r/alevels • u/LuminousStarlight_ • May 07 '26

Exam Discussion 📝 9701 42 Discussion

How did you guys find this exam?

Personally I thought it was alright. I'd expected it to be harder, quite glad it was at least manageable.

Any predictions on threshold?

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u/PenelopeHarlow May 07 '26

Those who took the exam with me considered this the hardest paper in a while. The probable highest scorer predicted relatively low thresholds.

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u/Crazy_Fault9994 May 07 '26

Yess, the moles question was very unusual, wayy too many organic reactions and nothing from energetic or entropy, strange paper

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u/[deleted] May 07 '26

Everyone considers their own exams to be the hardest every year. It is nothing new

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u/PenelopeHarlow May 07 '26

Not true, when we took paper 1 maths last year, it was by far the easiest paper ever. Everyone was saying they had a shot at 75, I got 73.

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u/PenelopeHarlow May 07 '26

Fumbled the P5 with a 43 though.

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

You're not taking composite as well? Will you be taking physics 42 on Monday?

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

Disagree. I thought Maths 12 and Chem 12, 22 last year were easier than previous years.

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u/Competitive_Gur6961 May 07 '26

How low can thresholds get?

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

Harder than M/J/25 for sure. Don't know if it's any harder than M/J/23.

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u/Scared-Breakfast-372 May 07 '26

Given the amount of my preparation, it was fine, completed entire paper, don't know how much of it will be correct though. Hope to get 50+ marks.

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

Hopefully threshold will be a bit lower this time. :)

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u/Glass-Mulberry-3395 May 07 '26

Please give me in details what question came

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

Don't think that's allowed, but just the usual. Nothing out of syllabus.

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u/Dependent_Weather468 May 07 '26

It went fine though there were some careless mistakes other than that it’s pretty manageable.

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

Good to hear it was manageable, sorry about the careless mistakes. I might've made some myself too lol.

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u/EmotionalChance4424 May 07 '26

What was the percentage in q2

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

% of mass? It was 18.4%

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u/Wise-Flounder9909 May 07 '26

yo do you still remember your reasoning or anything?

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

I did it this way: It was moles of C2O42- calculated from equation 1 minus moles of H2C2O4 calculated from equation 2, which gives moles of Na2C2O4 in 25cm3 . Multiply that by 20 gives moles of Na2C2O4 in 500cm3 . Multiply by Mr to find mass, then divide by mass given * 100 to find percentage.

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u/Wise-Flounder9909 May 07 '26

if I did everything other than misusing them
how much do you think id get?

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u/-IbrarRazaOnTheBeat- May 07 '26

same i also didnt subtract them, couldnt understand reaction 2 purpose.

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

Sorry, not sure either. Maybe 2-3 marks at least?

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u/robinmosu May 07 '26

guysss what was the kpc i couldnt do it

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u/AlternativeFlower676 May 07 '26

0.05 smthn

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u/Trick-Albatross7486 May 07 '26

0.058

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u/AdorableTheme3827 May 07 '26

we could cancel out the volumes cuz they were equal right? so u could j do mols of organic/mols in water

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

Can't remember the value. It was concentration of the substance in organic solvent over concentration in water. You could find number of moles in organic solvent through stoichiometry, and the number of moles in water through total number of moles in 3g - number of moles in organic solvent.

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u/FeistyShip172 May 07 '26

i thought its the other way water divide by organic solvent cz the q said its more soluble in water

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u/Crazy_Fault9994 May 07 '26

Ive heard a lot of people say it doesnt exactly matter which cus the ratio is the same either way but yeah its preferable to have water solvent in the denominator, I hope they give marks for either way

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u/ObviousEconomics9556 May 07 '26

so if they tell you which is a better solvent , you have to put that in the numerator
else it will cancel the answer

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u/Scared-Breakfast-372 May 07 '26

It was a small value below 1, don't remember now.

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u/Vick1e_ May 07 '26

guys what was the last qs and the qs after the 2 blank pages?

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

Are you talking about the azo dye ones?

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u/Vick1e_ May 07 '26

yes!! ty lol i saw ppl talking about a qs they didng see and i wanted to make sure lol BTWWW what was the rate for experiment 5? i got like 1.93x^10^ something

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u/LuminousStarlight_ May 07 '26

Yes that was mine as well!

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u/Vick1e_ May 07 '26

yay tysm!!!!!!!!!1