Did you do physics at school? Have an O-level or GCSE in it? Take a look at these example questions and see if you could answer one of today’s papers.
Wellington Grey, a high school physics teacher in the UK, is starting a campaign to beg for his subject back.
If, like me, you ever enjoyed science while you were at school, you’ll be very surprised to find the subject completely unrecognisable these days. I can’t see how this dumbing down of physics is going to encourage more young people to go into science-related disciplines as they get older, nor give them the tools to be able to distinguish between unfounded scaremongering and genuine scientific research in the press.
It seems as if those responsible for setting the National Curriculum for science need to take their own course in critical thinking…
4 responses so far ↓
1 Grey // 11th Jun 2007 at 4:52 pm
Thank you for linking to my site.
-Grey
2 Jag // 13th Jun 2007 at 3:42 pm
I never knew it was this bad. Thanks for pointing it out. I owe a lot to my interest in physics when I was at school.
3 Paula // 13th Jun 2007 at 8:57 pm
As I hated all forms of science and was only ever good at biology then I shall have to get hubby to look at this.
(You see, we have it covered with the hobbits, hubby does sciences and math while I cover arts, history, languages and English!)
4 Crofty // 16th Jun 2007 at 1:04 pm
I loved physics at school: Boyle’s Law, Forces, Faraday etc. I also developed my love of comedy and I presume that that is what the AQA paper is: a question from the GCSE in alternative humour – I laughed out loud when I read the bit about ‘Timothy’s motivation for firing a cannon ball’.
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