Edexcel - Chemistry Unit 2 - 4 June 2013

was it 29 nor 43?

can anyone please give me the download link for edexcel chemistry as unit 2 2013 question paper download.... i can't find it... pls!

can anyone please give me the download link for edexcel chemistry as unit 2 2013 question paper download.... i can't find it... pls!

If everyone found it hard then the grade boundaries will go down and since many people seemed to have encountered some difficulty with at least one or two parts of the paper theres a likely chance it will be

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there is no way the boundaries will go below 60 even if the paper is hard..... I've never seen them go below 60 for a unit 2 chem exam in June

It was 58 in 2011......
And the general feeling is that this one was harder

haha I just saw you neg rep me above.

You have no clue if you think this exam was harder. This one had alot more recall questions (e.g. chemical tests and chemical equations), which is easy to score marks in.

I agree with you but I doubt they will drop as low as 58.


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Good for you

No i just think this was much less of a test of actual understanding of the syllabus. It seems to me that if your memory was good the exam favoured you regardless of your understanding, which it didn't test as much.
Also, most people on here felt june 2011 was easier.

haha I just saw you neg rep me above.

You have no clue if you think this exam was harder. This one had alot more recall questions (e.g. chemical tests and chemical equations), which is easy to score marks in.

Good for you

No i just think this was much less of a test of actual understanding of the syllabus. It seems to me that if your memory was good the exam favoured you regardless of your understanding, which it didn't test as much.
Also, most people on here felt june 2011 was easier.

What do you mean by 'less of a test of actual understanding of the syllabus'?

Answer that question, because I honestly don't know what you're trying to imply by saying that.

Aren't most of the questions technically an 'understanding of the syllabus'. The only questions where you genuinely have to recall things are definitions and that is what remains the same for every exam paper that has a definition question.

Dw mate you're absolutely right. The paper wasn't so hard that the grade boundaries are gonna be ridiculously low.



The reason people did so well in this exam was exactly BECAUSE it was mostly recall (most of the people at my school said it was easy/average). Since when were the opinions of the exam on TSR representative of all candidates taking the exam everywhere? Less understanding of the actual chemistry was required, so all you had to do was spew out stuff you already had memorised. The grade boundaries are gonna be similar to past years, nothing especially low. Don't try and delude yourself into saying everyone else failed so the boundaries will be low, and certainly don't put down other people on this forum (like James) just because they didn't find it super difficult like you did.

Energy released from the hydration is what compensates for the energy lost from the bond breaking. Its in the george facer book.

Haha I understand that
What I'm saying is that there were more simple answer questions (ie simply KNOWING things like halogenoalkane+aqueous alkali= alcohol etc.)

and less APPLICATION of knowledge questions (ie explain WHY the thermal stability of group 1 carbonates is higher than that of group 2)

I just felt like it wasn't a very good test of our understanding.

Increasing covalent character is NOT down group 1. I could get egg in my face here for sounding so confident BUT doesnt covalency relate to polarising power and distorted ionic bonds, so going down the group polarising power decreases and it becomes less covalent.