Current, potential difference and resistance exam tips

Exam tips

• Resistors exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to explain how to measure the resistance of a component by measuring current through it and potential difference across it..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Resistors.

• Resistors exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to draw an appropriate resistance-measurement circuit using correct symbols..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Resistors.

• Resistors exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to investigate the relationship between thermistor resistance and temperature..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Resistors.

• Resistors exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to investigate the relationship between LDR resistance and light intensity..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Resistors.

• Resistors exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to use I-V graphs to decide whether circuit elements are linear or non-linear..

  This keeps your answer tightly aligned to the approved learning objective for Resistors.

• Resistors exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to relate I-V graph shapes to the function and properties of resistors, filament lamps and diodes..

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• Resistors exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to required practical activity 4: construct circuits to investigate I-V characteristics for a filament lamp, a diode and a resistor at constant temperature..

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• Resistors exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to apply AT 6 and AT 7 skills when constructing and using I-V characteristic circuits..

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• Resistors exam tip 1

  Use precise subject-specific vocabulary when you explain how to apply MS 4c, MS 4d and MS 4e skills when interpreting circuit graphs..

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