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The ESAT and TMUA recall sheet

No formulae booklet. No calculator. Everything you need in the room has to already be in your head - so here is the list, ranked by how often each entry actually mattered.

Both specifications are explicit: candidates sit these papers without a calculator and without a formulae booklet. That turns every relationship on the syllabus into a memorisation liability, and it makes one question worth answering before you start memorising - which ones actually come up?

We tagged 1,250 real past-paper questions to find out. The sheet lists all 695 entries across the seven modules - every formula, rule, definition and technique - each tied to the specification clause that requires it, with the variables, the equivalent forms and the mistakes that actually cost marks. ESAT physics additionally carries a measured frequency against each entry, because physics is the module we have tagged formula by formula so far; the other six are ranked by topic rather than by entry.

A sample of what is inside

The ten physics relationships that earned their place.

Ranked by the share of 193 tagged ESAT physics questions that could not be solved without them. These percentages do not add up - one question often needs several formulae.

Physics formulae and rules ranked by the share of 193 tagged questions that could not be solved without them
#	Formula or rule	Chapter	Needed in	95% CI
1	Ohm's law $V = IR$	Electricity	14.5%28 of 193	10.2-20.2%
2	Newton's second law $F = ma$	Mechanics	9.8%19 of 193	6.4-14.9%
3	Weight from mass $W = mg$	Mechanics	8.8%17 of 193	5.6-13.7%
4	Electrical power from current and pd $P = IV$	Electricity	8.3%16 of 193	5.2-13.0%
5	Wave equation $v = f\lambda$	Waves	8.3%16 of 193	5.2-13.0%
6	Resistors in series add $R_T = R_1 + R_2$	Electricity	6.2%12 of 193	3.6-10.6%
7	Current as rate of flow of charge $I = \frac{Q}{t}$	Electricity	4.7%9 of 193	2.5-8.6%
8	Equation of motion $v^2 - u^2 = 2as$	Mechanics	4.1%8 of 193	2.1-8.0%
9	Parallel branches share the same pdrule	Electricity	4.1%8 of 193	2.1-8.0%
10	Resistive heating from current and resistance $P = I^2 R$	Electricity	4.1%8 of 193	2.1-8.0%

The full sheet carries all seven modules, not just physics.

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ESAT & TMUA recall sheet

Every formula, rule and technique for all seven modules, with measured past-paper frequency.

About the recall sheet

No. The ESAT provides neither a formulae booklet nor a calculator, so every relationship on the specification has to be memorised. The TMUA specification says the same. That is the reason this sheet exists.

The formulae, rules and techniques for all seven ESAT and TMUA modules, each one tied to the specification clause that requires it, and each shown with how often it was actually needed across the past-paper questions we tagged.

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From 1,250 real past-paper questions: ENGAA and NSAA Section 1 filtered against the current ESAT specification, plus the 2016-2023 TMUA sittings and the early specimen. No question we wrote ourselves is counted.

The sheet tells you what to learn. The bank tells you whether you have.

Our ESAT and TMUA question banks are built on the same corpus analysis, with worked solutions for every question.

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