Physics - A Level

Assessment

Paper 1: Advanced Physics 1 Covers half the Year 13 topics and some Year 12 content: further mechanics, electric and magnetic fields, nuclear and particle physics. Assessment: written examination of 1 hour 45 minutes. (30% of A Level) Paper 2: Advanced Physics 2 Covers half the Year 13 topics and some Year 12 content: thermodynamics, space, nuclear radiation, gravitational fields, oscillations. Assessment: written examination of 1 hour 45 minutes. (30% of A Level) Paper 3: Advanced Physics 3 Covers all the Year 12 and Year 13 topics. Assessment: written examination of 2 hours 30 minutes. (40% of A Level) Assessment of practical skills Students are assessed through a series of 16 core practical experiments, reported separately to the A Level grade as pass or fail. This is a teacher assessed component.