What this document is
The Advanced Higher Physics Course Specification is a document the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) publishes for each subject within Scotland's National Qualifications framework, setting out a course's aims, structure, skills coverage and assessment requirements for the schools and colleges delivering it. Advanced Higher sits at the top of SQA's secondary curriculum, typically taken in the final year of school by students continuing physics beyond Higher level.
Course specifications of this kind are working documents rather than fixed texts: SQA revises them periodically as the wider Physics course descriptor is updated, and a specification produced for one academic session does not necessarily match a later one. Anyone relying on a downloaded copy should check its edition date against the version SQA currently publishes.
SQA maintains an overview page for Physics as a subject, covering all levels from National 4 through Advanced Higher, which links out to the current course and unit documents alongside past-paper and assessment-standard material used by teachers.
Where to find it
Available from SQA — Physics subject overview.