General Thoughts - Physics (2 Viewers)

[danz90]

Hope you all went well!

Post up general thoughts about this year's Physics exam.

 

[dolbinau]

Pretty good not sure about mc but hpegul for band 6. Medical physics option easy. Short answer had too many long responses.

 

[u-borat]

yeah med phys was easy, im hoping for like 70% raw and i still think i woulda gotten 20+ easy on med phys.

 

[Fr33Lanc3r]

There weren't enough calculation questions.

Our teacher had been telling us all year that about 50% of the paper was calculation. Turns out there were three questions this year.

 

[syriangabsta]

that was ok. mc was abit confusing ( as fkn usual for physics). Im hoping for a high 60's to low 70's raw. which SHOULD align to a band 5

 

[obimoshman1234]

pretty easy i mean besides one that i went blank on only a 2 marker tho so hopeing for 80s raw mark so should be good

 

[SkimDawg]

Pretty good not sure about mc but hpegul for band 6. Medical physics option easy. Short answer had too many long responses.

Agreed. I cant say it was dead easy but medical physics was so simple. I only screwed up the radiopharmecautical question.

 

[SkimDawg]

How did you guys go on the 6 markers? I thought they were fairly starightforward, Einstein was good, and I did Westinghouse for the external ideas one, was good

 

[alez]

weird questions
only projectile question was in mc
wtf was up with that

 

[sobern]

Thought shortanswers & med were simple, pretty sure had maybe 3 brain snaps in multiple choice though so hopeful of band 6

 

[Jaspal]

I didn't really like it, i found some questions hard, although i answered everything except 1 question in depth, cause i didnt know what to say in one. I'm hoping i did ok.

 

[zxcvbee]

ohh i did terrible! i was writing anything didnt even know what i was doing to be honest. im hoping it scales alrite this year and i get a, um band 4 (pleaseeee)

But all the best guys. i dont know if it was just me (bcos im not too good/never been good friends with physics) but i found it difficult. wish there was more projectile calcualtions, or special relativity ones, something, anything just more maths! not theory!

Wow thinking about it now i really did poorly in that test. Im sad.. hey one more test and what a relief it is to have that over with..

 

[proringz]

How did you guys go on the 6 markers? I thought they were fairly starightforward, Einstein was good, and I did Westinghouse for the external ideas one, was good

I talked about Edison, as Westinghouse wasn't really a scientist. But I talked about how Westinghouse was an 'external influence' to Edison.

 

[wLym]

happy. the first exam i am actually happy about. i feel ive got the energy now to tackle chem.

 

[tpeet]

Quanta to Quarks had a mass defect qu
I found the paper difficult... But i am so glad it is over!!!!

 

[CRANK-SHAFT]

overall i thought it was pretty staright forward and i had tim eto check my calculations but some multiple choices were just weird....like the on with the rotating drum with the metal strip...whats it mean by emf across the strip lol...

anyways good luck everyone and hope we all get like 80+

 

[dolbinau]

I talked about Edison, as Westinghouse wasn't really a scientist. But I talked about how Westinghouse was an 'external influence' to Edison.

I talked about Konstantin Tsiolovosky (spelt his name wrong < but yeah LOL).

 

[CRANK-SHAFT]

overall i thought it was pretty staright forward and i had tim eto check my calculations but some multiple choices were just weird....like the on with the rotating drum with the metal strip...whats it mean by emf across the strip lol...

anyways good luck everyone and hope we all get like 80+

 

[thewog2004]

i went against the question that there are NO external influences and i talked about westinghouse and edison

 

[Aaron.Judd]

For the scientist with external forces, I talked about Edison and Westinghouse, focuing on Edison as he was a scientist and Westinghouse was not.

The multiple choice this year were differernt and harder to previous years multipel choice. Overall, I thought short answer questions though were easier than past yers, probably because there were mroe essay questiosn and less calculation questions.

I was surpised about the projectile motion, as normally theres at least 5 marks guranteed for it and this year there was only 1 multiple chocie question worth one mark on it.

A pretty good paper overall.