GCSE Practice Questions and Solutions
Multiple Choice Questions can be found HERE
General questions
The following table contains hyper-links take you to pages of over 300 GCSE standard questions.
Each question has a link for you to click to see the solution - and (I think!) useful comments on how the marks are allocated by the examination board.
I suggest that you try each question in turn and then look at the mark scheme - that way you will know the sort of emphasis examiners put on keywords etc. for later questions you tackle.
| |
Topic |
Number of questions |
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Atomic Structure - Rutherford experiment |
4 |
|
Circular Motion |
3 |
|
Density |
5 |
|
Electric circuits |
15 |
|
Electricity in the home (Fuses, earthing, wiring a plug, domestic appliances, National Grid) |
20 |
|
Electromagnetic Induction (Electric Generator) |
6 |
|
Electromagnetic Spectrum |
13 |
|
Electromagnets and Magnets |
7 |
|
Energy changes from one form to another - Conservation of Energy - Sankey Diagrams |
8 |
|
Energy Sources - Biomass, Wind, Wave, HEP, Nuclear, Tidal, Geothermal, Fossil Fuel |
28 |
|
Eye and sight defects - also lenses and other optics questions requiring ray diagrams |
23 |
|
Forces and Motion - including terminal velocity - also see Circular Motion |
29 |
|
Geophysics |
1 |
|
Generator (Electromagnetic Induction) |
6 |
|
Heat Travel - Conduction - Convection and Radiation - Insulation |
18 |
|
Hooke's Law |
4 |
|
Kinetic Theory - Boyle's Law - the gas laws |
4 |
|
Light - reflection and colour (also see the optics (lenses) section and refraction and TIR) |
4 |
|
Magnets and Electromagnets |
7 |
|
Medical physics - including therapy and scanning |
9 |
|
Moments and Centre of Gravity |
13 |
|
Momentum |
5 |
|
Motion and Forces - including terminal velocity - also see Circular Motion |
26 |
|
Motor Effect |
7 |
|
Nuclear Structure - Rutherford Experiment |
4 |
|
Optics questions - Lenses and the Eye, and Mirrors and reflection |
25 |
|
Pressure, buoyancy, upthrust and fluids |
8 |
|
Radioactivity |
19 |
|
Ray diagram questions - lenses and mirrors |
23 |
|
Refraction and Total Internal Reflection |
11 |
|
Specific Heat Capacity and Latent Heat |
15 |
|
Space - satellites, telescopes, redshift |
18 |
|
Static electricity |
10 |
|
Total Internal Reflection and Refraction |
11 |
|
Transformer Questions |
10 |
|
Waves - electromagnetic and mechanical - oscillations - reflection - wave equation |
19 |
I am in the process of adding more questions.
It takes a long time to put them in a suitable format for online use
- so do check back from time to time
- there will be new ones...
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