Marking scheme for

practice exam-style paper I

Paper 3 Core [80 marks]

1 a potassium, nitrogen and phosphorus [3]

b oxygen and nitrogen [2]
c helium, oxygen and nitrogen [2]
([1] subtracted for each one omitted)
d potassium [1]
e helium and magnesium [2]

2 a platinum, iron, titanium (or in reverse) [1]

b as a catalyst, or as an inert electrode [1]
c It is too expensive. [1]
d i hematite [1]
ii coke and limestone [2]
iii any two of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon
monoxide Maximum [2]
e blowing oxygen [1] onto the hot metal [1] in the presence
of lime [1] Maximum [2] (but oxygen must be one of them)
f Alloys are mixtures of elements (usually metals) designed
for a particular purpose. [1]
g any correct use, e.g. cutlery [1]

3 a if there was some left at the end, or because the bubbles

would stop being produced [1]
b funnel, filter paper and appropriate labels [3]
c crystals form at edge or sample of solution removed and
cooled then crystallises [1]
d sulfuric acid [1]
e white [1] precipitate [1] dissolves in excess [1] [3]

4 a nitrogen [1]
b sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide [2]
c carbon dioxide and methane [2]
d oxygen [1]
e carbon monoxide joined to car exhausts, methane joined to
cows and sheep and sulfur dioxide joined to power stations [3]
f It is unreactive. [1]

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5 a at the anode (positive electrode) [1]
b sodium hydroxide [1]
c It is covalently bonded or it doesn’t have ions present. [1]
d In solution its ions can move or in solid they cannot. [1]
e It conducts electricity. [1]
f diamond has a strong structure [1], each carbon joined to
four others [1], very hard [1]; graphite is soft [1] Maximum [2]

6 a scale on y-axis [1]; correct plotting [2] ([1] subtracted for each
mistake); straight lines joining points [1] [4]
b around 10.3 to 10.5 for [2] (or error carried forward from graph)
c ammonia + nitric acid → ammonium nitrate [2]
([1] subtracted for each mistake)
d It contains a lot of nitrogen. [1]

7 a × marked inside the column at the bottom [1]

b jet aircraft fuel [1]
c cracking = breaking larger molecules into smaller ones [1]
alkene = hydrocarbon with double bond or unsaturated
hydrocarbon [1]
d H2 [1]
e ethane + water → ethanol [2] (if ‘+ steam’ only [1])
f correct structural formula [2]
(subtract [1] for mistake, e.g. not showing O–H bond)
g fermentation [1]
any correct use, e.g. solvent [1]

8 a blanks in order: O, 10, 6, H [1] each [4]

b two atoms with same proton number but different mass
number or same protons different neutrons [1]
c two hydrogens in the table, one with a neutron and
one without (or similar) [2]
d used in nuclear reactors, radioactive decay of this isotope
produces energy, etc. [1]
e hydrogen + oxygen → water [2] ([1] subtracted for mistake)
f It is less dense (lighter than) air [1] and it is unreactive [1]. [2]

Total mark for the paper [80]

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