AQA A-Level Physics Student Revision Conference

ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE

Throughout the day, students will actively participate in relevant, focused sessions with an emphasis on how to improve their grades. The conference focuses on the challenging areas students need to understand for success in the 2024 examinations. The revision conference will also include feedback from the AQA exam board on what students need to do to maximise grades.

KEY FOCUS AREAS

• Gain first hand guidance and advice from highly experienced examiners and leading subject experts
• Reinforce and enhance your understanding of the key themes of A-Level Physics to ensure top level responses
• Benefit from examiner insight: how to improve grades and what gets the marks
• Exceptional advice on the skills, depth of understanding required to achieve high grades in A-Level Physics
• Take away a full set of conference notes, written by the expert speakers themselves

PROGRAMME

Welcome and introductions

Answering Paper 1

• Explore the most challenging topic area in Sections 1-5 of the specification and identifying why they are difficult (in particular Waves and Newton’s Laws).
• Develop revision strategies to prepare for questions with unfamiliar contexts
• Improve your problem solving skills to present calculation answers effectively and gain full marks
• Gain better understanding of how to interpret exam questions through mark schemes and exemplar material

Break

Answering Paper 2

• Explore the most challenging topic area in Sections 6-8 of the specification and identifying why they are difficult (in particular Fields and Radioactivity).
• Develop a technical vocabulary to improve performance on description/ explanation questions
• Effective revision and study techniques to make important links between key concepts within and between A-level physics topics
• Efficient strategies for tackling the multiple-choice section

Lunch

Ask the examiner

• Student questions on A-level Physics are answered by our experts

Answering Paper 3 Practical Skills and Data Analysis

• Improving the skills of graph-plotting and analysis of graphs by following the guidelines for best practice
• Developing communication skills in relation to describing methods and use of equipment through written communication activities linked to practical activities
• Focussing on basic numeracy skills and systematic approaches to mathematical problem solving
• Understanding how to estimate and calculate uncertainties in experimental measurements and derived physical quantities.
• Developing capacity to tackle novel experiments beyond the twelve core practicals
• Students will work through selected questions to address these skills

Break

Exam technique, Final Top Tips and Close

• Improving the way you layout and communicate your thinking in exam answers so examiners understand you
• Use time management methods to maximise effectiveness of your exam time
• Ensure that you understand what the question is asking for
• Be over-prepared for the paper, do not leave things to chance