Quote: "it's there on the web I don't need to understand it just know where it is".
Quite so. A granddaughter has just got an A in Physics GCE, and she recently spent a long weekend here to include a visit to a Met.Office, with a view to employment after a degree.
"Tell me about it grandpa"
Poor big thing had learned NOTHING about Laws of Motion, Cooling, the significance of temperature, heat transfer, latent heat, density ................
So what does an A in GCE Physics imply?
I might add she is far from thick, slack handful of good GCSEs and now hoovering up AS.s including Maths.