Understanding how to approach exam questions helps to boost exam performance. Question types will include multiple choice, structured, mathematical and practical questions.
Foundation tier papers may include questions in which you have to draw lines to match correct options. These questions will include incorrect choices.
When you answer a link box question, draw the number of lines needed to answer the question.
Foundation tier papers may also include questions in which you have to complete a sentence. Some of these questions include words or phrases to choose from in a box. You do not have to use all the words or phrases - some of them will be wrong.
These questions have been written by Bitesize consultants as suggestions to the types of questions that may appear in an exam paper.
Sample question 1 - Foundation
Question
Draw one line from each measure of the effectiveness of a reaction to its equation. [2 marks]
Sample question 2 - Foundation
Question
Use words and/or phrases from the box to complete the sentences. [2 marks]
equal to
made
more than
less than
destroyed
The law of conservation of mass states that no atoms are lost or ______ in a chemical reaction. This means that the mass of products is ______ the mass of reactants.
The law of conservation of mass states that no atoms are lost or made [1] in a chemical reaction. This means that the mass of products is equal to [1] the mass of reactants.