A-level, Europe & UK
Practical Skills: Maths & Science Guide for Exam Success
Practical questions appear on the written papers too. Here’s how to revise them so they turn into easy marks.
Required practicals
The practical endorsement is reported separately, but practical skills are also tested in your written papers. Students often forget this until the exam.
Make a one-page sheet per practical
For each required practical, write the method, the key measurements, sources of error and how to reduce them on a single page.
Uncertainty calculations come up every year. Practise them until they’re automatic.Margin note from Grace
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Practise data questions
Use past paper questions that give you results tables and ask for graphs, gradients and conclusions.
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