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The Standard Model was covered in A Level Physics syllabus in the late 1990s - I remember being taught it. The top quark was experimentally confirmed in 1995, s

The Standard Model was covered in A Level Physics syllabus in the late 1990s - I remember being taught it. The top quark was experimentally confirmed in 1995, so this was exciting stuff. It's still in the specification. AQA Physics is outlined here: https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/physics/specifications/AQA-7407-7408-SP-2015.PDF https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/physics/specification... And OCR here: https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/171726-specification-accredited-a-level-gce-physics-a-h556.pdf https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/171726-specification-accredite...

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yesenadam 5y ago
> A Level For those not in the UK, apparently this means the last year of high school.
- Luc 5y ago
  > high school Luckily we've seen enough US movies to know what that means, kind of :)
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    Am in Australia :)
- kwhitefoot 5y ago
  Most people surely take two years to do their A-levels? Or have they got easier since the early seventies when I did my three, or have the students become better at studying?
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    If you can helpfully illuminate the issue for us, please do. I don't understand the point of writing like that.
- greggsy 5y ago
  Depending on where you are in Australia, that could mean year 10 or year 12, or some other year?
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    Year 12 everywhere, as far as I know.
    - greggsy 5y ago
      In the ACT at least, years 11 and 12 are called ‘college’, and the NT, years 10, 11 and 12 are ‘senior secondary’. It’s confusing, but each state has their reasons.
joshvm 5y ago
Yep, at A level (2007 ish) we had a college trip to visit CERN while it was being built. It was cool to see ATLAS before they joined up the beam lines. My college physics department was otherwise very underwhelming and I'm amazed they had the imagination to plan it.

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The Standard Model was covered in A Level Physics syllabus in the late 1990s - I remember being taught it. The top quark was experimentally confirmed in 1995, s

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yesenadam 5y ago
> A Level For those not in the UK, apparently this means the last year of high school.
- Luc 5y ago
  > high school Luckily we've seen enough US movies to know what that means, kind of :)
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    Am in Australia :)
- kwhitefoot 5y ago
  Most people surely take two years to do their A-levels? Or have they got easier since the early seventies when I did my three, or have the students become better at studying?
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    If you can helpfully illuminate the issue for us, please do. I don't understand the point of writing like that.
- greggsy 5y ago
  Depending on where you are in Australia, that could mean year 10 or year 12, or some other year?
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    Year 12 everywhere, as far as I know.
    - greggsy 5y ago
      In the ACT at least, years 11 and 12 are called ‘college’, and the NT, years 10, 11 and 12 are ‘senior secondary’. It’s confusing, but each state has their reasons.
joshvm 5y ago
Yep, at A level (2007 ish) we had a college trip to visit CERN while it was being built. It was cool to see ATLAS before they joined up the beam lines. My college physics department was otherwise very underwhelming and I'm amazed they had the imagination to plan it.