Practical Assessment Task (2 Viewers)

[Jaros]

Hey everyone,
I have a Physics Mod 5 practical coming up in year 12 maybe like 5-6 weeks. I was wondering on how to best prepare for these kinds of tests or if there is content I should know really well, like projectile or circular motion. My teacher who made the test is notorious for making 'creative' tests, so I'm kind of worried. I would really appreciate any tips on how to study or anything.

Thanks in advance,
Physics student

 

[Study to success]

Hey everyone,
I have a Physics Mod 5 practical coming up in year 12 maybe like 5-6 weeks. I was wondering on how to best prepare for these kinds of tests or if there is content I should know really well, like projectile or circular motion. My teacher who made the test is notorious for making 'creative' tests, so I'm kind of worried. I would really appreciate any tips on how to study or anything.

Thanks in advance,
Physics student

You’ve already started mod 5 what

 

[C2H6O]

Hey everyone,
I have a Physics Mod 5 practical coming up in year 12 maybe like 5-6 weeks. I was wondering on how to best prepare for these kinds of tests or if there is content I should know really well, like projectile or circular motion. My teacher who made the test is notorious for making 'creative' tests, so I'm kind of worried. I would really appreciate any tips on how to study or anything.

Thanks in advance,
Physics student

i have a tough teacher who assesses our prac tasks very harshly, and what we'd do is get a subtopic to investigate (in our case projectile motion), and we'd to a really long and detailed background info and aim/hypothesis to hand in, and then on the day we'd get to see the equipment when the exam starts, so you need to write a method on the spot, do the experiment and collect results, and write a report. if this sounds like your teacher then id recommend putting a lot of practice into writing scientific reports, and know how to assess accuracy, reliability and validity. know all the niche rules about graphing and tabulating results, have a rough method in mind, remember to do trials, and pre-empt some improvements/errors to discuss on the experiment, and finally prepare a conclusion. id recommend reading teacher feedback for previous assessments or asking for past exemplars to know how your teacher likes the scientific reports written

 

[Jaros]

You’ve already started mod 5 what

Nah like I just went ahead, and learn it

 

[Jaros]

i have a tough teacher who assesses our prac tasks very harshly, and what we'd do is get a subtopic to investigate (in our case projectile motion), and we'd to a really long and detailed background info and aim/hypothesis to hand in, and then on the day we'd get to see the equipment when the exam starts, so you need to write a method on the spot, do the experiment and collect results, and write a report. if this sounds like your teacher then id recommend putting a lot of practice into writing scientific reports, and know how to assess accuracy, reliability and validity. know all the niche rules about graphing and tabulating results, have a rough method in mind, remember to do trials, and pre-empt some improvements/errors to discuss on the experiment, and finally prepare a conclusion. id recommend reading teacher feedback for previous assessments or asking for past exemplars to know how your teacher likes the scientific reports written

Is there a possibility they could give you the method and then talk about improving the method and deriving certain formula or relationships. I asked a year 12, they did a pendulum one where they were given the method so if they do give us a method how would I prepare? Also do I need to know like precision and internal reliability or is it overkill? thank you

 

[C2H6O]

Is there a possibility they could give you the method and then talk about improving the method and deriving certain formula or relationships. I asked a year 12, they did a pendulum one where they were given the method so if they do give us a method how would I prepare? Also do I need to know like precision and internal reliability or is it overkill? thank you

its completely up to your teacher. my teacher did do derivations and relationships but that was in the background info so we had a couple days to work on that at home. method may or may not be given, at my school we had a variety of equipment so it was up to interpretation what you would investigate and how (ie optimal launch angle, launch power, etc). idrk what precision and internal reliability are but it depends on your teacher. stock standard scientific report would just be reliability accuracy and validity though. would recommend suggesting improvements from error analysis but thats once again depending on how your teacher is marking