JF physics exam

TX123

just wondering if any second years had any advice for the end year exams in physics. We have a whole book to cover and ive bearly started. do the lectureres expect you to cover the whole book (1600 pages) all help would be appreciated thanks

Have you checked out the past papers? Or talked to the lecturers about questions which come up? Do you have all your tutorials from the year?

thecheese

hey im a SF science student. well first of all past exam papers were pretty helpful for all of the science subjects for me last year so i'd suggest to actively do them as you study different modules. i know myself that i barely touched that huge physics book, i stuck mostly to the notes handed out in class. i found that these had all the info needed and the book was only needed as a help for parts i found difficult to understand and also for parts that lecturers specifically noted to look up in the book.

cant think of any other advice to give you, but you should be fine if you start working now for the end of year, (especially with this long break)! Plenty of time to get that first

Best of luck

ApeXaviour

By whole book I expect you mean University physics? You're certainly not expected to cover that whole book. Do you have notes from the year? They show you exactly what your course covered. I'll assume you don't have them though so I'll go with myth:

Past-papers, past-papers, past-papers and tutorial questions. They'll give you an excellent scope of what you're expected to know. Plus, exams test your ability to answer exam questions. What better way to study than to practice answering exam questions...


Also just to clarify, are you doing physics with engineering, radiation therapy pharmacy etc? Or are you doing it as part of TP, PCAM or Natural Science (if the latter is it JFA or JFB?)

TX123

thanks for the replies. im doing natural science physics. in my tutorials we sit around and talk for an hour.no notes or anything. we do on line assignments tho which count as a percentage of the final. ill get onto thos past papers. thanks

sully-gormo

i did Th. Physics for a bit; you should go on what the lecturers have actually covered in the courses, they havent covered the whole book by any stretch of the imagination,

SOL

If the whole book you are talking about is university physics 11th edition or whatever you need about 1 chapter per course in it, and you have what, 8 of those at most? alot of that book you will cover next year. It is easiest if you just get the notes from somewhere and work of thoses using the book as a help and just reading the relevant chapters...