ESAT Physics · Every sitting since 2016, decoded

ESAT Physics, decoded for you.

know what actually comes up

We read every ESAT Physics paper since 2016 so you don’t have to. Every question carries the tailor’s marks: the method that cracks it, the chapter it lives in, and the other sittings where the same method struck.

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Inside every question

How to solve every question.

3 kinds of move. Every method in the index is tagged with the one it rewards.

Pavlov10 methods

Instant reflex.

See the trigger, fire the move. No thinking time.

Tunnel15 methods

One move at a time.

Guided reasoning: one checkpoint at a time to the end.

Key method42 methods

Recurring strategy.

The move that repeats across sittings, year after year.

Every sitting, one thread

ESAT Physics decoded by year.

8 sittings on one thread, each bar split by the areas the paper drew on. Hover a year and the needle finds it; click to open its stats.

Free to explore · Discover what’s hidden behind each paper

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Session

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Run along the thread: the needle finds the year, its mix uncovers, and the session summary lands here. Click a bar to open its stats.

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ESAT Physics’s greatest hits.

Click a focus area to see its top methods. Every method opens its chapter in the Methods library.

Window · since 2016

The 10 methods that hit the most past-paper questions, across the whole exam.

Alpha and beta decay bookkeeping: fix the alpha count from the mass number firstTunnelPhysicsRadioactivity7hits In a two state question, lock the invariant from state one before touching state twoKey methodPhysicsElectricity & Magnetism7hits Find the current first: it is the hub of every electrical chainPavlovPhysicsElectricity & Magnetism7hits Label the circuit with the two invariants, then carry the one given number acrossTunnelPhysicsElectricity & Magnetism7hits Read a motion graph by gradient and area, one phase at a timeTunnelPhysicsKinematics & Forces6hits Read the option spread before computing: the distractors name the slipKey methodPhysicsElectricity & Magnetism6hits Half-life arithmetic: work in powers of one-half, never in logarithmsPavlovPhysicsRadioactivity6hits Heat transfer is driven by the temperature difference alone, never by the individual temperaturesKey methodPhysicsThermal Physics5hits Choose the power formula by the shared quantity, then split power as R or as one over RKey methodPhysicsElectricity & Magnetism5hits Decay conserves atoms one for one: daughter equals initial daughter plus parent decayedKey methodPhysicsRadioactivity5hits

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How wide you have to be

No chapter you can skip.

The biggest chapter carries just 22% of the questions, and it takes 7 of them to cover 100%. You cannot revise ESAT Physics by betting on three topics. Every chapter opens in the Methods library.

The exchange rate

Spend your hours wisely.

One method buys how many past questions? All 67 methods, ranked by what they pay back.

Goldmines

1 method ≈ 4–7 questions · 31 of them · learn these first

Alpha and beta decay bookkeeping: fix the alpha count from the mass number first×7 In a two state question, lock the invariant from state one before touching state two×7 Find the current first: it is the hub of every electrical chain×7

Last updated 2026-09-08 · Source: official past papers, classified by The Maths Tailor. Book a call.