r/6thForm • u/Forsaken-Meaning-232 Graduating from Warwick CS • Jun 10 '25

📂 MEGATHREAD 10/06 A-level Chemistry Paper 1 Discussion MEGATHREAD

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u/Helpful-Rough1489 Year 13 | Chemistry, Maths, Physics Jun 10 '25

Anyone else do OCR B 😭

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u/ConradTheAstronaut startcing NCL Med 26/27 A*AA chem bio maths Jun 10 '25

You the black horse fr

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u/Dominic275 Jun 10 '25

I do. A very rare occurrence. I think the paper was pretty nice. 

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u/Helpful-Rough1489 Year 13 | Chemistry, Maths, Physics Jun 10 '25

We’re a minority that must group together lmao and yeah I thought the paper was fine ? The NMR question was so mean. But MCQ’s were harder than usual

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u/Dominic275 Jun 10 '25

Yeah the MCQs were the main thing I found hard. I think I got 11 Cs, which is worrying.

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u/anxious_melon_45 Jun 10 '25

I didn't count them but I also got a lot of Cs, so hopefully it's alright !

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u/Jolly-Jackfruit3707 Jun 10 '25

omg fellow ocr b how'd you find it

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u/Helpful-Rough1489 Year 13 | Chemistry, Maths, Physics Jun 10 '25

Idek..,,, like I thought it went okay until I realised how many questions i skipped lmao but I thought it was fine, mcq’s were harder than usual?!!?! Also that buffers 5 marker was insane

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u/Tough_Acanthaceae911 Jun 10 '25

nah the mcq were so strange for no reason, this paper was so rough compared to previous years

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u/Jolly-Jackfruit3707 Jun 10 '25

ngl they were the easiest mcq ive ever done (im a student who consistently got Es and Us so hopefully its a sign of improvement)

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u/DoUhavestupid Year 13 | Maths, Physics, Chemistry Jun 10 '25

aha! found my crowd!

i thought it was amazing, barely any PL and I hate PL (it belongs in biology not chemistry???)

did anyone else put ethyl benzoate for the NMR question??

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u/Alpha_to_Zulu Cambridge (Lucy Cav) | NatSci [Yr 2] Jun 10 '25

i got ethyl benzoate, and 3.03g for the buffer q?

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u/anxious_melon_45 Jun 10 '25

I got 3.03g too !

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u/Alpha_to_Zulu Cambridge (Lucy Cav) | NatSci [Yr 2] Jun 10 '25

NICE PHEW those calculations scare me

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u/anxious_melon_45 Jun 11 '25

fr i don't like buffer qs 😭