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August 2026 - GCSE Science 5-a-day
Every GCSE Science sheet published in August 2026, with answers. Biology, chemistry and physics recall, definition and calculation, drawn from every strand.
Every sheet in August 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2026Complete: acid + metal carbonate gives ...
- 2nd August 2026State the four factors that can increase the rate of a chemical reaction.
- 3rd August 2026Name the type of biological molecule formed when amino acid monomers join together by condensation polymerisation.
- 4th August 2026Explain, in terms of gas molecules, why methane and water vapour, as well as carbon dioxide, are described as greenhouse gases.
- 5th August 2026By what factor does kinetic energy increase if speed is doubled?
- 6th August 2026A block has a volume of 50 cm^3 and a mass of 135 g. Calculate its density.
- 7th August 2026Define the term 'half-life' of a radioactive isotope.
- 8th August 2026A radio wave has a wavelength of 3 m. Calculate its frequency, given that all electromagnetic waves travel at 3 x 10^8 m/s in a vacuum.
- 9th August 2026Explain why electricity is transmitted through the National Grid at a very high voltage rather than at the voltage used in homes.
- 10th August 2026A cube-shaped model cell has sides of length 3 cm. Calculate the surface area to volume ratio of the cube. Give your answer in the form n : 1.
- 11th August 2026Describe the positive result of the Biuret test.
- 12th August 2026What is tested during preclinical testing?
- 13th August 2026Name the chemical released at a synapse that carries the signal across the gap.
- 14th August 2026Explain why deforestation to create land for cattle grazing can reduce biodiversity.
- 15th August 2026Name the four stages usually considered in a life cycle assessment of a product.
- 16th August 2026A student says that metals conduct electricity because they contain free-moving ions. Explain why this statement is incorrect, and give the correct explanation.
- 17th August 2026Why do companies prefer reactions with a high atom economy?
- 18th August 2026On a reaction profile diagram, the reactants are drawn at a higher energy level than the products. State whether the reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 19th August 2026State two products, other than water, that can be formed during the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon.
- 20th August 2026Explain why the solvent level in the container must be below the pencil baseline.
- 21st August 2026In the specific heat capacity practical, why is the block insulated?
- 22nd August 2026Describe the current-potential difference graph for a filament lamp.
- 23rd August 2026State the difference between irradiation and contamination.
- 24th August 2026Explain why a larger vehicle mass increases braking distance.
- 25th August 2026State the type of force that always acts between an induced magnet and the magnet that induced it.
- 26th August 2026Name the model of the origin of the universe that is supported by red-shift observations.
- 27th August 2026Name the process that moves substances against a concentration gradient.
- 28th August 2026Which type of pathogen causes athlete's foot, a fungal skin infection?
- 29th August 2026Define oxygen debt.
- 30th August 2026Explain one benefit of the Human Genome Project.
- 31st August 2026Why is the burette rinsed with the solution it is going to contain rather than with water?