Properties of metals: two questions to try now
Real past-paper questions, the answer key from the mark scheme, and the explanation that goes with it. No account needed to answer them.
Question 1
Some properties of copper are listed.
1 It conducts electricity.
2 It conducts heat.
3 It is ductile.
4 It has a high melting point.
Which properties of copper make it useful as a cooking pan?
Answer: C.
Question 2
Which statement about copper or aluminium is correct?
Answer: C.
What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0620 Chemistry papers and filtered to properties of metals. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
Keep going Paper 1 and Paper 2 MCQs →
What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on properties of metals, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Saying all metals have high melting points, forgetting mercury and the alkali metals.
- Saying no non-metal conducts electricity, forgetting graphite.
- Giving a hydroxide as the product of a metal reacting with steam.
- Writing that copper reacts with dilute hydrochloric acid to give hydrogen.
- Explaining conductivity by "free ions" rather than delocalised electrons.
- Explaining malleability without saying the layers of ions slide over one another.
- Classifying a substance as a metal from its shininess alone, when iodine is a shiny grey-black non-metal.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Properties of metals revision notes.