any tips for 2006 phys students? (1 Viewer)

[Lexie1001]

hey everyone...im just starting the hsc course for physics and i think all the 2006 physics class would really appreciate it if u could tell us what u've learnt from your mistakes this year and any advice on how to get the best mark!
thanks heaps!

 

[Ghost1788]

Read through the text book and understand the concepts, and do past papers

 

[Riviet]

Be specific when answering any question. You want to be sure you get the mark(s).

 

[webby234]

The syllabus is extremely important.
Go through the syllabus and write a paragraph on each dot point after doing each section in class.

 

[klaw]

hey everyone...im just starting the hsc course for physics and i think all the 2006 physics class would really appreciate it if u could tell us what u've learnt from your mistakes this year and any advice on how to get the best mark!
thanks heaps!

I've made a mistake already. If you're making a motor for your assessment and it doesn't work, put 40V through it when demonstrating it and say that it did work before but you burnt it out. That's what some ppl did and they got higher marks than me (mine didn't work but I didn't use cheap tactics like that)

 

[LostAuzzie]

Do not disregard a dot point hoping it will not be tested, because as soon as you do that it will end up being a six or seven marker.

 

[lfc_reds2003]

boiiz and girls

listen up


dont try and tell me phys is hard cos its basic

so just bludge around and ull be fine

no point writing answers to dot points or doing past papers cos its a awaste of time and is not necessary





hehe

phys is the best

just do iur dot points
n ur papers

n have fun

 

[Chief2666]

This might not be the right place but I cant help but notice that you have to joke about maths aural, we had a massive thing in our class between me and a few friends, omg the stuff we put together was absolutely classic, I forgot about it until I saw your sig, omg it was so funny M4:Excellciar, M3:Math Extreme, M2: Math Adventure, pi-day.....oh well tips for physics, listen in class, ask your teacher lots of questions to make sure you really understand the concepts, that is the most important thing.

 

[Arvin Sloane]

Pick another subject.

 

[PiGMAN]

look at ur textbook the day before the exam, and be blessed with an obscenely easy hsc paper

 

[webby234]

look at ur textbook the day before the exam, and be blessed with an obscenely easy hsc paper

Referring to this year's paper? The MC was hard but the rest was just half maths half social sciences - not much study required.

Cover all the dot points - you may not do all of them in class. Remember that even the most obscure dot points can be tested - this year we had to assess the reliability of secondary information in regards to induction. Knowledge of the history is important - especially if your doing Quanta to Quarks - who did what experiment etc.

 

[PiGMAN]

yes i was referring to this years paper.

A serious tip though: don't do quanta to quarks, I've been told its the hardest option, why make it any harder for yourself? 25 marks are 25 marks. Even though our school made us do quanta, had I cared about physics, I wouldve taken 2 days to learn another option.

 

[Riviet]

Read through the text book and understand the concepts, and do past papers

You mean read the textbook and study it, because if someone took that literally, that is stare at the textbook all day and go into the exam knowing nothing more than not looking at the textbook at all, they would be totally screwed.

 

[lfc_reds2003]

yes i was referring to this years paper.

A serious tip though: don't do quanta to quarks, I've been told its the hardest option, why make it any harder for yourself? 25 marks are 25 marks. Even though our school made us do quanta, had I cared about physics, I wouldve taken 2 days to learn another option.

hmm.. are u joking, quanta is soo easy and predicatable

 

[clonestar]

As a teacher this is my recommendation.

Listen to to your teacher's conceptual ideas about the hard concepts. I always use analogies to explain ideas. Again this would be based on your teachers experience and qualifications.

Make notes for each topic which address quotes on syllabus.

Do as many of the calculation questions as possible and be familiar with your calculator.

Study regularly with a timetable.

Good luck

 

[PiGMAN]

mm predicatable is a word. well if u wanna nit pick, i don't think you will find any option will be particularly hard, hence why i said hardest.

 

[vizman]

hey!! wats wrong with studying directly from the textbook? works for me quite effectively

 

[insert-username]

Get a copy of the Physics syllabus, and write out answers for each dot point. The exam will be based directly on the dot points, and if you know them all, you'll be well set.


I_F

 

[Mountain.Dew]

here's more of my 2 cents...

is it important not only to understand the concepts, but to put them into a clear, logical explanation when answering the question. it is advisable to prolly construct "model" answers for certain questions (e.g. how does the galvanometer operate). yes, its becoming more englishy, and its tending towards more practical and applied science with long responses and moving away from mathematical concepts and theoretical stuff. so, i strongly suggest writing up model answers to answer the syllabus, making sure NOT to miss out any KEY TERMS. adopt a kind of scaffolding in ur analysis. make ur answer COMPLETE, like a logical argument as u would in a formal debate.

 

[Captain Gh3y]

My advice:

Forget memorising the dotpoints, that's lame and boring. Get a hold of as many past papers, trials (especially the catholic school ones) and textbooks as you can and do all the trickiest/hardest problems in them. And keep doing them.

There's no need to write out and memorise some big long answer for every dotpoint; you just need to know what scientist did what and why, etc. Which basically requires you to read the textbook maybe twice (in class and before the exams) and come up with the answer in the exam.