A Level Physics Tutoring, for Every Board
A Level Physics is mathematics applied under time pressure: many marks depend on choosing the right model, rearranging it and carrying units and significant figures through several steps. Each board tests practical skills in its own way — written practical questions plus a school-assessed endorsement at AQA and OCR, written practical units at Pearson Edexcel, and a timetabled practical test and planning paper at Cambridge International.
Short answer
A Level Physics is offered online, one-to-one.
A private lesson runs 90 minutes and starts at USD 95 per lesson; lessons are booked singly or in packages.
No group class runs for this exam.
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Your lessons are taught by Can Tuncer, who teaches A Level Physics.
- Structure shown for AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel, Cambridge International
- Live online lessons of 90 minutes
- From USD 95 per lesson
How A Level Physics is assessed, board by board
4 awarding bodies examine this subject, and they do not examine it the same way: different papers, different weightings, different practical arrangements. Find your board — it is printed on your school's timetable and on past papers — and read that block. Nothing on this page describes one board's paper as though it applied to all of them.
AQA
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1 — Sections 1–5 and 6.1 (periodic motion) | 34% | 2 hours | 85 marks | short answer, extended response and multiple choice |
| Paper 2 — Sections 6.2 to 8, with assumed knowledge of sections 1–6.1 | 34% | 2 hours | 85 marks | short answer, extended response and multiple choice |
| Paper 3 — Section A: practical skills and data analysis (45 marks). Section B: one optional topic (35 marks) | 32% | 2 hours | 80 marks | short answer, extended response and data response |
| Practical endorsement in physics | — | Assessed in school | — | practical work and reported separately from the grade |
- The practical endorsement is assessed by the school across the required physics practicals and reported as pass or not classified. It carries no marks towards the A Level grade, and universities do look at it.
- Section B of Paper 3 is one option from five: Astrophysics, Medical physics, Engineering physics, Turning points in physics, or Electronics. Which one a school teaches is a school decision, and 35 marks of the A Level rest on it.
Checked on 22 September 2026
OCR
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modelling physics (01) — Modules 1, 2, 3 and 5 | 37% | 2 hours 15 min | 100 marks | structured questions, extended response and calculations |
| Exploring physics (02) — Modules 1, 2, 4 and 6 | 37% | 2 hours 15 min | 100 marks | structured questions, extended response and calculations |
| Unified physics (03) — All six modules | 26% | 1 hour 30 min | 70 marks | structured questions and extended response |
| Practical endorsement in physics | — | Assessed in school | — | practical work and reported separately from the grade |
- The practical endorsement is assessed by the school across the required physics practicals and reported as pass or not classified. It carries no marks towards the A Level grade, and universities do look at it.
- The same board also awards Physics B (Advancing Physics) (H557), which is examined differently. Check the specification code on your syllabus before assuming the structure above applies.
Checked on 22 September 2026
Pearson Edexcel
Pearson Edexcel International A Level Physics (YPH11)
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1: Mechanics and Materials | 20% | 1 hour 30 min | 80 marks | multiple choice, short answer, extended response and calculations |
| Unit 2: Waves and Electricity | 20% | 1 hour 30 min | 80 marks | multiple choice, short answer, extended response and calculations |
| Unit 3: Practical Skills in Physics I — Written paper on the experiments done in units 1 and 2 | 10% | 1 hour 20 min | 50 marks | short answer and calculations |
| Unit 4: Further Mechanics, Fields and Particles | 20% | 1 hour 45 min | 90 marks | multiple choice, short answer, extended response and calculations |
| Unit 5: Thermodynamics, Radiation, Oscillations and Cosmology | 20% | 1 hour 45 min | 90 marks | multiple choice, short answer, extended response and calculations |
| Unit 6: Practical Skills in Physics II — Written paper on the experiments done in units 4 and 5 | 10% | 1 hour 20 min | 50 marks | short answer and calculations |
- This is a modular qualification: units are sat in January, June and October, can be taken in stages, and can be re-sat, with the best result counting. That changes how a two-year plan is built — and it is the main reason a Pearson student and a Cambridge student in the same class need different revision schedules.
- Practical skills are examined on paper, in units 3 and 6, rather than by a school-assessed endorsement. The experiments still have to be done — the questions assume the student has done them.
