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PHYSICS EXAMINATION – 2014 Bruce Walsh Chief Assessor

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PHYSICS EXAMINATION – 2014

Bruce WalshChief Assessor

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REMINDERS

Study design and textbooks

Examiners report

VASS system

SSMS

On line marking

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GENERAL ADVICE

Mark allocation

Writing implements

Multiple attempts

Logical set out of working

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GENERAL ADVICE

Explanations must address specific question. Writing everything can lead to contradictions. Dot points good. Diagrams and formulae can help.

Show working

Use unit in answer box

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GENERAL ADVICE

Show numbers substituted into formulae

Formulae (including derived) must be correct

Calculators – sci mode, no truncation

Rounding

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GENERAL ADVICE

Answers as simplified decimals

Significant figures

Vectors

Realistic answers

Scales on axes

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SPECIFIC CONCERNS Connected bodies

Energy conversion and conservation

More complex projectile motion

Apparent weightlessness

Modulation

Explaining direction of induced current

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SPECIFIC CONCERNS Operation of transformers in transmission

system

Series circuits

Explaining aspects of photoelectric effect

Path difference in interference

Electron and X-ray diffraction patterns

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SPECIFIC CONCERNS Electron energy level diagrams and

associated emissions and absorptions

Wave nature of matter and electron energy levels

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2014 2013 2012 (Nov)

2012 (June)

Students 7368 7041 7082 7082

Mean 55% 54% 60% 63%

Median 57% 54% 62% 66%

Std deviatio

n23% 24% 22% 23%

STATISTICS

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STATISTICS

2005 Jun

2005 Nov

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SCALING %GRADE 2014 2013 2012 Jun 2012 Nov

A+ 85 86 91 89

A 77 76 84 82

B+ 68 65 77 73

B 58 53 68 62

C+ 46 42 57 50

C 35 32 46 40

D+ 24 22 36 31

D 16 14 28 22

E+ 9 7 20 12

E 5 4 11 9

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Average mark 1b) 49%

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2b) 20%

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2c) 34%, 2d) 13%

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3b) 51%

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4b) 40%

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5a) 59%

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9) 30%

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12a) 51%

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13a) 32%

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13c) 37%

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14a) 29%

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15d) 45%

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16) 42%

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18a) 35%, 18b) 53%

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19a) 59%, 19b) 46%

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20b) 26%

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21b) 55%, 21c) 35%

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21d) 31%

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22a) 41%, 22b) 40%

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23b) 35%

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PROBLEM AREASDETAILED STUDIES

DETAILED STUDY DIFFICULT QUESTIONS(<60% correct)

Relativity 1,3,4,6,7,9,10,11

Mat & Struct 5,6,7,8,10

Electronics 1,3,4,7,9,10,11

Synchrotron 5,7,10

Photonics 1,2,3,5,7,8,9,10,11

Sound 3,8