At this time of the year many students go through past papers to practise their examination skills. Over the years I have collected together questions that I have set for my students together with explanations of how to tackle the question. They are mainly for AQA as that was the syllabus I taught – but some are from different boards – selected to illustrate how to deal with a question type or topic that was not on the paper. There are two banks of questions: Multiple Choice: http://www.cyberphysics.co.uk/Q&A/KS5/indexKS5Q&A_MC.html Structured Questions: http://www.cyberphysics.co.uk/Q&A/KS5/indexKS5Q&A.html They can be used by a teacher in a variety of ways: Test/homework bank of questions Whiteboard demonstration – going through questions set for homework or in a test. Individual student work at revision stage for whole examination or end of a topic.

An investigation into resistors in series and in parallel.

Energy sources and types to be found from a grid. Clues reinforce background knowledge. Photo-copyable pdf for pupils and pdf of solution for teacher. Suitable for KS3 or KS4. Can be used via the whiteboard - online link is indicated on solution sheet.

Circular Motion, Stellar Evolution and Satellites Questions and Answers A GCSE worksheet and solutions - suitable for revision or homework. There are online versions of the questions that can be used with a whiteboard or with pupils' iPads within lessons.

Suitable for KS3 or 4. Solutions are given. Online questions can be used for whiteboard use: http://www.cyberphysics.co.uk/Q&A/KS3/energy/Transitions/EnergyTransitionQuestions.html Using the whiteboard you can get pupils to mark their own while talking through the learning points raised by the exercise.

Background reading for students - task setting for planning, carrying out and presenting findings.

Suitable for A level students. This question sheet could be used for homework, classwork, or revision. Solutions are provided to it is easy to mark the work. There is also an online version of the questions so you can use the whiteboard to go through questions with the class or get them to mark their own. http://www.cyberphysics.co.uk/Q&A/KS5/SHC/questionsSHC.html

KS3 or KS4 questions on energy sources. There is an online version so that you can go through questions on the whiteboard and get students to mark their own. http://www.cyberphysics.co.uk/Q&A/KS3/energy/Sources/EnergySourcesQuestions.html

These kinetic theory summary notes and past paper questions can be used with A level students, either as revision or homework.

Suitable for able KS3 or KS4 that need to review basics. This question sheet could be used for homework, classwork, or revision. Solutions are provided to it is easy to mark the work. There is also an online version of the questions so you can use the whiteboard to go through questions with the class or get them to mark their own. http://www.cyberphysics.co.uk/Q&A/KS3/forces/Forcequestions.html

Interactive GCSE and A Level syllabuses have ‘click links’ to background notes and worked past paper questions. They include exam tips, explanations of common misunderstandings etc. Suitable for revision - especially working from home. AQA GCSE 8463: Link OCR GCSE J259: Link AQA A Level 7408: Link OCR GCSE H556: Link

A puzzle diagram to challenge your brightest! Can they use the principle of moments to solve the balanced system puzzle? Originally in a newspaper in 2009. I found these made excellent homework tasks... They really got the class talking about the topic! The solution is provided! Two puzzles included.

Questions and solutions aimed at able KS3 or KS4 pupils that need to revise the basic ideas. There is an online version of the questions so that you can pull questions up on the whiteboard to talk the class through the solution and/or get them to mark their own. http://www.cyberphysics.co.uk/Q&A/KS3/space/Spacequestions.html