Cambridge O Level Physics - CIE Notes

Learner Guide

Cambridge O Level Physics

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Contents

How to use this guide ....................................................................................................... 3

Section 1: How will you be tested? Section 2: Examination advice Section 3: What will be tested? Section 4: What you need to know Section 5: Useful websites Section 6: Appendices

Section 1: How will you be tested? ..................................................................................... 5

About the papers About the theory papers About the practical papers

Section 2: Examination advice ............................................................................................. 9

General advice

Section 3: What will be tested? ......................................................................................... 13

Section 4: What you need to know ................................................................................... 15

How to use the table

Section 5: Useful websites ............................................................................................... 43

Section 6: Appendices ..................................................................................................... 45

Symbols, units and definitions of physical quantities Command words and phrases

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How to use this guide

How to use this guide

The guide describes what you need to know about your Cambridge O Level Physics examination. It will help you to plan your revision programme for the written examinations and will explain what we are looking for in the answers you write. It can also be used to help you to revise by using the tick boxes in Section 4 `What you need to know', to check what you know and which topic areas of physics you have covered. The guide contains the following sections:

Section 1: How will you be tested?

This section will give you information about the theory and practical examination papers.

Section 2: Examination advice

This section gives you advice to help you do as well as you can. Some of the ideas are general advice and some are based on the common mistakes that candidates make in exams.

Section 3: What will be tested?

This section describes the areas of knowledge, understanding and skills that we will test you on. It is particularly important to realise that most marks are awarded for understanding and skills and only approximately 30% of the total mark is for simple recall.

Section 4: What you need to know

This shows the syllabus content so that you can check: ? which topics you need to know about ? details about each topic area in the syllabus ? how much of the syllabus you have covered.

Section 5: Useful websites

? some useful websites that you might use.

Section 6: Appendices

This section covers other things you need to know, such as: ? symbols, units and definitions of physical quantities ? the importance of the command words we use in examination papers.

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