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Physics A and B Get Ready Presentation

This document introduces two new A Level Physics specifications from OCR: Physics A and Physics B. It provides an overview of the key features and structure of each specification, including assessment methods, teaching units, and support available. The goals are to engage learners through innovative and applied content, while providing comprehensive teacher support. Publishers will provide tailored resources to support teaching the new specifications.

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Physics A and B Get Ready Presentation

This document introduces two new A Level Physics specifications from OCR: Physics A and Physics B. It provides an overview of the key features and structure of each specification, including assessment methods, teaching units, and support available. The goals are to engage learners through innovative and applied content, while providing comprehensive teacher support. Publishers will provide tailored resources to support teaching the new specifications.

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Welcome

A Level Physics

Make a difference
Contents

• Introduction to OCR

• Introduction to Physics
• Why change to our specification?
A Level • Support and training

Physics • Next steps


About OCR

• Part of Europe’s largest


assessment agency, Cambridge
Assessment

• UK’s leading awarding body

• Over 13,000 centres choose our


qualifications

• Qualifications are developed in


consultation with teachers
Our Mission

Our commitment is to provide qualifications which engage


learners of all ages whether at school, college, in work and part time training
programmes so they achieve their full potential

make a difference

Practical Accessible Innovative and exciting


Our Credentials

• Leading the way with new ideas

• Dedicated to offering respected


qualifications

• Engaging and relevant


qualifications

• Comprehensive support
framework
A Level
Physics A
Physics A Credentials

• Specifications attract more


candidates than any other
awarding body

• Designed for teachers by teachers


Key points of the specification

• Incorporated new topics and


removed some content

• Popular aspects have been


integrated

• No longer hierarchical assessment


Physics A | AS Structure

Teaching units
and Assessment G481 Mechanics
•Motion
method and •Forces in Action
•Work and Energy
weighting
G482 Electrons, Waves and Photons
•Electric Current
•Resistance
•DC Circuits
•Waves
•Quantum Physics

G483 Practical Skills in Physics 1


•This AS unit is teacher assessed and
externally moderated by OCR
•Learners are assessed on one task from
each of the following categories:
qualitative, quantitative and evaluation
tasks
Physics A | A2 Structure

Teaching units
and Assessment G484 The Newtonian World
•Newton’s Laws and Momentum
method and •Circular Motion and Oscillations
•Thermal Physics
weighting
G485 Fields, Particles and Frontiers of Physics
•Electric and Magnetic Fields
•Capacitors and Exponential Decay
•Nuclear Physics
•Medical Imaging
•Modelling the Universe

G486 Practical Skills in Physics 2


•This A2 unit is teacher assessed and
externally moderated by OCR
•Learners are assessed on one task from
each of the following categories:
qualitative, quantitative and evaluation
tasks
Stretch and Challenge
• Stretch and Challenge is a new QCA initiative for A Levels:
• Included in A2 assessment
• Reflected in the style of question asked which invite a greater variety of thinking
• Questions are structured to show more connections between different sections of
the specification
• Extended writing is encouraged in all subjects (except Maths0
• A wider range of question types – like case studies and open ended questions
• More synoptic assessments – exploring connections between different areas and
levels of a subject
A Level
Physics B
Physics B Credentials

• The focus is on how physics is put


into practice and used in the
modern world

• Learners explore the kind of


impact that discoveries in physics
have had on the way people live
now

• Developed with the Institute of


Physics
Key points of the specification

• Customised resources from the


Institute of Physics

• Digital imaging is now featured

• Distinctive content
Physics B | AS Structure

Teaching units
and Assessment G491 Physics in Action
•Communication
method and •Designer Materials
weighting
G492 Understanding Processes,
Experimentation and Data Handling
•Waves and Quantum Behaviour
•Space, Time and Motion

G493 Physics in Practice


•Quality of Measurement
•Physics in use
Physics B | A2 Structure

Teaching units
and Assessment G494 Rise and Fall of the
method and Clockwork Universe
weighting •Models and Rules
•Matters in Extremes

G495 Field and Particle Pictures


•Fields
•Fundamental Particles

G496 Researching Physics


•Practical Investigation
•Researching Briefing
What’s in it for you?

• Easy to administer
• Rewarding to deliver
• Appeals to less experienced
teachers as well as those looking
to broaden their repertoire
• Clear guidance of Assessable
Learning Outcomes in the
specification
What’s in it for your learners?

• Enjoyable and motivational


• Improving performance through a
skill based subject
• Stretch and challenge
opportunities
• Clear, explicit and accessible
question papers
• Build on GCSE knowledge
What’s in it for your school?

• More student enrolments


• Flexibility in curriculum planning
• Good progression routes
Support

• Overarching scheme of work and


sample lesson plans
• E-community
• Exemplar candidate work
• Coursework guidance documents
• Past papers on line for you to
download
• Exam quest
• INSET
Publishers

• We are working with publisher


partner Heinemann to provide
further resources to support these
specifications. The student books
and teacher resources are
specifically tailored to the new
specification.
Next Steps

• Book training/events - www.ocr.org.uk/training

• Bookmark website for further information/future updates –


www.ocr.org.uk
Other qualifications
•A Level Biology A
•A Level Human Biology
•A Level Chemistry A
•A Level Chemistry B (Salters)
•A Level Geology
•AS Science
•A Level Applied Science

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