AQA GCSE Chemistry Paper 1 Foundation 2022

This is the GCSE Chemistry Paper 1 (Foundation tier) from the June 2022 AQA exam series, sitting under exam code 8462/1F. Below you can open the original question paper and the official AQA mark scheme, and then — unlike a plain PDF archive — actually work through the paper on Science Street: answer the questions, get them marked instantly, and compare your marking against the examiner's on real answers.

What’s in this paper

AQA GCSE Chemistry Paper 1 (Foundation tier), 2022. The paper is 100 marks, set as 65 marked parts across 10 questions, including 2 parts worth 5 marks or more.

Topics it draws on

From the parts of this paper tagged so far, the heaviest topics are:

• Energy changes — 15 marks
• Bonding, structure, and the properties of matter — 15 marks
• Atomic structure and the periodic table — 11 marks
• Quantitative chemistry — 4 marks
• Chemical changes — 4 marks

Practise this paper

18 parts of this paper (49 marks) are in the Science Street question bank, so you can answer them and be marked instantly rather than just reading the mark scheme. More are added over time.

The Foundation tier targets grades 1–5. If you're aiming at the other tier, the Higher paper for the same series is linked below.

What this paper covers

AQA GCSE Chemistry Paper 1 assesses:

• Atomic structure and the periodic table
• Bonding, structure and properties
• Quantitative chemistry
• Chemical changes
• Energy changes

Same paper, other series & tier