Mark Scheme (Results)
Summer 2024
Pearson Edexcel GCSE
In Physics (1PH0)
Paper 2H
,General Marking Guidance
• All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners
must mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as
they mark the last.
• Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates
must be rewarded for what they have shown they can do
rather than penalised for omissions.
• Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not
according to their perception of where the grade boundaries
may lie.
• There is no ceiling on achievement. All marks on the mark
scheme should be used appropriately.
• All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be
awarded. Examiners should always award full marks if
deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the mark
scheme. Examiners should also be prepared to award zero
marks if the candidate’s response is not worthy of credit
according to the mark scheme.
• Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will
provide the principles by which marks will be awarded and
exemplification may be limited.
• When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of
the mark scheme to a candidate’s response, the team leader
must be consulted.
• Crossed out work should be marked UNLESS the candidate
has replaced it with an alternative response.
,Paper 2H 2406 – Final
Question Answer Mark
Number
1(a) B negative positive (1)
The only correct answer is B correlating with attraction of X to Y, A01.1
and repulsion of Z from Y.
Answer Additional guidance Mark
1(b) (a region / place / area / (a region) where a charge (1)
volume) where (electric) experiences attraction / A01.1
charge experiences / feels a repulsion
force (1)
ignore ‘electricity’
accept where direction of force
on a (positive) charge (is shown)
Answer Additional guidance Mark
1(c) i field lines / arrows point away field lines / arrows show the (1)
from (positive) charge(s) (1) direction of force(s) on a A01.1
positive charge
accept (because) field lines /
arrows point outwards
ignore statements about charge
flow / current
Answer Additional guidance Mark
1(c) ii field lines get further apart / distance between field lines gets (1)
diverge (as x increases) (1) bigger AO2.1
concentration of lines gets smaller
Answer Additional guidance Mark
1(c)(iii) rearrangement and substitution (2)
(1) AO2.1
, A = 20 000 x 32
evaluation (1) award full marks for the correct
180 000 (N cm2 / C) answer without working.
1.8 to any other power of 10
scores 1 mark
Question 1 total 6 marks
Summer 2024
Pearson Edexcel GCSE
In Physics (1PH0)
Paper 2H
,General Marking Guidance
• All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners
must mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as
they mark the last.
• Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates
must be rewarded for what they have shown they can do
rather than penalised for omissions.
• Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not
according to their perception of where the grade boundaries
may lie.
• There is no ceiling on achievement. All marks on the mark
scheme should be used appropriately.
• All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be
awarded. Examiners should always award full marks if
deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the mark
scheme. Examiners should also be prepared to award zero
marks if the candidate’s response is not worthy of credit
according to the mark scheme.
• Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will
provide the principles by which marks will be awarded and
exemplification may be limited.
• When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of
the mark scheme to a candidate’s response, the team leader
must be consulted.
• Crossed out work should be marked UNLESS the candidate
has replaced it with an alternative response.
,Paper 2H 2406 – Final
Question Answer Mark
Number
1(a) B negative positive (1)
The only correct answer is B correlating with attraction of X to Y, A01.1
and repulsion of Z from Y.
Answer Additional guidance Mark
1(b) (a region / place / area / (a region) where a charge (1)
volume) where (electric) experiences attraction / A01.1
charge experiences / feels a repulsion
force (1)
ignore ‘electricity’
accept where direction of force
on a (positive) charge (is shown)
Answer Additional guidance Mark
1(c) i field lines / arrows point away field lines / arrows show the (1)
from (positive) charge(s) (1) direction of force(s) on a A01.1
positive charge
accept (because) field lines /
arrows point outwards
ignore statements about charge
flow / current
Answer Additional guidance Mark
1(c) ii field lines get further apart / distance between field lines gets (1)
diverge (as x increases) (1) bigger AO2.1
concentration of lines gets smaller
Answer Additional guidance Mark
1(c)(iii) rearrangement and substitution (2)
(1) AO2.1
, A = 20 000 x 32
evaluation (1) award full marks for the correct
180 000 (N cm2 / C) answer without working.
1.8 to any other power of 10
scores 1 mark
Question 1 total 6 marks
