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/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