AQA required practicals

Choose the required practical you are revising. The questions also test the transferable skills AQA can use in a different experimental context.

AQA requires activities 1–6 for AS and all 12 for A-level. The written papers can assess the skills in these activities and apply them elsewhere.

RP1 Volumetric solution and acid–base titrationYear 12 / AS content Practise RP2 Measure an enthalpy changeYear 12 / AS content Practise RP3 Rate of reaction and temperatureYear 12 / AS content Practise RP4 Identify ions by test-tube reactionsYear 12 / AS content Practise RP5 Distil a product from a reactionYear 12 / AS content Practise RP6 Tests for organic functional groupsYear 12 / AS content Practise RP7 Initial-rate and continuous-monitoring methodsYear 13 / full A-level Practise RP8 Measure the EMF of an electrochemical cellYear 13 / full A-level Practise RP9 pH curves for weak/strong acid–base combinationsYear 13 / full A-level Practise RP10 Prepare and purify organic solids and liquidsYear 13 / full A-level Practise RP11 Identify transition-metal ions by test-tube reactionsYear 13 / full A-level Practise RP12 Separate species by thin-layer chromatographyYear 13 / full A-level Practise

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