ChE Board Examination Sample Questions

(2012 - 2013):
DAY 1 Physical & Chemical Principles
1. What is the process of breaking down a large isotope into smaller isotopes?
a. nuclear fission
b. beta particle emission
c. nuclear fusion
d. gamma ray emission
2. What is the formula of red lead?
3. Can oxygen be synthesized from nitrogen?
a. Yes, by the bombardment of alpha particles
b. Yes, by electron capture
c. Impossible
(check stellar nucleosynthesis and CNO Nuclear Fusion, dun namin nakita na hindi
siya maaari unless exposed in a very hot temperatures [i.e, stars and the sun])
4. Who is the author of octet rule?
5. How does alpha, beta and gamma particle affect the mass number of an atom?
6. Iodine vapor forms iodine crystals when it touches a cold surface. What is the
reverse of the process being described?
7. What is notation on alkane containing Cl?
a. chloro
b. chloride
c. chlorate
d. chloric
8. Balancing C2H5SH + O2 --> CO2 + H20 + SO
(note: May typo error. Change SO to SO2 para may lumabas na sagot from the given
choices)
9. Given: Dodecane
I. Is it soluble in water?
II. Is it soluble in hexane?
III. Is it combustible?
IV. Is it solid, liquid or gas at room temp. & atmospheric conditions?
V. Is it denser than water?
Answer: no, yes, yes, liquid, less dense (Note: Twice lumabas ang tanong na ito
pero may typo error sa pangalawang pagtanong)
10. What is the characteristics of elements under group 1A?
11. A tank is half filled with water, if N2 =1.02 moles and H20 =1.02 moles. What
happens to the N2 when dissolved in water?
a. increase
b. decrease
c. remains the same
d. none of these
12. Description of a primary and a secondary cell
Answer: A primary cell can be recharged while secondary cannot, Ni-Cd is a primary
cell, a dry cell is a secondary cell.
13. Given 1kg of water at 10C added to 1kg water at 30C. What is the final
temperature of the mixture?
14. Adolf Baeyers contribution in medicine, made by reacting malonic acid and urea
with a catalyst is called
15. Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?
Answer: Stratosphere
16. Composition of acid in acid rain?
17. Find the empirical formula given 5.045 g of C 0.847 g H and 3.36 g O note:
choices in typo error
18. Balancing: Ca(OH)2 + HCl --> CaCl2 + H2O
19. Which of the following has a higher heat of combustion on a gram per gram basis
if Hf is 237 kj/mol and 532 kj/mol for methane and propane respectively?
20. How to differentiate alkane alkene and alkyne?
a. combustion on an empty beaker
b. nature of carbon and its branching
c. reaction with Br2
d. none of these
21. Which of the ff. has a larger ionic nucleus? Na+ or Na?
a. Both
b. Na+
c. Na
d. none of these
22. What happens to the melting point of a saturated fatty acid if -CH2- increase?
a. increase
b. decrease
c. the same
d. none of these
23. Formula of alar
24. Particle with the same mass as proton.
25. Laguna lake is found to have 100 mg/L of CO3-2, find the maximum concentration
of Ca+ ion.
26. Arrange in increasing level of toxicity
1: heptachlor
2: dieldrum
3: DDT
4: Arsenic
5: Cr
27. Given: 1 mol of gas A at 1 bar and 1 mol of gas B at 2 bar. If the membrane
separating the two gas mixtures is removed, find the entropy change of the mixture.

