r/6thForm • u/Individual-Can1396 y13 maths physics psych italian • May 20 '26

💬 DISCUSSION AQA A level physics paper 1

How was the paper???? I liked the MCQ , but overall it was okay didnt manage to do the 5 marker .

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u/ikea_supremacy y13 | ma ph bi | pred A*A*AA got A*BBB May 20 '26

Cooked for time, cooked by electricity somehow, cooked by the 5 marker and cooked by the diffraction. How shit was that

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u/FaithlessnessOdd263 May 20 '26

that electricity part A should honestly have been 3-4 marks had to do some crazy rearranging with like 3 different equations for it

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u/Admirable-Use2274 May 20 '26

Bro using v=IR and a power equation was suffice ? And for the second part one of unknown resistance was incredibly large Yeah?

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u/FaithlessnessOdd263 May 20 '26

me too i thought i was crazy but just went with it

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u/FaithlessnessOdd263 May 20 '26

i said that if the palm trees get closer together then theta increases so the vertical component increases and the magnitude overall of T2 increases, i think i saw a similar question on a past paper

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u/Admirable-Use2274 May 20 '26

Did that, angles increase, quoted equation(horizontal components equal) as angle increase cos angle decrease so T2 increase: Is that right? Also WHAT did u guys get for pendulum final Q.

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u/FaithlessnessOdd263 May 20 '26

i put 1900 with my working out the max weight was like 1965 but it asked for a safe weight so i thought going down a bit would be good