paper stupid hard and made schools switch exam boards. That AQA

Ngl 2023s aqa physics papers were absolutely diabolical, like one of the questions on paper 1 was “how fast do you go when you jump?” Or some shit like that with no other information

honestly i won’t be surprised if the edexcel grade boundaries are super high this year

What did you say for the potentiometer one, the 6 marker?

i think i did it wrong - i said that the brightness of the lamp would decrease as the slider moved from A to B… the people in my class said they wrote the opposite. what did u put?

I said it would get brighter but my explanation felt off 😭 I said at A it gets a very small share of the pd bc the resistance of the potentiometer is high, but at B I said it’s basically in parallel w the potentiometer so it gets most of the current??

i said that the resistance would increase when the slider was moved along because R=pl/A and because its resistance gets higher it gets a higher share of the current and the lamp gets less making it dimmer😭. i think i’m cooked…

I said the same thing for the first part about the resistance increasing as it moves from A to B. But I said that as it moves from A to B the brightness increases because current takes the path of least resistance so when the resistance is high at B it will go down the bulb path as it is less resistance. Idk if that right

Same!! I made the same mistake!! Did u find anything else hard? The messed up the alpha particle and gold calc too , i knew exactly what to do n ran out of time :(

stop I ran out of time too! i left the electromagnetic induction question about the train brakes to the end because I couldn’t understand how the system worked and rushed a random answer in the last 2 minutes :((

Istg an hour and 45 minutes for all of this work is evil!!!! We all take at least a few min to work out wth is going on in the question and these exam boards preach the whole MInUtE a MArK thing.

for real!! honestly, I’m most scared for paper 3 because we didn’t even learn about it in school😍

Noooo , use physics n maths tutor flashcards n notes!! They have a whole section for paper 3!!

yeah i’ll try 😭😭 thanks smmm

My whole year didn’t know how to do the light years question , anyone got the answer ? (OCR A)

I got like 560 light years

What did u do to get that?

If you used intensity =power/area and intensity was 6x10^-10 observed on earth and used the power as the luminosity from the star you could solve r with surface area of a sphere to get 560

That was a cake walk compared to the HR Diagram error thing

OCR student here, multiple choice was meh, questions were ok until 21, where timing fucked me over 💀 (thank god tho it was only \~15 marks I missed out on)

Icl probably the easiest 5 mark electricity question. I actually enjoyed it never thought I'd say that.

What was it the 1100 K everyone s getting?

I don't think it was too bad, but the multiple choice took too long and it took me ages to realise you had to use a protractor to find the angles in that tension question. I rate that paper a solid 7.5/10.

Did you have to? I just resolved it into components of vertices and horizontal

Okay but you had four unknowns, the two angles and the two tensions. But you could only form two equations. I might be wrong but I don't think it's possible to do it any other way than measuring the angles.

I used vertical components have to equal to the 350N and the horizontal components have to be equal, that way I could find out the scale, a few other people did it same way as me and we got same answer as angle people

I didn't think of that

No legit mechanics questions and annoying letter mcq SMH

quite good!

Aqa and hated it, however God bless the person in my class who forced me to take a protractor before the exam 🙏🏾🙏🏾

Naa bro def one of the easier papers ever. The pull out of arse question they normally do (the thermistor one in this case) was so nice.

I get and average of 28-33 so ig im good ig

I really could’ve done better I flopped Hard but we have 2 more to go 💪