Yuck. Now, this is another exam brought to you by our dear friends OCR, so by now the blog writes itself. I would draw particular "arghhh!"s to their joyous "describe an expt" question, of style and content never before seen on a UC paper and taken from a year 12 topic - catching pretty much everyone off guard; their joyous six mark waffly on ( Read more... )

Physics practical was mostly alright. However, during the second experiment, the paper was all "adjust so the current is 3A" and my powerpack [and two of its friends] was all "2.89A is all you're getting" and my wire was all *starts to emit smoke* :p So, I probably lost a mark on the safety front for not being worried about the fire in my quest to ( Read more... )

If you value your ability to maintain coherent thought, 4 STEP questions followed by the AEA spec paper for fun [? I know, I'm going mad], is not advised ( Read more... )

Planning ex started writing itself this morning and by 11am had tidied itself into a draft :) Normal class had a maths related gathering this afternoon in the library [we're cool :D]. Cinema and curry trip reforming itself. And, progress on a STEP III question. Not right, but I had the idea ( Read more... )

I have found a way of combatting the sex based non-humour that often punctuates physics lessons [as blogged at length previously]: terrible [but clean] jokes!

Such as last lesson:
"It all Boyles down to PV = nRT"

And this lesson:
*As "How has our view of the atom changed?" is being written on board*
Me: "We now view it in HD!"

We had an entire hour of fully structured learning in physics today. I made three pages of notes, a topic was covered in detail, a homework was set; and there were no deviations to the topics of gaming or sex. And it's the last week of term as well! Where has this been for the last month?

An actual lesson. Awesome!