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OCR A Level Physics: Comprehensive and Innovative Qualifications

Discover the leading A Level Physics qualification from OCR, designed to engage learners and provide comprehensive support. With practical and accessible content, our qualifications will help students achieve their full potential.

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OCR A Level Physics: Comprehensive and Innovative Qualifications

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  1. Welcome A Level Physics

  2. Contents • Introduction to OCR • Introduction to Physics • Why change to our specification? • Support and training • Next steps A Level Physics

  3. 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

  4. Our Mission Our commitment is to provide qualifications which engagelearners 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

  5. Our Credentials • Leading the way with new ideas • Dedicated to offering respected qualifications • Engaging and relevant qualifications • Comprehensive support framework

  6. A Level Physics A

  7. Physics A Credentials • Specifications attract more candidates than any other awarding body • Designed for teachers by teachers

  8. Key points of the specification • Incorporated new topics and removed some content • Popular aspects have been integrated • No longer hierarchical assessment

  9. Physics A | AS Structure Teaching units and Assessment method and weighting • G481 Mechanics • Motion • Forces in Action • Work and Energy • 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

  10. Physics A | A2 Structure Teaching units and Assessment method and weighting • G484 The Newtonian World • Newton’s Laws and Momentum • Circular Motion and Oscillations • Thermal Physics • 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

  11. 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

  12. A Level Physics B

  13. 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

  14. Key points of the specification • Customised resources from the Institute of Physics • Digital imaging is now featured • Distinctive content

  15. Physics B | AS Structure Teaching units and Assessment method and weighting • G491 Physics in Action • Communication • Designer Materials • 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

  16. Physics B | A2 Structure Teaching units and Assessment method and weighting • G494 Rise and Fall of the Clockwork Universe • Models and Rules • Matters in Extremes • G495 Field and Particle Pictures • Fields • Fundamental Particles • G496 Researching Physics • Practical Investigation • Researching Briefing

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. What’s in it for your school? • More student enrolments • Flexibility in curriculum planning • Good progression routes

  20. 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

  21. 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.

  22. Next Steps • Book training/events - www.ocr.org.uk/training • Bookmark website for further information/future updates – www.ocr.org.uk

  23. 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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