You set it up carefully, the numbers came out close to the accepted value, and you understood what was happening the whole way through. Then the report came back with comments about your graph axes and something about your discussion being descriptive.
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In most physics and engineering degrees a large share of your mark comes from documents rather than lab technique, and almost nobody is taught how to write them.
The fixes are mechanical. Reports lose marks in a small number of predictable places, each has a rule, and none of them requires you to understand the physics any better than you already do.
What a marker’s rubric actually weights, and where reports leak marks
A structure for every section, from the four-sentence abstract to the discussion
Uncertainty as writing, not just arithmetic: the sentences that carry the marks
Twelve graphs that lose marks, and the seven-point check that fixes them
Design reports, specifications, technical memos, and the final-year project
Five report makeovers, forty common errors, and a submission checklist
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