Spec H556
The topics where you're leaving the most marks on the table, ranked from your own answers.
% Of exams is the share of exam series a topic came up in. 100% means it came up at least once in every series, not on every paper.
| Topic | June 2018 | June 2019 | November 2020 | November 2021 | June 2022 | June 2023 | June 2024 | June 2025 | Share of exam series |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Module 1: Development of practical skills in physics | |||||||||
| Practical skills assessed in a written examination | Practical skills assessed in a written examination: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 24 of 24 papers · 11% of all marks (237 of 2,160) | ||||||||
Module 2: Foundations of physics | |||||||||
| Physical quantities and units | Physical quantities and units: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 16 of 24 papers · 1.6% of all marks (34 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Making measurements and analysing data | Making measurements and analysing data: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 24 of 24 papers · 4.6% of all marks (100 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Nature of quantities | Nature of quantities: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 14 of 24 papers · 0.6% of all marks (13 of 2,160) | ||||||||
Module 3: Forces and motion | |||||||||
| Motion | Motion: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 12 of 24 papers · 4.1% of all marks (88 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Forces in action | Forces in action: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 19 of 24 papers · 6.0% of all marks (130 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Work, energy and power | Work, energy and power: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 21 of 24 papers · 3.6% of all marks (77 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Materials | Materials: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 11 of 24 papers · 2.9% of all marks (63 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Newton's laws of motion and momentum | Newton's laws of motion and momentum: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 10 of 24 papers · 3.4% of all marks (73 of 2,160) | ||||||||
Module 4: Electrons, waves and photons | |||||||||
| Charge and current | Charge and current, June 2023: none | Charge and current: comes up in 7 of 8 exam series, on 11 of 24 papers · 1.5% of all marks (32 of 2,160) | |||||||
| Energy, power and resistance | Energy, power and resistance: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 16 of 24 papers · 3.5% of all marks (76 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Electrical circuits | Electrical circuits: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 11 of 24 papers · 3.5% of all marks (76 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Waves | Waves: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 21 of 24 papers · 8.3% of all marks (180 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Quantum physics | Quantum physics: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 15 of 24 papers · 3.8% of all marks (81 of 2,160) | ||||||||
Module 5: Newtonian world and astrophysics (A-level only) | |||||||||
| Thermal physics | Thermal physics: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 15 of 24 papers · 7.4% of all marks (160 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Circular motion | Circular motion: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 17 of 24 papers · 2.7% of all marks (58 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Oscillations | Oscillations: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 12 of 24 papers · 4.0% of all marks (87 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Gravitational fields | Gravitational fields: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 16 of 24 papers · 5.5% of all marks (118 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Astrophysics and cosmology | Astrophysics and cosmology: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 15 of 24 papers · 6.6% of all marks (142 of 2,160) | ||||||||
Module 6: Particles and medical physics (A-level only) | |||||||||
| Capacitors | Capacitors: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 14 of 24 papers · 4.0% of all marks (86 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Electric fields | Electric fields: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 10 of 24 papers · 2.8% of all marks (60 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Electromagnetism | Electromagnetism: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 14 of 24 papers · 4.4% of all marks (96 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Nuclear and particle physics | Nuclear and particle physics: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 15 of 24 papers · 8.7% of all marks (187 of 2,160) | ||||||||
| Medical imaging | Medical imaging: comes up in 8 of 8 exam series, on 11 of 24 papers · 5.3% of all marks (115 of 2,160) | ||||||||