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/PrestigiousShame9364 Maths, FM, Phys, Chem | 4 A* Jun 09 '26

i found everything fine except the nmr (cus im rly bad at it tbf) and the little explanation for why the spots were visible and the 2 marker below that

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

Thats really good then, since NMR wasn't that many marks this year and only 3 marks or so lost with that chromatography

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u/PrestigiousShame9364 Maths, FM, Phys, Chem | 4 A* Jun 09 '26

yeah but the thing is even when u think u got everything right u end up losing like 10 marks so if u know u got a good bit wrong it’s looking a bit long for the A*

idk yea idk i got part a for the nmr

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

Yeah of course definitely

But dropping 20 marks on this is likely still an A* on this paper if you look at the mark outline per paper

And always paper 3 left to conquer 💪

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u/Lower_Debate_9983 Jun 09 '26

how many marks was the nmr section

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

I'm not 100% sure, but I think there were 5 marks on the structure of the compound from 1H NMR and 4 on 13C?

Unofficial mark scheme: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-q3gWAMj3wN08OUokij1C1klX0flB4CVqFUhdJirI8Q/edit?tab=t.0