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| Topic | June 2018 | June 2019 | November 2020 | November 2021 | June 2022 | June 2023 | June 2024 | June 2025 | Share of all marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Module 1: Development of practical skills in physics | |||||||||
| Practical skills assessed in a written examination | Practical skills assessed in a written examination: 11% of all marks (237 of 2,160), in the top third of topics · comes up in 24 of 24 papers | ||||||||
Module 2: Foundations of physics | |||||||||
| Physical quantities and units | Physical quantities and units: 1.6% of all marks (34 of 2,160), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 16 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Making measurements and analysing data | Making measurements and analysing data: 4.6% of all marks (100 of 2,160), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 24 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Nature of quantities | Nature of quantities: 0.6% of all marks (13 of 2,160), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 14 of 24 papers | ||||||||
Module 3: Forces and motion | |||||||||
| Motion | Motion: 4.1% of all marks (88 of 2,160), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 12 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Forces in action | Forces in action: 6.0% of all marks (130 of 2,160), in the top third of topics · comes up in 19 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Work, energy and power | Work, energy and power: 3.6% of all marks (77 of 2,160), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 21 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Materials | Materials: 2.9% of all marks (63 of 2,160), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 11 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Newton's laws of motion and momentum | Newton's laws of motion and momentum: 3.4% of all marks (73 of 2,160), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 10 of 24 papers | ||||||||
Module 4: Electrons, waves and photons | |||||||||
| Charge and current | Charge and current, June 2023: none | Charge and current: 1.5% of all marks (32 of 2,160), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 11 of 24 papers | |||||||
| Energy, power and resistance | Energy, power and resistance: 3.5% of all marks (76 of 2,160), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 16 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Electrical circuits | Electrical circuits: 3.5% of all marks (76 of 2,160), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 11 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Waves | Waves: 8.3% of all marks (180 of 2,160), in the top third of topics · comes up in 21 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Quantum physics | Quantum physics: 3.8% of all marks (81 of 2,160), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 15 of 24 papers | ||||||||
Module 5: Newtonian world and astrophysics (A-level only) | |||||||||
| Thermal physics | Thermal physics: 7.4% of all marks (160 of 2,160), in the top third of topics · comes up in 15 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Circular motion | Circular motion: 2.7% of all marks (58 of 2,160), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 17 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Oscillations | Oscillations: 4.0% of all marks (87 of 2,160), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 12 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Gravitational fields | Gravitational fields: 5.5% of all marks (118 of 2,160), in the top third of topics · comes up in 16 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Astrophysics and cosmology | Astrophysics and cosmology: 6.6% of all marks (142 of 2,160), in the top third of topics · comes up in 15 of 24 papers | ||||||||
Module 6: Particles and medical physics (A-level only) | |||||||||
| Capacitors | Capacitors: 4.0% of all marks (86 of 2,160), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 14 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Electric fields | Electric fields: 2.8% of all marks (60 of 2,160), in the bottom third of topics · comes up in 10 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Electromagnetism | Electromagnetism: 4.4% of all marks (96 of 2,160), in the middle third of topics · comes up in 14 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Nuclear and particle physics | Nuclear and particle physics: 8.7% of all marks (187 of 2,160), in the top third of topics · comes up in 15 of 24 papers | ||||||||
| Medical imaging | Medical imaging: 5.3% of all marks (115 of 2,160), in the top third of topics · comes up in 11 of 24 papers | ||||||||
