How I'd Prepare for A Level Physics in 1 Week

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Here is how to prepare for A level physics with only a week to go. Have one final run through the specification and make sure that you can explain every little detail, including some of those which do not appear very often. For instance, if you're doing OCR, have you revised an experiment to determine the specific latent heat of vaporization?

[00:00:20]Can you explain the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution curves? And if you're doing AQA, can you explain the width of the central maximum and its dependence to things such as wavelength and gap size during single slit diffraction? For Edexcel, after how many time constants can you consider a capacitor to be fully discharged? Details like that do not appear very often in exams, but when they do, they're an excellent opportunity to gain some extra marks.

[00:00:49]The next thing I would do is open up all homework problems, all past papers, all mock exams, and have a look at every single question that you've gotten wrong. Are you able to do this question right now without looking at your notes?

[00:01:04]All the questions that you were able to do before, you will likely be able to do yet again, but really focus on the ones that you didn't get right. And if you'd like to revise with me, there are still places for my last-minute A level physics revision sessions for AQA, OCR, and Edexcel. Sign up if you need some extra help, and I'll leave a link in the description. Another thing to consider is to be really aware which topics can and cannot appear in your paper. For instance, if you are doing A level physics from OCR, we should know that the diffraction grating equation can appear because it's part of the astrophysics module. However, Young's double slit equation cannot appear as it's part of module four. For the last few days as well, I would leave an extra past paper to do in full exam conditions. This could even be the specimen paper if you have not solved this one just yet. Use it as an opportunity to test your exam technique just one more time and gain some confidence. Even if you prepare really well, you still need to avoid mistakes in A-level physics. And I have a dedicated video precisely on how to avoid mistakes, and this precisely what you should watch next to help you score the maximum grade on the exams. Have a look over here.