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Core content across any topic
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110 marks / 61.1%
Build fluent methods without calculator shortcuts- Review mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questions
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Two written papers, graded 9 to 1, with a two-hour Paper 1 carrying most of the grade and no separate practical exam - so experimental skills must be shown in writing. We tutor 4PH1 to how it's actually split and marked, calculations and all.
Edexcel International GCSE Physics is assessed by two externally-marked written papers, graded 9 to 1. Paper 1 is the larger, two-hour paper; Paper 2 is shorter and reaches the more demanding material. There is no separate practical exam.
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UNTIERED ROUTE - TWO WRITTEN PAPERS / 9-1Core content across any topic
2h110 marks / 61.1%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsAll content, including the more demanding material
1h 15m70 marks / 38.9%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsAround 20% of the marks assess experimental skills and understanding, but there is no separate practical exam.
Figures shown for 0580 and 0980 syllabuses for 2025-2027.
UNTIERED ROUTETWO WRITTEN PAPERS / 9-1Core content
2h110 marks / 61.1%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsAll content
1h 15m70 marks / 38.9%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsAround 20% of the marks assess experimental skills and understanding, but there is no separate practical exam.
A calculator is allowed. Exams run in the January and June series.
None of these are about ability. Each one is a mechanism in the exam, and every one of them is trainable.
The bigger paper carries most of the grade and demands stamina across every topic. Students who are patchy on any area feel it here.
Around 20% of marks assess experimental skills, but there's no separate practical exam, so students must describe methods, variables and analysis in the written papers.
Paper 2 assesses all the content, including the more demanding material. Students who only master the basics hit a ceiling on the paper that separates the top grades.
Working, units and significant figures are all examined. A right method with a missing unit or a rounding slip loses marks it should have earned.
The longer 6-mark questions reward a logical, well-sequenced scientific argument. Scattered points score below their potential.
These are the main syllabus strands your child is expected to cover. We teach all of them, starting with the gaps that are costing marks first.
Tuition stays aligned to the exact paper or unit structure, so revision time goes where the marks actually move.
A simple four-step approach designed to build confidence, close gaps and improve exam performance.
We confirm the syllabus code, exam series and paper route for 4PH1. Everything else depends on this.
A diagnostic against the syllabus topics tells us what's secure and what isn't, so we teach the gaps rather than the whole book.
The same tutor teaches each week around school. Concepts build step by step, with the school's pace kept in view.
Past-paper questions begin early, followed by full timed papers marked against the published mark scheme.
Expert, vetted Edexcel International GCSE Physics tutors who have taught the 4PH1 specification. Past-paper work is reviewed against published mark schemes, so your child can see where marks are awarded and where they are being lost. UK-qualified teachers are available on request as a premium option.
Not "edexcel international gcse physics in general" - this syllabus, this tier and these papers.
Your child learns where the marks actually are, not where they feel they should be.
Shared whiteboard, worked solutions and lesson materials saved to review after the session.
The same tutor every week - and if that changes, we tell you first.
Share your child's details and syllabus code. We'll match the right tutor and arrange a free 30-minute demo session.
Two written papers, graded 9 to 1: Paper 1 (two hours, 110 marks, 61.1%) and Paper 2 (1 hour 15 minutes, 70 marks, 38.9%).
No. There's no separate practical, but around 20% of the marks assess experimental skills and understanding within the written papers, so practical knowledge still has to be demonstrated in writing.
On the 9 to 1 scale, with 9 the highest.
Yes. A calculator may be used in the examinations.
Eight: forces and motion; electricity; waves; energy resources and transfers; solids, liquids and gases; magnetism and electromagnetism; radioactivity and particles; and astrophysics.
In the January and June series.
No. 4PH1 is untiered; all candidates sit the same two papers across the full 9 to 1 grade range.
We replace them - free, and with no argument - and hand over the syllabus progress and known concerns so the new tutor continues seamlessly.
