Daily Practice · GCSE Science
September 2025 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in September 2025, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in September 2025
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2025State two conditions that increase the rate of transpiration.
- 2nd September 2025A lamp is moved from 15 cm to 30 cm away. What happens to the light intensity?
- 3rd September 2025Explain, using the idea of natural selection, why a population of insects can become resistant to a pesticide over time.
- 4th September 2025Name the biological process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converts it into carbon compounds in a plant.
- 5th September 2025State one environmental benefit of recycling aluminium cans rather than making new aluminium from ore.
- 6th September 2025Explain why graphite conducts electricity but diamond does not.
- 7th September 2025State what is observed when magnesium ribbon is added to copper sulfate solution.
- 8th September 2025State the equation for the mean rate of a reaction in terms of the quantity of reactant used.
- 9th September 2025Name the carboxylic acid produced when ethanol is oxidised.
- 10th September 2025State two long-term stores of carbon that removed carbon dioxide from the early atmosphere.
- 11th September 2025Calculate the kinetic energy of a 0.5 kg ball moving at 6 m/s.
- 12th September 2025Calculate the energy needed to melt 0.50 kg of a substance with a specific latent heat of fusion of 210000 J/kg.
- 13th September 2025Explain why americium-241, an alpha emitter, is suitable for use in a smoke detector.
- 14th September 2025Define the term 'wavelength' of a wave.
- 15th September 2025State the difference between an alternator and a dynamo.
- 16th September 2025Name the structure in a plant cell that controls the substances entering and leaving the cell.
- 17th September 2025Where is bile made and where is it stored?
- 18th September 2025Why does a vaccinated person not usually become ill when they meet the pathogen?
- 19th September 2025State the type of effector that produces a physical response by contracting.
- 20th September 2025Give one example of a biotic factor that could affect a population of rabbits.
- 21st September 2025Name two methods of desalinating seawater.
- 22nd September 2025Name the giant covalent structure made of carbon in which each carbon atom is bonded to four others.
- 23rd September 2025Calculate the concentration in moles per cubic decimetre of a solution containing 0.5 mol in 250 cubic centimetres.
- 24th September 2025State the energy transfer that occurs during an endothermic reaction.
- 25th September 2025Balance the equation for the complete combustion of methane: CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O
- 26th September 2025A sample produces only one spot when run in three different solvents. What does this suggest about the sample?
- 27th September 2025Why should a line of best fit be drawn rather than joining the plotted points?
- 28th September 2025In a parallel circuit, how do the branch currents relate to the total current?
- 29th September 2025State the approximate radius of an atom.
- 30th September 2025State two factors that increase a driver's thinking distance.