Higher practice prelim half paper B

A half-length Higher Chemistry paper with new questions, for focused practice in just over an hour.

What’s included:

• Question paper: 10 multiple-choice questions with an answer grid, plus 40 marks of written questions (50 marks in total)
• Full marking instructions: expected answers, step-by-step working for every calculation, and guidance on what to accept
• Covers Chemical changes and structure, and Nature’s chemistry
• Suggested time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Topics include ionisation energies across period 3, a temperature and rate investigation with a graph to draw, making margarine, how soap and emulsifiers work, amino acids, free radicals, and oxidising an alcohol with copper(II) oxide. The open-ended question asks whether metals always have higher melting points than non-metals.

Instant PDF download. Print as many copies as your household needs. The questions are original, written by a practising Scottish chemistry teacher.