4-mark practice questions — OCR GCSE Chemistry A: Gateway Science (J248)

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How to answer

4-mark questions are the shortest levels-of-response band. Aim for four scientific ideas, each in its own short sentence.

Sample questions

  1. A food scientist is investigating whether a sample of red food colouring is pure or a mixture of dyes. She uses paper ch…
  2. A scientist carries out electrolysis of molten lead bromide using inert electrodes. Explain what happens at each electro…
  3. Explain why phytomining is considered a more sustainable method of metal extraction than traditional mining, and describ…
  4. Describe how steam cracking is used to produce smaller, more useful molecules from crude oil fractions, and explain why …
  5. Describe how scientists' understanding of atomic structure changed from Dalton's model to Rutherford's nuclear model, in…
  6. Explain why graphite can conduct electricity but most other giant covalent structures, such as diamond, cannot.
  7. A student is trying to identify the gases produced during an experiment. Describe the tests a student would carry out to…
  8. Describe how carbon dioxide emissions from human activity contribute to climate change, and explain one consequence of t…

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