What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0625 Physics papers and filtered to simple phenomena of magnetism. 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.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on simple phenomena of magnetism, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Saying attraction proves an object is a magnet; only repulsion does.
- Assuming all metals are magnetic, especially copper and aluminium.
- Drawing field lines from south to north outside the magnet, or letting them cross.
- Saying the Earth's magnetic pole in the Arctic is a magnetic north.
- Using steel for an electromagnet core, or soft iron for a permanent magnet.
- Saying a cut magnet gives one north piece and one south piece.
- Confusing "magnetically soft" with physically soft.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Simple phenomena of magnetism revision notes.