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Official OCR Chemistry A F321 27th May June 2016

Hey everyone!
Couldn't find a thread on the Unit 1 Chemistry exam coming up on Friday for us resitters, so I decided to make one.
How is everyone feeling?

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Reply 1

shrsh

I feel quite good about this exam as im more prepared for it! However, last year I think i didn't do as well because i failed to understand the wording of the question. I hope this year it isnt that bad :cry:

Reply 2

dash52

Original post by shrsh

Feeling pretty confident now that I've done A2 chemistry. Hopefully, it'll be a nice paper.

Reply 3

shamsaidk

Original post by dash52

Feeling pretty confident now that I've done A2 chemistry. Hopefully, it'll be a nice paper.

I feel kinda confident about it, I still suck at answering stuff where you need to write like X(NO3)2 etc
I have a deep feeling that it'll be a hard ass paper which is scaring tf outta me

Reply 4

Arie1239

Is it only for us resitters?

Reply 5

username1333513

Original post by Arie1239

Is it only for us resitters?

i think so, i think the year below us will have started a new specification

Reply 6

shrsh

Any predictions on what might come up?

Reply 7

Rebeecccaahh

actually enjoyed this paper more than I did for last years

Reply 8

KaylaB

There were a few oddball questions but on the whole it was alright

Reply 9

charnot1997

Some trippy questions but was alright !

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Reply 10

LewisP1997

Thought that was quite a nice paper, even though i completely messed up the 5 mark question

Reply 11

charnot1997

The oxidation number of oxygen when bonded to fluorine in the textbook states you don't need to know it! Ocr still put it in!!!

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Reply 12

mrsulaimaankhan

it was actually pretty simple. Flourine more electronegative and so -1, then = -2 for both and then o must be +2

I find that paper okay... was harder than most papers i've done and the main issue was time. In my past previous papers I could do it in 45 mins but this time I could barely finish, missing a couple questions. Oh well, I did alright anyway for AS, getting a B overall, so tbh I don't mind but I think that paper was challenging.

Reply 13

Chesni556

It was quite nice. Just the relative charges in a nitrogen atom threw me!

Reply 14

yasin mohammed

what was the minimum number of test tubes you could use and if you used more than the minimum amount do you automatically get zero marks

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Reply 15

K3zz4

I used two test tubes.
Bromine water + calcium iodide (turned purple)
Bromine water + barium chloride (turned orange)

Reply 16

Ezexamsalltheway

Original post by Chesni556

It was quite nice. Just the relative charges in a nitrogen atom threw me!

Sorry what question was this i cant remember this question? please dont tell me the table at the start question 1 was based on a nitrogen atom. I thought is was subatomic particles :P

Reply 17

K3zz4

Original post by Ezexamsalltheway

Sorry what question was this i cant remember this question? please dont tell me the table at the start question 1 was based on a nitrogen atom. I thought is was subatomic particles :P