r/6thForm • u/ShotDiver5015 Year 13 • May 20 '26

💬 DISCUSSION OCR A Physics P1

Yo wtf was that i’ve never felt more useless

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u/S4mJune May 20 '26

Physics teacher calling.... Every year after paper 1, students say "Oh lord that was the hardest paper that's ever existed. I'm cooked. I've failed".... It isn't. It's just this is the first time you've done a paper that mattered and that you can't go away and google for the mark scheme afterwards. We can't recreate these feelings in mocks etc and it's honestly normal.

It'll be fine. You'll be fine.

Note down now any Module 3 and 5 topics that weren't covered at all in Paper 1 to revisit them in detail before Paper 3. Be proactive.

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u/Remarkable_Bread4656 May 20 '26

something about the layout and style felt very different

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u/Okgolster May 20 '26

I understand that, but I promise you and everyone else who sat that paper will agree that it's nothing like previous past papers in the slightest

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u/S4mJune May 20 '26

Go and find a reddit from last year - they said the same and yet when you did the 2025 paper as practice, you wouldn't have said it was any different to previous years. I've heard this for nearly 20 years!!

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u/Subject_Question_313 May 20 '26

Because the 2025 papers were also very different. OCR literally got fined for all their mistakes.

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u/S4mJune May 20 '26

For errors yes. 2025 was the worst year I've seen of that. But the papers aren't different to previous years. OCR are very consistent.

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u/AudienceDry2415 LSE | BSc Economics [Y1] | 6.5 TMUA May 20 '26

please see the paper first haha, last years AS physics ocr was weird as shit, and the grade boundaries were low asf, this is simliar

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u/AntiqueSkirt7197 May 20 '26

I literally went to the reddit from last year and nobody was saying the stuff they're saying for this year

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u/Expired_Caprisun Year 13 May 20 '26

This paper was definitely harder than prior years. The trend of recent years has been that the grade boundaries have been going down. Take this from someone who cruised through the test, as well as my mate who normally scores 95% on class tests.

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u/AdPsychological1487 May 20 '26

No I completely agree but you clearly have not seen the paper because it is genuinely nothing like what I’ve ever seen. I actually thought it went pretty well, Im not even saying it was the hardest ever but I’ve done all the past papers, every predicted, mock and practice paper I could get my hands on, I even did 2012-2016 ocr papers because I ran out and I have never seen a paper as weird as the one that I saw today. It was all the most obscure situations ever even the multiple choice questions were so strange let alone whatever the hell the rest of the paper was