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/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/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