SQA National 5 Chemistry -1st May 2025 [Exam Chat]

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SQA National 5 Chemistry -1st May 2025 [Exam Chat]

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Date: 1 May 2025
Time: 1pm - 3:30pm

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Reply 1

erin_ceol

3

How are we all feeling about the exam?

Reply 2

Suha S

1

does anyone have any vague idea what the in your own knowledge questions will be

Reply 3

erin_ceol

3

Original post by Suha S

does anyone have any vague idea what the in your own knowledge questions will be

Had a look at them from recent years and a titration one hasn't popped up for a bit...Idk though, whenever I've practiced them 9 times out of 10 something to do with bonding can be mentioned but please please please don't take my word for it I have no clue ngl

Reply 4

isa-is-asleep

13

How much do you have to write for using your knowledge question to get 3marks do you think? I usually blab for 1/2-1 page but idk

Reply 5

Bethalexander

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Original post by isa-is-asleep

How much do you have to write for using your knowledge question to get 3marks do you think? I usually blab for 1/2-1 page but idk

honestly it doesn't matter how much you write, but what you write about, talking for 2 pages about stuff that isn't as impressive as half a page of relevent chemistry

Reply 6

Suha S

1

Original post by erin_ceol

Had a look at them from recent years and a titration one hasn't popped up for a bit...Idk though, whenever I've practiced them 9 times out of 10 something to do with bonding can be mentioned but please please please don't take my word for it I have no clue ngl

thanks I will look over titration, so nervous good luck

Reply 7

StrawberryDreams

OP

TSR Community Staff

20

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

Reply 8

Jasperwill09

2

What did everyone get on the question with hydrogen chloride to calculate the concentration?

Reply 9

isa-is-asleep

13

Original post by Jasperwill09

What did everyone get on the question with hydrogen chloride to calculate the concentration?

I don't remember exactly but I think I got 0.152?

Reply 10

isa-is-asleep

13

What did you get for the heat energy question? I got 25 then I changed it and got a thousand and something???

Reply 11

Jasperwill09

2

Original post by isa-is-asleep

What did you get for the heat energy question? I got 25 then I changed it and got a thousand and something???

1000 seems very high mine wasn’t that high it was like 4.18 x 20 x 0.2

Reply 12

Jasperwill09

2

Original post by isa-is-asleep

I don't remember exactly but I think I got 0.152?

Damn I got 0.0762

Reply 13

leahanne18

2

what did you guys get for the last mc?

Reply 14

username7638211

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Original post by leahanne18

what did you guys get for the last mc?

I don’t think I remember that one, is it the titration question? If so I put pipette.

Reply 15

username7638211

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Original post by Suha S

does anyone have any vague idea what the in your own knowledge questions will be

Just practise open-ended question every time u see it on the past papers

(edited 1 month ago)

Reply 16

leahanne18

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Original post by importedsense

I don’t think I remember that one, is it the titration question? If so I put pipette.

yeahh i put that down too but honestly i had no idea

Reply 17

erin_ceol

3

Original post by importedsense

I was hoping for it to be fertilisers sooo bad!! Im so glad it showed up. I was practising fertilisers like an open-ended question every time I saw it on the past papers

I might be cooked, I only mentioned the haber process towards the end, I ended up going on a rant about neutralisation reactions and soluble salts containing nitrogen, phosphorus and/or potassium. Hoping for a possible 2 marks but I should have talked about the haber process more ngl

Reply 18

username7638211

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Original post by erin_ceol

I might be cooked, I only mentioned the haber process towards the end, I ended up going on a rant about neutralisation reactions and soluble salts containing nitrogen, phosphorus and/or potassium. Hoping for a possible 2 marks but I should have talked about the haber process more ngl

I see where your coming from, I started to rant about haber and Ostwald and NPK then something about forward reactions and the catalysts (there was no space left in the page anymore)😭

Reply 19

NP27O5

1

Does anyone know what they got on the MC question that said something like:

"what is the GFM of a hydrocarbon not in the same homologous series".

It would be very helpful if you could just say how you got to the answer.

Thanks :smile:

(edited 1 month ago)

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