If you teach Eduqas A Level Physics, you will know the problem. Almost every resource online is written for AQA or OCR. The physics is the same, but the specification is not, and adapting someone else’s material topic by topic is a slow way to spend a Sunday.
So there is now a page on this site for it.
It sets out what each of the three components covers, what the four options contain, and — the part I think is most useful — what the examiners’ reports say costs marks, year after year.
The reports say the same things every year
Read several years of WJEC and Eduqas examiners’ reports in one sitting and a pattern emerges that is slightly deflating: most lost marks are not failures of physics. They are powers of ten, unit conversions, and a handful of habits that could be fixed in a single lesson.
A few that appear repeatedly:
- Using the diameter where the radius is needed — named as the commonest error in the sports option in 2025, and it appears in circular motion and resistivity questions too
- Omitting the word resultant from Newton’s second law, and leaving out the direction
- Confusing ⟨c²⟩, the mean square speed, with c², the mean speed squared — the report flags this explicitly
- Giving the limit of proportionality and the elastic limit the wrong way round, including by strong candidates
- Describing plastic deformation as whole planes of atoms sliding, rather than the movement of dislocations
- Answering repeat the experiment when asked how to improve confidence in a result. Not accepted — examiners want a greater range of readings, means, or error bars
- Assuming a projectile has zero kinetic energy at maximum height. The horizontal component of velocity is unchanged
None of these is hard. All of them are worth a mark or two, repeatedly, across a whole paper.
One that catches out whole classes
Worth flagging on its own: this specification writes the first law of thermodynamics as ΔU = Q − W, where W is the work done by the system.
Plenty of textbooks use ΔU = Q + W with W as the work done on the system. Both are correct physics and the two are perfectly consistent, but a student who has learnt one convention and meets the other in an exam will get the sign wrong on every part of the question. It is worth ten minutes of a lesson to make the convention explicit and insist students state it in their working.
The new pack
Alongside the page there is now a set of Specification Focus Questions for Eduqas A Level Physics, built the same way as the GCSE packs: every statement in the specification turned into a question, with the answer directly underneath, in the specification’s own order.
30 booklets · 730 questions and answers · 214 worked examples · 204 exam tips · 233 pages
All three components, and all four options — Alternating Currents, Medical Physics, The Physics of Sports and Energy and the Environment. Buy it once and it covers whichever option your department teaches, rather than charging you for the one you need and leaving the others out.
Every exam tip in it comes from the reports, placed beside the question it applies to, so students meet the warning at the moment it matters rather than in a list they will not read.
The GCSE material on this site stays free, including the 804 exam-style questions with mark schemes.
Independent revision resources. Not published by or affiliated with WJEC or Eduqas.
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