The Physics Question Bank

Twenty quick revision tasks that use pages on this site. Each one takes 15 minutes, works for any topic, and needs only your book, a pen and a calculator. Every activity has a 🟢 support option if you find it hard, a 🔴 stretch option if you find it easy, and a 🏆 score so you can track your progress.

📍 Topic links

Everything you need for each topic, one click away.

Topic	Notes	Quiz	Fill the gaps	Diagrams	Test (F)	Test (H)
⚡ Energy	Notes	Quiz	Gaps	Diagrams	F	H
🔌 Electricity	Notes	Quiz	Gaps	Diagrams	F	H
🧊 Particle Model	Notes	Quiz	Gaps	Diagrams	F	H
⚛️ Atomic Structure	Notes	Quiz	Gaps	Diagrams	F	H
🚀 Forces	Notes	Quiz	Gaps	Diagrams	F	H
🌊 Waves	Notes	Quiz	Gaps	Diagrams	F	H
🧲 Magnetism	Notes	Quiz	Gaps	Diagrams	F	H
🌌 Space (Separate)	Notes	Quiz	Gaps	Diagrams	F	H

🟢 Made simple pages (great for 🟢 support): Acceleration · Specific heat capacity · History of the atom

I want to…	Try activities
🧠 learn facts and definitions	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
🧮 get better at calculations	6, 7, 8, 9, 10
📈 master graphs and diagrams	11, 12, 13
🔬 revise the required practicals	14, 15
📝 improve my exam technique	16, 17, 18, 19, 20

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🧠 Facts and definitions

A1. Definition Blitz 📌

Use: your topic’s Notes – pick one notes page
0–5 min: Read the red 📌 Key Definitions box. Say each one out loud three times.
5–10 min: Close the page. Write every definition from memory, word for word.
10–15 min: Check. Tick what’s right; rewrite anything wrong in a different colour.
🟢 Support: learn just two definitions, then write the key words only.
🔴 Stretch: after checking, write an exam question that would test each definition.
🏆 Score: definitions word-perfect ÷ total.

A2. Quiz Sprint ⚡

Use: your topic’s Quiz
0–8 min: Do the 20-question quiz. Write your score.
8–15 min: For every question you got wrong, write the correct answer and one sentence explaining why it’s right.
🟢 Support: do the first 10 questions only, then correct them.
🔴 Stretch: for three questions you got right, explain why each wrong option is wrong.
🏆 Score: out of 20. Beat it next week!

A3. Fill the Gaps ✍️

Use: your topic’s Fill the gaps
0–10 min: Copy the passage into your book, filling in the missing words without looking anything up.
10–15 min: Check. Highlight every word you missed – these are your revision targets.
🟢 Support: use the word bank if there is one, and do half the passage.
🔴 Stretch: cover the passage and rewrite it from memory in your own words.
🏆 Score: gaps correct ÷ total.

A4. Mind Map from Memory 🗺️

Use: Mind map guide
0–8 min: Put the topic in the middle of a page. Add everything you remember – key words, equations, units, diagrams.
8–13 min: Open the mind map guide. Add anything you missed in a different colour.
13–15 min: Circle the three branches you knew least – revise these next.
🟢 Support: copy the main branch headings from the guide first, then fill them in from memory.
🔴 Stretch: draw arrows linking ideas between branches and label each link.
🏆 Score: how much of your map is in your first colour? (e.g. 70%)

A5. Teach It Back 🗣️

Use: your topic’s Notes – one page
0–5 min: Read the notes carefully.
5–10 min: Close the page. Explain the topic out loud to someone at home, or write it as if teaching a Year 7, in 6–8 sentences.
10–15 min: Reopen the notes. Add anything important you forgot.
🟢 Support: use a Made simple page and explain in 4 sentences.
🔴 Stretch: include an equation, a real-life example and a common mistake in your explanation.
🏆 Score: key points included out of the key points in the notes.

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🧮 Calculations

A6. Equation Memory Test 🧾

Use: Equation sheet
0–5 min: Write every equation for your topic from memory, with the unit for each quantity.
5–8 min: Check against the equation sheet. Correct mistakes.
8–15 min: Rearrange three equations to make a different quantity the subject.
🟢 Support: write the equations in words first (e.g. “speed = distance ÷ time”).
🔴 Stretch: rearrange every equation in the topic, including ones with squares.
🏆 Score: equations and units correct ÷ total.

A7. Equation Ladder 🪜

Use: Combined Science equations or Separate Physics equations – pick one equation
0–12 min: Work through the questions in order using FIFA (Formula, Insert, Fix, Answer). Stop when you get stuck.
12–15 min: Mark your answers.
🟢 Support: use the Foundation only list and do questions 1–5.
🔴 Stretch: start at question 6 and finish the ladder.
🏆 Score: the highest question you got right. Next time, start one rung higher.

A8. Which Equation? 🎯

Use: Which equation? (mixed)
0–3 min: Read the first eight questions. For each, write only which equation you’d use.
3–12 min: Now solve as many as you can.
12–15 min: Mark them. Did you pick the right equation each time?
🟢 Support: highlight the quantities given and the quantity asked for before choosing.
🔴 Stretch: for each question, write why the other equations would not work.
🏆 Score: right equation chosen ÷ 8, and answers correct ÷ attempted.

A9. Step-by-Step Challenge 👣

Use (pick one): Acceleration · Specific heat capacity · F = ma: resultant force first · Braking force · Multi-step problems
0–13 min: Read the steps box, then answer the questions in order. Write every step.
13–15 min: Mark your work.
🟢 Support: start with a Made simple page and complete Levels 1–2.
🔴 Stretch: go straight to the challenge level, then use Multi-step problems.
🏆 Score: the level you completed.

A10. Maths Skills Warm-Up ➗

Use: Maths skills
0–12 min: Pick one skill you find hard – unit conversions, standard form, rearranging or significant figures. Read the notes, then do the questions.
12–15 min: Mark them and write one rule to remember.
🟢 Support: do unit conversions (g → kg, cm → m, minutes → s) – they lose the most marks.
🔴 Stretch: do standard form and significant figures together.
🏆 Score: questions correct ÷ attempted.

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📈 Graphs and diagrams

A11. Draw It from Memory ✏️

Use: your topic’s Diagrams
0–3 min: Pick three diagrams. Look at each for one minute.
3–10 min: Close the page. Draw all three in pencil with a ruler, with every label.
10–15 min: Check. Add missing labels in a different colour.
🟢 Support: draw one diagram, copying it first, then again from memory.
🔴 Stretch: under each diagram, write a 2-mark exam question and its answer.
🏆 Score: labels correct ÷ total labels.

A12. Sketch It: Graphs 📉

Use (pick one): Distance–time · Speed–time · Skydiver
0–7 min: Do one task. Draw the graph on graph paper using the exact scale given.
7–13 min: Answer that task’s questions.
13–15 min: Mark your answers.
🟢 Support: start with the distance–time Task 1 (the walk to the park).
🔴 Stretch: do the skydiver, including the force arrows.
🏆 Score: questions correct + 1 bonus mark for a fully labelled graph.

A13. Graph Shapes Quick-Fire 🔁

Use: Motion graphs notes (or any notes page with graphs)
0–5 min: Sketch, from memory, what each shape means – flat line, straight slope, steeper slope, curve – on both a distance–time and a speed–time graph.
5–10 min: Check against the notes and correct.
10–15 min: Do the questions on the notes page.
🟢 Support: do the distance–time graph shapes only.
🔴 Stretch: add how to find speed, acceleration and distance from each graph.
🏆 Score: shapes correct ÷ 8.

