AQA Chemistry 2016 Exam Puzzles Students With 'Physics' Question

'Well, that was a joke.'

Friday's AS-level chemistry exam had students believing they were sitting a physics paper instead.

Post-exam Twitter was lit, as sixth formers took to social media en masse to console each other and complain.

Although it's true the two branches of science share the study of matter, students were still perplexed, and more than a little annoyed their preferred topics didn't appear.

Sorry I forgot I was actually doing Alevel physics #aqachemistry

— Soph (@soph_simpleton) May 27, 2016

That chemistry exam was fucking disgusting. Wtf was velocity doing on the paper is this physics ?! #aqachemistry

— Yusuf (@yusufpanah) May 27, 2016

About right that the easiest question on the chemistry paper was a Physics question #AQAChemistry

— Luke Douthwaite (@_Lukifer) May 27, 2016

Since when was physics part of #aqachemistry smh

— olive (@oliveee105) May 27, 2016

The test just wasn't what people needed right now.

Well that was a joke #aqachemistry

— Hafsahツ (@Hafsah_Kapadia) May 27, 2016

That couldn't have gone worse #aqachemistry

— Jade Whittaker (@JadeW2107) May 27, 2016

#aqachemistry was absolutely horrendous 💩

— ramshackle (@ramelhaugh) May 27, 2016

When you turn the page and it only gets worse #aqachemistry pic.twitter.com/QJGlPvrHKW

— ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@wjones098) May 27, 2016

The pun game was strong.

The only velocity I calculated was how quickly my grade was going down #aqachemistry

— Joe (@MortJoe) May 27, 2016

"Did your exam go well?" #aqachemistry pic.twitter.com/NjqGZOf79z

— patak (@Rahul6NK) May 27, 2016

"Did my exam go well?" #aqachemistry pic.twitter.com/VyJNccAvcr

— George Welch (@10welchg) May 27, 2016

The only reducing agent I'm aware of is my reducing grade #aqachemistry

— Tom (@TRWH_11) May 27, 2016

'All I could say was add water and shake'.

6 mark question and all I could say was 'add water and shake' #aqachemistry

— amy (@amybeetroot) May 27, 2016

Just like to take this moment to apologise to my parents, who I will be living with forever due to that awful exam #aqachemistry

— phoebe (@phoebelouiseee5) May 27, 2016

Last week, students reacted with utter dismay after their AS-level Maths exam left them confused and more than a little irritated.

Some even declared the paper had “destroyed” their future.

At the time, Pearson Edexcel said: “With every paper there there will always be questions that some students find difficult, which is often reflected in social media comment.”

Previously AQA said: "Exams aren't meant to be easy."

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