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Category Archives: Exams and Study
Everything exam and study related
Half-Life Problem Set
Intensity Problem set
Question 1
A droplet of water in a pond converts 1 J of potential energy to kinetic energy in half a second. A duck 50 cm away experiences this. What intensity of the wave does the duck experience? How far would the duck have to move from the source to ensure that the sound intensity dropped to 1 Wm-2?
QUIZ: Sub Atomic Particles
Click on the link for a test on Subatomic Particles.
To get the most out of these quizzes first learn and memorise the difference between the subatomic particle types, their composition and examples of each. Then test yourself.
Misconceptions about how students learn
Otherwise known as “How to study hard and still fail”
We’ve all come across the student who works hard in class and puts in the hours at night doing homework but never quite does well in class tests. Or perhaps it’s the student who does ok in class tests but then bombs the end-of-term exam and can’t understand why. The following may help in this regard.
Rate the following study techniques on a scale of 1 – 5 for effectiveness (5 being the most effective)
1. Highlighting important material
2. Writing out notes from a textbook or copying from teachers’ notes
3. Reading over material covered in class
4. Testing yourself
5. Looking at mindmaps
6. Creating mindmaps
7. Making flashcards
8. Testing yourself using flashcards
9. Cramming the night before the exam
We’ll come back to these in a minute…
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VIDEO: Beliefs that Make you Fail or Succeed
10 Rules of Good Studying
Excerpted from A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel in Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra), by Barbara Oakley, Penguin, July, 2014
1. Use recall. After you read a page, look away and recall the main ideas. Highlight very little, and never highlight anything you haven’t put in your mind first by recalling. Try recalling main ideas when you are walking to class or in a different room from where you originally learned it. An ability to recall—to generate the ideas from inside yourself—is one of the key indicators of good learning.
2. Test yourself. On everything. All the time. Flash cards are your friend.
3. Chunk your problems. Chunking is understanding and practicing with a problem solution so that it can all come to mind in a flash. After you solve a problem, rehearse it. Make sure you can solve it cold—every step. Pretend it’s a song and learn to play it over and over again in your mind, so the information combines into one smooth chunk you can pull up whenever you want.
4. Space your repetition. Spread out your learning in any subject a little every day, just like an athlete. Your brain is like a muscle—it can handle only a limited amount of exercise on one subject at a time.
LC Physics Exam Papers
All of the current exam papers and marking schemes. Please let me know if any of the links are broken
| Higher Level | Ordinary Level | ||
| Paper | Marking Scheme | Paper | Marking Scheme |
| 2014 | MS | 2014 | MS |
| 2013 | MS | 2013 | MS |
| 2012 | MS | 2012 | MS |
| 2011 | MS | 2011 | MS |
| 2010 | MS | 2010 | MS |
| 2009 | MS | 2009 | MS |
| 2008 | MS | 2008 | MS |
| 2007 | MS | 2007 | MS |
| 2006 | MS | 2006 | MS |
| 2005 | MS | 2005 | MS |
| 2004 | MS | 2004 | MS |
| 2003 | MS | 2003 | MS |
| 2002 | MS | 2002 | MS |
Thermometer MC Quiz
Short multiple choice quiz based around thermometers and thermometric properties. Click on the link below and don’t forget to study beforehand 🙂
Geometrical Optics Definitions Quiz
Don’t forget to first memorise the definitions and then use this to test yourself. Click on the link to access the quizzes:
