Notes for setting Exams

Here are some documents for setting exam papers which should be of use for teachers and some practice at answering questions from the command words. Whilst the document below was written for covid times there are some great nuggets if you can read through it all. My thanks to Mr S Farmer and Mr A...

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Revision Materials for the CfE Higher Physics Course

New for 2026- no idea when I made this but thought it might be useful. Send a comment if it was! It’s not quite complete, but the exam is imminent so this is the nearly finished version to check your last minute understanding. The Physics course condensed into 30 pages! Please let me know if...

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Me and the Faulkes

I got an email today from Alison Tripp from the Faulkes Telescope saying “We wondered who had been promoting us as we’ve had a few people sign up recently” So as I’ve been promoting it, I suppose I ought to be telling people how I use it and what it’s all about.   When a...

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Learning Outcome Answers

Linked to the Compendium Numbering Questions to test your understanding with full worked answers.

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Learning Outcome Questions

Hi folks! This is just the start of the Learning Outcome Questions for Higher currently I’m just trying to get questions collated, but I am currently not teaching the Higher class so it is further down my priority list. I’m fairly happy with the Units, prefixes and Scientific Notation and Uncertainties and I’ve started the...

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The Expanding Universe Practical

A great little practical with washers, that was used as an exam question! Try the following practical http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/astro/cosmos/uniball expanding universe school observatory Expanding Universe Experiment To understand how the redshift of galaxies is due to the expansion of the Universe, try the following experiment. You will need the following items: Step 1 : Setting Up...

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