PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — GCSE Physics (Triple) — Whole Specification in Detail — & Answers

PIXL “Thinking Hard” Booklets — GCSE Physics (Triple) — Whole Specification in Detail — Includes Answers
Give your class a rigorous thinking workout while ensuring complete specification coverage. This printable booklet turns every part of the spec into clear, student-friendly tasks with built-in Grade 9 extensions. You also get a full answer set to support self-marking, quick feedback, and targeted intervention. Developed by an experienced UK teacher with the support of AI-assisted planning tools to ensure consistency, clarity and full-spec coverage. Save hours of planning: fully mapped to the whole specification, print-and-go, with answers included.
What’s inside
Whole-spec coverage: all topics, sub-topics, must-know content, misconceptions and key vocabulary mapped across the entire specification in detail.

PIXL strategies: Odd One Out • Always / Sometimes / Never True • Why? Why? Why? (5-deep) • Spot the Mistake • Diamond 9 / Ranking • Link It Up / Connections • Convince Me • What If? • Mini Retrieval (plus optional extras: If This Is the Answer…, Reduce It 30–3–2–1, Causation vs Correlation, Assumption Hunt).

Answers included: model points, sample justifications and marking guidance to make self-assessment easy.

Grade 9 stretch: every section has an Extension Task for analysis, evaluation and comparison.

Student-friendly layout: concise prompts, minimal prep, black-and-white printer-friendly.

Energy: Energy stores (kinetic, gravitational potential), work, power, energy transfers, and energy resources.

Electricity: Current, potential difference, resistance, series and parallel circuits, electrical power, and the National Grid.

Matter: Density, states of matter, specific heat/latent heat, and gas pressure.

Atomic Physics: Atoms, isotopes, radioactivity (half-life), nuclear fission/fusion, and the uses/dangers of radiation.

Forces & Motion: Scalars and vectors, contact/non-contact forces, gravity, Newton’s Laws, speed, velocity, acceleration, and stopping distance.

Waves: Transverse/longitudinal waves, properties, reflection, refraction, sound, and electromagnetic (EM) waves.

Magnetism: Magnetic fields, electromagnetism, the motor effect, electromagnetic induction, and transformers.