Test your students’ practical skills with these Schools’ Analyst past papers from 2017 covering skills such as making standard solutions.

Topics covered in each past paper:

East Anglia region QMUL

  • Determine Vitamin C content in a provided tablet.

East Anglia region UEA 

  • Standardisation of sodium hydroxide solution
  • Tiration of citric acid
  • Estimation of paracetamol in paracetamol tablets
  • Estimation of caffeine in filter coffee by HPLC.

North West region Liverpool 

  • Standardisation of sodium hydroxide solution
  • Determination of the active ingredient in commercially available analgesic tablets
  • Determination of caffeine content of ‘Energy Plus’ tablets by UV spectrophotometry
  • Identification of the contents of an analgesic tablet by TLC.

North West region Manchester 

  • Complexometric titration of various waters, milk and Lucozade.

South West region Plymouth

  • Calculation of the percentage of copper in a 1p coin
  • Determination of the amount of orthophosphate in river water.

Scottish region south 

  • Determination of quinine in tonic water
  • Titration of vinegar solution
  • Analysis of an unknown tablet using TLC.

South East region Kingston

  • Estimation of the mass of iron in ferrous sulfate tablets
  • Absorption spectra and the Beer-Lambert law
  • Determination of ethanol in an alcoholic beverage by GC.

North West region UCLAN 

  • Volumetric analysis of aspirin
  • Spectrophotometric analysis to determine the concentration of caffeine
  • TLC analysis of gas samples.

South West region Bristol 

  • Identification of unknown solutions using chemical tests (theoretical explanation)
  • Determination of iron content of tablets by titration.

Republic of Ireland (both centres)

  • Determination of vitamin C content of a fizzy drink by titration
  • Determination of the caffeine content of a fizzy drink by HPLC
  • Determination of the benzoic acid content of a fizzy drink using spectrophotometric procedure.

Scottish region Aberdeen 

  • Quantification of iron in iron tablets by titration
  • Quantification of iron in IrnBru by colorimetry
  • Analysis of unknown tablet using TLC.

North Wales region Bangor

  • Ethanol determination and potassium determination using spectrophotometric techniques .

Midlands region Nottingham

  • Isolation of the active organic compound in a tablet then recording the IR spectrum
  • Running a TLC analysis of the organic compound
  • Measuring the melting point of the organic compound and investigation of it’s solubility.

Northern Ireland region

  • Determination of the citric acid content of lemon juice
  • determination of the formula of oxalic acid crystals by redox titration
  • Colorimetric analysis of health supplements.

North West region all centres

  • Determination of copper by atomic absorption spectroscopy
  • Detection of the presence of metal ions by chromatography
  • Determination of aluminium by reacting it with catechol violet
  • Titration of analgesic tablets with a base.

Midlands region Wolverhampton

  • Using a spectroscopic method to determine concentration of the food colouring, sunset yellow, in the fizzy drink IrnBru,
  • Using a titrimetric method to determine the concentration of citric acid in lemonade
  • Using a chromatographic method to identify the organic components in lemonade and IrnBru.

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Additional information

Please note: these experiments were designed to be carried out in an undergraduate laboratory. Therefore if you are adapting them for use in a school you must always comply with your employer’s procedures and in some cases may decide that a particular activity is inappropriate in your situation. Further information on Health and Safety should be obtained from reputable sources such as CLEAPSS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and, in Scotland, SSERC.