The only way to prepare for the curve ball questions is to UNDERSTAND physics.
Past papers are a good way to consolidate understanding and look for different types of questions, but undoubtedly, there will be questions which ask you to bend your knowledge a bit to an unfamiliar context — this is what High Band 5 / Band 6 students are able to do. See a scenario, think of how their existing knowledge applies to the new scenario and then apply it.
You can’t know everything beforehand, you need to be able to APPLY what you know to the unfamiliar scenarios. No textbook and/or teacher and/or tutor teaches every possible type of question for every possible dot point, even if they think they do.
Teachers equip you with the skills you need, but you need to be able to APPLY.
Engineers aren’t like “Bruvv, never learnt this exact scenario in my 5 yr degree, must be impossibru” Rather, they twist what they are familiar with to apply to the given scenario.
This is where you need to be to address some of the harder MCQ. There is no “trick”, there is no magic NZT-48 for this, just hard work.
Hi Guys
How do i prepare for physics MCQ. No matter how much I do there is always a couple that stumps me like the HSC 2017 Q17. Like there's always something that you havent thought about. If anyone has anytips on how to do well at it, please let me know. Thanks