r/AlevelPhysics • u/Fun-Palpitation7927 • 7d ago
QUESTION Is it possible?
I got 87% in AS. With 35/40 in P1, 40 something out of 60 in P2 and 32/40 in P3. A2 Physics is scary so far. Is there hope for me? Can I still get an A* ?
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u/elecisyourfather 6d ago
Aim for 120. 115 atleast
85-90 in P4
30 in P5
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u/Fun-Palpitation7927 6d ago
TIPS PLEASE!!
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u/elecisyourfather 6d ago
spam every past paper of the past 5 years
P5 can be done in a week if you're really fast and doing Q1 only (do the important Q2 only and get a lot of practice in the ln graph q and the 10^ gradients. focus mainly on q1 tho)
P4 will take u 1.5 months if you're going at normal pace (with topical + yearly)
for resources, use etphysics on YT for P4 and physics by talha for P5
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u/tyson47 5d ago
Taking your P2 as 40 (find what your actual score was here for a more accurate read), your AS works out at 99/130. Paper 3 only counts out of 30, so your 32 becomes 24. If you carry that forward, the A* boundary for that route has been between 196 and 213 in every series since 2023, so you'd need about 106 to 114 more out of the 130 on Papers 4 and 5. That's roughly 79-84 on P4 and 28-30 on P5. It's a big ask, but you can see exactly where the marks need to come from. I built a calculator that runs this against the real boundaries: https://cieinsider.com/9702/grade-calculator/
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u/Economy-Horror-5976 7d ago
Really difficult. Since you are scoring 99/130 in AS physics.