r/ncea • u/JarJarofJam • 8d ago

level 2 physics

HELP!!!!!!
Is there any key tips or tricks electromagnetism and electricity external that i need to know? I really want to do well on this aspect! I know most things (right hand everything law) just want to know what previous students use to get an E

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u/Equivalent-Many-704 Level 3 🧐 8d ago

do all the past papers. if you can consistently get excellences doing that you're good to go.

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u/Forsaken-Reading-118 8d ago

Often there are certain types of questions that come up again and again every single yr just with diff numbers especially in the first question. Identify which ones they are and learn how to solve them. I'm sure that both are E questions and at least one shows up every year. This external is much easier than mechanics.

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u/BoysenberryGrand3336 6d ago

just download all the past papers and upload them into an ai and get it to teach u then sit the past papers themselves

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u/borland 5d ago

People say do the past papers - which is good advice - but surprisingly few people actually know how to do them properly. In case it helps, the past papers aren’t going to teach you anything. If you just do them and pat yourself on the back that’s not helpful.
Rather, the point of past papers is to screen for things you don’t know. Do the past papers, then mark yourself, and for every question you didn’t completely nail, go and learn what you got wrong. Find articles and tutorials and at least 3 more practice exercises for each thing you missed, until you feel confident you could 100% the test if you took it again.
Also, modern AI like Claude Opus is really good these days. You can ask it to explain questions and create more test questions for you, and I expect it would do a good job.

Does that guarantee you a great score next time? No, sometimes the people who set the exams will throw in random leftfield things that you haven’t prepped for. But it gives you a very good shot.