The standard of the paper was good. The questions were well framed and of good quality. The paper compared well with those of the previous years in terms of the concepts tested and skills measured. The paper tested the candidates in the following areas:

(1)recall of the definition of terms and statements of laws;
(2)understanding of the fundamental theories of physics;
(3)comprehension of the relationship between physical quantities;
(4)description of experimental procedure;
(5)handling of simple numerical problems.

The questions were well framed in simple language. The rubrics were unambiguous. The marking schemes were quite clear and detailed. The performance of the candidates was slightly lower than that of the same examination in 2006.
The candidates recorded a raw mean score of 14 out of 60 marks and . a standard deviation of 9.06 as against a raw mean score- of 18 and a standard deviation of 9.54 recorded in May/June 2006. There was however an increase in candidature from 388,965 in 2006 to 429,208 this year.