What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 0620 Chemistry papers and filtered to reactivity series. 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.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on reactivity series, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Leaving carbon and hydrogen out of the order, and then being unable to answer the extraction question.
- Saying copper reacts with dilute hydrochloric acid to give hydrogen.
- Writing a hydroxide as the product of a metal with steam, or an oxide as the product with cold water.
- Saying aluminium is less reactive than zinc, rather than that its oxide layer makes it appear so.
- Predicting that copper displaces zinc from zinc sulfate solution.
- Explaining reactivity by "it reacts more" rather than by the tendency to lose electrons and form positive ions.
- Describing a displacement without the colour change, which is where the observation mark sits.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Reactivity series revision notes.