Exam preparation: students
Whether you are preparing for Paper 1A (multiple-choice questions from A1 to E5), Paper 1B (data analysis skills) or Paper 2 (longer form questions from A1 to E5), our top tips remain the same:
- Get fluent with your data booklet.
- Get fluent with your calculator.
- Memorise facts, definitions and rules to guarantee 10% of the marks.
- Read questions carefully, understand the language.
- Highlight the command term and the physical quantity of interest.
- Draw diagrams to help visualize the problem.
- Eliminate variables using ratios to simplify equations.
- Structure your calculations giving full explanations of steps.
- Use the units.
- Check your work and scrap around for marks.
In this section of the site, we collate some general revision materials in addition to the bank of hundreds of practice questions that teachers can set for their students.
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Exam preparation: students
Flashcard glossary
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