AP Physics 2 Tutoring for Students in the UAE
Physics 2 covers more topics than Physics 1 in the same time, and it is examined on explanation rather than on getting a number out.
- 3 examined components, weighted as shown below
- 9 syllabus areas mapped to your scheme of work
- Taught by a specialist in this subject, not a generalist
- 90-minute online lessons, scheduled in UAE time
How it is examined
The components, what each one is worth, and what it asks for. Planning revision without this in front of you is how students spend weeks on the part that carries the fewest marks.
| Component | Weight | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Section I: Multiple Choice | 50% | 42 questions in 1 hour 25 minutes. Updated effective with the May 2027 exam. Calculators permitted. |
| Section II: Free Response | 50% | 4 questions in 1 hour 35 minutes covering mathematical routines, translation between representations, experimental design and analysis, and qualitative/quantitative translation. |
| Exam delivery | Hybrid digital | Multiple choice is answered in Bluebook; free-response answers are handwritten. |
What the syllabus covers
Unit by unit, in the awarding body’s own terms so you can match it against your school’s scheme of work.
Units 9-10: Thermodynamics and Electric Fields
Ideal gas laws, heat and the laws of thermodynamics · Electric charge, Coulomb's law and electric fields · Electric potential and potential energy
Units 11-12: Circuits and Magnetism
Resistance, capacitance and RC circuits · Circuit analysis with Kirchhoff's laws · Magnetic fields, magnetic force and electromagnetic induction
Units 13-15: Optics and Modern Physics
Reflection, refraction and image formation with lenses and mirrors · Wave interference, diffraction and physical optics · The photoelectric effect, atomic models and nuclear physics
Where marks are actually lost
The free-response questions routinely ask you to justify a claim, compare two scenarios or explain why a graph has the shape it does — with no numbers involved. Students trained on plug-and-chug physics find these disorienting, and the marks are in the reasoning chain rather than in the final statement. Practising written explanation against the published scoring guidelines is the specific fix.
Breadth is the other difficulty. Fluids, thermal physics, electrostatics, circuits, magnetism, optics and quantum phenomena in one year means no topic gets long, and a gap left in one is rarely revisited. Keeping a running list of unresolved confusions, and clearing them weekly rather than in April, is what separates a 5 from a 3 here.
The date is not yours to move
AP exams sit in a fixed May window set by the College Board, so preparation has a hard deadline a private schedule cannot shift. If your school does not teach this course, you are buying a full year of teaching rather than top-up lessons, and starting in February is a materially different proposition from starting in September.
Frequently asked questions
The questions UAE students and parents ask us most often about this program.
Related programs
Other preparation tracks students often combine with this one.
AP Tutoring
Subject-by-subject Advanced Placement tutoring for students at American-curriculum schools across the UAE. Lessons target the exam as College Board actually marks it, not a general reading of the topic.
AP Pricing
AP is priced per subject, and the full-subject package is the lowest per-lesson rate on this site — because an AP is a year-long course, not a test technique.
How it works
Every student starts with a free consultation and ends with a plan that has a date on it. What happens in between depends on which exam you are sitting.
Tell us where Physics 2 is going wrong
Send a recent piece of marked work or a test paper with the marks on it. That shows us more in five minutes than a description of the problem does in an hour.