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🔬 Required practicals

A14. Practical from Memory 🧪

Use: Required practicals – pick one
0–8 min: Without looking, write the method as numbered steps and draw the set-up.
8–13 min: Open the page. Tick what you got right; add missing steps in a different colour.
13–15 min: Write the independent, dependent and control variables.
🟢 Support: draw and label the equipment first, then write 4 steps.
🔴 Stretch: add one source of error and how to reduce it.
🏆 Score: steps correct ÷ steps in the method.

A15. Variables Detective 🔍

Use: Working scientifically and Required practicals
0–5 min: Read the notes on variables, accuracy, precision and repeatability.
5–13 min: Pick three practicals. For each, write: independent variable, dependent variable, two control variables and one hazard.
13–15 min: Check against the practical pages.
🟢 Support: do one practical, using the red definitions box on its page.
🔴 Stretch: do five practicals and say how to make each one more accurate.
🏆 Score: boxes correct in your table ÷ total boxes.

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📝 Exam technique

A16. Mini Mock ⏱️

Use: your topic’s Test (F) or Test (H)
0–11 min: Do Questions 01 and 02 in exam conditions – no notes.
11–15 min: Mark your answers with the mark schemes. Write your score out of the total.
🟢 Support: do Question 01 only, then read the mark scheme for Question 02.
🔴 Stretch: do the Higher test, including the 6-mark question.
🏆 Score: marks ÷ total. Next time, do Questions 03 and 04.

A17. Mark Scheme Detective 🕵️

Use: your topic’s Test
0–7 min: Pick three questions worth 2–3 marks. Answer them.
7–12 min: Open the mark schemes. Underline each marking point you included. Which are missing?
12–15 min: Rewrite one answer so it would get full marks.
🟢 Support: pick 1- and 2-mark questions.
🔴 Stretch: write a mark scheme for a question from the notes page, then answer it.
🏆 Score: marks before vs after rewriting.

A18. Six-Mark Planner 📋

Use: Long-answer questions
0–4 min: Read one 6-mark question. Plan it as 6 bullet points in a logical order.
4–12 min: Write the full answer in sentences.
12–15 min: Compare with the model answer. Tick each point you included.
🟢 Support: write 3 good points in full sentences using the key words from the question.
🔴 Stretch: use linking words (so, because, therefore) to join every point into a chain.
🏆 Score: points matched ÷ 6.

A19. Don’t Lose Marks ⚠️

Use: your topic’s Notes page – scroll to Where students lose marks
0–5 min: Read the list. Copy the three mistakes you are most likely to make.
5–13 min: Answer the Key definitions questions on the same page, checking each answer against your three mistakes.
13–15 min: Mark your answers.
🟢 Support: pick one mistake and do 5 questions.
🔴 Stretch: write your own tricky question that would catch someone making each mistake.
🏆 Score: answers correct ÷ attempted.

A20. Past Paper Hunt 📄

Use: AQA past papers
0–3 min: Open a past paper. Find one question on your topic.
3–12 min: Answer it in exam conditions.
12–15 min: Mark it with the real mark scheme.
🟢 Support: choose a Foundation paper and a question worth 4 marks or fewer.
🔴 Stretch: choose a Higher paper and find the question with the most marks on your topic.
🏆 Score: marks ÷ total – and one thing to improve.

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📅 4-week revision plan

Three 15-minute sessions a week, on one topic. Each week mixes remembering, calculating and exam practice – and repeats earlier activities so you can see your scores go up.

Week	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3
1	A1 Definition Blitz	A7 Equation Ladder	A11 Draw It from Memory
2	A2 Quiz Sprint	A8 Which Equation?	A14 Practical from Memory
3	A3 Fill the Gaps	A9 Step-by-Step Challenge	A16 Mini Mock
4	A2 Quiz Sprint (beat your score!)	A18 Six-Mark Planner	A17 Mark Scheme Detective

📒 Copy this record table into your book

Date	Code (e.g. A7 – Forces)	🏆 Score	One thing to fix