Hi, who else did the physics olympiad today? Let's discuss how we went
As a Year 10 student, this was my first time trying something like this. It was honestly really hard and I felt brain dead afterwards.
I expected the first 10 multiple choice questions to be doable, but that was not the case. I did manage to get an answer down for everything except 11ai. Really glad I studied buoyancy since that came up, but conversely, I didn't study that much on gases and that also came up. Question 13 was quite confusing to be honest, I didn't know how to draw the magnetic field for a vertical and horizontal bar magnet, not to mention arranging them! However, this year had a lot of explaining questions and drawing diagrams which was welcome for an inexperienced person like me.
I really want to discuss it because for the physics olympiad especially it's hard to know how you went, since the marks are allocated by the examiners afterwards. Plus it's hard to know how you went with most of the writing questions.