SQA Advanced Higher Chemistry -1st May 2025 [exam chat]

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SQA Advanced Higher Chemistry -1st May 2025 [exam chat]

Welcome to the exam discussion thread for this exam. Introduce yourself! Let others know what you're aiming for in your exams, what you are struggling with in your revision or anything else.

Wishing you all the best of luck.

General Information
Date: 1 May 2025
Time: 9am -12:00pm

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Reply 1

StrawberryDreams

OP

TSR Community Staff

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Good luck today everyone! Come back and let us know how it went after the exam :hugs:

Reply 2

StrawberryDreams

OP

TSR Community Staff

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I’m so sorry you found it difficult 😔 was there anything in particular you struggled with?

Reply 3

phanter

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Original post by mirobi_2

How did everyone find it? Personally i found it horrible and didn’t get to finish all the questions lol

same

Reply 4

Impeccable

12

Timing was probably the worst part I left like 5 questions not done💔

Reply 5

glizzly-gobbler

8

I guess my exam season this year is going to shambles

Reply 6

myriad-

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Do you think the grade boundaries will be lowered 😭

Reply 7

glizzly-gobbler

8

Original post by myriad-

Do you think the grade boundaries will be lowered 😭

Hopefully 🙏 🙏 🙏

Reply 8

nova12345

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am I the only one that thought that the last page was so bizarre! not hard, just really weird, bc I felt like it had nothing to do with AH chemistry knowledge and was more just testing critical thinking skills. not complaining tho cuz it was 3 marks for 10 seconds worth of work.

Reply 9

DeepDK

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Hi
Does anyone remember the answer they put for the structure of intermediate for the enthalpy question?

Reply 10

DeepDK

3

Original post by nova12345

am I the only one that thought that the last page was so bizarre! not hard, just really weird, bc I felt like it had nothing to do with AH chemistry knowledge and was more just testing critical thinking skills. not complaining tho cuz it was 3 marks for 10 seconds worth of work.

Yeh, it was like nat5 level

Reply 11

nova12345

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for the blood volume question where they gave a mass of drug and asked for concentration in blood if 29% of the drug wasn't absorbed (or sumn like that).. were we supposed do our calculation based on on 71% of the mass, as in: 0.71xmass, or what was going on there??

Reply 12

myriad-

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Yes that’s what I did but it was 29.5 so I did .705

Reply 13

hannnnnnnnnnnnnn

Original post by myriad-

Do you think the grade boundaries will be lowered 😭

im genuinely praying it will 😭😭😭

Reply 14

hoiya

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I calulated the number of moles then took 29 percent of the number of moles

Reply 15

hoiya

5

for the blood volume question where they gave a mass of drug and asked for concentration in blood if 29% of the drug wasn't absorbed (or sumn like that).. were we supposed do our calculation based on on 71% of the mass, as in: 0.71xmass, or what was going on there??I think u where mean to calculate the number of moles

Reply 16

mirobi_2

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Original post by DeepDK

Hi
Does anyone remember the answer they put for the structure of intermediate for the enthalpy question?

Yeah i put basically ethane but one hydrogen missing from one of the carbons replaced with a positive charge (carbocation intermediate)

Reply 17

SGuest12

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Original post by StrawberryDreams

Good luck today everyone! Come back and let us know how it went after the exam :hugs:

It was very organic focused I found, not my favourite unit tbh so wasn’t too impressed. Thought the section 1 was decent though and hoping I did alright on the second section though I have absolutely no gauge of how I did bc I kinda forgot. Hoping the grade boundaries are lowered 😹