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July 2025 - GCSE Science 5-a-day

Every GCSE Science sheet published in July 2025, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.

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July 2025

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 2025

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st July 2025State one benefit of recycling metal rather than extracting new metal from its ore.
  2. 2nd July 2025Name the three types of strong chemical bonding.
  3. 3rd July 2025Convert 250 cubic centimetres into cubic decimetres.
  4. 4th July 2025A student heats solid copper carbonate strongly in a test tube, and it breaks down into copper oxide and carbon dioxide. Heating must be continued throughout the reaction for it to keep going. State whether this thermal decomposition reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain your reasoning.
  5. 5th July 2025Hexadecane (C16H34) is cracked to produce dodecane (C12H26) and one other product. Calculate the molecular formula of the other product.
  6. 6th July 2025Write the formula for calculating an Rf value.
  7. 7th July 2025Readings have a mean of 20.0 cm and a range of 1.0 cm. Calculate the percentage uncertainty.
  8. 8th July 2025What happens to the total resistance when a second resistor is added in parallel, and why?
  9. 9th July 2025What happens inside the nucleus when a beta particle is emitted?
  10. 10th July 2025A resultant force of 60 N acts on a wheelbarrow of mass 15 kg. Calculate its acceleration.
  11. 11th July 2025State the difference between a permanent magnet and an induced magnet.
  12. 12th July 2025State whether a galaxy moving towards Earth would show a red-shift or a blue-shift in its light.
  13. 13th July 2025State three factors that increase the rate of diffusion.
  14. 14th July 2025State one way that pathogens can be spread from person to person.
  15. 15th July 2025State two things excess glucose can be converted into for storage in the human body.
  16. 16th July 2025Define homozygous.
  17. 17th July 2025What does 'concordant' mean when applied to titres?
  18. 18th July 2025What did the alpha scattering experiment show that the plum pudding model could not explain?
  19. 19th July 2025Magnesium is burned in an open crucible and the mass increases. Explain why.
  20. 20th July 2025Molten zinc chloride, ZnCl2, is electrolysed using inert electrodes. Write the half equation for the reaction at (a) the cathode, and (b) the anode.
  21. 21st July 2025A tangent drawn to a volume-time graph at 15 seconds passes through the points (5 s, 6 cm3) and (25 s, 66 cm3). Calculate the rate of reaction at 15 seconds.
  22. 22nd July 2025Describe the result of the test for carbon dioxide.
  23. 23rd July 2025Give one piece of evidence used to link human activity to recent climate change.
  24. 24th July 2025Give one advantage and one disadvantage of wind power.
  25. 25th July 2025Why does the temperature stay constant while a substance boils?
  26. 26th July 2025State whether friction is a contact force or a non-contact force.
  27. 27th July 2025State the difference between a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave.
  28. 28th July 2025Name the force that keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun.
  29. 29th July 2025Where is the DNA found in a bacterial cell?
  30. 30th July 2025Name the substance in red blood cells that binds oxygen.
  31. 31st July 2025Complete the word equation for anaerobic respiration in yeast: glucose -> ___ + ___