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OCR Chemistry A Exam Thread (Breadth - May 27 2016 and Depth - June 10 2016)

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Reply 560

asinghj

Original post by Adamrog9

Could you put 2OH- rather than NaOH?

Dont see why not

Reply 561

username1979895

How hard is everyone expecting this exam to be? Paper 1 wasn't that bad I think. It was alright.

Reply 562

oni176

Original post by nightwing51214

How hard is everyone expecting this exam to be? Paper 1 wasn't that bad I think. It was alright.

It is going to be at the same level. The only difference is that we won't have multiple choice questions in that paper. There will be more practical questions in the Depth paper I think, because other questions were purely on knowledge so they might put a titration question in there.
Other than that, basically look at the specification and tick the ones that already appeared in that paper. I think their focus will be on Organic Chemistry in Depth, as there weren't any other questions other than the last question on breadth which wasn't too tricky, only the last 3 marker required a bit of a thought. In terms of physical chemistry, drawing Boltzmann's graphs and exothermic/endothermic reactions may come up.

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Reply 563

Conquest.

Just to confirm, what exactly are we assessed on practicals. Unlike, Physics there's a set of required practicals - is there something similar here?

Thanks

Reply 564

asinghj

Original post by Conquest.

Just to confirm, what exactly are we assessed on practicals. Unlike, Physics there's a set of required practicals - is there something similar here?

Thanks

Any practical from the book, including PAGs and the ones you haven't done

Reply 565

neil20143

Original post by nightwing51214

How hard is everyone expecting this exam to be? Paper 1 wasn't that bad I think. It was alright.

Probably just a little harder than the breadth, mainly because they will throw in complicated calculation questions which can throw people off.

Got 55/70 in the depth specimen paper. Don't know if that's a good or bad indicator tbh :frown: