The soundtrack for this post is provided by Electric Six
I am beginning to form a suspicion.
No more than a suspicion at the moment, but I admit the feeling is growing that I was perhaps incorrect to state – in my Physics Practical exam – that we had been provided with an output voltage of 4000V.
Why, you may ask innocently? Well, when I stop and ponder my result, it does start to sound like an awfully large number of volts. Those signs, for example: “Warning! High Voltage! Danger of Death!”. They refer to figures like 4000V, don’t they? It seems a little… excessive… for Edexcel to insist we work with such a number. How about another number? Such as, oh I dunno, 4V?
There’s another piece of evidence with suggests to my mind that perhaps that is closer to the truth: the large 4 on the setting of the power supply.
Hmm… 4, and 4000. There’s a link there, isn’t there? Why yes, of course! The second is merely one thousand times larger than the first. Almost as if, if I may dare to be so bold, a unit may have gone awry. For the non-Physicists amongst you, consider than a metre is made out of one thousand millimetres. Aha!
Hopefully, some nice examiner will merely dock a point for a unit somewhere, rather than chuckle and then burn the paper 
Don’t worry, I don’t actually think it went too badly, folks 
just the usual twists and turns which accompany the now-slain beast of the Physics Practical. Fire in the disco!
(P.S. Physics teachers are not allowed to read this post without commenting. Sorry.)
You have broken one of the GC commandments – ‘Thou must not speak of exams after they have been undertaken’
Annnd you have no eyeroll! Dom, you’re a failure
I do, I do! *fixed for you*
As I just said on WLM, "I wouldn’t leave out the symbol of vicious dismissal"
Schoolboy error there Dom. I think you need to pay more attention in lessons to stop you making newbie Units mistakes!
And with regards to the synoptic paper, be afraid…be very afraid!
Also, I think your sponsorship of my whiteboard might need renewing since your last ad was amended homophobically by one of the little darlings in 9S. Hence i was forced to remove it.
Bahahahaha.
Why don’t my staff read my blog?
All 69 of them Kingsy?
Whoever you are, you’re catching on
With a z though, please
hehe, well you are one in a long line of students who have fallen into the trap of thinking that a practical exam would let students use 4000V I am sure… or perhaps not but I hope that has adequately appeased any regret about your little numerical glitch! p.s sorry about the late reply, it was only today that scientists ahve finally started to believe I exist (mainly because I bribed them with brownies!)… Good luck in the exams.
Miss Higgs-Boson