Checked on 22 September 2026
Cambridge International
Cambridge International AS & A Level Physics (9702)
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1: Multiple Choice — AS Level content | 15.5% | 1 hour 15 min | 40 marks | multiple choice |
| Paper 2: AS Level Structured Questions — AS Level content | 23% | 1 hour 15 min | 60 marks | structured questions |
| Paper 3: Advanced Practical Skills — Experimental skills, sat in a laboratory | 11.5% | 2 hours | 40 marks | practical work and structured questions |
| Paper 4: A Level Structured Questions — A Level content, assuming the AS content | 38.5% | 2 hours | 100 marks | structured questions |
| Paper 5: Planning, Analysis and Evaluation — Experimental design; contexts may sit outside the syllabus | 11.5% | 1 hour 15 min | 30 marks | planning, analysis and evaluation |
- Cambridge examines practical work in a timetabled laboratory exam rather than through a school-assessed endorsement. Papers 3 and 5 together carry 23% of the A Level, which is more than most students allocate to practical preparation.
- There are three routes through the qualification: AS Level alone, AS then A Level in two stages, or all five papers in one series. Which route a school uses changes when each paper is sat.
Checked on 22 September 2026
Specifications are revised periodically. Each block links to the specification it was read from and gives the date it was checked; if your school has moved to a newer specification, that document takes precedence.
What A Level Physics covers
The syllabus areas most boards share. Which ones appear, in what order and on which paper differs by board and by specification code — your own specification is the final word. Topic names are left in English, as they appear on the paper.
Mechanics and Materials
Newton's laws, moments, equilibrium · Kinematic equations and projectile motion · Conservation of energy, work-energy theorem · Material properties: Young's modulus, stress-strain
Waves and Particle Physics
Wave properties: interference, diffraction, polarisation · Standing waves and resonance · Photoelectric effect and the photon model · Particle physics: quarks, leptons, bosons
Fields and Nuclear Physics
Electric fields, Coulomb's law, potential · Magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction · Nuclear mass defect, binding energy · Radioactive decay and half-life
Where A Level Physics marks are usually lost
Losing method marks on the way to the answer
In multi-step calculations, method marks reward each stage: the equation chosen, the substitution, the rearrangement. A student who makes one slip but shows every stage keeps most of the credit; one who writes only a final number gets nothing if it is wrong. Marks also go on missing units, on rounding early and carrying the error forward, and on answers quoted to more significant figures than the data justify.
Treating uncertainty as an afterthought
Every board expects students to estimate uncertainties, combine them in a derived quantity and judge whether a result agrees with an accepted value. Graphs add more: Cambridge and OCR name a worst line for the uncertainty in a gradient, and every board can ask for logarithmic plots that test exponential or power-law relationships. Students who met this only in the laboratory struggle to apply it on paper.
Explaining physics in everyday words
Extended-response questions ask students to explain a phenomenon — why a satellite stays in orbit, why the photoelectric effect needs a photon model — as a logical sequence of physics. Answers lose marks when they describe instead of explain, confuse force, energy and power, or skip a link in the chain. Such questions appear in the AQA, OCR and Pearson Edexcel papers and reward a connected explanation, not a list of facts.
A Level Physics coursework
At AQA and OCR, practical work is assessed through the practical endorsement: over the course the student carries out a set of assessed practical activities, and the school’s teachers judge competence against common practical assessment criteria. The outcome is reported separately from the A Level grade, and OCR describes the component as non-exam assessment. Pearson Edexcel and Cambridge International have no such component; they examine practical skills in written or laboratory papers instead. A tutor can explain the physics and technique behind each practical and discuss results afterwards, but the practical work and its assessment belong to the school.
A tutor can explain the criteria, question a draft and point to what is weak. The research, the writing and every decision in it stay the student’s own, as the awarding body’s rules require.
How we teach A Level Physics
A tutor first secures the mathematics the course runs on — rearranging equations, trigonometry, standard form, logarithms, gradients and areas under graphs — because AQA’s specification states that a substantial share of the marks require mathematical skills, and the other boards test the same skills throughout their papers. Topics then follow the board’s own order, with each equation explained before it is used and the board’s data and formulae provision beside the student, so they know what is given and what must be recalled. Past-paper questions are set every week and marked against the board’s mark scheme. Practical reasoning is trained on real data — tables, graphs, uncertainties, evaluation — in the form each board examines it: AQA’s practical skills section, Pearson’s written practical units, Cambridge’s planning paper.
Your starting point is reviewed before the study plan is finalised. The exact method depends on the programme and is agreed on the intro call — for some students that means a timed section, for others it means reading a recent score report or a piece of marked work. We will tell you which applies to you before you book anything, rather than describing a process here that may not be the one you get.
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