What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0625 Physics papers and filtered to pressure. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on pressure, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Putting a mass in kilograms into p = F/A instead of a weight in newtons.
- Choosing the smallest face when asked for the least pressure.
- Using the height of a block rather than the dimensions of its base.
- Leaving a depth in centimetres in p = hρg.
- Thinking a bigger reservoir or a wider container gives a greater pressure at the bottom.
- Reading a single level on a manometer rather than the difference between the two.
- Including the vacuum space when reading a barometer.
- Giving the pressure change rather than the final pressure, or the other way round, without checking which was asked.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Pressure revision notes.