AQA chemistry Unit 2 Thursday 26th January

For the metals question I was just annoyed that they said to describe the structure of metals. It was too brief so I just talked about the stron electrostatic metallic bonds between the electrons and positive ions.
It would have been much better if they said and were more specific:
"Explain why metals have a high boiling and melting point"

By the way, can someone upload the mark scheme please?

Remember the question that just asked the type of bonding in something. A joke really

Who cares, it was easy

tough guy? lol...

erm not a hard question, just a stupid mistake: Empirical formula

I forgot to times by 2 at the end.

Nothing particularly difficult though. I expect high boundaries due to everyone finding it so easy, though.

Alright son, wish you luck!

I thought it was pretty easy too, for the empirical formula i got it the right answer but put it the wrong way so 03fe2
Would that give me the final mark still?

Although I found it easy a lot of people struggled so hopefully around 33-35 for an A*?

Also for the question "How do you seperate magnesium from magnesium oxide, I put filteration. Is that correct? (It would normally be filteration, evaporation or crystallisation)

I thought it was pretty easy too, for the empirical formula i got it the right answer but put it the wrong way so 03fe2
Would that give me the final mark still?

Although I found it easy a lot of people struggled so hopefully around 33-35 for an A*?

Also for the question "How do you seperate magnesium from magnesium oxide, I put filteration. Is that correct? (It would normally be filteration, evaporation or crystallisation)

I think it was evaporation or crystalisation as it was in a solution, i hope

And now everyone on here is saying they found the test easy, i'm getting scared cos i found the test quite a bit harder than the previous past papers

I put evaporation because magnesium was the only solid in the solution so evaporating it would leave it behind?

What did everyone get for the experimental errors question?

Lucky I revised that yesterday it's somewhere on this thread too

i got:

some gas may have been released
measuring errors
Lid was opened continuously but the time the lid was opened for and the interval between each time the lid was opened wasn't carefully controlled

i wrote some other random stuff too lol

any marks?

oh and the acid question i wrote hydrochloric acid

gotta love the metal question!

oh yeh and the half equation question.. i just added 2e- is added (+2e-)

it wasnt in solution, if it was, next to the magnesium in the equation it wouldve said (aq)

Oh yeah.. meant that haha

Did anyone else think the first question was really difficultly worded for a first question? It kinda shocked me to start because I thought the rest of the paper was going to be as hard but I thought the paper was quite easy to work through.