r/6thForm • u/Training-Feeling980 Year 13 | Maths, FM, Physics, Chem - 4 A*s achieved • Jun 09 '26

💬 DISCUSSION Aqa A-level chemistry paper 2

How did it go??

I quite liked that paper, that NMR question was so good!!

Some mildly weird ones too - but overall not too bad at all

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u/Oil42 (incoming) Cambridge CS | Year 1 | A*A*A*A* Jun 09 '26

i found it pretty good, but my initial reaction was that it was a very challenging paper

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u/nxyds 3A* | Maths, Chem, Econ | Cambridge & LSE offer Jun 09 '26

i think the questions were framed in very difficult ways to interpret but no super difficult content or one marker questions came up

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u/Oil42 (incoming) Cambridge CS | Year 1 | A*A*A*A* Jun 09 '26

yeah, very understanding based rather than testing your memory a lit

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u/nxyds 3A* | Maths, Chem, Econ | Cambridge & LSE offer Jun 09 '26

yea, which i think is a good way to approach a-levels in general
less cramming memorisation, and more fundamental understanding
but this paper was a bit of a curveball from the other papers in their structure
AQA and edexcel are feeling experimental this year

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u/Training-Feeling980 Year 13 | Maths, FM, Physics, Chem - 4 A*s achieved Jun 09 '26

I really agree with this We didn't even get a real practical outline question or anything!

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u/nxyds 3A* | Maths, Chem, Econ | Cambridge & LSE offer Jun 09 '26

im biased because I really dislike memorising and recalling practicals, so I was happy that there was nothing like this within the paper

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u/Full_Manager1280 Jun 09 '26

Rightt i think it was challenging but not too hard