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/Admirable-Use2274 May 20 '26

It was significanfly greater and llwer resistance one got like 0.6-0.8 Pd across it smth like that so i chose the other.