5-mark practice questions — OCR A-Level Chemistry B: Salters (H433)

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How to answer

5-mark questions typically award marks for structured argument: two ideas + linked because + specific example + conclusion.

Sample questions

  1. Dmitri Mendeleev arranged elements into a periodic table in 1869. The modern periodic table is arranged in order of atom…
  2. Explain why the majority of plastics used in everyday products are difficult to dispose of responsibly, and describe one…
  3. A doctor is explaining to a medical student how the human body is made from a small number of chemical elements. The doc…
  4. A fashion designer is developing a new range of clothing and wants to use natural dyes instead of synthetic dyes. Explai…
  5. A teacher asks students to compare the most abundant elements found in the human body with those found in the universe a…
  6. Propan-1-ol and 1-chloropropane are two organic compounds. Explain how a chemist could distinguish between propan-1-ol a…
  7. Explain why the oceans contain dissolved salts and describe how the concentration of these dissolved salts affects marin…
  8. A company extracts iodine from seaweed on an industrial scale. After harvesting the seaweed, it is burned to produce ash…

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