IGCSE Chemistry paper 1 - May 17th 2018

We took this paper today and are really interested in how other people found it, all we can find on the internet is about GCSE not IGCSE, so if you could help that would be amazing!

I thought it was quite easy too.

What did you guys put for the malachite question?

crush the malachite....react it with sulphuric acid in beaker to produce copper sulphate, carbondioxide and water then filter it to remove insoluble substances and then add magnesium powder to the solution so it will replace the copper and u get magnesium sulphate and copper then decant

Yeh I agree but they messed us up with some of the higher mark questions

Malachite question:

Crush the malachite with the pestle and mortar then add sulphuric acid in a beaker, then add magnesium powder which should displace copper and magnesium is more reactive, filter it out and wash with distilled watsr, leaving with a pure copper product

I wrote something like that. I was a bit surprised many people found it REALLY tough.

What did you get for the percentage of iron question? I got 32.7%

good paper not so bad but I think some questions made me thing that edexcel guys assume we are dumb ...i mean look at the question where they told us to read the readings of initial temperatire and final temperature.......also look at the question where the table was given and we had to put in values like for neon and boiling point and if it reacts or not

I mean they have to put in some 'dumb' questions. It's the same every year for every paper. Some people can't do the harder questions so they need some points.

Think it was like a 5 mark question and they’re not usually too harsh, sounds like a few people messed it up actually so I’d say they’ll be awarding marks fairly ‘easily’

What did people put for that question asking why the crystal might weigh less than expected?