Basic information

This practice Paper 2 examination can be given to your SL students either as a genuine test ('mock' exam) to be completed in the allotted time of 1 hour 30 minutes under examination conditions, or you can give it to them to compete in their own time. They are allowed a calculator and should have a clean copy of the IB data booklet.

The paper is located in the "Complete Course for students" section of the site so students will need to be signed up to Student Access since, in a similar way to the practice Paper 1 (Section A) papers, it is not available in pdf format.

You will need to change the default page setting from "OFF" to "ON" for your students to have access so that they can answer all the questions in the spaces provided. If you set it as an assignment then you will need to mark each student's answers using the model answers (with each mark identified) provided. You can give your students access to the model answers once they have submitted their own answers. If you allow them to do it in their own time (for homework etc.) and mark their own work then you can also give them access to the model answers.

This 'mock' exam is designed principally for your students' benefit. It is intended to give them practice at answering all the questions in the time allowed under exam conditions and perhaps more importantly to learn from any mistakes they make either in their chemistry or in their time management. This website aims to encourage best practice. It is for this reason that I have provided students with model answers rather than produce an IB-type markscheme. In order to learn from any mistakes, students need to see the best answer rather than other possible answers that might just gain them some marks. This site also very much encourages critical thinking. Most of the questions are quite straightforward, but just a few of the questions are written to make them think more deeply, i.e. to really test their understanding. This should stand them in good stead when they come to sit their final examinations at the end of the course.