Current, potential difference and resistance exam tips

Exam tips

• Electrical charge and current exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to identify charge flow Q in coulombs, current I in amperes and time t in seconds..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Electrical charge and current.

• Electrical charge and current exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to calculate charge flow when current and time are known..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Electrical charge and current.

• Electrical charge and current exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to calculate current when charge flow and time are known..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Electrical charge and current.

• Electrical charge and current exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to calculate time when charge flow and current are known..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Electrical charge and current.

• Electrical charge and current exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to state that current has the same value at any point in a single closed loop..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Electrical charge and current.

• Electrical charge and current exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to use MS 3b and MS 3c skills when rearranging and calculating with Q = I x t..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Electrical charge and current.

• Current, resistance and potential difference exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to explain that current through a component depends on resistance and potential difference..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Current, resistance and potential difference.

• Current, resistance and potential difference exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to explain that a larger resistance gives a smaller current for the same potential difference..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Current, resistance and potential difference.

• Current, resistance and potential difference exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to use the term potential difference accurately and recognise voltage as an accepted alternative term..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Current, resistance and potential difference.

• Current, resistance and potential difference exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to recall and apply the equation V = I x R..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Current, resistance and potential difference.