AQA GCSE COMBINED SCIENCE: TRILOGY
8464/C/2H HIGHER TIER CHEMISTRY
PAPER 2H PAPER & MARK SCHEME
FINAL TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ AQA.
Answer: Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, UK exam board.
◍ What are themosoftening polymer?.
Answer: Polymers that melt when heated and so can be easily recycled
◍ Downloaded by.
Answer: Indicates who accessed the document.
◍ 57 pages.
Answer: Total number of pages in the document.
◍ Give four examples of composite materials.
Answer: Reinforced steel (reinforcement:steel, matrix:concrete), Fibreglass
(glass fibres, polymer resin), carbon fibre (carbon fibres, polymer resin),
chipboard ( wood chips, resin glue)
◍ Chemical Equations.
Answer: Representations of chemical reactions using symbols.
◍ How is low density poly(ethene) produced?.
Answer: Under conditions that produce branches in the polymer so the
polymers are arranged randomly
◍ What type of hydrocarbons are most of those found in crude oil?.
, Answer: Alkanes
◍ What is the test for carbon dioxide gas?.
Answer: Bubble carbon dioxide through an aqueous solution of calcium
hydroxide (limewater) and the solution will turn milky (cloudy)
◍ Document Sharing.
Answer: Process of distributing documents electronically.
◍ How are clay ceramics made?.
Answer: By shaping wet clay and then heating in a furnace
◍ Paper 1.
Answer: First exam paper in the AQA Chemistry series.
◍ What is the functional group in alcohols?.
Answer: -OH
◍ Stoichiometry.
Answer: Study of quantitative relationships in chemical reactions.
◍ Student Notes.
Answer: Personalized study materials created by a student.
◍ Safety Procedures.
Answer: Guidelines to ensure safety in the lab.
◍ Merged Question Paper.
Answer: Combined set of questions from various topics.
◍ Practical Experiments.
Answer: Hands-on activities to demonstrate chemical principles.
◍ What is the activation energy of a reaction?.
Answer: The minimum amount of energy that particles must have to react
◍ Revision Strategies.
Answer: Methods to prepare effectively for exams.
◍ What are the advantages of extracting copper using phytomining or
, bioleaching?.
Answer: These methods avoid traditional mining methods of digging,
moving and disposing of large amounts of rock
◍ Which two greenhouse gases has human activity increased?.
Answer: Carbon dioxide and methane
◍ Mark Scheme.
Answer: Guidelines for grading exam responses.
◍ What happens to an equilibrium if any of the conditions change?.
Answer: The system responds to counteract the change
◍ GCSE.
Answer: General Certificate of Secondary Education, UK qualification.
◍ What conditions are required for alkenes to react with hydrogen?.
Answer: Hydrogenation requires a catalyst
◍ What chemically is crude oil?.
Answer: A mixture of a large number of compounds; mainly hydrocarbons
◍ What is the general formula of an alkene?.
Answer: CnH2n
◍ Periodic Table.
Answer: Chart organizing all known chemical elements.
◍ How do you know in a reaction that a chemical is used in a reaction is a
catalyst?.
Answer: It is not included in the chemical equation for the reaction
◍ What happens when carboxylic acids react with alcohols?.
Answer: They form esters
◍ What is bronze?.
Answer: An alloy of copper and tin
◍ Question Types.
Answer: Different formats of questions in the exam.
8464/C/2H HIGHER TIER CHEMISTRY
PAPER 2H PAPER & MARK SCHEME
FINAL TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ AQA.
Answer: Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, UK exam board.
◍ What are themosoftening polymer?.
Answer: Polymers that melt when heated and so can be easily recycled
◍ Downloaded by.
Answer: Indicates who accessed the document.
◍ 57 pages.
Answer: Total number of pages in the document.
◍ Give four examples of composite materials.
Answer: Reinforced steel (reinforcement:steel, matrix:concrete), Fibreglass
(glass fibres, polymer resin), carbon fibre (carbon fibres, polymer resin),
chipboard ( wood chips, resin glue)
◍ Chemical Equations.
Answer: Representations of chemical reactions using symbols.
◍ How is low density poly(ethene) produced?.
Answer: Under conditions that produce branches in the polymer so the
polymers are arranged randomly
◍ What type of hydrocarbons are most of those found in crude oil?.
, Answer: Alkanes
◍ What is the test for carbon dioxide gas?.
Answer: Bubble carbon dioxide through an aqueous solution of calcium
hydroxide (limewater) and the solution will turn milky (cloudy)
◍ Document Sharing.
Answer: Process of distributing documents electronically.
◍ How are clay ceramics made?.
Answer: By shaping wet clay and then heating in a furnace
◍ Paper 1.
Answer: First exam paper in the AQA Chemistry series.
◍ What is the functional group in alcohols?.
Answer: -OH
◍ Stoichiometry.
Answer: Study of quantitative relationships in chemical reactions.
◍ Student Notes.
Answer: Personalized study materials created by a student.
◍ Safety Procedures.
Answer: Guidelines to ensure safety in the lab.
◍ Merged Question Paper.
Answer: Combined set of questions from various topics.
◍ Practical Experiments.
Answer: Hands-on activities to demonstrate chemical principles.
◍ What is the activation energy of a reaction?.
Answer: The minimum amount of energy that particles must have to react
◍ Revision Strategies.
Answer: Methods to prepare effectively for exams.
◍ What are the advantages of extracting copper using phytomining or
, bioleaching?.
Answer: These methods avoid traditional mining methods of digging,
moving and disposing of large amounts of rock
◍ Which two greenhouse gases has human activity increased?.
Answer: Carbon dioxide and methane
◍ Mark Scheme.
Answer: Guidelines for grading exam responses.
◍ What happens to an equilibrium if any of the conditions change?.
Answer: The system responds to counteract the change
◍ GCSE.
Answer: General Certificate of Secondary Education, UK qualification.
◍ What conditions are required for alkenes to react with hydrogen?.
Answer: Hydrogenation requires a catalyst
◍ What chemically is crude oil?.
Answer: A mixture of a large number of compounds; mainly hydrocarbons
◍ What is the general formula of an alkene?.
Answer: CnH2n
◍ Periodic Table.
Answer: Chart organizing all known chemical elements.
◍ How do you know in a reaction that a chemical is used in a reaction is a
catalyst?.
Answer: It is not included in the chemical equation for the reaction
◍ What happens when carboxylic acids react with alcohols?.
Answer: They form esters
◍ What is bronze?.
Answer: An alloy of copper and tin
◍ Question Types.
Answer: Different formats of questions in the exam.
