Topic Test

Summer 2022
Pearson Edexcel GCSE Foundation Tier
Chemistry
Topic 6: Groups in the periodic table
Contents
General guidance to Topic Tests.................................................................................
Revise Revision Guide content coverage...................................................................
Questions......................................................................................................................
Mark Scheme..............................................................................................................
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General guidance to Topic Tests
Context
 Topic Tests have come from past papers both published (those materials available publicly)
and unpublished (those currently under padlock to our centres) presented in a different format
to allow teachers to adapt them for use with candidates.

Purpose
 The purpose of this resource is to provide qualification-specific sets/groups of questions
covering the knowledge, skills and understanding relevant to this Pearson qualification.
 This document should be used in conjunction with the advance information for the subject as
well as general marking guidance for the qualification (available in published mark schemes).

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Revise Revision Guide content coverage

The questions in this topic test have been taken from past papers, and have been selected as they
cover the same topics as the GCSE advance information for summer 2022.

The focus of content in this topic test can be found in the Pearson Revise Edexcel GCSE (9-1)
Chemistry Foundation Revision Guide.

Free access to this Revise Guide is available for front of class use, to support your students’ revision.

Topic Revision Guide page reference

Topic 1: Key concepts in chemistry 5-22
Topic 2: States of matter and mixtures 23-30
Topic 3: Chemical changes 31-41
Topic 4: Extracting metals and equilibria 42-49
Topic 5: Separate Chemistry 1 50-60
Topic 6: Groups of the periodic table 61-66
Topic 7: Rates of reaction and energy changes 67-71
Topic 8: Fuels and Earth science 72-82
Topic 9: Separate chemistry 2 83-99

Content on other pages may also be useful, including for synoptic questions which bring together
learning from across the specification.

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