First Edition will be available mid of February 2025.
Key Features
1. ATAR exam preparation
2. Clear, easy-to-follow examples
3. Comprehensive set of revision and review questions
4. Problems at test/examination level
5. Fully worked solutions
This book is meant to be used in conjunction with a class text book, where the aim is to reinforce the most important principles and understandings. It contains the basic essentials needed for students to teach themselves by absorbing both facts and concepts, then working through the many example questions and quizzes. This book is meant to be written in as a workbook to produce progressive learning in a student-friendly manner.
An active learning style is ecouraged through the use of simple pictures and diagrams within the text, making full understanding cognitively simpler. Tests are supplied at the end of each topic and trial papers that would typify those used in National Curriculum examinations.
One of the main thrusts in this current approach is the importance of experimental design and analysis, where specific thinking skills and a focus on practical work has become more prominent (e.g. control of variables, data analysis, graphing and evaluation skills). This book is unique in this aspect as it has a whole chapter devoted to Investigations, where the separate, discrete skills are each targeted, from "How to design experiments" to "Evaluation and improvement of techniques".
About the Author
Jacob Marai is a Physics teacher in Western Australia with over 15 years experience. He holds a double bachelor’s degree in Physics and Secondary Education. Jacob is passionate about teaching and shares his enthusiasm with students and his peers in his current role as Head of Physics at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth. Jacob is also a WACE exam marker and physics exam paper writer, in addition to teaching numerous holiday revision seminars for ATAR Physics around Western Australia.
Jacob has a vast experience with the WACE Physics Curriculum and it’s evolution over the past two decades and has a thorough understanding of the marking standards and the expectations of exemplary responses in exam questions