8K Mark schemes

Quick Quiz Matching End of Unit Test marks to NC levels

Question Answers Marks Level Marks Cumulative Suggested
Topic 1 2 3 4 available total threshold
8Ka A C D C 4 3 1 1 1
8Kb A C C C 4 4 5 6 4
8Kc B C B D 4 5 4 10 8
8Kd D B B D 4 6 6 16 13
8Ke C B C D 4 7 7 23 20
8 8 2 25 23
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End of Unit Test marks
Question Level Answers Mark scheme
1 3 Light cannot travel through stone. 1 mark
2 4 a lamp 1 mark
4 b any sensible opaque object 1 mark
4 c glass, window, air 1 mark
4 d rays of light drawn with a ruler; 1 mark
5 arrows from lamp to book, and from book to eye 1 mark
3 5 B 1 mark
4 4 lines correctly drawn 2 marks – 1 for a casual drawing that is roughly correct,
5 2 for a careful drawing
5 arrow in the correct direction 1 mark
5 6 a normal 1 mark
6 b Light is dispersed in all directions. 1 mark – accept equivalent answers
6 6 a refraction 1 mark
7 b ray in block closer to normal 1 mark – arrows not needed
7 ray emerging from block parallel to incident ray 1 mark

7 6 a All the colours were in white light; the prism
has split them up.
6 b The red part of the spectrum stays the same but
the other colours disappear.
7 c No light would get through
because the blue filter only lets through blue light.
8 7 a i black ii green iii green
8 b His cap only reflects red light, there is no red
light hitting it, so it does not reflect any light, so
it appears black.
2 marks – 1 for each point; accept equivalent answers
1 mark
1 mark
1 mark – accept equivalent answer
3 marks – one mark for each one correct
2 marks –  mark for each point

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