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February 2026 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in February 2026, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in February 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2026Calculate the mass of 0.25 mol of sodium hydroxide, NaOH. (Na = 23, O = 16, H = 1)
- 2nd February 2026Explain, in terms of bonds, why breaking bonds is an endothermic process.
- 3rd February 2026State Le Chatelier's principle in your own words.
- 4th February 2026State the flame test colour for sodium ions.
- 5th February 2026Calculate the gravitational potential energy gained by a 60 kg person climbing 5 m. (g = 9.8 N/kg)
- 6th February 2026In a series circuit, the current through one lamp is 0.30 A. State the current through a second lamp in the same circuit.
- 7th February 2026A gas at 200 kPa occupies 3.0 cubic metres. It is compressed to 1.5 cubic metres at constant temperature. Calculate the new pressure.
- 8th February 2026On a velocity-time graph, what does the area between the line and the time axis represent?
- 9th February 2026State the speed of all electromagnetic waves travelling through a vacuum.
- 10th February 2026State the name of the force that keeps a satellite in orbit around the Earth.
- 11th February 2026State three functions of mitosis.
- 12th February 2026What happens to guard cells when a plant is short of water?
- 13th February 2026Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 14th February 2026A plant grown in the shade is shorter than a genetically identical plant of the same species grown in full sunlight. State whether this difference is genetic variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 15th February 2026State one method used to try to maintain biodiversity.
- 16th February 2026Explain, using the reactivity series, why attaching blocks of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps prevent the steel from rusting.
- 17th February 2026Why is graphite soft and slippery?
- 18th February 2026Explain the difference between a strong acid and a concentrated acid.
- 19th February 2026A reaction between calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid produces 72 cm3 of carbon dioxide gas in 30 seconds. Calculate the mean rate of reaction.
- 20th February 2026Name the small molecule typically released as a by-product during condensation polymerisation.
- 21st February 2026Describe, in terms of wavelength, the difference between the radiation the Earth receives from the Sun and the radiation it re-emits from its surface.
- 22nd February 2026Name four energy stores.
- 23rd February 2026State what happens to the internal energy of a substance as it is heated, in terms of the kinetic and potential energy of its particles.
- 24th February 2026State one source of natural background radiation and one source of artificial (man-made) background radiation.
- 25th February 2026A water wave has a frequency of 4 Hz and a wavelength of 0.5 m. Calculate its speed.
- 26th February 2026A transformer's primary coil is connected to a 12 V supply and has 60 turns. Calculate the number of turns needed on the secondary coil to produce an output of 3.0 V.
- 27th February 2026A microscope has a x10 eyepiece lens and a x20 objective lens. Calculate the total magnification.
- 28th February 2026What is an enzyme?