CIE IGCSE Physics: 1.8 Pressure - Multiple Choice Questions

Understand pressure. Practise applying it. Learn from every answer.

Pressure questions can look simple at first, but students need to handle unit conversions, contact-area reasoning and liquid-pressure ideas carefully. This focused worksheet helps students practise calculations, interpret diagrams and graphs, and apply pressure concepts to everyday and unfamiliar situations—with worked explanations to support their next attempt.

WHAT WILL STUDENTS PRACTISE?

• Defining pressure as force per unit area
• Calculating pressure, force and contact area
• Converting between pressure and area units
• Understanding how force and contact area affect pressure
• Applying pressure ideas to everyday situations
• Comparing pressures for different contact areas and loads
• Understanding how liquid pressure changes with depth
• Understanding the effect of liquid density on pressure
• Comparing pressure at equal depths in liquids
• Using Δp = ρgΔh for liquid-pressure calculations
• Interpreting pressure–depth and pressure–force graphs
• Distinguishing pressure due to a liquid from total pressure
• Solving layered-liquid and pressure-difference problems

Questions combine calculations, tables, graphs, diagrams and conceptual reasoning, helping students apply pressure ideas in a wide range of exam-style situations.

IS THIS SUITABLE FOR CORE OR EXTENDED?

The worksheet contains 35 Core questions and 15 Supplement questions.

Core students should complete the unmarked questions. Extended students can attempt all 50. Supplement questions are clearly marked with a boxed S, making it easy to choose the appropriate practice.

WHAT MAKES THIS PACK USEFUL?

• Worked explanations for all 50 questions—not just an answer key
• A spacious layout with two questions per page
• Clear diagrams, tables and numerical graphs
• A mix of calculations, unit conversions and conceptual reasoning
• Separate worksheet and mark-scheme PDFs for convenient practice and checking
• Clearly marked Core and Supplement content
• A syllabus coverage map to help organise revision

The mark scheme includes a complete answer key, worked explanations for every question, a syllabus coverage map and teacher notes on the source-paper analysis.

Use it for independent revision, homework, tutoring or a focused review after studying Topic 1.8 Pressure.

HOW TO USE IT

Attempt the questions before opening the mark scheme. Check your answers, read the explanations and revisit any questions you found difficult.

For contact-pressure questions, make sure you use the area actually in contact. For liquid-pressure questions, use the vertical depth change, not the length of a sloping container or pipe.

YOUR DOWNLOAD

You receive a 26-page worksheet and a 14-page mark scheme: two printable PDFs, totalling 40 pages.

The worksheet contains 50 multiple-choice questions worth 50 marks, covering Core and Supplement content.

Preview images may be blurred to protect the content. The downloadable PDFs are complete and fully legible. This is a digital product; no physical item is shipped.

Written for Cambridge IGCSE Physics 0625 and 0972, covering the 2026–2028 syllabus and Topic 1.8 content including contact pressure, everyday applications, liquid pressure, depth and density.

These are original exam-style practice questions, not reproduced past-paper questions or a full examination paper.

Independent practice material. Not produced or endorsed by Cambridge International Education.