Here are some documents for setting exam papers which should be of use for teachers and some practice at answering questions from the command words.
Whilst the document below was written for covid times there are some great nuggets if you can read through it all.
My thanks to Mr S Farmer and Mr A Bailey for these.
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December 2024
Hot off the press, I’ve just worked out the cutoff scores for each grade at each level. Here it is.
| AH | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | total scaled | A | A% | B | B% | C | C% | D | D% |
| 2019 | 130 | 90 | 69 | 77 | 59 | 64 | 49 | 57 | 44 |
| 2018 | 130 | 87 | 67 | 73 | 56 | 60 | 46 | 53 | 41 |
| 2017 | 130 | 84 | 65 | 70 | 54 | 57 | 44 | 50 | 38 |
| 2016 | 130 | 84 | 65 | 72 | 55 | 61 | 47 | 55 | 42 |
| 2015 RAH | 125 | 86 | 69 | 73 | 58 | 61 | 49 | 55 | 44 |
| 2015 Trad | 125 | 85 | 68 | 72 | 58 | 60 | 54 | 54 | 43 |
| Higher | |||||||||
| year | total scaled | A | A% | B | B% | C | C% | D | D% |
| 2019 | 150 | 100 | 67 | 84 | 56 | 69 | 46 | 53 | 35 |
| 2018 | 120 | 79 | 66 | 67 | 56 | 55 | 45 | 49 | 41 |
| 2017 | 120 | 82 | 68 | 69 | 58 | 57 | 48 | 51 | 43 |
| 2016 | 120 | 84 | 70 | 71 | 59 | 59 | 49 | 53 | 44 |
| 2015 | 120 | 77 | 64 | 65 | 54 | 54 | 45 | 48 | 40 |
| N5 | |||||||||
| year | total scaled | A | A% | B | B% | C | C% | D | D% |
| 2019 | 125 | 86 | 69 | 72 | 58 | 58 | 46 | 44 | 35 |
| 2018 | 125 | 86 | 69 | 72 | 58 | 58 | 46 | 44 | 35 |
| 2017 | 100 | 68 | 68 | 56 | 56 | 45 | 45 | 39 | 39 |
| 2016 | 100 | 69 | 69 | 58 | 58 | 48 | 48 | 43 | 43 |
| 2015 | 100 | 68 | 68 | 58 | 58 | 48 | 48 | 43 | 43 |
| 2014 | 100 | 68 | 68 | 57 | 57 | 47 | 54 | 42 | 42 |
As part of the moderation process we’ve got some fake student scripts.
I have not done a definitive marking instructions but I believe the person who sat this paper, a Drew Escutcheon, has made some sneaky errors to look for.
Thanks to Mr C Rossi so making a marking grid for you to add your answers. When we’ve got a finalised MI I’ll publish a commentary with a password so you can’t cheat!
This is a presentation I gave on AH Uncertainties for the IoP. It was the end of term and that’s why I am nearly falling asleep. I had to update it as I had indeed taken the absolute and not fractional uncertainty in T to double for the uncertainty in T2.
Now that SG Physics is well and truly in the past I thought it would be appropriate to publish the past papers and their mark schemes, if I can.
My thanks to J Boyle for passing these along, and to Mr Mackenzie (the ultimate in useful physics information). They are really good practice for students to use for revision for N4/5 etc.