28. Given box with D=1.59 m, E=48.69 J, =0.207. What is the mass of the box?
29. Given: aluminum metal is synthesized from Al+3, what is the power required for
a forward reaction to produce 1ton of aluminum metal if the voltage is equal to
4.6V?
(Tip: be careful kung anong klaseng ton dimension ang ginamit. Yung ibang tanong,
metric tons ang nasa given, pero pound tons ang nasa choices.)
30. Two problems on colligative properties: solvents used (water, benzene) (Note:
kf or kb not given)
31. Given: 30 A and 40 sec, how many electrons passed through the cathode ray
tube?
32. How many Mn2O4 can be produced in grams, ounce, and mole from 1 gram of Mn2O2?
33. Mn metal is produced from ore containing 29.5% Mn(OH)2, if 1ton of metal is to
be produced, how much ore is needed?
34. Given Pb and U- 238 U, 0.3g of lead and 1.7g of uranium, if the half-life of
the latter is 4.5x10^9 years and assuming that all the lead comes from the decay of
uranium, estimate how old is the earth?
35. Given: 2 moles of CO2, constant a and b are given for Van der Waals gas
compute for the work, compare it with work done on a 2 moles of ideal gas at
constant T=301K if the gas allowed to expand from 1L to 4L.
36. Given 0.342 PCl5 dissolved in PCl3 and Cl(g) with 0.243 N2 in 1L V=2.05% find
the constant K.
37. Moles of chlorine dioxide that can be formed from a given mass of sodium
hypochlorite.
38. Polymer used in bullet proof vest
a. linear polyethylene
b. polyacrylonitrile
c. polycarbonate
d. polymethylacrylate
39. Given: Lead metal, melting point, Cp, Lv, and mass of the metal. Find heat
needed to melt all the metal.
40. Given: 1 mol of glacial acetic acid freeze in an ice bath. If Hf
acid=11.2kJ/mol and Hf ice=6.02kJ/mol, calculate the change in entropy of the acid,
change in enthalpy of the ice bath, total change in entropy and if the process is
reversible or irreversible.
41. How many carbon atoms in olvanil?
42. Amino acids in human protein
43. Who discovered x-ray?
44. Definition of ozonolysis
45. Given dimensions of a peso bill (length & width). Assuming billion of gold
atoms can be spread across its length, determine the total mass.
46. What is the nearest layer of the atmosphere?
47. Pollutant produced from coal and petroleum
48. How do two free radicals react whe they encounter each other
49. Metabolic reactions For 12 mold of ATP produced from every mole CH3COO- there
are 7.4 kcal. For 1 gram of CH3COO- determine
50. Given NH4OH solutionn initially at 30 mL diluted to 400 mL then titrated with
HCl. Compute pH a) at the start b) at the equiv point c) after addition of 40 mL of
HCl.
Note: Sa mga pH problems, ka and kb are not given.
51. What is the chemical formula and molecular weight of 11-tetradecenyl Acetate?
What is the product when ethanoyl chloride is reacted with propanol?
52. What is the primary use of ethylene?
53. What is the common contaminant in the BTEx process?
54. What is the heat of reaction when ethyne is hydrogenated to ethane?
55. What is the equilibrium constant at 501 deg C given that the k value at 25 deg
C is 1.01 x 10^-60? delta H = 6811 kJ/mol
56. Equivalent K of the 3 consecutive reactions ( No given K eq of individual
reaction)
57. Where does an enzyme capsaicin commonly found?
58. What is the other name of bulk temperature?
59. Choose the common methods in the removal of fine particle in hot airstream
common in cement production?
a. ESP
b. Bouyancy
c. Cyclone
d. Venturi Scrubber
60. What is the method that Wohler do to break the vital force theory in nature?
Answer: Heating of NH4Cl with AgCN to form Urea.
61. Arrange the following substance in terms of increasing melting point: Palmitic,
Palmitic, Stearic; Palmitic, Oleic, Stearic; Oleic, Oleic, Stearic.
62. What is the common form of nitro-glycerol?
63. Definition of polar covalent
a. Unbalance electron with unequal sharing of electrons
b. Bonding of heteronucleus with unequal sharing of elecetrons
64. What is the most polar and least polar of the following functional groups: R-
OH, R-NH3, R-COOH, C triple bond C and C-C.
65. The range of melting point of the fatty acids.
66. What happen to the pH of carbonated drinks if it open in atmospheric condition?

a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Same
d. Cannot be determined
67. What happen to the enthalpy content of the real gases when it is throttled at
constant temperature?
68. What is the difference between catabolism, anabolism and metabolism?
69. What is the PRC Modernization Act?
70. Choose whether the following is/are representation of the nuclear fusion: The
big bang theory, the radiant energy of the sun, the formation of deuterium/tritium.

71. Match the following nuclear reaction. Artifical Radioactivity

Induced Radioactivity
Hydrogen Fusion Reaction
Natural Radioactivity
72. Chemical process in producing dopamine
73. What amino acid is used for titration of basic solution?
74. Name of reaction for Dye production
75. Which of the following is an isomer of cumene? formaldehyde, acetaldehyde,
acetic acid or formic acid
76. Arrange from most to least polar:
HF, CN, C-C
77. Which of the following persistent organic pollutants is not a component of
fertilizer? Chlordane, heptachlor
78. What is oxygen sag curve?
79. Which of the following is chiral?
paper clip, flushing of toilet, beaker
80. Which of the following blocks has greater number of elements? s,p,d or f
81. Half life of n-th order reaction
82. Determination of final temperature of water given increase in heat capacity and
amount of substance involved.
83. If there is newly discovered element between gallium and germanium, what is
your reaction?
84. What is the danger of using pure methane as a household fuel for heating and
cooking?
85. If a high octane gasoline with a density of of 0.71 gm/m is used by a BMW on
NLEX to Tarlac 125 miles away and a gas mileage of 19.75, estimate the quantity in
kilos of carbon dioxide produced.
86. An experimental electric jeepney running in Makati and 12V battery and 20 m/s
has a total energy of 2x10^7 J. If 80 kW is needed to move the vehicle, what is the
quantity of energy supplied to the motor and how far will it travel?
87. If the cosmic radiation discovered by the two Nobel prize winners in 1965 has a
perfect black body spectrum with a temperature of 3.01K, at what wavelength is the
most intense radiation? In what range of electromagnetic radiation does this
wavelength fall?
88. The concentration of the ketone bodies in the blood of healthy human is
approcimately 0.01 mM/L. However, in diabetic patients, this concentration
increases to as much as 500 times. In the case when the ketone concentration is
increased in hundred fold, determine what basic chemical reaction occurs?
OTHERS
Concepts:
1. Blanket of pollutants
2. Edman Degradation
3. Eigenfunction
Computations:
1. Moving boundary method
2. Gibbs-Helmholtz relationship
3. Environmental engineering calculations (problems involving DE)
3. Computation of the contaminants using first order DE
4. Growth rate of bacteria in the vessel
5. BOD calculations
6. Nuclear chemistry calculations
7. Hardness
8. Electrochemistry
9. Streeter phelps equation
10. Charge of amino acid chains
11. Hess Laws
12. Michaelis Menten equation
13. REDOX Titration
14. Hydrolysis of salt
15. Chemical Kinetics
16. Entropy
17. Osmotic pressure of three different salt
Ilan ang nasagutan niyo? Madali ba o mahirap? Hehehe
Day 1 pa lang yan. Try to assess, sa mga magtatake ng board, kaya ko na ba? Ilan pa
ang dapat kong aralin? Sa mga 4th year and 5th year students na tapos sa lahat ng
chemistry courses, even sa mga lower years alam niyo na, ngayon po lang, kelangan
ng magfocus. :)
Day 2... Soon!