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WHY CHOOSE THIS SYLLABUS? 

Cambridge International AS & A Level Physics develops a set of transferable skills including handling data, practical problem-solving, and applying the scientific method. Learners develop relevant attitudes, such as concern for accuracy and precision, objectivity, integrity, enquiry, initiative and inventiveness. They acquire the essential scientific skills required for progression to further studies or employment. 

 

ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW

Candidates following an AS Level route will be eligible for grades a – e.

 

Candidates following an A Level route are eligible for grades A* – E.

 

DETAILS OF THE ASSESSMENT

 

Paper 1: Multiple Choice

• Written paper, 1 hour 15 minutes, 40 marks
• Forty multiple-choice items of the four-choice type testing assessment objectives AO1 and AO2. Questions are based on the AS Level syllabus content.

 

Paper 2: AS Level Structured Questions

• Written paper, 1 hour 15 minutes, 60 marks
• Structured questions testing assessment objectives AO1 and AO2. Questions are based on the AS Level syllabus content.

 

Paper 3: Advanced Practical Skills

• Practical test, 2 hours, 40 marks
• This paper tests assessment objective AO3 in a practical context.
• Two questions assess the AS Level practical skills in the Practical assessment section of the syllabus. The content of the questions may be outside the syllabus content. 

 

Paper 4: A Level Structured Questions

• Written paper, 2 hours, 100 marks
• Structured questions testing assessment objectives AO1 and AO2.
• Questions are based on the A Level syllabus; knowledge of material from the AS Level syllabus content will be required. 

 

Paper 5: Planning, Analysis and Evaluation 

• Written paper, 1 hour 15 minutes, 30 marks
• Two questions testing assessment objective AO3.
• Questions are based on the A Level practical skills of planning, analysis and evaluation but may require knowledge of practical skills from the AS Level syllabus. The content of the questions may be outside of the syllabus content. 

 

SUBJECT CONTENT

• Physical quantities and units
• Kinematics
• Dynamics
• Forces, density and pressure
• Work, energy and power
• Deformation of solids
• Waves
• Superposition
• Electricity
• D.C. circuits
• Particle physics 
• Motion in a circle
• Gravitational fields
• Temperature
• Ideal gases
• Thermodynamics
• Oscillations
• Electric fields
• Capacitance
• Magnetic fields
• Alternating currents
• Quantum physics
• Nuclear physics
• Medical physics
• Astronomy and cosmology

 

SOURCE 

www.cambridgeinternational.org