IB Physics courses

IB Physics (first exams 2025) is organised into five themes: space, time and motion; the particulate nature of matter; wave behaviour; fields; and nuclear and quantum physics. Standard Level covers 150 teaching hours, Higher Level 240, with the additional HL material woven into the same themes rather than added as separate topics. Assessment is two written papers — Paper 1 (multiple choice plus data-based questions) and Paper 2 (short and extended response) — and an internal assessment, the scientific investigation, worth 20%. Courses on this page are tagged SL or HL so you can match them to the level you sit.

Offered at Standard and Higher Level; each course below says which.