Good afternoon. We are looking for the breakdown of national 5 chemistry papers as published for 2016-2019 in the 'Guidance on assessments and gathering evidence' document please. In particular we would be grateful for 2014-15. Thanks in advance for this data.

To help us identify and locate the information you have requested, we need some clarification on your request.  We are unsure what is meant by 'breakdown of national 5 chemistry papers'. Can you please confirm what data you are looking for? If you could provide a link to the 'Guidance on assessments and gathering evidence' document you are referencing that would also be helpful.

Please note that the statutory timescale of 20 working days for responding to your request will not begin until this clarification has been received.

I cannot find the document online, but I have attached a copy.

From page 3 onwards each question from  2016-2019 has been assigned a question type. For example: 2019 section 1, question 1- ‘Applying knowledge to new situations, interpreting, solving problems’.  

I have been asked to enquire if we can have this same data for papers 2014 and 2015 as well as those beyond 2019?

I hope this makes a bit more sense. Apologies for being unclear in my first enquiry.

Please find the attached the question paper analysis for National 5 chemistry in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Please note that there is no paper for 2020 (when exams were cancelled) and was subsequently released as what is referred to here as the 2021 paper.

Under section 17 of the Act, if information is not held, an authority must inform the applicant.

We do not have information for 2014 or 2015. This information was not generated or published for chemistry.

Chemistry N5 Assessment and Estimate Guidance Dec 2020 (576 KB)
N5 chemistry 2021 qp analysis (1.34 MB)
N5 chemistry 2022 qp analysis (86 KB)
N5 chemistry 2023 qp analysis (112 KB)
N5 chemistry 2024 qp analysis (107 KB)
N5 chemistry 2025 qp analysis (201 KB)