Current AQA specification

Required practicals

All 12 practical activities required for A-level Chemistry 7405.

The chemistry professor carrying out a laboratory practical
1
Year 12

Make up a volumetric solution and carry out a simple acid–base titration

Apparatus and techniques: a,d,e,f,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
2
Year 12

Measurement of an enthalpy change

Apparatus and techniques: a,d,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
3
Year 12

Investigation of how the rate of a reaction changes with temperature

Apparatus and techniques: a,b,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
4
Year 12

Simple test-tube reactions to identify specified cations and anions

Apparatus and techniques: d,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
5
Year 12

Distillation of a product from a reaction

Apparatus and techniques: b,d,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
6
Year 12

Tests for alcohol, aldehyde, alkene and carboxylic acid

Apparatus and techniques: b,d,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
7
Year 13

Measure reaction rate by an initial-rate method and by continuous monitoring

Apparatus and techniques: a,k,l

AQA 7405 section 7.2
8
Year 13

Measure the EMF of an electrochemical cell

Apparatus and techniques: j,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
9
Year 13

Investigate pH changes for weak acid/strong base and strong acid/weak base reactions

Apparatus and techniques: a,c,d,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
10
Year 13

Prepare a pure organic solid and test its purity; prepare a pure organic liquid

Apparatus and techniques: a,b,d,g,h,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
11
Year 13

Simple test-tube reactions to identify transition-metal ions in aqueous solution

Apparatus and techniques: b,d,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
12
Year 13

Separation of species by thin-layer chromatography

Apparatus and techniques: i,k

AQA 7405 section 7.2
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