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Cambridge International A-level Chemistry 9701 Paper 1: Multiple Choice
9701/1 · 1 hour 15 minutes · 40 marks · 15.5% of the A level.
What it examines
Forty multiple-choice questions on the AS Level syllabus content.
Forty questions in 75 minutes is a little under two minutes each, so practise at that pace and do not stay long on one question. The mark scheme for a multiple-choice paper is a list of the correct answers; for each one you got wrong, find the topic it tested and practise that topic before you sit another paper.
Where the library covers it
The units whose lessons teach the headings this paper examines, read off the route map, with how many of each unit’s lessons those headings name:
- Working in the laboratory1 of 3 lessons
- Atomic structureall 4 lessons
- Amount of substanceall 5 lessons
- Bonding and structureall 5 lessons
- Energeticsall 4 lessons
- Kineticsall 3 lessons
- Chemical equilibriaall 3 lessons
- Redox2 of 3 lessons
- Rate equations1 of 3 lessons
- Acids and bases2 of 4 lessons
- Periodicity and Period 3all 3 lessons
- Group 2 and Group 7all 4 lessons
- Ions in aqueous solutionall 2 lessons
- Introduction to organic chemistryall 3 lessons
- Alkanes and halogenoalkanesall 4 lessons
- Alkenes and alcoholsall 4 lessons
- Organic analysis2 of 4 lessons
- Carbonyls and carboxylic acids3 of 5 lessons
- Aromatic chemistry and amines1 of 4 lessons
- Organic synthesis1 of 3 lessons
Where to get the papers
June 2024
2022 specimen papers
Cambridge International publishes the 9701/1 papers it makes public on Cambridge’s past-paper page for Chemistry 9701, alongside the other papers in the qualification. The 9701 past papers page lists what is published and when the list was checked.
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